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⌈ Secret Post #2191 ⌋

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I'm curious. If you were to cast an actor who more resembled comics!Governor, who?

Not the OP but Danny Trejo. He's exactly why I thought about when I first saw the governor.

You just stole the comment right out of my brain. I was literally coming here to type this and refreshed before I commented.

*high five, Anon*

You're welcome. :) I don't even come on here all that often. My roommate was like "you could have posted this fandom secret. It's about David not looking enough like The Governor." I really don't like the character on the show. He gave me nightmares while reading the comics but he's too classy on the show. No where creepy enough. I wish they had let him be darker.

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Shit, I scrolled down here just to say this!

Amazing. I didn't realize it until now but YES, Trejo would have been perfect; for looks, and personality too.

Yep, ditto this.

I've always thought he looked like somebody, but I was never really able to put my finger on who.

That Nonny totally nailed it, though.

You are not alone. I've seen a lot of macros comparing the two.

I've seen very very little of The Walking Dead, but from what I've heard, if it were Danny Trejo, wouldn't he just be repeating his character from Con Air?

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I don't know. Danny Trejo might be interesting but I think he looks too old and craggy for lack of a better term. Maybe an actor who is at least of Mexican heritage since Word of God is that the comic Governor is.

THANK YOU.

I feel like I'm the only one upset that they cast a white actor to play the Governor when he is half Mexican in the comics. Where is the outrage? Fandom is usually all over this kind of thing.

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I don't understand why all the comics fans watch this show because you all have something that you're disappointed about. I especially hate that there are so many who cannot separate the two mediums and seem to think that the show we're all watching is supposed to be the same as the comics they've read.

Wow! Way to over generalize there!

*SPOILERS* I love the comics and I love the show but for very different reasons. The comics are a lot darker. I like the progression and how much content there is in the same way I like to read the books for movies. I like Lori a whole lot better in the comics and I really didn't like how Carol ended. I wasn't a big fan of Shane. I hate that Rick lost his hand. In the show I love Shane, Carol, the Dixons. Shane in the comics was useless. Carol is much stronger character though I really wish she would have had the chance to have just a little of the experimental side we saw in the comics. I love the dynamic between the Dixons and I really enjoyed the added Randall(and Dave/Tony) sideline.

I read the comics for different reasons than I watch the show. I love that they're doing different things but yeah, I'm sad that some of the things I really liked from the comics aren't making it on to the screen. Doesn't mean I dislike the show or that I can't enjoy it. It just means that I'm disappointed.

You just proved the point. The only generalization was that you all have something you're disappointed about.

The comics fans aren't the only watchers with complaints about the show, lol.

Didn't say that they were.

That's how it is for almost every fandom that has more than one types of media. The comic fans are going to keep watching the show because we're attached to the story, no matter how it diverges. Has this really been the only fandom you've been in that has both comic/book fans and show/movie fans? I can't get away from it for GoT/ASoIaF, but then again, I don't mind it.

This is the only multiple-media fandom I've been in where the fans of the original whine incessantly about the differences. The majority of WD comics fans I've met really don't enjoy the show at all.

I think they didn't choose someone who looked like the comic character because they wanted to have Andrea trust him and be fulled by him. And comic book Governor was the kind of person where you saw and instantly thought, 'Bad guy'.

Like the above posters saying Danny Trejo should play him. He would make a great comic Governor, but you would instantly know he is not someone to trust.

I always thought The Governor from the comics looked helluva lot like Tom Savini, the guy who was responsible for all that nice, gory make-up in 1978's Dawn of the Dead and 1985's Day of the Dead.

Oh, I absolutely love him. He would have been a fantastic choice too!

I'm still pissed he ain't Danny Trejo.
No one else will ever be the Governor in my mind.

Wow, a Walking Dead/Governor secret that didn't degenerate into a wankstorm! Well done, OP.