Well, I knew it was going to happen. Sierra et all are way fucking late to The Walking Dead Party. And then they got to the Negan introduction episode. Complete silence. Not a word.
The Walking Dead is not my favoirite comic, but it's what I've read the most from. I've read all 16 years. Even the one-offs.
It basically comes down to Negan. I always love the villains more. Ever since I was 9 and saw Burton's Batman movie with The Joker.
Negan's character is a handful.
In the comics, he's even darker. So we'll leave that alone. Jeffrey Morgan's version of him is more likable. Because Jeffrey's natural charisma makes you want to like him. His looks, his control, his costume, his dominance, the whole production.
This is why I have gone out as Negan for the last several Halloweens.
I wouldn't call him evil. I would say he's been dealt a hand of cards and has to work with it. In a zombie apocalypse, there's not a whole lot of room for pragmatism.
Also, you get to see Lucille in this scene. Lucille is a barb wire bat Negan has named after his dead wife who died at the beginning of the apocalypse and comics and he never got over it. A rather beautiful piece. He uses it to remember her.
If you watch the show and are a fan of Negan but wonder if he's too dark ... try reading the comics. You'll be shaking by the end.
The Walking Dead is a show that suffers from being on basic cable. IT IS DARK AS FUCK. If HBO or Showtime or whatever the hell woulve have had the balls to greenlight it, it would be incredibly better. But they passed on it. Like they passed on Breaking Bad, one of the most crazy popular shows ever. Fucking morons. Two of the most popular show of all time and they thought it was too dark. Idiots.
So Negan gets introduced in #100 issue of Dead. The author, Robert Kirkman, says he did it because when you've read a hundred issues of something, maybe it's time to stop. So he brought in Negan to give the audience something new.
And if you're a fan of the show, and think The Governor is a dark character? Yeah, there's that scene where he sits back and looks at his wall of zombie heads in aquariums, still alive, and smiles. That is straight out of the comics.
Anyway, I have mixed feelings about the show. Sometimes, it's brilliant, sometimes it's dog shit.
But they definitely got this one right. This is the episode that got Sierra and her friends to go silent as fuck.
I would put this in the top 10 of any TV show. Right up there with The Twilight Zone To Serve Man or The Outer Limits Solider, or The X-Files Jose Chung's From Outer Space or Star Trek The City On The Edge of Forever or whatever the fuck else.