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He's been in ONE episode (okay, one & a half). You can't make a snap judgement like that just yet. Blimey people have no patience these days.
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I wish this was the ending to season 6. The six month break has lessened the shock for me.
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Rick has beautiful eyes.
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I think this is going to be a season for Carol - I think she's going (again) to be the saviour, perhaps even her and Morgan together. After all, she's been busy losing her faith in herself but Daryl being taken could be the spur she needs. I think we may come to see what Morgan's really made of, I do feel they held him back a bit last season, after so much build-up - this may be his time to shine.
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It's easy not to read or watch any spoilers or forums, chatter around the internet regarding who would be dying - I've been watching this series from day 1 and never seen a spoiler I wasn't looking for because I choose not to look at anything that might provide one. People seeking spoilers find them, if you don't seek, you don't find generally I'd already watched it but early yesterday morning the daily mail had 4 spoilers on the main page. Merely confirms what arses they are
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A shame there are no hairdressers in the post-apocalyptic world
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Treat to get the ad free on demand version before the 9pm showing.
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#378 |
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So someone should avoid social media for the 6 months between the end of 6 and beginning of 7 just to avoid spoilers? That's ridiculous.
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I found out by sheer accident on Instagram.. I didn't go "looking for it'. I was looking at a photo on TWD account, months ago, and there it was as a comment below.
Sorry, I'm not going to avoid Instagram for 7 months, (especially as I really like TWD Instagram account and some of the unique off camera photos they post of the great friendships there. Plus Josh McDermitt always swoops in with funny quips.) Additionally, I'm sure that the 'victims' in last night's episode were not known 7 months ago.............. |
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I think the violence was justified. Negan needed to completely break Rick, and to do that required something totally brutal to show him just how far he would go to take control of Alexandria and it's residents. The point of the violence wasn't simply revenge for Rick killing Negan's men, it was psychological warfare and it was effective. They all live in a brutal world where might is right, and Negan showed himself to be the mightiest, the one who would go further than anyone else to protect himself and his group and that everyone else means nothing more to him than a source of resources. To Rick's group he is the devil incarnate (or a cartoon, moustache twirling baddie if you prefer) but that's exactly what he had to be to achieve his aim. Anything else, any ambiguity would look like weakness and give a glimmer of hope to Rick. Negan couldn't allow that, That's my take on it anyway, and maybe we'll see more depth to Negan as the season progresses. TWD does good characters, I trust that they'll continue that tradition with Negan and we'll see more of his human side.
Negan doesn't have the time or the inclination to deceive or convince anyone to like him in order to get them to join his group, he rules explicitly by fear & violence, which he's grown to enjoy (if indeed he wasn't always like that) and it's his first, rather than last resort... yes, we'll almost certainly see other sides to him (maybe even some sort of "origin" story) as time goes on, otherwise there is the danger of him becoming a cartoon, but for now he's achieved what he intended, to break Rick and become the "boogeyman" for the whole of Alexandria... |
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That's my take on things too. Everything Negan put Rick and the group through was to break them. I'm going to have to rewatch season 6, but I'm pretty sure that Rick's group may have fired the first shot against Negans group when they agreed to the Hilltop's deal of eliminating Negan. As I said, I could be wrong.So to Negan and his group, Rick is the threat.
I think we will see a bit more of Negan in his homestead, especially when it switches to Daryl's time with Negans crew It's what Negen's group does when they encounter any new group. |
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The only bit i found overboard violence wise was the drawn out way Glenn died, him babbling with his eyeball out seemed unessasary, if he just went down and stayed there it wouldn't have left a bad taste imo. That stuff is just for people that like gore for the sake of it.
Also you have to see its a different type of gore, when zombies are involved its some how cartoonish, even when someone is eaten alive. But man on man sadism feels different, and i think that's part of the shock. But in some way i think that was needed to shake things up, the show needed another slant, and with this you know the threat is very real. Rick completely powerless and stripped down is something new. The rest of it i thought was able to stomach, even using carl, as the point needed to be made, this guy has no limits to his sadism. I was getting bored with the series so this event definatly has kept me watching, it really shook things up, i just hope it doesn't go stale again and they keep the momentum but wonder how that's going to go. One thing i'll add is after the waiting i thought it would be a let down but was pleasantly surprised, although i think it would have had more impact if they included the deaths last season finale. |
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It's not about patience. Negan is what he is, and from that one and a half episodes - and prior references - the show has established that he's sadistic, psychopathic and power crazy, who inspires a cult like following. What do you think will happen over the next few episodes? That we'll discover that underneath it all he's really a sweet-natured pussycat? You don't introduce a character like Negan, then completely change his personality in the space of the few episodes he'll be in. The only change we'll see is when he changes from being alive to being dead.
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Agreed - this was a completely different way of introducing a character. When we first met The Governor in Woodbury, he appeared to be a benign leader of a reasonably idyllic town (in the circumstances), and it's only as time goes on that we (and Team Rick) discover his true nature.
Negan doesn't have the time or the inclination to deceive or convince anyone to like him in order to get them to join his group, he rules explicitly by fear & violence, which he's grown to enjoy (if indeed he wasn't always like that) and it's his first, rather than last resort... yes, we'll almost certainly see other sides to him (maybe even some sort of "origin" story) as time goes on, otherwise there is the danger of him becoming a cartoon, but for now he's achieved what he intended, to break Rick and become the "boogeyman" for the whole of Alexandria... |
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What I didn't understand is why didn't he kill Daryl instead of Glenn?
Was it in his mind that he was taking out the strongest and weakest members of the group? I've never quite got the Daryl love, but he was never going to bite the bullet here because of how hugely popular he is with a lot of fans. (I assume it's considered ok to mention the comic as I have above as that event has happened in the show now?!) |
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Well I recorded every episode last season at 2.30am ish on Monday morning, so I think it was
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No, you didn't, season six wasn't simulcast on FOX UK and each and every episode didn't premeire here until Monday at 9.00pm.
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I rarely enjoy the plot when it's humans vs humans
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Going to miss Glenn, was my favourite from the start but knew his fate from the comics so was prepping myself for this.
Thought it was a great episide though. A real eye opener (no pun intended) as to how deadly this stranger is going to be. Great way of introducing Negan. Negan and Rick reminded me of Ramsay and Theon all over again lol |
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Happy (not really..) to see Maggie so physically well after it was her ordeal that brought them out there in the first place. Seems that the poison that Enid put in Maggie's drink only lasted for one day.
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I was a huge fan of this show but half way through the season opener I stopped watching and think that I will probably not bother with it any more.
This was not because of the brutality - that has been a feature of the show since the beginning. No what made me give up was the realisation that the decision to kill off Glenn and Abraham was not made by the character Negan, but by the show's producers. In the past I have followed the events as they happened to the characters and believed in these events as the inevitable consequence of putting those characters into challenging situations. Whether it was the commander, or Merle, or the people in Terminus, or the wolves, they all had their own genuine reasons for doing what they did. With the events of the end of seasons 6 and the start of season 7 the story is being presented without any explanation other than to provide a climax to one season and a dramatic start to another one. Everything seems to be totally contrived, without any internal logic. Why would Rick's group present themselves for the slaughter, and why would Negan only kill two of them? Now it could well be that explanations and justifications will be presented later - but for me that will be too late. Once a viewer stops thinking that the characters are self-motivated, but merely the tools of the producers who will make them act in any way that they want, there is little point in carrying on with the show. |
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I was a huge fan of this show but half way through the season opener I stopped watching and think that I will probably not bother with it any more.
This was not because of the brutality - that has been a feature of the show since the beginning. No what made me give up was the realisation that the decision to kill off Glenn and Abraham was not made by the character Negan, but by the show's producers. In the past I have followed the events as they happened to the characters and believed in these events as the inevitable consequence of putting those characters into challenging situations. Whether it was the commander, or Merle, or the people in Terminus, or the wolves, they all had their own genuine reasons for doing what they did. With the events of the end of seasons 6 and the start of season 7 the story is being presented without any explanation other than to provide a climax to one season and a dramatic start to another one. Everything seems to be totally contrived, without any internal logic. Why would Rick's group present themselves for the slaughter, and why would Negan only kill two of them? Now it could well be that explanations and justifications will be presented later - but for me that will be too late. Once a viewer stops thinking that the characters are self-motivated, but merely the tools of the producers who will make them act in any way that they want, there is little point in carrying on with the show. |
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This was not because of the brutality - that has been a feature of the show since the beginning. No what made me give up was the realisation that the decision to kill off Glenn and Abraham was not made by the character Negan, but by the show's producers.
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Fair enough, but the logic to Negan's actions seems self-evident to me. The group didn't exactly present themselves for slaughter, they were herded into it, killing Abraham was part of Negan's method to gain control and Glenn was killed as a result of Daryl's actions with Negan bound to carry out a threat to show his willingness to follow through on his promises. It would be pointless for Negan to kill any more, he'd made his point, broken the group and in particular Rick, and needs the rest of the group to produce for him.
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With the events of the end of seasons 6 and the start of season 7 the story is being presented without any explanation other than to provide a climax to one season and a dramatic start to another one. Everything seems to be totally contrived, without any internal logic. Why would Rick's group present themselves for the slaughter, and why would Negan only kill two of them? Now it could well be that explanations and justifications will be presented later - but for me that will be too late.
It's been stated that Negan Always kills One person of every new group he encounters. He doesn't kill everyone because he wants the group working for him. He killed a second person this time as the message wasn't getting across to everyone. Rick's group were railroaded into an ambush they didn't present themselves for the slaughter. |
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I agree that Abraham's death made sense - strong, defiant military type would always have been trouble. But Glenn's was unnecessarily random and more about slavishly following the comics than the show going in its own direction.
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They keep saying they did for some reason but there is no mention what so ever on the Internet. Also they aren't doing it for season 7. Maybe they were watching Fear the Walking Dead or repeats of The Walking Dead.
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What I didn't understand is why didn't he kill Daryl instead of Glenn?
Was it in his mind that he was taking out the strongest and weakest members of the group? |
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Perhaps it was his way of breaking Daryl.... Knowing that it was his actions that (to a degree) caused the death of Glenn would cause him to feel shedloads of guilt.
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What I didn't understand is why didn't he kill Daryl instead of Glenn?
Was it in his mind that he was taking out the strongest and weakest members of the group? |
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Happy (not really..) to see Maggie so physically well after it was her ordeal that brought them out there in the first place. Seems that the poison that Enid put in Maggie's drink only lasted for one day.
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