![]() ![]() Now that’s what I call a proper team-building session, Rick: paint-balling is for pussies. He spent an entire evening beating thousands of them to second-death with his bare hands. And when things went wrong and his town became over-run with Walkers, he didn’t formulate a strategy to thin out their numbers or divert them elsewhere again. This is the man who led thousands of zombies past his vulnerable settlement like some sort of demented Pied Piper of the Biters. His lunacy tends to be responsible for the deaths of more innocent people than Gwyneth Paltrow’s unwashed hands in Contagion. ![]() Indeed, a degree of fiery recklessness and devil-may-care jack-bootery is probably essential if you want to make a habit of surviving beyond the pre-credits sequence.īut for every positive application of Rick’s trademark craziness there are a hundred instances of him taking an already bad situation and making it not just worse, but Fear The Walking Dead worse. Rick’s madness-tipped brutality has helped extricate the gang from peril on many occasions, from his plan to ambush and lacerate a gang of cannibals to death in Gabriel’s church, to his (admittedly rather instinctual) plan to bite out a baddy’s throat to save Carl from a rapist: sometimes crazy pays. On his death certificate the town doctor scrawls: ‘Death by writer,’ and then she gets killed too, because she once criticised Rick’s shoes.ĭespite the pre-mortem tuts of his in-universe critics, a broken clock – or a broken Rick if you prefer – is still right twice a day. Guy Whose Name We Don’t Know Yet sneezes and propels himself backwards into a pit of hungry zombies, who proceed to feast upon his head. Points up to the heavens, and talks in a whisper. In fact, Rick’s greatness is the number one topic of conversation among regular, every-day Alexandrians, second only to how much they’d like to eviscerate Carl (partly as an experiment to see if losing his internal organs like a string of errant sausages would finally make the surly little chap emote about something. We know this because all of the other characters in the show repeatedly tell him that he’s a great leader when they aren’t telling him directly, they’re discussing it amongst themselves. Let’s start with Rick: Rick is a great leader. ![]() Are these two guys effective leaders? Worthy leaders? Great leaders? And, more to the point, should either of them have survived this long into the zombie apocalypse? As we prepare for an imminent return to the post-apocalyptic, pre-war, pro-tiger world of The Walking Dead Season 8, this feels like the perfect time to evaluate the leadership skills (or lack of them) of the show’s main protagonist and antagonist: watery-eyed psycho-sheriff Rick Grimes, and the bonce-bashing batsman y’all like to call Negan, but whose real name is probably Graham or something. ![]()
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