Warning: This article contains spoilers from the season six finale of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” which aired on April 3, 2016.

When season six came to a close, fans of “The Walking Dead” were furious. From the beginning of the season, show runners were not only teasing the introduction of fan-favorite, comic character Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), but also an iconic scene from the graphic novels.

In the scene from the comics, Negan and his forces capture several prominent characters, one of which Negan is going to kill with his baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Through random selection, he ends up choosing a fan favorite and major player in the comics. That would suggest that when the scene came to life in the television show, it would also be a big character.

Negan and his men end up capturing eleven of the show’s prominent characters: Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Carl (Chandler Riggs), Glenn (Steven Yeun), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Rosita (Christian Serratos), and Aaron (Ross Marquand). Negan goes through the lineup just like he does in the comics, using eeny, meeny, miny, moe as a selection method. Finally, when Negan makes his choice, it cuts to the victim’s point-of-view, leaving the victim and who all survived as ambiguous until the start of season seven, or when a season seven trailer is released.

The show runners took a dramatic and iconic scene and turned it into a pointless cliffhanger with unneeded, added drama. The writers found a way to get basically every important character they could into the scene to add stakes, as if a main character’s imminent demise wasn’t dramatic enough.

The cliffhanger was pointless – it is not raising viewers’ interest in who died. People were already on the edge of their seats since the previous week to find out which character was getting killed. If anything, it’s just aggravating viewers, and that’s not even the most idiotic part about the whole thing.

Depending on who died, it will either be a character that people suspected was going to die or will be a letdown, so why make it a mystery? Negan’s dialogue during the POV shot rules out Rick and Carl as the victims. It can also be assumed that Maggie and Michonne aren’t going to meet their ends, based on their current character progression. If Eugene, Aaron, Rosita or Sasha is the victim, it will be a letdown due to an iconic death being wasted on one of the less important characters of the group. This leaves Daryl, Glenn and Abraham as the only potential victims that would live up to the hype. Regardless of who it is, it will either be disappointing or it will be someone everyone expected, so what’s the point of keeping it a mystery for six months?

I am willing to remain optimistic, but now that there’s this and the stupid and pointless fake out of Glenn’s death earlier in the season, I’m starting to worry that “The Walking Dead” has turned from a zombie survival drama to a zombie survival soap opera – all it seems interested in is forcing drama where none is needed.