Every Way The Walking Dead's TV Commonwealth Is Darker Than The Comics
What makes The Walking Dead's live-action Commonwealth so much worse than its counterpart from Robert Kirkman's comics? Just as the Commonwealth marked one final stop for Rick Grimes' original comic book adventures, The Walking Dead season 11 brings AMC's main show to a close after 12 years onscreen. Both final arcs begin in near-identical fashion, with Eugene setting off in search of love, but discovering a whole new community more advanced and populated than anything his group have previously seen. In both instances, the Commonwealth proves too good to be true, but this is where AMC's TV series begins to deviate wildly.
The comic Commonwealth was never truly villainous. Pamela Milton is a corrupt leader who created a society of inequality and nepotism, depicting real-world politics with unerring accuracy. Pam needed to go, no question there, but compared to the Governor, Negan or the Whisperers, her Commonwealth was more morally gray than outright sinister. That's not what we're seeing in The Walking Dead season 11, however. The live-action Commonwealth is a true source of evil, much more comparable to past antagonist groups.
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As the Alexandrian immigrants begin counting their Commonwealth red flags, how much has the TV narrative added to create this darker vision of Pamela Milton's community?
Surely the worst crime committed by The Walking Dead's Commonwealth comes during season 11's «Warlords.» Wrongly suspecting a small, 40-person community has stolen a Commonwealth gun shipment, Lance Hornsby secretly orders Toby Carlson and a squadron of soldiers to take them down. With Lance's backing, Carlson brutally slaughters the entire community (or tries to, at
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