In my opinion, Scott Gimple completely butchered Negan's character. I know JDM's Negan has a lot of fans (a lot of it seems to be because he's found attractive), but I never once felt sympathy for him at all.
The changes made to the Governor when compared to the comics made him a far more believable and sympathetic character - with his whole family/daughter storyline.
But for Negan, he just comically laughs as he rules as a tyrant and tortures our main-characters, and then suddenly throws in some sob-story backstory about losing his wife and then bam! Apparently he now cares about Carl (who he was about to club with a barb-wired bat days prior) and then we should all supposedly support Rick's decision in letting this clearly deranged psycho live.
I thought it would've done wonders if Negan was given an actually fleshed-out back-story and that he was toned-down significantly. His comic-persona doesn't fit in the show for me, just like the Governor's persona wouldn't have. TV Negan should've been someone who had nightmares and a lot of regret for the horrific acts he's committed - while having a difficult inner-conflict about why he's doing these things. That way then Simon could also really take the antagonist role by the end. Negan and Simon do fight in season 8, but when he kills Simon he just sets out to do the exact same thing Simon was going to do anyway. Negan just doesn't grow or change at all to warrant any like-ability for me.
Gimple seemed very set on faithfully adapting the comic Negan intensely in season 7 and 8, but the earlier seasons did great at changing some aspects, and I really think Negan needed a major overall. Especially because he's left just doing the same stuff for 2 seasons. Comic Negan's got some great stuff coming, but I just hope Angela Kang figures out what does and doesn't work in TV form and really sells his redemption arc.
Submitted September 01, 2018 at 02:55AM by InmemoryofDW https://ift.tt/2NCw8r3
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