Daryl isn't in the comics and he is a real fan favourite. If he does leave he would need a set up. Plus he has a grudge with Dwight that should give tons of storylines.

It will be interesting to see what people follow Negan. I think we will see that he does protect his people. It can't be just through great.

Her hair looks great this season.....Rick's not so, beard looks trimmed in some scenes.


As for the opening episode - just hope it picks up.....I was bored by the end - David Morrissey was a much better, convincing baddie, way back when....Jeffrey Dean Morgan is awful as the new one - he should have gone in the first episode.

Rick swinging on the zombie was hilarious. - my highlight....as was the eyes.

I've been watching reaction videos of the episode and it's still gives me the heebies each time.

This season is over for me already, Negan was just a tad OTT and the next episode I will watch will be Maggie bashing Negan over the head with Luceille. Also maybe Morgan and Chris coming in to save Ricks group from Negan.


Negan as a character is loathsome and I just want him to be dead, bit like GOT and yer man Ramsey getting feed to his own dogs, Negan will get finished by Luceile but who will be weilding her in front of a grovelling Negan

They still have beard trimmer in the apocalypse doncha know!
I can't believe you think JDM is awful - I think he's fab! But that's just the way the world works.

This was a brutal episode but also an impressive one, for me. I was glad in a sense that Glenn was killed as it restored some credibility after his previous escapes.

I just don't get his character - he just doesn't come over as a baddie you can take seriously.

He's a maverick! I love it!

We must have been watching different shows I thought he was pretty terrifying, pure crazy wrapped in a jokey almost reasonable package. He caved 2 heads in and made a father believe that he no choice but to cut his sons hand off

ha! I was the opposite. I swore I wouldn't look but in five mins of waking, without even leaving my bed, I was typing Walking Dead S7 E1 review into google.

I then got up and turned on the TV and was shocked to see the show on my planner as I had no idea it was on overnight!

He was the same in The Good Wife [wish he had the bat in that final season], awful....but not so bad in Extant - the only two shows I've seen him in.

He just pulverised the heads of two of the group and had Rick ready and willing to cut off his own son's hand. Not sure what more he needs to do to be taken seriously as a baddie.

Brutally exhausting and one of the most intense episodes on TWD I think. Its set a new darker tone to an already dark show and really takes the show in a different direction now.

Although shockingly brutal and explicit, I still found it intense and Rick's performance during the episode, particularly the Carl/Axe scene is worthy of an Emmy I believe.

However, just a couple of gripes....... JDM is just not quite right for me. He plays a good villain role but is slightly camp in a slight way with how he plays it. I was expecting a brutal man and what I got was someone that felt a bit like a Panto villain in a brutal scene and it didnt fit right. The character is good and the scenes were good but I just wish he was a little less "grinning" like he was. He almost made me feel like Tim Curry (Rocky Horror) could have done the role in drag and it would have given the same effect.
I am not sure who would have played it better, but I just feel that for a brutal episode like that, he came across as a little bit too light hearted and "fun" in a way, and it it conflicted the scenes we were seeing.
He didnt detract from the intensity of the scene itself, that was still breathtaking, but he was also someone that didn't make you want to hate with a passion by looking at him. What he did yes, but how he acted, not so much.

My other gripe is that the Zombies scene in the mist felt a bit "this seems a bit pointless and needs editing down a bit" and felt we needed to get back to the action going on with the characters, and then it hit me that there is a strong danger of the show losing what people wanted, a zombie show. Suddenly we are back to Season 2-3 again where the Zombies are no more than background scenes and are nothing more annoying to the survivors than a heavy rainstorm! I tuned in to this show for the Zombie apocalypse and yet here I was wanting Rick to find the Axe so he could get back on with the Negan scenes rather than kick Zombie ass! And if that is the direction the writer is taking with this season, can most fans hold out for a proper Zombie threat again. Otherwise, as brilliant as the episode was, it was little more than a Gangster film really.

I just hope going forward that the Zombies play a big role again and that survival against them comes to the front. If it were me, I would get Rick and the gang having to go into bigger towns and cities to search for supplies to share with Negan, against overwhelming numbers of Walkers, and make it feel a lot like Season 1 again, but with the reason being that if they don't do it, Negan is going to be angry. Suddenly we have this opportunity for writers to want to go and push Rick and the group into scary zombie-related encounters and go scavenging again back to its roots, while also building up the story about how they will eventually end Negan and the Survivors.

Well I said some time ago that it was bound to be Abraham, though wasn't aware they were going to take two people out of the game. The deaths were shocking and gruesome, and brilliant. The episode however, I felt was quite poor. I get why they set the episode up the way they did, and can respect that, but most people only wanted to know who got hit, and they managed to drag that out for 45 minutes with a few speeches here and there?

Also, Negan said he'll collect his first delivery in a week, but he never actually said what he wanted? Be interesting to see how they take this threat down. Negan has a lot of supporters. I do also wonder whether he'd have acted the way he did had Rick not killed him sleeping men.

All of these Social Media campaigns about boycotting the show and how it's inappropriate and 'gone too far' are so funny...

Yes absolutely brutal episode, but what exactly do you want if you've already signed up for 6 seasons worth of Walking Dead? What are you expecting? There's such thing as 'over the top' in the context of the Walking Dead.

This was the most shocking episode to date, but that's what we want out of these kind of TV dramas every now and then... It's about being left with that 'What in the hell did I just watch' feeling every now and then.

The episode was great.

It was brutal but nothing worse than what we saw in Game Of Thrones when a man was crushing another mans face in.

It did gross me out I have to admit, but you should expect it with this sort of show, but I guess some people aren't happy if they're not moaning about something.

I found it incredibly gruesome, I can only assume those who didn't are either big fans of generally gruesome films/shows and therefore somewhat immune to it or, alternatively, rather bloodthirsty people with no empathy I shall choose to believe the former [/quote]

Hahaha I'll be honest my cavalier reaction to the whole thing threw me a little, didn't know I was that cold hearted . On a serious note it's probably because I am a huge fan of that genre, so I loved the they didn't hold back.

I've not read the comics first hand but googled enough about it to know that's how the character s in the comics = from another forum I am on that had a comic section, they say he is playing it pretty close to the comic character and JDM is supposed to be a huge fan of the comics too

I don't get why people think its surprising that there has been an outcry about it. I wasn't bothered personally but the fact is it was violent on another level, the zombie stuff people seemed to stomach because they are monsters eating people, almost cartoon violence. but when its humans doing it to each other on that sadistic level its going to get noticed. it needed the impact but the cost was upsetting a few people, I get why it might have been to much for some to stomach, not just the gore but the psychological stuff was as bad. its given the show a different feel as well, the fun is gone after that lol.

And in a real life post apocalypse world people would be killing each other in ways like that.

Of course, the Human against Human, sadistic violence is what takes it to another level entirely. Which as a TV show, it has to do. We've seen the Zombies for 6 seasons; there's no more shock value left there. We know what they can do. Negan and what he did is far worse than any mindless, flesh-eating Zombie. But he is a representation of what Humans are capable of when reduced to Medieval levels of society. It's horrible, but also fascinating to watch, which is what this show is about. You're watching completely the wrong show if you thought that any level of violence was off limits.

Exactly. And this is also exactly how the Human race acted for many, many years until the society that we (fortunately) live in was created.

I'm pissed off that Digital Spy have spoilers for the episode on their front page.

Wow just noticed that... not even 24 hours after the episode. That's ridiculous for people that haven't had time to see it yet.

I agree but I think people are uncomfortable facing the brutal nature of that subject, its still out there in reality but a lot of people don't want to see it, I know people that avaoid teh news to escape reality. by and large I think people are happy in their bubbles, stuff like this challenges them, makes them think "what would I do". the outcry comes from rejecting it and not wanting to think about it. at the end of the day its entertainment and should be treated as such. sometimes a series needs to shock, personally I think the hopeless feelof it psychologically was worse than the gore, seeing Rick broken down was worse. that acting was amazing