I Know The One Way TWD’s Glenn Can Survive

I am not going to drag this out and tease you. I will tell you the one and only way Glenn from The Walking Dead can survive in just a second. First, though, I want to make it clear that I am just a fan like you. I have no secret knowledge or inside information and what I am about to say is simply my opinion (but I am right).

Here it is: Glenn can survive the onslaught of zombies on top of him if he simply jumps up, gets on his motorcycle and jumps a giant tank of sharks.

If Glenn survives then The Walking Dead is ruined. That is just the way it is… Yeah, it sucks that Glenn is dead. You loved Glenn and so did I. He was solid and believable. He was not suddenly Rambo just because the world ended. Better yet, he was not some terrible stereotype; you know, a martial arts master or super scientist just because he is Asian. But as much as we all love him, he has to go. it isn’t that anything was wrong with Glenn, but now that the producers (and by that I mean all the folks behind the show, not just those with the producer title) have put him under a giant rugby scrum of zombies, he has to die because there is no believable way out.

The thing is that there is no way to save him at this point without compromising the show. Saving him would be the ultimate bit of fan service, and if the show starts bending to the will of the viewers, well, Hell, we are weeks away from a Daryl and Carol hook up, Eugene curing zombie-ism and everyone living happily ever after. If Glenn survives then The Walking Dead stops being the edgy, gut wrenching drama that we love and becomes a bad action movie. You know what the problem with something like Predator is? When a bunch of dudes walk into the jungle with Schwarzenegger and find an alien you know that the only guy coming out at the end is Arnold. That can be fun for a couple of hours, but it doesn’t work as a weekly series. How apocalyptic is the zombie apocalypse if it only affects people without their name in the credits? All of a sudden The Walking Dead is going to be The A Team with walkers. The whole reason that The Walking Dead works is that the world it has created is believably dangerous.

Glenn: I bid you farewell. In the context of the story, your death was sad and pointless. In the context of the show, however, your death keeps The Walking Dead scary, unpredictable and heart-breaking. Your death keeps The Walking Dead compelling. Your death was important because we already have enough bad zombie shows… like Z-Nation and Fear The Walking Dead.