The Walking Dead #145

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Comments

[lordultimus]

"This could ruin EVERYTHING."

So par for the course for TWD?

[cyberghostface]

It really makes no sense for the Whisperers to do this if their goal was to get Rick's crew off their tail. Rick clearly wanted nothing to do with them and Carl only cared about the Alpha's daughter. It's not like the Governor or Negan who wanted to control or take over their areas.

[damar148]

Because if other groups didn't act as irrational assholes, there'd be zero conflict. And the zombie problem would have been over before it started.

[cyberghostface]

All the other villains had fairly consistent motivations and characterization. The Governor was a despot who wanted the prison for his people. Negan wanted to keep the communities under his control. The Whisperers just want to be left alone to do their own thing. Provoking Rick's crew like this is a flat-out 'villain ball' on their part.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

"We wanna live with nature! So lets pick a fight with the guys who're armed with guns!"

"Genius!"

[janegray]

To be 100% fair, it's not unheard of for people to act like irrational assholes IRL.

[q99]

Sure, but in dark, gritty stories, it happens to pop up a bit conveniently.

[janegray]

Yeah, good point :/

[sarahnewlin]

Oh how I miss what could have been potentially amazing characterization for Andrea in the tv show.....until they scrapped her plotline because of the behind-the-scenes drama.

[thatnickguy]

Really? Is that why she was unceremoniously killed off in the show?

[sarahnewlin]

Yeah. Back in Season 2 the drama happened

~ Sophia's actress was aging too fast and since this is not comic book aging time they had to get rid of her....for some reason instead of pulling a Game of Thrones Mycrella and recasting.

~ The actor playing Dale was killed off after he quit the show following disagreements with the showrunners. This basically ruined the storyline he was going to have with Andrea.

~ Andrea's characterization was ruined in the third season with the whole stupid Governor plot. Instead of having her be a badass with Michonne they made her a disposable woman who fell for the bad guy, and just when she was about to redeem herself, she was no longer needed so lets kill her. I believe Laurie Holden was not even told she was going to be killed until the first day they started filming.

[thatnickguy]

I recall the actor that played Dale was super loyal to Frank Darabont, so when Darabont left around that time, he was one of the actors who said "If he goes, I go!" so they killed him off.

Sophia getting killed off didn't bother me too much. It was a huge shock and I think in retrospect, given how much development she had with Carl, it was a bad call.

Andrea's character was so different from the comic that it wasn't even the same character. Which pissed me off because she's unquestionably one of the comic's most popular characters.

[reveen]

There's a lot more at stake here. Get it? At stake? No? Is this thing on?

[captainbellman]

One more gag like that and you'll really get it in the neck.

[jetblack927]

Something tells me, Rick's gonna look to Negan for help against Alpha and The Whispers somehow, on some "Yesterdays Enemy, Today's Ally" type irony.

[sagrada]

Makes sense to me. If things are going to be ruined anyway, at least make sure afterwards you can point at Reagan and go "It was HIS idea!"

[cyberghostface]

Someone else said that since Negan hates rape he would probably take issue with the Whisperers who see it as something that's just part of life.