I've been wondering how exactly the writers were going to go from 'Rick lost his son in the middle of a war with the guy bombing Alexandria and terrorizing everybody' to 'Rick lets Negan live and they're BFFs in a season or two and it's pancakes and sunshine for the rest of the show'. To me, that seems like a huge amount of ground to cover for Rick to not do the thing he's repeatedly said he's gonna do - including in the trailers - which is: kill Negan.
If Carl's death is going to be pitched as some sort of moral push for Rick not to go down that road, something other people have been saying around this sub, it can't be the only push. There's just so much bad blood around everybody right now. But with JDM also turning Negan into more of a cash cow/fan favourite, the writers pretty much have to keep him alive, and therefore have to explain how these two can in any way, shape or form coexist when - again - they have literally both turned to the camera and said, "Not happening."
Enter Simon.
8x05 was all about Negan standing by not wanting to kill people, or at least only wanting to kill the minimum necessary number of people to keep order. But we also have half of a community (Oceanside) that's been wiped out, a car with speakers rolled through the Hilltop's gates to let in Walkers, and some past behaviour that Negan was concerned about 'backsliding' into at Simon's suggestion of wiping the Hilltop out.
Does anyone else think that the writers are going to have all that be Simon's fault? From what we know about Negan in the show so far, letting Walkers loose into the Hilltop is massively wasteful of people's lives. Anyone or everyone could've been bit, which is not Negan's MO, since his punishments make specific, public examples out of one or two chosen victims. He even prefaced Alexandria's bombing with three minutes for people to surrender, and that was during a Scorched Earth attack. But Simon's in charge of the Hilltop, and he's pretty crazy, so he might've taken it upon himself to go the extra mile and expose everyone to that kind of danger as a creative/extreme interpretation of Negan ordering him to keep the Hilltop in line. Simon's the one who's cool with doing a 'fly-by', after all, so maybe the writers will have it that the really bad stuff is actually news to (and not approved by) Negan at all.
I mean, Carl can't exactly plead for sense and morality if Negan really is that bloodthirsty, and I think the show is aiming for some 'We're not so different, you and I' between Rick and Negan anyway. This might explain how Negan's an asshole, but not that much of an asshole because hey, just like Rick who had to get a little crazy when he first got to Alexandria, Negan had to as well, but neither of them personally went overboard. That's someone Rick can keep in jail instead of executing, 'cause Simon is/was the true psycho, and Negan's new biggest crime was letting Simon be in charge in the first place.
Thoughts? Did they do this in the comics?
Submitted December 28, 2017 at 04:33PM by Tartra http://ift.tt/2pOGZqm
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