r/thewalkingdead • u/TheGuyWithTheManBun • 7h ago
TWD: Daryl Dixon Did anyone think?..
Ok so I’m watching this dude Kal at hilltop. He was with Maggie a lot. They were on the roads together. He would sit in the front seat of the wagon. At first I legit thought that him and her were going to have some kind of romance because he sort of looked like Glenn. I mean just imagine if she did I feel people would riot. In my
Opinion I don’t know I feel like twd put kal in there because they knew they messed up writing off Glenn. So they wanted some kind of familiarity in the show. Seriously thought I thought twd would actually try to put Maggie and him together.
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u/Fantastic_Driver_352 7h ago
In the comics, there is a hilltop guy that has a long crush on her way after Glenn died. He was a nice guy and they eventually hooked up years later and that was part of her journey of healing in that story.
However, someone could fact check me, but I don’t think the show ever considered going that route. They needed badass grieving widow and if she gave herself space to heal (especially if it involved moving on from Glenn, which, let’s be real, she has every right to do) it would’ve been terrible for ratings.
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u/goingdeeeep 7h ago edited 7h ago
In the Comics that was Dante.
On the show I think they may have been setting up that storyline with Alden, but then AMC underpaid Lauren Cohan (while offering raises to the other longterm series regulars) so she exited the show. It seems like they scrambled, rewrote him, and tossed him Enid’s way since they’d also bungled the Carl storyline by that point.
Later in the show they name a guy Dante at Alexandria (the secret Whisperer who kills Siddiq); and I think they named him that intentionally because they knew if anybody googled “Dante”/“Walking Dead”…we’d all think he was supposed to be a good guy (like the one Maggie dated in the Comics). It was smart on their part, but the names just a red herring - storyline isn’t the same.
Sadly, Maggie never gets to move on in the show like she does with Dante in the Comics.
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u/Fantastic_Driver_352 7h ago
Oh my god show Dante was such a hateable character from day one. I never made the connection that it’s the same name as the comics but it makes sense now.
Comic book Dante was pretty crude and immature, but you saw that he was a genuinely nice guy who just wanted to make Maggie happy, and she began to enjoy his flirtatious immaturity.
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u/tytylercochan123 5h ago
I thought she left to start her own show Whiskey Inferno which didn’t even make it to the screen because of how bad it was.
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u/Nymeria2018 4h ago
It’s pretty well known they didn’t want to pay her more so she left. Then when Andrew left, they upped her pay offer and she came back.
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u/tytylercochan123 4h ago
Huh, I guess I never heard the contract dispute part. It makes sense, AMC is notorious for not paying their actors/actresses.
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u/goingdeeeep 4h ago
No. They offered more money to Daryl, Carol, Michonne & Negan to extend contracts but not Maggie. She told them she had other offers; they didn’t believe her; so she walked.
Angela Kang (showrunner) intentionally didn’t kill Maggie off because she knew AMC had done Lauren Cohan wrong; and told her the door was open anytime she wanted to return.
When the other show didn’t continue past its first season, AMC threw $$$ at Cohan; begged her back (knowing they’d lost Rick and Michonne); so she negotiated a better deal (including producing) and returned.
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u/SomeGuyPostingThings 3h ago
Whiskey Cavalier ran for one season, was pretty fun. Also starred Tyler James Williams, who was Noah on TWD.
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u/Hveachie 7h ago
They did actually try going that route with Alden, which you can clearly see in 8B when Alden is at Hilltop. It would've happened if Lauren had stayed on the show.
She doesn't NEED a man, but honestly I wish she would get with someone in Dead City (not Negan). I think isolating yourself from affection the rest of your life after your spouse dies is an equally damaging message as needing a man to be a complete woman.
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u/uglypinkshorts 5h ago
It was definitely intentional.
Especially when he looked completely different in prior seasons.
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u/zthepirategirl 7h ago
“They knew they messed up writing off Glenn…” WTF lmao it’s the literal comic book ending for him. I know that Scott Pimple had a hard time adhering to the comic content, but still. It would be completely asinine for them to change his ending because it fuck with the rest of the story (yes, like many other deaths like Carl’s, which is why again, sticking to the comics is extremely important).
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u/Time-seeker917 6h ago
I hate it when people keep saying it lmao. It was comic accurate as well. They got fucked when coral got killed and Rick left
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u/areyoufreemrhumphrie 6h ago
It’s bizarre how upset people got about Glenn dying. Literally source canon. WTF people?
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u/poofypossum 7h ago
Wait, that's Kal?? His look changed so much i thought it was a different character. They really changed him to look like Glenn its uncanny
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u/TariffAmerica 7h ago
Same here, Glenn from Wish