THE WALKING DEAD 5.16
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glenn rhee was disrespected
No one knows about the grip this man, this character, had on me. He still does. The whole reason I'm making this post is because years after THAT episode, I find myself talking about him and his death with my family and friends whenever we're discussing shows, specifically character deaths. To this day, no character death has ever affected me the way Glenn's did.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 14. I had asked my mother to record the episode on TV so that I could watch it the next day when I got home from school. I even invited my best friend to watch it with me, for the first time, because we were both huge fans. Unlike her, I had been dreading it since the cliffhanger. I knew from the internet that in the comics, Glenn was the one who was murdered. I drew the line-up myself and would sit there and try to estimate where Negan was swinging the bat. I desperately wanted the writers to change their minds. They didn't... obviously. It was easily one of the most harrowing, disgusting deaths I've seen for a main character. I was sobbing and I honestly just couldn't believe what I was watching. It made things real awkward for my best friend at the time, whose favourite was Daryl, so she was sitting pretty (and I knew she would always sit pretty because no one would ever kill of the fan favourite redneck white boy).
And before you say, "Mimi, you're exaggerating, you're being soft, dramatic" etc... I was 14 and the only big shows I was watching, were The Walking Dead, Supernatural and The 100. I wasn't prepared for a MAIN character to be killed off so brutally and permanently at that age.
I'll never quite get over it. At the time, I powered through my anger over how they made us watch a sweet, selfless, brave father-to-be like Glenn get ruthlessly bludgeoned to death until there was nothing left, in front of his wife and friends... because I thought it'd be used to further the plot and further Maggie's character, allowing her to get revenge.
Octavia did it in The 100.
A part of her died and she was literally never the same. She was a shell of who she once was, and she killed the guy who murdered her love.
And that was over a relationship that didn't last as long as Glenn and Maggie's, on a show that is arguably a lot less brutal and hard-hitting. And apart from the baby -- which in my opinion wouldn't have even gone to term with the physical toll the death took on Maggie -- Maggie had no one, so she had way more reason to go berserk.
The Walking Dead couldn't even give us revenge. FOR CARL! FOR NEGAN! Who GIVES a fuck ?! I'm one of the few who doesn't worship his character, and I honestly couldn't care less. I'm not sitting and watching his character growth because I don't care. He doesn't rape women, give him a round of applause. He likes children, wow, he's so sweet.
In Maggie's words: HE KILLED GLENN! Glenn Rhee. The man that saved everyone's faves on numerous occasions.
He was the first Asian character I had ever seen that was one of the main character in an American show, one that survived for a long time too and wasn't killed off as soon as the first chance struck, one that had a romance with a white woman -- which, although wasn't as groundbreaking as Aaliyah and Jet Li in Romeo Must Die, given that they weren't even allowed to kiss because of racism -- it was still something because Hollywood was still perpetuating the idea that Asian men weren't sexy or desirable.
Glenn had it all, though.
He was ballsy and brave, with his first appearance being him rescuing and helping Rick, the slightly irritating main character, survive. He would do the jobs nobody wanted to do. Going into the sewers, going down a well... even if it was risky, Glenn did it for the group.
He was a romantic and was one of the first ideals I ever had in relationship. He protected Maggie always. He went to her father for approval and built a relationship with him. He understood her love and devotion for her family and did his best to help her with her grief. He stopped at nothing to find her whenever they were separated. He fought Rick when it came to the Governor because the monster threatened and sexually assaulted her.
He kept his humanity longer than I've seen anyone keep their humanity in anything. Pretty certain he had never murdered anyone until Negan's group. He was genuinely a good person, a good soul.
And the show disrespected him. They killed him in a horrific way -- that I would say was only rivalled by Noah's death (another POC, hmm) -- and it was for shock. I thought it was to get us going, get the group going... to tremendously rile them up for when they get to eventually kill Negan. But no... it was essentially for nothing. Nothing except to... destroy the characters left and make the show incredibly dull. Oh, and they kept the joke that killed him around:
So, yeah, I hate The Walking Dead. You took the soul of the show, Glenn Rhee, stomped on him, spat on him, didn't do right by him, and instead... promoted his killer to one of the main characters and actually tried to redeem him and give him a relationship with Maggie.
What a joke.
Q: "If there was anything named after you that you just happened to sort of come across, what would you-"
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And then we got this little exchange. ✨
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This is all about a fictional character that I'm still emotional over. In the end, it's all fiction and I'm aware of that - but there's also a reflection in how certain characters are treated in comparison with real life outlooks and experiences of actual humans who aren't fictional...
I also believe that there's room for dark shit, messed up shit, evil characters and that these aspects of fiction don't always reflect the author's true self. We're story tellers. I like my dark, fucked up shit the same as many other people - but in the end, I don't like cruelty in real life. I don't like a lot of shit that I'd happily write about, because it causes a story to be told - and something to think about, or things to hold up to society and say 'hey, lookit'.... And sometimes, it just for shits and giggles, if we're being real about things. However, I will forever be pissed off over how certain shit played out where one fictional character is concerned, and here's just a small bit of why. It involves both fiction and reality, and the reality that sometimes, some characters are treated in ways that reflect how some people are seen in real, every day life...
They did Glenn Rhee wrong in TWD main series.
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