I think these guys have done a phenomenal job of understanding what makes a good video game vs what makes a good TV show, and haven't tried to force anything from the game into the TV show, and created/expanded the TV show where it makes sense to.
Compared to Walking Dead, the showrunners of which thought that injecting the show with the most graphic violence probably ever on cable TV was what viewers wanted.
I never made it past when Negan lost and got locked up. Perhaps you're talking about later seasons. But I thought, up to that point, it was reasonable prediction of human behavior in a zombie apocalypse. When the difference between life and death is resources, people in that apocalypse will get violent over resources.
I agree that people would descend into tribalism. I read the comic and I knew exactly what was coming with Negan's introduction, but the insanely graphic death of Glenn and Abraham was purely for shock value. I feel like the show just became an exercise in nihilism from then on and had nothing really more to add. It just became more and more lazily written as time went on.
People were getting violent two years ago over toilet paper. Law and order is the really only thing preventing things like cannibalism and female slavery from happening. We’re not good people. We would not handle it well, we would not be good to each other. It would be a prison planet where everyone is paranoid of each other.
It was for shock value. Was it really to shock us viewers, or because that type of display has been a tool of war forever? Kings and cultures displayed heads on spikes to shock people into obedience for centuries.
This show, wow. What an episode. Bella Ramsey is legit. And seeing Spoiler skinned humans hanging and ready for meat processing? ew. But it was a nice foreshadow setup earlier when the guy said "it's venison" coupled with the "tiny little pieces comment later. Firing on all cylinders.
Yup. That was a hell of a ride. Also, LOL @ Spoiler the religious cult leader eating people and raping kids Pretty on-the-nose right there.
So did Joel actually kill that guy that the preacher claims he did, or was he the one eaten by the group?
Spoiler I didn't get the impression the group was killing anyone for food, but they were opportunistically eating anyone who died. So I think it's both. He was the one Joel killed, but they aren't burying the body.