Chris
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I don't think Rick killing those Saviors was to push us to compare Rick and Negan. Rick has always been pretty clear about people being with them or against them, no in-between, a take no prisoners type. Ive always felt Rick sees people against them just as he sees walkers, there is no cure or redemption.
That's where I think this was brought up for though. Maggie is leader of the hill top and really believes in redemption. She took all those prisoners when people wanted to just kill them. She kept them inside the gates to protect them.
Carl's note was all about how everyone need to come together and redeem themselves for what they have done to move society forward. Will Rick be able to come to the same conclusion, it doesn't seem like it right now. Maggie and alot of the people at the hill top are in the same boat as Carl was. Rick, Daryl, and alot of the people fighting on the front lines are holding true to what has kept them alive. Maggie is really the one who has faction off.
I really believe the Rick killing those saviors was a set up on how the group will move on after they beat the saviors. Maybe they won't be one group or Rick and some of the main characters will move on without Maggie and the hill top.
Rick and Negan have been being compared since Negan entered the storyline, though. Whether intentional or not.
Rick refused to read Carl's letter but he already knew what it said. He wanted blood. So he went and got it, slaughtered a bunch of dudes that didn't deserve it and a few who did, and then he went to read Carl's letter now that his bloodlust had been sated. He knew that if he read it and then went out and killed those guys, he'd have been disrespecting Carl's memory. So now, moving forward, I expect Rick to seek an end to the fighting, be that peace with Negan or whatever. I already know what happens in the comics and we've been speaking candidly about it in here because nobody seems to care, but who knows if the show will take the same route.