The Walking Dead isn’t deft enough any more to examine its characters beyond an episode or so every half-season. Of course, the difference is that those two shows carefully and thoroughly examine their main characters, see them as humans beyond their immorality, and look at their motivations and histories and what led them down their path.
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Yes, it would be ridiculous for the series to have transitioned into this at some point without someone acknowledging this is where the show was heading, but it would be an explanation. The easy answer would be if The Walking Dead was if a show about a man’s descent into villainy, such as Breaking Bad or House of Cards. The question is: Why? Why turn the main protagonist of this show into a liar and a butcher? In fact, the ironic “Still Gotta Mean Something” episode title wants us to focus on Rick’s lies, how his word doesn’t mean anything, and how he’ll do anything to kill the people he’s decided need to die. Or how Morgan has been continually represented as descending into a psychopathic madness, and yet in this episode, Rick and Morgan do the exact same thing – the only differences being that Rick doesn’t see imaginary people and Morgan doesn’t lie to the men. It could not have been an accident that we saw Rick at his most awful, his least honourable, and most murderous in yesterday’s episode at the same time we watched Negan connect with Jadis on a personal, empathetic level of shared loss and grief.
For instance, other than a brief, single, mild questioning from Michonne, there have been zero repercussions, even verbal, for Rick lying to his dying son about how he would try to make peace with the Saviors.īut The Walking Dead does know Rick’s actions are immoral, even if the characters somehow don’t. Certainly, the other main characters rarely have any feelings other than mild discomfort at the lengths Rick will go to for this. The Walking Dead often presents Rick’s actions, no matter how traditionally immoral they may be thought of, as justified, whether because of the zombie apocalypse he lives in or because of specific threats he’s fighting.
Either you feel that Rick is justified in killing every Savior, former Savior or suspected Saviour he sees for the greater goal of protecting his people and in pursuit of vengeance, or you think he isn’t. I’ve talked a lot about Rick becoming – or being – a villain over the course of The Walking Dead, but let me put it more clinically: Rick’s actions here are either just or unjust. “We could have lived,” he manages to croak just before Rick, enraged that this man has not died yet, shoots him in the head. Once it’s over, Rick crouches down next to a man dying in a pool of his own blood. The murders of these men are not unusually graphic for the show, but they are certainly among the upper end of the scale. They are too shocked by the betrayal in the middle of what is already a life or death situation to fight them, and they all die, either by Rick’s hand, or Morgan’s spear, or the zombies (who also eat all the wounded). Rick and Morgan battle the zombie herd alongside them, for a bit, but soon start murdering the ex-Saviors as well. When the not-really-Saviors-any-more can’t decide and the herd arrives, Rick says they will need his and Morgan’s help to survive, and they’re freed. His truck is nearby and can help carry the wounded. Rick tells them that a herd is closing in on the bar, and promises that if they untie him, he will let them come back to Hilltop. Jared, the long-haired Savior who has always been the most belligerent prisoner (and the person who killed Henry’s brother) votes for Sanctuary most of the rest want to return to Hilltop. They also have several wounded men and believe Hilltop’s doctor might help them.
After he and Morgan get captured, Rick wakes up in an abandoned bar where the former prisoners are arguing with each other whether they should continue onto Sanctuary, where Simon has already made it clear they will not be welcome, or back to Hilltop, where they were imprisoned but treated with mercy, despite being the enemy.
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