It's pretty obvious, as per Father Gabriel, that the show is intentionally straddling the line to allow both the interpretation of Eugene as a turncoat, and that of him as a counterpoint against Daryl's direct (and mostly fruitless; his only success came from somebody's treachery against Negan) struggle against the…

If you have to do all that, why not just build a different property altogether? And just so they can pretend that it's not a whitewash?

I just asked that question myself, as I figured I had to introduce my girlfriend to this property before the ScarJo version hit the big screen.

How many cartoons do you know of that involve flaying "skin shirts" off of female victims as a campaign of political terror?

Although I understand it, it's unfortunate that they would need to cast a bankable actress of an inappropriate race.

You miss it a lot, but you can replace it sometime down the line.

If you just tried offering a nice mushroom risotto, your victims would be shoving that down their own throats themselves.