Firstly the people rating this "10"are single use accounts or persons who rate every walking dead episode a "10."
sorry but viewership numbers and trends are well known and in a constant drop for a reason. and if one looks at the walking dead fan forums sites as well as the subreddit, interest has fallen -- a lot.
This episode was a good example of the problem. The new protagonist leadership is neither credible nor interesting. We are in the worsening rut of a principal villain group for a season or two, and in this case the villain is laughable. Who would have thought we need more Negan -- but we do!
So many interesting things to do and we are plodding along with the same repetition. Long time viewers blame Kang, and I agree.
Long time viewers also are wondering what is with the spears and bows against living human antagonists. It is ludicrous. They maybe better for the dead, but in confrontations with living antagonists the side with firearms wins, period. There are about 500 million guns in the US and BATFE estimated 1/3 to 1/2 a trillion (yes TRILLION, not billion) rounds of small arms ammunition in US military, law enforcement and civilian hands (about 95% civilian due to target shooting). This came up during a prior season silliness about having to ''make" bullets with experts on reddit giving the numbers. The 10,000-30,000 survivors estimated are not going to run out of ammo EVER. The BATFE estimates show that there are -- for each survivor -- 150 million round of ammo or 50 million if only 1/3 of ammo is ever found. You don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Getting shot with even just a .22 in a world with only rudimentary medical care would be likely fatal. A group of five people with two of them having .22s would be able to force surrender of a group of 50 people with spears or bows.
