In this news:
The Walking Dead: Dead City
Credit: AMC
The writers of The Walking Dead: Dead City seem determined to prove one thing: Women in this zombie-strewn universe are the worst. Just about every single one of the female characters in Dead City, barring Maggie, is awful. Maggie is annoying, sure, but she’s not terrible, cruel, petty, vengeful, spiteful or a psychopath.
The same cannot be said for the various female leaders of New Babylon and the Burazi, the two main factions vying for control of New York City and its burgeoning zombie-methane trade. We have the Dama, a woman so evil it’s almost a shame she can’t grow a mustache to twirl. It’s like the writers researched every cliche villain characteristic and wrote it into one character.
The leaders of New Babylon are hardly any better. Lucia Narvaez is a Major in the Federation army, but unless I’m terribly mistaken, seems to routinely outrank Perlie, ordering him around even though he’s a Colonel. Lucia accuses Maggie of desertion at one point in this week’s episode despite Maggie not actually trying to desert. She wants to execute her for her crimes along with 20 other people because she’s taken the place of 20 conscripts. That seems a teensy, tiny bit excessive but she tells Perlie it’s because “the law” demands it, or something. She’s very big on the law, which apparently has no due process in this society whatsoever. Just feelings.
Lucia probably gets her penchant for stupid cruelty from Governor Charlie Byrd, the governor of New Babylon though, to be fair, the show has done almost nothing to give Byrd a personality. She’s just responsible for the awful way New Babylon does things. This show has done a really top-notch job at getting me to pretty much despise everyone, though I have to admit a certain fondness for the Croat. At least his brand of evil maniac is kind of funny and endearing.
Credit: AMC
.png)
