Negan, imo, is rediculous. This isn't a slam on the excellent actor, who is doing the absolute best he can with what he has been given, but rather everything else. Hear me out.
Much of the earlier part of the season was having most of the characters acting completely strange and unlike themselves, contrived circumstances just to prop up the image of Negan as a badass. Just bad writing. For instance, Darryl jumping up and acting alone in ep. 1 and causing someone's death was not what an earlier season Darryl would have done.
If he'd been written with better lines, he would fit in better with that world, but so much of what he says sounds like something a 13 year old edgelord would write in his mary sue fan fiction. That whole "think about what could happen, think about what did happen" was so stupid that we make fun of it still. Think about how he very smartly plans ahead and uses his nearly genius level intellect to ruthlessly psychologically torment others to maintain his position, but then he opens his mouth and I'm like "wtf?"
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but Negan _does_ remind people of the Governor. And obviously so, even this thread mentions the Governor. Just because it was in the comics that way doesn't mean it translates to the screen in the same way. I never read the comics so to me it feels like a rehashed villain. That said, if they had chosen Negan _instead_ of the Governor earlier in the tv series as a main bad guy that would have been probably a lot better.
Now with all that said, Negan's character - dialogue and clear on screen motivations - have become a lot better as the season has progressed...perhaps the writers have found their groove.
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lennonforever (2453)
8 years ago
No you are right about Negan. He is very juvenile and "comic book villain". He is clearly behaving as silly as his comic book persona. Negan is a sociopath even before the ZA.
I liked the Governor. He was trying to really do a good job for his people ( well, in the TV show, not so much in the comics IMO). Anyway, the Governor was a driven man who was a good person before the ZA and tried hard for a normalcy in the midst of the ZA. He is psychopathic not sociopathic, in that he was driven that way because of the horrendous events of the ZA.
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