![]() ![]() But I still marvel at the fact that Negan is so sympathetic and likable despite having butchered one of the show’s most beloved characters in one of the most gruesome death scenes in television history. On the one hand, Carol is now so annoying that I’m inclined to dislike any decisions she makes. ![]() ![]() Such is the thanks Negan gets for aiding Carol in overthrowing the Whisperers. The setup for Negan’s stroll down nightmare lane comes courtesy of Carol, whose solution for the cut-it-with-a-knife tension between Neegs and Maggie is to ship him out of A-town to a remote cabin (funny how there never seems to be a shortage of horror-movie-ready cabins around here). So instead of a jerk who gets jerkier, the television Negan turns out to be a deeply flawed but essentially good-hearted dude who lost the one thing he cared about, never forgave himself for it, and took out his pain - and his shame - on everyone else. After his first appearance in the season-six finale, Jeffery Dean Morgan said he imagined Negan was the “dick” you knew in high school, and that he “didn’t turn into this in one day.” But being rotten to the core doesn’t make for a sympathetic antihero, especially one who’s married to the saintly Lucille. I spent a minute looking back at what we already knew of Negan’s history before the apocalypse and learned that in the comics, he was always an asshole. As lousy as last week’s episode was, the much-anticipated Negan origin story is that excellent, living up to its considerably great expectations. ![]()
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