WHAT THE FUCK? Why? I… this… WHAT?
I’m sorry, but I absolutely agree with this move. The show went a completely different direction than the books, and the books are fucking stellar. Why the fuck would you change something thats still ongoing? I’m with Kirkman, how would you feel if someone grabbed your baby, threw it on the ground, then kicked it until it almost died? That’s what AMC has done. Who are these racist hillbillies? Who is this mexican gang? Who are the black folks? What the fuck is this hatch? There are plenty of characters in the books without adding new shitty ones. Just make your actors read the series and say “action”. Stop trying to fix what isn’t broken.
From everything I’ve read about the firings, they’re not being fired for deviation from the storyline of the comic, but being fired in attempt to not have a staff of writers. Considering Darabont and Kirkman wrote many of the episodes themselves (or re-wrote in cases of most episodes), I think they believe that they can get by just using freelancers and tweak those scripts here and there to their liking. Know that with Darabont/Kirkman heavy handing this, all changes from the comics structure were approved from the top down and they’re likely really liking the changes.
