Attainable unpopular opinion: let The Strolling Lifeless have the peaceable dying it deserves.
The hasty ending of the TWD comics in June of 2019 got here as a shock for unprepared readers, lots of whom had been alongside for the whole 16-year trip. Personally, I had solely taken the plunge about 5 months prior, after just a few failed makes an attempt to begin the sequence. As a day one fan of the AMC sequence, binging the comics left me upset in how the very public disagreements between solid members, showrunners, and community executives had created such a deep schism between the on-screen story and its supply materials.
After all, I do understand that actuality does have an effect on the sequence and we don’t dwell in an ideal world. Covid created manufacturing points that resulted in some less-than-ideal episodes to shut out season 10. Danai Gurira’s involvement within the Marvel Cinematic Universe led to her abrupt departure from the sequence shortly after her position elevated. Lauren Cohan’s tasks outdoors of TWD took her away from the sequence within the ninth season with out a lot rationalization as to the place her character had gone, just for it to be revealed later that she would return the next season.
Just lately, the information dropped that there could be one more spinoff from the unique The Strolling Lifeless sequence, Isle of the Strolling Lifeless. The brand new chapter might be set in Manhattan and led on-screen by Cohan’s Maggie and Negan, who’s performed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, two characters who canonically strongly dislike each other.
WHY? (Cash, duh. However nonetheless.)
This appears like a Star Wars–esque money seize. AMC is insistent upon increasing this universe far past the place anybody requested for it to go whereas straying farther and farther from whence it got here. We have already got Concern the Strolling Lifeless, the webseries The Strolling Lifeless: World Past, Tales of the Strolling Lifeless, which hasn’t even aired but, and a rumored Daryl-and-Carol-fronted sequence which, but once more, tells viewers to not fear about them as they watch. Plus, we’ve got but to see any progress on the three Rick-centered feature-length adventures that had been pushed again as a result of pandemic. or will they be a part of the brand new sequence? Who is aware of. Though the unique sequence is coming to a detailed, the creators and community heads appear to have chosen to proceed their path of oversaturation. Typically you need to know when sufficient is sufficient.
For me, The Strolling Lifeless died abruptly and peacefully three years in the past in a bit cabin on the duvet of concern 193 of the comedian sequence with a satisfying finish befitting its heroes. Whereas we don’t but know precisely what’s in retailer for almost all of the live-action characters, I believe it may be agreed upon that it’s time to allow them to go as nicely.
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Kahlil Johnson traces his nerdy roots again to stumbling upon an episode of Dragon Ball Z in the future after faculty within the fifth grade, and the remaining was historical past. He was inspired to jot down at an early age by his dad and mom and realized from his artist uncle that you simply’re by no means too previous for cartoons. Kahlil presently lives in Buffalo, NY along with his loving fiancée and their two canine, Lola and Phoebe.Â
