Watching the first five seasons of the walking dead, Rick Grimes really rubs me the wrong way. The show presents him as a hero of sorts, but in reality he's one of the main villains in the Walking Dead universe.
Within the first five seasons of the universe, Rick is responsible for killing over 100 men. He wanders into a bar, blows everyone's heads off. He wanders into an abandoned prison and again he acts as judge, jury, and executioner. He hardly ever sets up his own camp. He wanders into other camps and burns them down ultimately. Anywhere Rick and his cohorts travel to, bad shit happens.
He and his cohorts will wander into the safest community imaginable, and they'll have it burned down within a week of staying there. I assume most people in the walking dead universe are fearful of Rick and his bandits. At one point in the show, he responds to a stranger with "Do you know who you're talking to?", signifying his godlike-complex and unusual adoration of self.
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Great take, you should make a 3 hour long video essay on Youtube called "Why Rick Grimes Is Actually The Villain".
How many camps was Rick affiliated with that were burned down or overrun? The show illustrates that for us but I assume he burned down many more camps than we know of.
i loved when they where feral raiders out in the wilderness after the prison and terminus and then they come into alexandria and basically have the place clocked and taken over in a week. punished nuclear rick was kino.
>MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?
i felt the same way OP. keep watching, i came to root for rick. wait for NEGAN kino
Remember when the writers thought that Sean was making too much sense back in s1 or s2 so they turned him into a rapist so Rick could kill him
who the hell is sean
Kinda gotta agree with you here. Don't get me wrong, I don't completely hate Shane's rapey behavior... he and Lori had something special he was just trying to get her to admit that, I doubt he would have actually done the deed.
The conflict would be stronger if Shane never did that.
Rick is a genuine psychopath, that's why people like him.
In the comics he's way more selfish. He really only cares for the survival of his family.
Plus his revenge for the cannibals just confirms he's no longer sane.
Comic rick is a homosexual because he's a hypocrite that plays the role of "the good man" whole being a self centered piece of shit. Show Rick walks the walk & talks the talk, a true man of honor
It's a doggy dog world
Rick is one of the very few people left with a conscience. He has every right to judge who lives and dies
ACAB
That is literally the point of the walking dead comic though the show fricks it up and makes him seem more heroic.
The final arc is Rick's group being feral animals and thinking of killing and taking everything from an actual safe group that's never seen violence until he realizes how fricked his group is even resorting to killing one of his own. He does a pivot and saves Carl's morality and makes him a good guy
The only season worth watching is the first. I have seen it probably four times in its entirety over the past 10 or so years and its kino everytime
>They're both clearly within running distance to get to him before the zombies do
>Can easily just lure them away and bash their brains in
>Wastes all that time on some gay "epic" moment to cut the bullet in two and perfectly have each half hit the zombies
And I thought the original walking dead was bad. Which spin off is this?
Imo the farm and Governor stuff is worth it too. Neegan can suck a fat dick, he's a damn cartoon villain. Anything beyond that I have no idea about. Your webm proves how fricking low this show ended up.
Nah, the show only picks up once Shane is gone.
this is literally the point of the show in the first 6 seasons
stfu rick did nothing wrong besides being too slow to take shane's advice
Rick was slow to adapt and Shane was right.
>He and his cohorts will wander into the safest community imaginable, and they'll have it burned down within a week of staying there.
lol I stopped watching after season 1 was meh but this made me almost chuckle
I think the issue is that things went to shit way too fast after Rick gets to the gated community. It just makes it feel like he was the reason for it getting fricked up, when in reality he was just a catalyst. They could have had a timeskip with them being there for a few months or even a year before any major shit went down.
Neegan would have found them eventually, with or without Rick being there.
I feel like like people downplay Alexandrians alot, they are part of that cult mentality. People like Rick cause chaos, avoidant people are weaker at defending themselves yes but 90% of Alexandrians would have stayed alive without Rick. This of course if the show was realistic.
This part of the story is much stronger in comics.
agreed (and sneed)
hes a cuck shitter for not offing his wife and "friend" the moment he found out they were fricking
screwin' with the wrong people
This is just what the old lady says at the community. But if you remember the series he is always justified. Even at the same community they end understanding (before dying) that Rick's way was the only way.
uhhhh he's a white man
This is very common thought. The show fetishes him and he is like a cult leader. Every place he goes to he causes chaos and he actually doesn't build much society himself.
In the comics he is more down to Earth. The portrayal is much more realistic.
I stopped watching after the governor's attack failed and he chimped out on his own men killing several of them. What happens after?
TWD isn't about "heros" and "villains" you MCU watching direction brain loser, it's about people doing what they feel they need to survive in a post-apocalyptic environment. Please give me one example of something Rick does that can't be justified in the pursuit of protecting himself, his family or his tribe.
That’s literally the point dumbass