On the plus side, you just killed off the two least interesting characters on the show (Beth and Tyrese). An the minus side, you wasted an entire episode focused on each of them to kill them off, and you put the two episodes right in a row.
Tyrese could have been great. He had depth in the comic (mainly by actually telling us something about him - he was in the NFL, he's a dad, etc.). He had depth, and he wasn't just some angry stabbing machine with terrible aim with a ranged weapon. He had depth, growth, and was a pretty awesome guy, but only in the comic. Tyrese, along with Beth, weren't very fleshed out, and dragged down the pacing every time they were on-screen. I don't blame the actors, who are both fantastic, and did the best with what they were dealt. I blame the writers and the directors of their collective episodes, for failing to make us like these two main characters, and failing for making us care when they were both killed off. After having to deal with the terrible hospital debacle (with terribly boring characters inside), the death of Beth, and now yet another wasted episode dealing with a bunch of characters that, in some cases, are over a season in the grave, the show is really going downhill, in a hurry. You should have kept us in Terminus longer, where at least it was really fun and interesting. Hell, the bad guys of Terminus were more interesting in the few episodes they were featured than both Tyrese and Beth, in the dozen or so episodes they appeared.
Give us something about the characters to make us feel for them. Make them more than 2-dimensional figures. Look to the first episodes of Lost if you need an example of this. They threw a bunch of normal-ish people into an extraordinary situation, but within a few short episodes, we actually cared about them. And we cared about every one of the main characters at that stage. They did a fantastic job, through flashbacks, in explaining motivations, how people ticked, etc. Maybe you need to do the same. I realize you don't do flashbacks (with the exception of Michonne perhaps), but flashbacks are a fantastic tool. Maybe you need to go there to make us care.
I don't know, but what you're doing isn't working. I can think of a few more characters that we just wouldn't care about if they died tomorrow, namely the "We're going to Washington" trio. Tell us more about them. Make them lovable, interesting, filled with some substance. Something, for crying out loud.
Tyrese could have been great. He had depth in the comic (mainly by actually telling us something about him - he was in the NFL, he's a dad, etc.). He had depth, and he wasn't just some angry stabbing machine with terrible aim with a ranged weapon. He had depth, growth, and was a pretty awesome guy, but only in the comic. Tyrese, along with Beth, weren't very fleshed out, and dragged down the pacing every time they were on-screen. I don't blame the actors, who are both fantastic, and did the best with what they were dealt. I blame the writers and the directors of their collective episodes, for failing to make us like these two main characters, and failing for making us care when they were both killed off. After having to deal with the terrible hospital debacle (with terribly boring characters inside), the death of Beth, and now yet another wasted episode dealing with a bunch of characters that, in some cases, are over a season in the grave, the show is really going downhill, in a hurry. You should have kept us in Terminus longer, where at least it was really fun and interesting. Hell, the bad guys of Terminus were more interesting in the few episodes they were featured than both Tyrese and Beth, in the dozen or so episodes they appeared.
Give us something about the characters to make us feel for them. Make them more than 2-dimensional figures. Look to the first episodes of Lost if you need an example of this. They threw a bunch of normal-ish people into an extraordinary situation, but within a few short episodes, we actually cared about them. And we cared about every one of the main characters at that stage. They did a fantastic job, through flashbacks, in explaining motivations, how people ticked, etc. Maybe you need to do the same. I realize you don't do flashbacks (with the exception of Michonne perhaps), but flashbacks are a fantastic tool. Maybe you need to go there to make us care.
I don't know, but what you're doing isn't working. I can think of a few more characters that we just wouldn't care about if they died tomorrow, namely the "We're going to Washington" trio. Tell us more about them. Make them lovable, interesting, filled with some substance. Something, for crying out loud.