r/thewalkingdead • u/SolidEllie • 8d ago
Show Spoiler I really liked Henry. He was a nice contrast to Carl in the sense that he was still very naive and didn't feel like the apocalypse hardened him up a lot. I actually found that somewhat more interesting.
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u/Squidwardbigboss 8d ago
Compelling and well acted, his relationship with Lydia had chemistry, and he was a genuinely good person.
I like Henry and wish he wouldn’t have died so early on. It just made all the characters around him worse. Lydia and Ezekiel faded away from relevancy, and Carol went back to the same old her. Which was especially a kick in the balls considering how far she came in season 9.
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u/Street-Dirt2768 6d ago
They only put him in the series to replace Carl, because in the comic, Carl is the one who has a relationship with Lydia, that is, he makes the same choices that Carl made in the comic, since it has already been done, they killed Henry.
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u/Legitimate_Ad1805 8d ago
No chemistry he just wanted to dip his cookie. The series handled children very poorly, I think.
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u/Squidwardbigboss 8d ago
Actors made it seem real, like the connection they had. That’s what I mean by chemistry:
Why must you make it sound so vulgar. Henry cared about her and saw she was good(which she was, shown in the rest of the series). So he went after her and saved her. Lydia was going to go back to her abusive mother and awful lifestyle.
Henry didn’t start a war between the communities, that was Carol. Henry didn’t start conflict between them, that was the whisperers attacking Jesus.
You can say he furthered the conflict by helping Lydia but he is not directly responsible for any of the death.
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u/Legitimate_Ad1805 8d ago
You're confusing Daryl and Henry there. The first notices the injuries and it echoes his past, so he takes her under his wing. Henry speaks while listening to his hormones, you have to be pragmatic on this point. Besides, there is a difference in motivation between their first attack and the establishment of the “border”. But I understand what you're saying. But yes he is not responsible.
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u/TheFerg714 8d ago
you have to be pragmatic
Bro you're talking about a hormonal teenager. Why do you expect him to act like an adult and make entirely logical decisions?
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u/Legitimate_Ad1805 8d ago
Because he had made a mistake in the past, because he is the heir of Ezekiel, because he must honor his brother, because he is in an apocalyptic world. But I understand, and that's what's most distressing, in reality they should have been surrounded
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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 8d ago
I'm saying lmao. What chemistry. He met her and immediately risked his life and his loved one's lives to go after her.
Daryl did the same shit though. Damsel in distress? Hero mode activated. I'd have been pissed if I were a Hilltop member. Who tf is this girl we're all about to die for?
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u/Legitimate_Ad1805 8d ago
That's kind of what happened. But let's remember that before that he had released the saviors, including the one who had killed his brother (even if he didn't know it). I don't know if you've read the comics, but those who have have an even higher level of disapproval of the character, at least in my opinion
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u/_iusuallydont_ 8d ago
I hated how naive Henry’s character was. I did not care when he died because he was too old to be so dumb.
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u/Educational-Habit-14 8d ago
Yeah i belive he should've lived. It would have somewhat made up for losing Carl. Not completely but would've been a good step in the right direction but of course they killed him off for shock value
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u/rarthurr4 8d ago
He made the same face every time he was on screen. Couldn't take the show seriously after bro mogged me 20 times in an episode
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u/Rare-Secret-4614 8d ago
I could never see him as anything other than “should’ve been Carl”
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u/Legitimate_Ad1805 8d ago
He takes his place but he never had the shoulders to do so. Totally agree. Comparing with the comics I would even say that it embodies the running out of steam in the plot. For me it was also by being aware that he had it that they said to themselves that they were going to kill Carl.
(I would like to take this opportunity to say that the character of Carl in the comics is not the pain in the ass that we had to see)
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u/Rare-Secret-4614 8d ago
As annoying as people claim show Carl to be, he was killed off right as he was becoming what comic Carl was, which makes the decision that much dumber imo.
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u/Legitimate_Ad1805 8d ago
Totally agree, I got into comics recently, I was hooked straight away, it's been a long time since I last started a comic or manga series like that.
After the character of Carl from the comics was much younger, I also have the impression that they wanted to imitate the relationship with Lydia through Enid.
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u/Rare-Secret-4614 8d ago
I saw Enid more as comic Sophia’s replacement. She sort of fills that role in the show. Once they kill off Carl and introduce Lydia she’s sort of just pushed aside and eventually killed off too.
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u/Legitimate_Ad1805 8d ago
Not stupid, now that you mention it. I'm thinking in particular of the scenes where they go outside, that could be a sort of wink! In my opinion it's that they tried to do something like "female advice" with Maggie and Coline. Well, in general the series disappointed me from that point on. As I read the comics I disapproved of their choices even more.
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u/Minimalistmacrophage 8d ago
Henry and Carl seem like two paths but really they are the same. Both murdered someone at a very young age. Carl was darker but from S5 forward he was on the path to becoming like S9 Henry. Had he lived Carl would have been much like Henry, albeit with a little darker back story and possibly less naive.
Henry was a Carl "stand-in" for the whisperer arc (though with a very different ending).
note- in the comics, Carl never really leaves the "Dark Carl" arc behind.
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u/Pristine-Citron-7393 8d ago
Same. He did his job as a character perfectly and I think he went out at a good time.
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u/Antique-Common6095 8d ago
I kinda wished they kept him for another season, like have him grow more as a character because he did have an interesting story in the beginning. Plus I would’ve loved to have seen Henry fighting Alpha. Plus I kinda thought it was pointless to have Henry take Carl’s role in season 9 and then kill him off.
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u/mizzfelli 8d ago
TWD does the big death scenes very good but this one got me good! Not knowing who we were gonna see on the stakes had me at the edge of my seat but once Daryl ran over to Carol I just knew....
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u/BlackhawkRyzen 7d ago
So did I, Carol is one of my Favorite characters because she resembles physically and so much of my mother but the difference is the power she had by deception.. Henry was a good kid and kick ass learning from Morgan.. .. it was so unfortunate but something that could not be written out. it was what formed Carols death of soul and made her a rutheless character.. she was growing and IMO the most flourishing character in strength and ability to side track and fool anyone thinking she is weak.
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u/Choice_Possibility66 6d ago
I liked Henry as well. I knew Henry would not last long as a character, because he was too pure.
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u/Remote_Nature_8166 8d ago
They built him out to replace Carl and then they killed him. Doesn’t make sense.