The Walking Dead Star Andrew Lincoln Admits Brutal Death of Beloved Character Was a Little Much: “We over-egged the omelet.”

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1. That’s a great expression, which I will be adopting.

2. That was when I stopped watching>! and it is also the point where I stopped reading the comic!<

3. The popped-out eye while he tells Maggie he loves her was way over the top.

4. It was weird that for years leading up to it a lot of the fan base from the comic-book was saying that it had to happen on the show. No it didn’t. The show veered away from the comic book in several instances.

5. Honestly I thought it was great. It was bold. It made my stomach sink and could feel the terror they were feeling. It was a no plot armor, “oh shit this is real” moment after becoming desensitized to so much of the deaths we have seen before. And that’s what you want in a horror survival show full of zombies.

   I have a lot of problem with the show but this scene was not one of them. It’s okay to be uncomfortable. I was, and I felt like I grew with them living through it.

6. It wasn’t the character death that caused everyone to drop the show but that they baited Glenn dying once two episodes prior and then made everyone wait another 7 months to found out who actually died but surprise it was Glenn! The guy we baited a death for… two episodes prior.

7. I didn’t keep watching this show long enough to watch his character’s death, but I do remember when Carl died and everyone is talking to him and saying goodbyes and crying while he’s dying, for what felt like 45 minutes. Felt bad for him for a while but it got to a point where I was like “Jesus kid, just die already, go to the light!”

8. That I feel like was the official mail in the coffin for many people unfortunately.

9. That’s when I stopped watching. Hell, I couldn’t even watch when it happened to him, once Negan started hitting Abraham, that was it, because I knew what was coming, there had been enough spoilers (so to speak) about it, and Glenn was my favorite.

   It wasn’t just the senseless violence of it though. It was the fact that for years, at least from what I heard/read, they had strayed far from the comics (just think of how much more interesting Andrea could have been, if they had followed them). And my thought once they did that, was “Oh, now you want to start being true to the lore? Screw you.” As much as I hated Glenn getting killed (especially the way he did), I think it would have been easier to deal with had they followed the comic storyline from the start. And also not the two(?) times they decided to screw with our heads with the “will Glenn live or die <this scenario>, tune in next season!”

10. It was a good twist for a show that felt like it was becoming a chore. Didnt save it for very long though.

11. Nahh, it was just right! It had the exact impact it was supposed to.

12. Killing Carl was the dumbest fucking move I’ve ever seen. It’s like killing Jon Snow right before the Wildlings attack the Nights Watch. Carl’s story starts at the fecking Whisperers.

13. I stopped watching the episode after Negan appeared. Not because of the violence mind you, hell I just watched Terrifier 2 for the third time, but because the appearance of the pretend king with a tiger and the fake Jesus dude we’re just too much for me.

14. It was straight out of the comic book. I’d pretty much quit before then just bc it got so boring, but this shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone.

15. Nice way to see the main spoiler of the show while randomly scrolling! Thanks /r/entertaining

16. I got downvoted a year earlier telling the WD sub that they can’t film it as it was in the comic. Only psychopaths wanted to see that.

17. I’ve never seen the show. Years ago, I turned it on, and this episode was playing. I thought I’d finally check it out. I know zombies stories are gory. I’ve seen stuff like 28 Days Later and all that. But the eye part really fucked me up. I turned it off immediately and haven’t watched it since, but from time to time I still think about that scene. Ick.

18. Yeah I stopped watching after that season.

19. I think the biggest issue was the lack of justice in allowing Negan to live and have a redemption arc.
    Killing off a beloved character with a new character that we’re then supposed to start rooting for?
    No thanks

20. I didn’t watch the rest of the season when they killed Glen.

21. You were suppose to hate that he died, but more importantly you were supposed to want revenge, and killing Negan was priority number one, but the show instead decided to drag the season out longer for more money at the cost of prolonged viewership, and we got Rick working with negan

22. That’s actually the episode where I turned it off and stopped watching. Blech.

23. You can’t make a Tomlette without breaking a few Greggs

24. That’s where I stopped watching, but the other thing that bothered me was when they killed all those guys in their sleep with knives.

25. Never watched it again. Apparently didn’t miss much either…

26. Why is Daryl in France? I haven’t watched. How did he get there?

27. Glenn’s death was when I stopped reading the comic and then when it happened on the show I was just like “oh, perfect, I’m out again”.

28. I loved it, it was so unexpected and brutal. A huge shock to the system. Felt amazing.

29. Honestly compared to the stuff in GOT at the time — it was fairly tame. Why the hell they gave Scott Gimple the reigns to the entire universe after all the shitty decisions he’s made is beyond me.

30. They lost scores of fans that night.

31. Sorry I haven’t kept up with the walking dead since the prison. How’d he die? Everything online says he’s not dead

32. This wasn’t over egged at all.

    It was perfect. By this point the “oh! A new group! Uh-oh, they’re bad. Kill them! …oh, whos this? A new group?” had been DONE TO DEATH.

    And then Negan not only shows up at the end of an incredibly intense episode where the acting is phenomenal. But he absolutely brutalises Glen, one of the OG’s who was a cutie patootie.

    It really invested you in the Negan’s downfall.

    They absolutely fucked it up in the end, like. But seeing the politicking and sneaking around and plotting things to take down Negan was pretty cool.

    I read somewhere that originally Negan was going to kill Rick since Andrew Lincoln wanted to leave at that point. And man, that would have been better than what we currently have tbh.

    Instead it’s back to “oh, a new group…”

33. The dumpster fake out. That’s when I quit. The writers had contempt for their audience.

34. But an over-egged omelet is just more omelet?