#ftwd thoughts

Okay as you know I love this duo and they deserved more! Like, you have Troy Otto and Dwight in the SAME timeline and you don't let them interact for more than a few moments??? It's crazy

Anyway,

Dwight sees Negan in Troy. His first impression of Troy is literally another goddamn Negan, and it sets him off a bit. He's scared and it brings back some trauma that is left over from the Sanctuary.

BUT Dwight quickly begins to see everything that is Troy that Negan just wasn't, which is one of the reasons Dwight eventually sides with Troy, and works with him after everything is done with PADRE.

Troy is probably what Negan wanted to become, but Negan would never amount to what Troy was just out of the sheer loyalty of his men.

Like, Negan was ousted by his own men in the end, even when they thought he was dead for like five minutes, the Sanctuary started going to shit. Because they weren't loyal to Negan. They were either scared of him or saw him as a means to gather their own power. A means to survive.

Troy had loyalty. His men were loyal as shit to him! They didn't abandon him and when he died they didn't dissolve into chaos, they finished the mission and finished what Troy wanted them to do! (did it end well, not exactly but that's not the point).

Russell fought to the goddamn bitter end for the Ottos.

That was loyalty.

Troy's men loved him, and he loved them you can't convince me otherwise. He gave them a second chance, he inspired them, and while he was scary he didn't rule by fear. No one bowed to him, no one in his group was scared of him. And Dwight noticed that.

Hell Dwight noticed Troy actually had his own life. He looked at Troy and saw he didn't have a ton of women, a ton of other people's wives. Troy had one wife, who he loved beyond reason and who loved him, and they had a kid they would kill and die for.

Dwight looked at Troy and saw the other side of Negan. Dwight also saw a part of him in Troy. He saw Troy as the best chance at survival and he took that chance and became one of Troy's most trusted men, and his wife became best friends with Troy's wife.

So I'm doing some edits and I needed to find a certain scene of FTWD season 8b, and I had to go through the 10th episode of season 8 and I realized the person on the opening scene??

It's SERENA not Alicia!!! That's the walker version of Serena ya'll. Cause Alicia has the fake arm, Serena doesn't also the other walkers? That's Serena in the field of walkers

WHICH MEANS both Troy and Serena were in an opening title sequence!! Idk that just makes me happy

I want this Troy

To go up against him

And THIS Troy

To go up against him

Cause I can

Troy is obviously the tallest, but Lyn does have some height on her as well, so the moral of the story? Tracy is probably gonna be tall AF when she is older

Dwight is still pretty tall, probably taller than most? But he's slimmer while Troy is a bit more buff

Okay so was I the only one that was disappointed with how dirty they did Troy when they brought him back?? Like WTF WAS THAT??

Like you brought Troy Otto back from the dead, and ya'll (ftwd) fumbled so hard. How the fuck do you ruin that good of a character?

I wanted Troy to come back as a complete MENACE. I wanted him to come back at the most dangerous and conniving, and driven villain in TWDU since The Governor (using him as an example cause he was the only villain to actually scare me) And then of course he should have gotten shit done and settled down and been good and had a life cause he is NOT evil

And they set him up SO well, his return and his entrance was EVERYTHING, in the first episode he started off so strong, and then, as they always do, they fumbled. They downgraded Troy so much, downgraded his power, his abilities ALL OF IT

Why? Cause they had to make sure Madison could beat him. Cause lets be honest, Troy with full power and ability? There is no way in hell he was losing to Madison, and the showrunners couldn't do that cause they're stupid. They sacrifice so many awesome characters and so many awesome storylines for the fucking Clarks and I hate it.

Given, I don't like Madison or Alicia. If you know me, or have seen be blog before, you know that lol.

I think FTWD really took off in popularity and awesomeness in season 4, AFTER Madison was gone, and Morgan took over. Why? Well one Madison was annoying AF so I was happy she was gone. But ALSO because the story expanded, it took on more awesome characters, and it wasn't just about the Clarks. It was about ALL the characters and their journeys and struggles. We got to see John, and June, Dwight, and more about Luci and a bunch of others.

It started to feel more like an actual group, like TWD with Rick and his group, which I liked.

But of course, then we had to ruin stuff for the Clarks. Like, no, stop it.

Stunting Troy's character has happened a lot and repeatedly with FTWD especially when it comes to Madison. Like they couldn't let him be happy, have a family, have a living wife, keep his kid. Like, stop it. Stop screwing over one of the best characters of FTWD!