That would be so, so much a good thing (not to mention, the intriguing change of pace in watching our characters doing something, anything other than fight). A much more interesting one than the perpetually sweaty and bleary-eyed walking anxiety attack we’ve grown to know and … tolerate … ish. So a different man and a different leader really should emerge. Given that and his “I’ll make it real” promise, his dad honor has never been more on the line. He didn’t save his boy, but he has redemption in toddler Judith, even easier pickings in an intensifying war. Killing off Carl also forces Rick’s hand in the truth of his “I did this all for you” deal. Suddenly Negan’s “one to make a point” kill strategy seems damn near altruistic, even if he does keep Lucille handy (but then who DID make the call that mowed down so many of the Kingdom fighters? Simon? That you?).Īnd Morgan, thus far a more sympathetic character than Negan, mowing down Saviors willy-nilly seems like … well … the actions of a guy who will be shuffled off to Fear the Walking Dead next month. His last wishes also give us a litmus test by which to measure how other characters approach the fight and the future and the value of human life-especially when they don’t know the humans. Rick has clear marching orders if he wants to honor his son’s legacy-and let that legacy be one of a wiser man, not a lonely boy wrestling with one hell of a home life. Carl’s death is OK, because ….Ĭarl’s final days and actions and plainspoken hope for a peaceful future finally gave a spine to Season 8’s meandering “can you kill your way to peace?” debate. Related 'The Walking Dead' Episode 10: Did Carl's Last Wishes Fall on Deaf Ears? (RECAP) Or that maybe it’s time that the zombie drama belatedly adopt a Breaking Bad modus, march assuredly toward some well-crafted closure and stop giving us a weekly case of the WTFs.
That good stuff can come of Dead‘s most massive departure from the comic that spawned it. So we’re making a case for both sides of the coin. Now Carl is dead, too, and even people who never liked the kid feel wronged, manipulated and uncertain if Dead could recognize a turned-tide when it sees one, for good (the guy was finally getting interesting) or for bad (and now he’s #$ing dead). And fans started falling by the wayside, unsure of who or what to root for, and angered beyond recovery when certain biggies died. The humans got scarier and the walkers decidedly less so, even as their gross factor went through an already sky high gross-factor roof. The TWD world got bigger and campier and harder to keep straight. More and more of the core group met their maker and new characters (and perils) rotated in. And then their own drive to survive.Ī few seasons in, the show shifted. Because the people we loved were being eaten up in “ can they show that on TV?!” fashion by really disturbing zombies.
Plainly put, at its outset, Dead assembled a highly watchable group of unknown actors into a roster of intriguing characters and an emotionally satisfying, nicely contained storyline that was unlike anything we’d before. So it’s small wonder that TWD faithful are still debating whether Grimes Junior’s death was in vain-both in terms of steering his people toward peace and in steering a once-invincible ratings juggernaut away from its own demise. As if fans weren’t already hamstrung by the two-episode, twelve-week fire walk that marked the end of Carl Grimes on The Walking Dead, the show’s writers followed his humdinger farewell with an epic bizarre-fest that made us wonder if anyone heard the kid’s dying wishes at all.
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