Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’s season 1 finale.
The Walking Dead spinoffs struggle to keep new characters alive, creating a pattern of wasted potential and missed opportunities. The Ones Who Live finale continues the trend of killing off exciting personalities, hurting the overall product of the series. Thorne‘s death in the finale is a disappointing waste of a complex character’s potential, highlighting a common issue in the spinoffs.
The Walking Dead has had no shortage of fresh, interesting characters in recent years, but the franchise has continued to kill them off way too quickly. Although The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live mainly focuses on Rick and Michonne, it still introduced a plethora of exciting supporting characters, but none made it out of the series alive. This has continued a trend that has hurt the latest spinoffs, as these great additions…