Glenn was always the Get-away Kid...... that is why I could even buy the dumpster stuff
Having Neegan get him ruined all the close calls and brave solo missions he went to me
I kept waiting for him to be saved and it never came and it didn't make the show better.....it was the moment the show died....... there is no revenge that can bring Glenn back to a pregnant Maggie..... there is no father to raise his child in this new world with hope..... a real nuclear family
I don't have the same emotional bonds with any of them anymore after that..... it was too brutal....especially for a 1 1/2 season arc
Fair enough. I can understand that.
From my perspective I felt they kept it the same way, as the comic, because it's probably the most iconic scene in the entire comic to this point. Glenn is very much the same type of person in the comic but I'd say in the written version, at that point, Glenn was really more of Rick's right hand guy. He's the guy Rick leaned on and was important to Rick.
There is no Darryl in the comic for that roll, and Abraham wasn't in it long enough to be that roll. So for the comic Glenn (Who is also married to Maggie and she's pregnant with his child) is the biggest death that Negan can get to shock the group, rock them, and rock the readers.
I feel like the show wanted to keep that moment, that way, because it was iconic but went with the two deaths simply to keep it from being 100% exactly how it was written.
I do understand how some, maybe even many, did not like it in the show due to it's brutality but honestly that's how it had to be in order to be true to the Negan character and to the extreme lengths he's willing to go to make his point and try and force people to realize that he shouldn't be messed with.
Now, on a personal note, where I feel the show messed up and where the comic did it better was Rick's reaction to it. I'm not talking about the immediate one where he tells him he's going to kill him (As that's straight out of the comic actually) but I'm talking about the broken, beaten, Rick afterwards. In the comic Rick was planning, right from the start, to get revenge and to end Negan. They did a great job of showing how Rick immediately was setting plans in motion to go after him, even while playing the part of doing what he was told for Negan and the people at the Alexandria.
It was a great bit of writing for Rick because it showed how smart he was and how good he was at planning things out even when others didn't realize what he was doing.
In the show they made him weak, IMO. They broke him to begin with and it took other junk to get him to be where he should have all along. In my humble opinion that devalued Glenn's loss when Rick reacted that way. Maybe that was just me but I felt like they took the impact of his death and ruined it with the way Rick reacted and then pretty much everyone fell in line. At least the characters who mattered. Beyond just making him look weak when he finally does decide they have to fight they also made him look completely stupid with the dumb deal with the trash can bunch.
No one really cared that Sasha, Rosita, or Spencer didn't necessarily want to go along. They're bit characters, IMO, and their reaction isn't important. The main characters reactions are important.
I get what I believe they were trying to do which was shock the group in such a way that they simply broke. To show the power that Negan's way of doing things can have over people. But I wasn't a fan of that. Rick is supposed to be your #1 good guy. This is your battle of a true #1 good guy against the true #1 bad guy. The first since the Governor. Rick should have been written in the show to be a lot stronger.
Again that's just my personal opinion. I have had some issues with how they do Rick in the show to be honest. Anyone whose read my stuff from way back knows that I also was not a fan of the 'fight' with the Governor the way it was done. I didn't mind that Rick ultimately lost the physical fight but the way it was done where he just basically has his *** handed to him was stupid. That was the first true big time bad guy against your main good guy and it should have been a lot more even. It would have just been better, IMO, instead of making Rick look completely weak.
My other issue with making him look weak to begin with here with Negan is that it's going to make it not as much of an impact if they go with the Negan story even close to how they do in the comic. It will weaken the message that is being sent, IMO. I don't know. I'm a bit bias there because the All Out War in the comic book was some of the best writing I've ever read. It was so perfectly done on all fronts and so I'm a lot more nitpicky with it when it comes to how the show goes about it.
