The Walking Dead hasn’t been good or scary for many years now and is dying a slow death, not unlike the many zombie’s we’ve seen on the show. So in an attempt to claw back some relevance and attention, The Walking Dead decided to go down the one route that’ll claw back people’s eye balls: sex.
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For the season 10 mid-season premiere, The Walking Dead decided to have two characters, Negan and Alpha, get down and dirty in the middle of the forest. But in true Walking Dead fashion, the sex scene is not only a bit weird, it is also arguably the most revolting thing ever seen on TV.
Let’s start from the top. Alpha makes Negan walk to the middle of the forest and strip down to his socks, seemingly ready to kill him off in humiliating fashion (not unlike what he did to his Walking Dead victims in the past). But to his surprise, Alpha instead strips down naked – save for her mask – and offers him sex as a “crass reward” for previously outing a spy in her camp.
Okay, so what’s so disgusting about a mask since wearing them during sex is pretty common? Well, said mask is made of rotting human flesh. That’s almost as bad as Negan and Alpha keeping their socks on for this sex scene.
This may make sense from a Walking Dead world-building POV – Alpha is part of a group called the Whisperers and they all wear zombie masks – but it doesn’t exactly make for a particularly sexy sex scene, especially since Negan is turned on by it.
Needless to say that this brought on a visceral reaction from all remaining Walking Dead fans, a majority of whom reaction like this:
Now this scene wasn’t just born out of some Walking Dead writer pitching “okay, Negan and Alpha have sex, but she keeps her mask on” as it is actually based their relationship in the comics, albeit with some major differences.
The Walking Dead comics depict Negan as Alpha’s prisoner (like the show) yet he pines after her like a stalker (unlike the show). They gradually form a mutual respect for each other, and just as they seemingly turn a corner in their relationship, Negan kills Alpha and cuts her head off.
That’s probably less sexy than sex in a forest while wearing a rotting human flesh mask but hey, it could still happen given how The Walking Dead has taken so many liberties with the source material.
Hats off to The Walking Dead though because not only did the show grab my attention years after I last watched an episode with this grotesque Negan/Alpha/zombie mask sex scene, it also managed to be the scariest it’s ever been during it’s stupidly long run.
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