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Originally Posted by djsFlames
That was a bit distressing to watch.
I'm fairly desensitized to most things in these sorts of shows and movies and zombie gore doesn't bother me at all, but when it comes to brutal violence between people like that where someone is consciously doing that to another person and how Negan was actually laughing over it I found to be disturbing on a few levels.
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That is entirely the point. In order for this to have the weight it needed to have, it needed to overcome completely your desensitization to brutal violence, especially in the context of this show. Showing Glenn with his head caved in saying his last words to his wife before having his skull turned into paste, with his scalp hanging off of Lucille while Negan makes a joke about it being a vampire bat?
Gah.
I was disturbed by it too, and that was the intent. Incredibly well executed piece of television. Negan has had just over an episode's worth of screen time and the audience probably has stronger feelings about him than almost any character the series has ever trotted out. He's already up there with the most horrifying villains of any series ever. Seriously, anyone who says that's "empty violence" is missing the boat by a mile. It moved the show and characters not so much forward but sideways ninety degrees.
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Originally Posted by Max Cow Disease
What does Glenn utter in his last moment there? "Maggie, I'll find you"? Quite sad! Glenn's always managed to be a doer, and to be there for Maggie and the group through thick and thin. Even in his last moment of physical shock he thinks he's going to get out of the situation and somehow track Maggie down.  |
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I think he means he'll find her in the next world, afterlife. He knows he's a gonner in this world.
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I think he just had his brains rearranged by a barbed wire baseball bat and could barely form words; whatever he said had no reason behind it at all. Which just makes the scene much more disturbing.