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Originally Posted by Hanni

10 Reasons Why The Walking Dead Should Just Kill Carl

Now that Shane is dead, I can explain how badly they dropped the ball with Carl and Ricks characters.

*comics spoiler*

Spoiler!

In the comics, Rick did not doddle around with Shane, in fact, he killed him shockingly quick (ie - we wouldn't of seen much of Shane in season two). There was also a set of twin boys in the survivors group, one of these boys becomes psychopathic, mutilating small animals before killing and mutilating the other twin boy. After one twin kills the other, the adults can't figure out how to deal with him, so Carl goes ahead and executes the surviving twin on his own (instead, they decided to have Carl get shot and completely suck the life out of the show).

This created a duality between Carl and Rick's characters, their ability to make hard decisions and how dispensable they consider other members of the group to be when it comes to their mutual survival.

I never expected the Rick of the comics to make it the TV, his nature is way too brutal to be the protagonist of a mainstream TV series. But it's easy enough for his character to be tweaked and remain interesting. Carl's character (which is quite good in the comics), is now completely broken and unredeemable.