The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Monsters Within

This week’s episode of The Walking Dead was all about everyone’s favorite reformed villain, Negan, and him coming to terms with who he is, who he was, and who he intends to be going forward.

This translated into Negan confronting that part of him that remains “Savior Negan,” which he realizes is just waiting for an excuse to return, but also confronting what started him on the road to becoming that version of himself.

As Negan learned in this week’s Walking Dead, we all have monsters inside us who can be both a source of strength AND a source of weakness.

This led Negan to flashback to his early days in the apocalypse with his wife, Lucille, and his desperate attempts to keep her alive for as long as possible. However, the world around them had completely gone to Hell. It was a period of love, sadness, and finally, rage.

We would learn that Negan’s anger would be the source of many of his problems and be instrumental in his transformation from a friendly high school gym teacher to a brutal extortionist. The monster he was presented to us as was, as we’d learn (And, as even he himself seemed to admit), a monster that had always resided in him.

So, for this week’s Walking Dead Survival Rule Of The Week, I’ve decided to look at the potential monsters that reside within us and how they can affect our lives inside a zombie apocalypse, sometimes in surprising ways.