#four years from now it's still me with six accountants and sophia yelling at me every day

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Honest Thoughts About The Walking Dead Fandom

Something I really can't stand about this fandom... 1. People who want the show to diverge from the comics so it can be creative and unpredictable. If you want a zombie drama show like that go watch Fear.... I'm getting sick of hearing "if you want the comics read the comics." I don't want the comics. I want a live-action version of an amazing story. [also getting tired of people complain about how the show sucks now that it's following the comics when the problem about seasons 7 and 8 is because they AREN'T following the comics and when they do it doesn't make sense because they took out or remixed the parts that would have explained why x happened. When asked, most people's favourite moments come straight from or are remixed from the comics. Seasons 1 and 4-6 were pretty close to the source material and most people liked those seasons. The best parts of 7-8 were adapted from the comics and the worst were completely original. Also, TWD is supposed to be an adaption of a comic about the lives of Rick and Carl Grimes. Out of these two one was always meant to be killed off before the end. No, not Carl. Rick. The one-handed, old man with a bum leg and walks with a cane. Yeah, that guy. TWD is Carl's story. You can't call something The Walking Dead and kill him off just before "A New Beginning" and expect comic fans to be okay with it. Especially with Daryl Dixon somehow still existing. [Trivia: Daryl was a character created specifically for Norman. He wasn't originally in the story, comic or show. He was also supposed to die in Season 1 but then the writers changed their minds] Especially since you're killing Carl to save Negan. Diverting from the comics in order to follow the comics... Basically killing your protagonist to save your antagonist. Not to mention Carl's personality 180 and the way the story makes no narrative sense. It's clear something fishy happened behind the scenes. And you absolutely cannot give arcs meant for the main character to a TV-only character a season *coughDarylcough* after you killed the main character after sidelining him for four seasons (5-8). It's insulting to the actor you fired [oh don't get me started on the way Chandler was treated. I'll never end this section of my rant] and the source material and the comic fans. I'm sick and tired of hearing TV-only fans call Rick the main character of the story when it wasn't Kirkman's vision. And now I'm going to have to listen to it until this show ends or Andrew decides to jump the sinking ship and Norman Reedus is forced to be the leading actor... oh, God this show will be terrible. 2. People who hate Carl or think he's unimportant. For the reasons above. Like, if I ask someone who hates some other character why they hate them I get a reason that makes sense. Usually. Not always. And the reason will pertain to something that happened within seasons 6-8. With Carl it's because of his hair, or because he got Dale killed, or because he's a 'pussy' 1. Boys can't have long hair? Also Carl's hair is the way it is because of his bandage. They needed to grow it out to hide it. [Daryl's hair is probably because Norman's a little self-conscious about his eye because of what happened in that accident. So I hate when this is said about him too. Don't quote me on that because I could be wrong about that] Dale can't be blamed on Carl. Dale wasn't supposed to die that season but Jeffery Demunn quit (sort of. He changed his mind but they didn't want to spend more money on reshoots or something) Also, Dale's death is stupid. He goes walking at night in an open field almost completely empty and the walker... Sneaks up on him? Honestly, I'm starting to think that walker-related deaths past season 1 on this show only happen to people who weren't supposed to die/asked to leave or other behind-the-scenes drama [Sophia, Dale, T-Dog, Andrea, Carl] or are redshirts. As far as I remember, everybody else died during a war directly because of the war, at the hands of a person, or during the flu arc. With the exceptions of Tyreese, Bob, and Noah... [what do these men have in common?] I'm starting to think that walkers are used as a way for this show to kill people lazily if they need a death last minute. Anyway, back to Carl killing Dale. I also don't blame Carl for Dale's death because I hated Dale so I could care less if he did or not. [yes, I'm aware this sounds petty] Dale, the hypocrite, was like "we can't kill Randall but I won't tell anyone that I saw Shane try to snipe Rick I'll just look at Shane and become a meme" and was really nosy and judgmental for like, his whole time on screen. And Carl... A pussy? [ I'm not going to talk about the word pussy... Gosh, I hate that word. Anyway, not the point.] First of all, this kid at twelve years old was forced to watch people horrifically die in front of him and the world collapse. For about a month he thought his dad was dead. And he was shot through the stomach on accident. Blamed himself for Dale's death. Then he had to put down the zombified form of Shane, a father figure to him. Then at thirteen he had to watch his mother die and shoot her himself. And his dad went crazy which left thirteen-year-old Carl in the care of basically himself. He also killed his first person around this time. At fourteen, he lost his home, thought his infant sister [who he promised his mom he'd look out for] had been ripped apart by walkers. Almost had to shoot his zombified Dad after loosing his whole family in less than six months [right after yelling his brains out about his dad being a failure] was sexually assaulted and almost raped, had his eye shot out [probably lost his memory temporarily just like in the comics, though the show skipped his recovery arc for some reason] almost had his arm chopped off by his own father, and almost had his brains bashed in [while his father did nothing but basically give Negan the go ahead. I headcanon that Rick was calling Negan's bluff after a season of Negan doing nothing to Carl.] And then, when honouring his mother's last words to him... He gets bit while saving Siddiq. Instead of crying about it and giving up on life... Instead of collapsing at the fact that he has hours to live and curling up into a ball... He continues on his mission to bring Siddiq to refuge and bravely saves the Alexandrians. [While his Dad is out playing with the garbage folk.] Carl Grimes isn't a "pussy" he's an inspirational teenager who survived through more than most people would ever have to and never gave up no matter what life gave him. And that's just TV Carl. Anyway, another thing I hate about the fandom is the people who insist that their ship will be canon. Not like "x ship will rise" stuff or "please make x canon." I mean to the point that they act like, say, Daryl and Carol is the only thing that makes sense and any other routes are preposterous. [I'm only using these guys as an example due to how big the Caryl fandom is. It's a problem no matter what ship or fandom] These two characters have spent almost no screen time together since season 5. Tbh, I don't think the writers are planning this ship [I'm not sure they ever were, but if they were I don't think they are now] And if that's the case, the ship baiting from the TWD social media accounts needs to stop because it's pissing both Carylers and non-Carylers off. [again, my interpretation might be wrong and they may make them a thing, but I don't think it's happening, I think Carol is getting Michonne's comic arc and Daryl is getting *pukes* Carl's comic arc. I'm not a Caryler but I'd prefer Daryl and Carol to Daryl and TV-show Lydia] This "my ship is better than yours and yours makes no sense" stuff is annoying no matter who does it.