Morgan's constant inability to exist outside of two over explored extremes has become really tiring for me. It's not profound or even interesting at this point. They've been using his character to explore these two themes since his reintroduction into the main show. He's just so stale at this point and his introduction into fear is dragging the show down. I mean, I just don't get it. I assume that Gimple and the writers involved with this show studied creative writing at a university level. I'm confident that they're much smarter and more educated in this field than I am. So why can't they think of anything better to do with Morgan's character than to constantly switch him back and forth from psycho maniacal murderer and overly passive monk to a fault. It's ridiculous. Not only this, but this whole question of who have I become is a theme that they beat to death with other characters like Carol and Rick as well. It's just stupid. We get it, the world is screwed up and sometimes we have to do things we don't want to, this includes killing people, now please move on to something else.
Fear kind of touched on this notion last season with the Clarks overthrowing Jeremiah and pretty much stealing the farm from him. That was a much more interesting way to explore the gray area that exists between right and wrong. Morgan's return to refusing to kill when it's necessary really harms this show in my opinion. Think back to the first episode when Morgan ran towards a man with a rifle in wide open space while jumping rooftop to rooftop. Somehow this man missed several shots with Morgan running at him in a straight line. This is the kind of writing we get because of Morgan's terrible characterization. Just really disappointed with the direction of this show now.
Submitted April 30, 2018 at 11:55AM by SylviaNorth https://ift.tt/2I8OeRU
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