Ya. That is typical of the season ender. So that you’ll tune into the show next season. I know the game.
Sometimes, the writers do some really stupid things at the season ender. My wife and I watched the Ghost Whisperer Friday nights. An okay plot and entertaining and it was a routine for us. Then the writers got really stupid and killed off the main character’s husband and then the ridiculous idea to bring him back, the following season, in the body of another man. An “aw come on” moment. We watched it a bit longer and then stopped.
I think that it went on for another season, maybe two then no more. It was clear that the writers had run out of ideas. We enjoy the reruns, though.
Another series that we enjoy in reruns is Monk. The plot is repetitive and predictable but they made it work and the final show was superb.
I watched Breaking Bad for the first season, maybe two. Again, my point: you have to be able to relate to a character in the show. I lost interest when main character started becoming a cold hearted ba$$#!@. I guess the reality of a meth dealer.
It’s not the typical season ender. The typical season ender is “how will they survive” as the name cliffhanger implies (originally, hanging from a cliff). TWD let’s you know they will survive but the situation has now changed. Season one ended with the destruction of the CDC, what had been the hope for a cure was now gone. Season 2 ended with the end of the farm, the death of a whole bunch of characters, and the rise of the Ricktatorship. Season 3 is gonna kill a bunch more, but it’s probably going to end with less threats (Governor gone), they’ll finish this one safer (though smaller) than they came in.
I think you just lose interest in shows. The whole point of Breaking Bad is Walt paying the price for his one bad decision. Vince Gilligan (show creator) has repeatedly said the goal is for him to be unlikable, even hatable in the end. And now that we’re half way through the last season it’s really there, Walt’s a sleaze bag.
No cliffhangers. The group mostly survives, the governor flees, but not until after going completely postal and killing most of his able bodied people, the group keeps the prison, and unites with the Woodbury survivors. So now the group is close to 40 people, and most of them are completely useless in a fight. And in more proof that the writers have not run out of ideas that is a MAJOR departure from how the books went.