TWD is obviously based around comics, but they took multiple creative liberties, either good or bad, and as a result of multiple factors (actual ideas, reinventions, or just poor planning). Still, I think it managed to stay consistently "realistic" as far as a show like TWD can be in relation to the comics. Characters like Michonne, Merle and the Governor were the farthest we'd had with less realistic characters but they still had a realistic edge and they focused on making them human instead of over the top. The same was true for Negan–but only during the Season 6 finale and Season 7 premiere, where like Michonne and the Governor he was portrayed as a similar but much more toned down and realistic take on the comic character (and was a lot more obviously evil which differentiated the TV and comic versions). Even the Terminus crew and the Wolves didn't feel particularly comicbooky but seemed like actual horrific threats one could find in humanity and a post apocaliptic world. The only thing I'd say was unrealistic as hell from Season 1 to Season 7, Episode 1 being the CDC exploring which felt like a Season 7/8/9 over the top thing, and maybe Eugene felt a lot like a comic/unrealistic character with his speech patterns but I could live with it since it was only him and he was more subdued than latter seasons.
However, one episode after The Day Will Come When You Won't Be, it's when I think the show went full comic book. Ezekiel and Shiva appeared almost exactly as portrayed in the comics, a man pretending to be a King with an actual tiger (no major deviations like previous character versions), as well as his "Knights" wearing armor and riding horses. IIRC the whole reason Robert Kirkman created the Kingdom was to go more "out there" than the show but then they added them with no differences compared to the comics anyways. More glarring is Negan's drastic character shift from Season 6 and Season 7's premiere into a full on comical and less threathening cartoony character (much like Ezekiel) instead of the cold and psychotic man the show portrayed him as initially, as well as the introduction of the Scavengers (which ironically aren't from the comics). The aftermath of The Day Will Come When You Won't Be also marked a sort of end to the more gritty, morally ambiguous and dark portrayals and writing of everything that came before, and started to focus more on the characters becoming all moral, and more on politics and gunfights than the horror and survival themes (which obviously isn't bad per se but wasn't executed so well during Seasons 7 and 8).
Still, I feel even with the more comic booky and fantastic elements, Seasons 9 and 10 are really solid and awesome (with the only thing that bugged me being the satellite).
What do you think?
Submitted March 28, 2021 at 07:00PM by LazyKerosene https://ift.tt/3w6UxvE
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