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I’m done with walking dead, the finale just took the proverbial urine.

So much for Rick and his crap, I’m going to kill you Negan I promise you that lol. When it came to it, he wimped out.

Absolutely rubbish and was looking so forward to seeing Negan get Lucille in his skull like he did with Glenn.

Maggie should just nail Rick herself and then Negan.
 
Rick spares Negan in the comics but, as is often the case, they mishandled it in the show. However, the guns being rigged? That's not in the comics IIRC, and I must say that was a nice touch. Overall, I'd say that episode was just okay-ish.
 
Yas786 said:
So much for Rick and his crap, I’m going to kill you Negan I promise you that lol. When it came to it, he wimped out.

Absolutely rubbish and was looking so forward to seeing Negan get Lucille in his skull like he did with Glenn.
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But that was never going to happen was it?

The gist of the whole second half of the season has been about choices. Whether in defeating Negan they themselves become as bad or worse than him. The line has been blurred for a number of the characters for the whole season. I think season 9 will be all about the internal splits because of Rick's decision to let him live. It was pretty much a given that once we'd been given the "My Mercy Prevails Over My Wrath" tag line Negan was going to be spared. It was also a pretty big clue that the first episode of the entire season was called "Mercy"
 
If the show was in any way realistic they'd have killed Negan purely on the basis that they can't afford to waste food on him, but then they never seem to worry about petrol, batteries, stamping on walky talkies, giving a perfectly good car to some guy and telling him to do one.
 
Yeah based on what has happened just not realistic for them to let Neegan live..

Even though it is basically Rick trying to keep Carl's legacy alive

This might be a good time to switch to Fear the walking dead? :p
 
dacads said:
Yeah based on what has happened just not realistic for them to let Neegan live..
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I tend to agree if the show had been a "drama" instead of a comic book adventure, Negan would have been dead a dozen times over. But then again it's based in a world where zombies have been wandering around for at least a few years so what's possible/likely is always going to get stretched to tell a tale.
 
dacads said:
Yeah based on what has happened just not realistic for them to let Neegan live..

Even though it is basically Rick trying to keep Carl's legacy alive

This might be a good time to switch to Fear the walking dead? :p
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH :D if you know you know :p
 
Willing to bet the garbage lady will free Negan at some point.

The series just keeps going around in circles with out offering any kind of insight about what is actually going on. Still no idea where the outbreak came from, or how wide spread it is or about the random helicopters that appear, it's like no one cares.
 
Mart2912 said:
Willing to bet the garbage lady will free Negan at some point.

The series just keeps going around in circles with out offering any kind of insight about what is actually going on. Still no idea where the outbreak came from, or how wide spread it is or about the random helicopters that appear, it's like no one cares.
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I still like the series for all it's faults, but those were my thoughts too. We appear to be locked in a cycle of meet new baddie, battle baddie, defeat baddie. While it does introduce new long term characters, we are 8 seasons in and know absolutely nothing of what is going on in the wider world. The plot lines could be opened up in numerous ways that would make for more interesting story telling. I read somewhere that they have just applied for what I suppose is the American equivalent of planning permission. With a view to build some new larger structures on the lot where Hill-Top is based. They have also asked for another 3 years extension.
 
DampDog said:
I still like the series for all it's faults, but those were my thoughts too. We appear to be locked in a cycle of meet new baddie, battle baddie, defeat baddie. While it does introduce new long term characters, we are 8 seasons in and know absolutely nothing of what is going on in the wider world. The plot lines could be opened up in numerous ways that would make for more interesting story telling. I read somewhere that they have just applied for what I suppose is the American equivalent of planning permission. With a view to build some new larger structures on the lot where Hill-Top is based. They have also asked for another 3 years extension.
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+1

I actually want to see them get on the road again. But get the feeling if this show has no pans of ending in the next few seasons they will drag things out at the hill top.
 
The charging at the tree was a bit annoying, but the more i think about it, the more i think the ending for Negan was fitting.

Yes, he deserved to die and they are probably setting themselves up for an escape and him coming back bigger and badder (maybe). But then again, if they had 'executed' him and the rest then they are no better than them. The main argument is that Rick used to be a police officer and so is affording Negan 'justice'.

By doing this they are keeping their humanity and trying to build a new world - which they wouldn't have been able to do if they had killed him.
 
With no end game it all becomes a bit pointless and at the moment far too living group focussed. The walkers have become a joke. Not sure what they can do tbh. The helicopter was interesting, but that'll get dragged out for two seasons.
 
What a **** group these people are, 5 minutes before they were being shot at but when they have the upper hand, they choose to let everyone live, it's so poor.
 
over the years I've ignored the numerous 'its lazy/bad writing' arguments. I've always felt the series was entertaining and a decent watch. very rarely have I felt let down, at least not enough to make me question the quality. I've always forgiven the flaws, the script, the storylines.......it's derived from a comic so I've always been at ease with the 'quality' I was seeing and even expecting.

but this season finale.........wow.

I was enjoying it right up until the 'rick and michonne are gonna get it' malarkey......I could have lived with it had it been kept to Maggie and maybe Daryl. both of whom have suffered serious mental anguish at the hands of negan, whether directly or indirectly. however, the minute they included the long haired 'I love everyone and want everyone to be friends' Jesus in this attempt at nudge towards a cliff hanger/subterfuge/whatever the **** they were going for the whole thing came tumbling down. the whole realisation hit me, the scripting in this show is down right contemptible. it's not lazy, it's not retarded (as some have suggested) it's not amateurish. it simply shows a complete and utter lack of respect for the viewing audience. the creators/producers/writers simply and clearly do not give one flying **** about their viewers.
in no world ever created would a character like 'Jesus' who has done nothing but sought to bring a more harmonious way of life for all suddenly, with no reason go all conspiratorial. if there is something in his back story that does justify this role reversal then the fact it has never been hinted at just further proves my point that the shows producers care not one iota for their viewers.

will I watch season 9, of course I will. but this time not with the anticipation I have had in the past. that anticipation of where the group is going to go (not just locale wise) what plot lays ahead etc. no, this time I will be watching purely and with hope that the show implodes and the viewership abandons it with the same contempt for it as the show has for it's fans.

utterly utterly disgusting piece of writing/scripting.
 
I think the end of season 8 was just an implication that Negan had to die. Don't think for a moment that the Maggie was saying she wanted Rick/Michone dead.

Season 8 seemed like 3 episodes spun out to a whole season. The writers need to watch a series like Billions to get an idea of how to pace stuff.
 
Hodders said:
I think the end of season 8 was just an implication that Negan had to die. Don't think for a moment that the Maggie was saying she wanted Rick/Michone dead.
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I don't have access to watch it again, but this certainly wasn't the impression I got from it.
 
Hodders said:
I think the end of season 8 was just an implication that Negan had to die. Don't think for a moment that the Maggie was saying she wanted Rick/Michone dead.
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AndyCr15 said:
I don't have access to watch it again, but this certainly wasn't the impression I got from it.
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agreed. it was quite clear from the tone, or rather the attempted tone what was meant. the next challenge for the 'group' will be from within.
 
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