7 Reasons Why Rick Shouldn't Survive The Walking Dead Season 5
7. Hes Become As Dangerous As The Bad Guys
After Shanes betrayal and death at the end of season two, Rick became colder, harder: the group of survivors became like a tight-knit commando unit getting through the winter after leaving Hershels farm, and this was in no small part due to Ricks strict, almost tyrannical leadership of the small, mobile group. One can argue that they wouldnt have survived Woodbury without Grimes uncompromising leadership. Following the brutal events of season three, however, Rick had decided to give up the role of leader in the group, which had grown to encompass the survivors of Woodbury, and become its own little community: tied down to one location, with families and children entirely unsuited to the kind of guerilla existence our little group of protagonists had lived throughout season three. Moving on from Loris death, hed returned a little to the more peaceful man we saw at the beginning of the show, a man who didnt want the mantle of leader thrust upon him so, of course, thats precisely what happened, the Governor returning to the prison settlement to exact bloody revenge, bloody mayhem following in his wake, and Rick once again becoming leader. Given the split in the group in the second half of season four and Ricks gradual recovery from the beating hed taken from the Governor, we didnt get to see much leadership in action until Joes group of reavers arrive in the dad of night to attack Rick, Carl and Michonne, leading him to mercilessly and brutally kill Joe with his teeth (with his teeth!), and hack to pieces another whod threatened Carl with rape. With their arrival at the sinister Terminus having resulted in their capture, and with the trailer for the new season appearing to give audiences even more of season threes unflinchingly badass Action Rick, its time to consider is he becoming as brutal and dangerous as the people he defends his friends from? Wheres the conflicted family man, the Kentucky lawman, the everyman we followed into this hell? If hes gone for good, replaced by a man with arterial blood between his teeth, we might need ourselves a new hero.
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