Rewatching Season 9 and 10, and there’s 3 things that I think were horribly done when compared to the comics.

1.) The introduction of the Highwaymen:

I believe this was a terrible/unneccessary addition to series. It seems like they were only added into the show to partially cover some scenes of the Saviors from the comics. For example, I’m pretty sure Negan’s accidental killing of the Highwaymen woman is supposed to replace Rick’s accidental killing of Sherry from the comics. Either way, this entire plot point could have been avoided if the writers had kept the last remnants of the Saviors alive until after the defeat of the Whisperers. While those Whisperers were the main antagonists in the first timeskip of season 9, they managed to survive—only to die—in the first episode of season 9’s second timeskip. Those Saviors should have died in Rick’s “death” episode, or at least survive into season 10-11 instead of adding The Highwaymen.

2.) Killing off Henry:

This was another stupid thing to do which I’m sure pissed many people off. Henry’s character was taking over Carl’s role from the comics, so with Carl being killed off back in season 8, the very least they could have done was to keep his storyline alive through Henry. While child Henry was an annoying character, the older Henry was much more likeable. Both his and Lydia’s ages in the show seemed more appropriate for their comic roles as well, making it more suitable and enjoyable for television. Having Henry killed off has only led to awkard moments with Lydia where she is just being used/pitied towards by Negan, Carol, and all the other people in the show. I really wonder where her character will go from here now that Henry, Alpha, and Gamma are all dead. If she’s just going to get more pity dialogue with Negan and Carol, then I’m having none of that. Personally, Carol dying instead of Henry would have been a crazy huge shocker for the show. It would have been more fitting as well for Henry and Ezekiel’s storyline too.

3.) Magna’s group:

This is by far the best/worst part of the past two seasons. While I enjoy the increased focus on the group and their roles when compared to the comics (which mainly focused on just Magna and Yumiko), I also hate how unrealistic it was for Magna’s group to have stayed with Alexandria/Hilltop after all that had happened. They were treated harshly by Alexandria when they were first introduced to the show and their transfer to Hilltop wasn’t even guaranteed, yet Magna and Yumiko were willing to sneak out of Hilltop to help Jesus’s group with the walkers “to earn their keep”. Seemed a bit unrealistic to me. After finding out about the Whisperers and just barely getting accepted to the group, the pike scene happens but NONE of their members die. Despite that, they still choose to stay with the group, agree to the ridiculous borders, and fight the Whisperers? They didn’t lose anyone and weren’t attached to the group, so there was no need to stay and fight with The Militia. At least in the comics, their decision to fight made sense after Luke was killed. Now with the cave scene, we had this fake out with Magna and Connie’s “deaths”, only for Magna to survive and escape shortly after. Connie is almost certainly expected to survive as well, which is really going to suck. Do we need a double fake out back-to-back? The problem here is that if Connie did end up dying, that would be just as bad. An offscreen death for Connie would be almost as wasteful as Carl/Henry’s death.

TL;DR Highwaymen storyline was meaningless, Henry’s death was ridiculous, and Magna’s group should have left the main characters after the Pike incident.

Submitted March 22, 2020 at 01:29AM by d00dleb0y https://ift.tt/3bhMlNP