Andrew Lincoln Didn't Like The “B-Movie Gorefest” of Glenn's Death On The Walking Dead
Andrew Lincoln expressed his dislike to The New York Times about the way Steven Yeun's character, Glenn Rhee, got killed in the season 7 premiere of The Waling Dead. Glenn got killed by being beaten to death by a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, eventually leaving his head looking like oatmeal and his eyeball popped out of his skull. A lot of fans called it torture porn and that the show went too far. Here's what Andrew had to say about it:
“I regret the manner in which it happened. We’ve been able to terrify people in film for 100 years without having to show an eyeball. When that happens, it diminishes what we’re trying to make, which in my mind’s eye is a family drama set in hell. It’s not a sort of B-movie gorefest.”
“It is from time to time, with the zombies and the action sequences. I don’t discredit that. It’s part of the thrills and spills of the show. But when we’re dealing with losing somebody — and a very brutal, human kind of death — I think it’s just taste. My taste is, I think it would be more disturbing just keeping the camera on Maggie’s face. And maybe that’s why I want to direct, because I want to make what I’ve been filming in my head.”
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I'm glad Andy thought it was tasteless too.
the fake out one was way worse
AMC gives zero fucks about the quality of the walking dead or it's legacy.
The TV show at the outset was about humans trying to rebuild society in a post-apocalyptic world. The zombies are just background to that. I don't care what happens in the comics, because if I wanted the comics, I'd be reading them instead of watching the show.
I guess he never read the comics...
No, someone you've watched for X amount of seasons get their head bashed to a bloddy pulp is not the same as seeing rotting corpses getting their head bashed in.
That whole scene was too much.
That...might be the problem. Just because he's a good actor who's putting in a strong performance doesn't mean the rest of the show's up to par. It really just seems like the writers & the network are mainly interested in giving the audience (meaning teen boys, I guess?) whatever they want, so that means a lot of cheap surprises and yes, gore.
you know what else is in the comic? carl. and rick. so. fuck that nonsense
people expected glenn to die, yes.
no one expected for him to get the shaft for most of his time on the show, and then have his death drawn out over the summer break and then in real time as we saw his head explode, him gasp for maggie, his eye.
Just because it ~happened in the comics~ doesn’t mean it had to happen in the show. In the comics Carol died early, Daryl doesn’t exist, Carl and Rick are alive, etc. and who know who else is alive in the comics? fucking Negan, but the majority of fans hate him and want him dead. So saying “it happened in the comics” doesn’t excuse the fact that Glenn’s death was used as shock value. Steven said himself that the writers didn’t know what else to do with his character so that’s why they killed him off when they did.
Yes. Exactly. It gets so tiring hearing "Guess you didn't read the comics, because that's what happened in the comics!" whenever people suggest that something that worked in a two-dimensional drawing with a word bubble just doesn't translate well to film with real live, breathing humans speaking to each other (Negan's entire dialogue, ahem).
They change the comics quick enough whenever they want to save some money on paying a cast member whose contract is up for renewal (or when a child actor has the audacity to actually grow up and not turn out to be the physical type they were hoping he'd be, so they want to split his whole character between one still-cute little kid and one strapping young hunk in the storyline). The comics aren't written in stone, obviously.
But that comment is still wrong lol he doesn't base his criticism of the scene on their friendship & he is barely 'outraged'.
i get its how it happened in the comic, but tbh they didn't show much of abraham's death and focused more on the reactions, which i found more jarring and emotional.