Spoiler: show
So, um, while introducing the Whisperers proper... they killed off Jesus, I guess?
Yeah. Of all the characters they could've picked for their requisite mid-season finale shock value death, they picked:
- one of the most unique and well-casted characters on the show
- one of the most well-rounded and badass gay men in modern fiction (who's already been seriously underserved by his adaptation because Show Aaron is... not exactly memorable)
- one of my favorite surviving characters in the comic, up there with Negan, Maggie, and Old Rick
And now this means the show won't have the amazing scene where Beta ambushes Jesus and Aaron by the fire after the Whisperer War and it seriously looks like another shock death is incoming, only for the villain to underestimate them and get his shit shot up following a pretty stylish fight. Or they'll give that scene to Daryl and Michonne or something.
Nice.
Of course, this is assuming this isn't another fake-out, because after Dumpstergate and the Rickcopter I can't be sure of anything. I didn't watch the episode, I'm just learning about this from episode reviews, so I can't judge whether whatever happened to Jesus at the Whisperers' hands was survivable. But if it's permanent, it's exactly what I expect from the show now. What other unique characters do we still have? Michonne, I guess? Is Father Gabriel still alive? Dwight, maybe, if they suddenly recast him and started writing him well?
Yeah. Of all the characters they could've picked for their requisite mid-season finale shock value death, they picked:
- one of the most unique and well-casted characters on the show
- one of the most well-rounded and badass gay men in modern fiction (who's already been seriously underserved by his adaptation because Show Aaron is... not exactly memorable)
- one of my favorite surviving characters in the comic, up there with Negan, Maggie, and Old Rick
And now this means the show won't have the amazing scene where Beta ambushes Jesus and Aaron by the fire after the Whisperer War and it seriously looks like another shock death is incoming, only for the villain to underestimate them and get his shit shot up following a pretty stylish fight. Or they'll give that scene to Daryl and Michonne or something.
Nice.
Of course, this is assuming this isn't another fake-out, because after Dumpstergate and the Rickcopter I can't be sure of anything. I didn't watch the episode, I'm just learning about this from episode reviews, so I can't judge whether whatever happened to Jesus at the Whisperers' hands was survivable. But if it's permanent, it's exactly what I expect from the show now. What other unique characters do we still have? Michonne, I guess? Is Father Gabriel still alive? Dwight, maybe, if they suddenly recast him and started writing him well?