Just a shower thought, we've now had two episode focussing on both Daryl and Eugene struggling to maintain life at Sanctuary. Now what this post is about is, how most of us probably thought Daryl would make a good soldier for Negan, he's a rough and tough redneck, quick on the trigger and hard headed when faced with adversity. Even if he was just putting on a front for Negan, Daryl being part of Negan's army made sense. If we saw him as an extra we wouldn't bat an eyelid. Daryl struggled at Sanctuary and refused to conform to the point in which it broke him. Lucky for him though, Sherry provided him with an escape.
Fast forward to Eugene being taken to Sanctuary, a character we would expect to break instantly, an inverted "nerd" scared of violence and of the world in general. That alone writes itself to Eugene not being able to survive under Negan's rule. Except, Eugene is kinda flourishing. The guy has found his place (we're debating whether he's truly conformed or not) and is using his intelligence and cunning to keep himself alive. It's such brilliant role reversing and really smart on the part of the writers. We give them crap sometimes for inconsistencies and sometimes just plain bad writing, but they know their characters well and make them ever so subtle.
So good job writers!
Submitted February 28, 2017 at 01:14PM by sipsgooch http://ift.tt/2lTrsjv
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