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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I'm not saying the action was slow or the story was bad, I'm saying viewers are capable of following more than one storyline in an episode. I know this is how TWD has always done it, and that's their decision. I just disagree with it!
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It's done that way mostly to save money for AMC. The actors get paid for every episode they appear in, whether it's one scene or every scene. By structuring the show the way they do, no actor is in every episode. This allows them to have a larger cast and keep costs down.
AMC did the same thing with the later seasons of Mad Men to keep the budget down. I believe Jon Hamm was the only actor who appeared in every episode of Mad Men. Every season, there was one or two episodes that Christina Hendricks didn't appear in. To make up for that, there would also be one or two episodes that had a prominent storyline for Joan.