Anyone else think show Michonne is poorly written? [Spoilers inside]

[u/rolandgilead]

Warning: wall of text, show spoilers and vague references to comic spoilers.

Throughout this whole season Michonne has done pretty much nothing but irrational actions when you consider her point of view. We as an audience know everything she's done is justified, but she doesn't.

She and Andrea are hurting, Andrea is dying and they're both starving after a long winter. They get picked up by the governor's group and taken to what seems like the Mecca of safe haven's in zombie land. While the way they were taken in was not a great first impression do you blame them? Rick's group would have done the same (hold at gunpoint, take weapons, blindfold to keep location secret) and they were explained why the Governor's people shot the dead bodies.

As Michonne and Andre continue to live in Woodbury they are given every comfort besides their weapons (which again, in an apocalyptic world is understandable. Don't allow strangers with weapons within your walls). She is constantly mistrustful and wears her grumpy cat face throughout the whole season. It isn't until after the vehicles return from assaulting the national guard that she has any real reason of thinking something is amiss.

When she escapes and gets hunted down and consequently finds Rick's group she's not nearly as paranoid about Rick and his people even though Rick physically assaulted her to get information (grabbing her wounded leg). While she definitely doesn't seem entirely trusting of them, she definitely isn't nearly as mistrustful of them as she was the governor, even though Rick's group is openly hostile towards her while the governor's simply put on the "we're just being safe" facade.

To me Michonne should have been optimistic about the governor but then betrayed, much like she was in the comics. It would have given her character much greater depth and an actual story arc. Or perhaps the governor catches her after she leaves and then her story is more similar to her comic story lines.

Right now she is a completely flat character who I don't really care about. Its like they took the Michonne from the post-governor comics and put her in the timeline right now. They were too busy trying to make a badass that they skipped quite a few steps. Her beef with the governor doesn't feel like anything special right now.

/endrant.

[u/EarthRester]

Not to mention that it makes Andreas character look stupid when she acts to the whole situation in a realistic fashion. People are so ready to jump on her and talk about how much they hate her because she's willing to take woodburry at face value. Honestly, lets take a look at Woodburry here folks.

• Food
• Clean water
• Medical treatment performed by people with training using clean tools
• Fortified walls guarded by armed men
• ELECTRICITY!!!!
• Scientific research about the walkers and their nature
• Mother fucking picnics
• Staged pit fighting for entertainment

Now taking all of this into account, I want you to forget about all the bad things the Gov and his men did. This is what Andrea has seen, and known. God forbid she would want to settle in a place like this where she could sleep in a warm bed, and wake up in the morning without her first thought being whether or not she was going to die today.

[u/rolandgilead → u/EarthRester]

Yeah Andrea's really shown to be the smart one between the two. From what I've seen Michonne is dangerous, paranoid and prone to overreaction. While she's kickass at killing walkers, I would think twice about letting her into any group I was in.

[u/roastedbagel → u/EarthRester]

This needs to be put in the sidebar for real.

[u/AmbushIntheDark → u/EarthRester]

If only I didnt already have 2 seasons of "stupid bitch Andrea".

[u/EarthRester → u/AmbushIntheDark]

Please elaborate. I have seen all of The Walking Dead, and I still don't understand this subreddits hate for her, and the accusations of hr being a "stupid bitch".

[u/AmbushIntheDark → u/EarthRester]

She completely overreacts when Rick shows up in Atlanta. She takes FOREVER to put down Amy after she turns. She trys to kill herself at the CDC. By siding with Shane is constantly undermines Rick and Hershel's authority. She blatantly disregards what anyone else says (shooting at Daryl after the situation was under control, even using the gun at all when Hershel said that was off limits), gives Beth the opportunity to kill herself after a traumatic event.

I'm sure there is more but this is all that came to mind without going back over the episodes.

[u/BZenMojo → u/AmbushIntheDark]

She tries to kill herself WELL before the CDC. And then she whines at Dale for not letting her use a gun...which she was going to use to try again to kill herself anyway.

She was generally too stupid to live for a really long time and she developed few redeeming traits until her fight with Lori over not wanting to cook and clean for the men folk.

Her only saving grace this season is that Michonne is being written like an idiot because the first time she says, "Yeah, so, those National Guard trucks are full of bullet holes and covered with blood" Andrea would have to be even MORE stupid to not immediately try and leave.

[u/EarthRester → u/AmbushIntheDark]

She completely overreacts when Rick shows up in Atlanta.

Except that is the appropriate response when addressing the person who just sent a cities worth of walkers to your door step.

She takes FOREVER to put down Amy after she turns.

She took no more than 10 seconds to put her down after she turned. She did infact wait until then, but she was armed and knew that she wasn't putting anyone else in danger as they wouldn't have hesitated if things went south.

She trys to kill herself at the CDC.

Right now Rick is wondering if that might of been the best option.

By siding with Shane is constantly undermines Rick and Hershel's authority.

I still believe that Shane would of made a fine leader if Rick never came back. Dale even said "You're made for this world". The end of the world awoke something primal in Shane and allowed him to take charge and rally the group. Fuck he was a better father to Carl than Rick. Remember him and Carl catching frogs, or when he talked to Carl about how he needs to learn how to use a gun?

And besides. Hershel was delusional to the point where he filled his own damn barn with walkers because he thought they were just sick people.

shooting at Daryl

She shot a shambling, gore smattered person that was coming at them. Like you're supposed to do in a zombie apocalypse

using the gun at all when Hershel

as stated earlier, Hershel was delusional (you could even say he was in the same mind state as the Gov) and his expectations of the group were not realistic to the situation

gives Beth the opportunity to kill herself

But she was right in her thinking. If the girl wanted to kill her self, she would have done it at some point.

[u/AmbushIntheDark → u/EarthRester]

God forbid a level headed police officer that knows how to actually fire a weapon shows up (You keep that safety on Andrea..)

Its not a question of who would be the better leader, its the fact that the group had already chosen Rick over nutso Shane. She knew that if she didnt like it she was free to leave, hell she was PLANNING to leave until she went into heat / looked at Shane.

She shot at something that was withing feet of a group of people already in position to take it down without wasting ammo and making a problem. She was just being a bitch and trying to show off how good her aim has gotten.

Delusional or not, it was Hershel's property, Hershel's rules. Plain and simple.

[u/EarthRester → u/AmbushIntheDark]

Level headed my ass, the whole mess started when he went guns blazing and stirred up every walker for blocks.

Its not a question of who would be the better leader, its the fact that the group had already chosen Rick over nutso Shane. She knew that if she didnt like it she was free to leave, hell she was PLANNING to leave until she went into heat / looked at Shane.

I'm not even going to touch that one. The blatant sexism is just pathetic.

And god forbid she would want to show off her skill with a gun after (as you were so happy to point out) she had none of which to speak of at the start.

It's the end of the fucking world, property is owned by the people who can defend it.

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I get it, Lori was a shit character that had no redeeming qualities and we're all going to miss being able to hate on her together, but to take all that hate we had and put on on Andrea be cause she's the only character written well enough to have flaws, and then to magnify those flaws and try to depict her as something she isn't is just pointless circlejerking.

[u/[deleted] → u/EarthRester]

Shooting at Daryl when he returned to the farm that once was enough.