I hate Negan. Not
for the reasons you probably think. I’ll
get into that, but first …
If you are not
caught up on Walking Dead, stop reading.
You were warned.
Back to … I hate
Negan. For Graphic Novel readers you were familiar with him, but for those who
didn’t read, Walking Dead spent the second half of season six teasing this ‘Negan’
guy, trying to shove down our throats how horrible he is. When we see him, what
did we get? A guy in designer jeans, an expensive made to fit leather jacket
and the quintessential bad guy slicked back greasy hair. Oh, yeah, he carries a
barbed wire bat that he bludgeons people with.
That’s his call
to villain fame? He beats people? I hate Negan because he is being sold to us
as this ruthless villain. He is not, by the true definition of the word, a
villain. A good villain has some good qualities, for the most part, those
around them aren’t convinced he or she is a villain and they don’t boast, like
Dr. Evil how bad they are. Albeit selfish, there are good motives. The Governor
was a great villain and Walking Dead has been cutting up the cardboard ever
since to try to match him.
By the trailers
we hear Negan brag about his strength. He uses phrases like Pee-pee pants city. Pee pant city? What? Is he trying to
scare first graders. Is he a bad guy? Yes. A villain? No. He’s a brute, and
that won’t last long.
Speaking of the
brute … Season Six of Walking Dead ended with a cliffhanger that got people in
an uproar. How dare they do this to us, viewers cried out and cried foul. Admittedly
it was one humdinger of a cliffhanger. Kudos to AMC.
Apparently Pee
Pant City Man smashed someone in the head. Ironically, the same one screaming
about the cliffhanger are the same ones that are convinced that Glenn got the
bat. Just because it went that way in the GN. Seriously, people on spoiler and
fan boards are downright belligerent about it being Glenn and anyone else who
thinks otherwise is an idiot. Don’t believe me, go on one of those boards and
post it isn’t Glenn. They smash you like the current bat wielding cardboard cut
out villain.
When simple
common sense would tell you that it isn’t Glenn. Would AMC risk losing viewers,
go to all that trouble to build up a ‘who is it?’ cliffhanger if they were gonna
stick to the comic books?
Some say he hasn’t
been on set. Some say he’s been spotted. AMC is not gonna let this secret out.
They will resort to having the character who died on set and hide others. All
the Glenn Slayers will be crying in their Wheaties. He’s not dead. Forget the graphic
novels, they wouldn’t pull a cliffhanger of this magnitude if they were
following the books. They’d leave us crying at the end.
So who do I say
got the bat? Maggie.
Why? It’s heart
wrenching, it’s bold, it’s unexpected, it will motivate the characters and story.
Game of Thrones slaughtered a pregnant woman brutally. Their viewers didn’t
stop watching.
Book readers argue,
‘it’s not a woman. Negan doesn’t brutalize women. Especially pregnant ones.’ Correct
me if I’m wrong, but unless Negan is a psychic or has xray vision, he hasn’t a
clue she’s pregnant. And … remember she cut her hair, really short. It wasn’t
the actress who wanted It done, it was
for storyline purposes. Short hair, dark lighting, pale from being sick … Negan
thinks she’s a dude.
Smash.
AMC wants you to
comeback to see who got it, they aren’t luring you back to see the predictable.
That’s my take, opinion, a few more weeks and we’ll know.
