The Walking Dead - Season 7

[Dave]

I can't remember a time when I have been more abuzz with anticipation for a TV show to return than right now.

I came late to the season 6 party, choosing to watch all of the episodes in a marathon of pure Bliss and excellence. But I don't think I'll be making the same decision this time around. Season 6 was probably the best season that The Walking Dead has ever done, I reckon. The season was the perfect balance of emotional awareness and stunning execution when it comes to producing a TV show. But the real piece of brilliance came in the last 10 minutes of the final episode of the season.

Negan, perhaps the biggest and baddest of all the survivors left has finally made his presence known to our favourite little group of survivors, with deadly consequences. The cliffhanger at the end of season 6 will finally be answered in only a few short hours. Just who does Negan bludgeon to death with Lucille?

Well, we know it isn't Rick. The Right Hand Man teaser taught us that the leader of the group is still breathing in the first five minutes of Season 7 anyway. For me, it has to be Abraham. He's involved in the series enough that killing him off would be a massive blow to a lot of the fans. But he's not that involved that killing him would invoke a huge amount of Backlash from the audience. He's right on the periphery of caring and that's the perfect place for someone to be before the push up the daisies in a show like this. Personally, I'll be sad if it is Abraham. I've grown to love the character and his bullish bravado. At this point however, I reckon he's the favourite to have his brains smeared all over the baseball bat.

The real question is though, how will Rick take all of this? We know that he threatens to kill Negan for what he does to omen of the group, and Rick always gets his way in the end. I have a feeling, however, that Negan will rule the roost for a few seasons before meeting his timely death thanks to Rick. But who knows? That's just one of the reasons why this season might be the best season of all...

 

[Bagpipes]

Stoked for this as well. AMC ran a 2 hour recap type show last weekend, I think it was called How We Got Here or something like that, it was a really good show, nice look back at most of our favorite characters that met their demise during the first 6 seasons.

I came late to the Walking Dead party, power watched the first 5 seasons on Netflix in a couple of months right before Season 6 aired, and with the exception of Sons of Anarchy, it's easily one of the best television shows I've ever seen.

Abraham makes alot of sense for the reasons Dave laid out, I could also see the possibility of Sasha, or even Carl (for the most dramatic effect) getting some color courtesy of Negan's bat.

 

[Dave]

I really don't see it being a woman or a child. Call me old fashioned but I just think it is a bridge too far for a TV show to club a woman or a child to death with a baseball bat. It might be sexist, or anti-sexist (or whatever), but I think that showing a grown man doing that to a child would garner attention for the wrong reasons. It might be the one with the most shock value, and the Walking Dead and has never been scared to shock us, but I think they would know that it would be a step too far.

 

[SSJPhenom]

Can't wait to see who it is. I love the Walking Dead, but gents, I think it's gonna be one of the big cast members. Glenn, Darryl, or Michonne. We know from the sneak peek that whoever it was, was on Rick's right and that includes Maggie, Abraham, Glenn, Michonne, and Darryl. They keep telling us that it's going to be huge and that it's going to be emotionally tough. I can't wait to see who it is. We all know it was Glenn in the comics, but I think they've teased his death enough. Idk, now I'm scared. I just don't want it to be Michonne. I love her.

 

[Navi]

Watched the show and watched the Talking Dead aftermath show. Still kind of reeling from the premiere. The cast was on and they even said it was hard to film it.

Don't know what to say about it really, it took almost 20 minutes to find out who met their end due to Lucille, and it was brutal as hell. I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it yet, but it was hard to watch in places.

That being said, the make up artists on this show are top notch and everything from the deaths to the zombies are so fricking believable. Looks like season 7 will be a transitional one with lots of stories coming out from tonight's opener. Can't wait to see what happens next.

 

[JamJam]

<--- This emoji pretty much sums up the entire episode for me. I read the comics up until the reveal of who Negan kills. And man, this was brutal. I won't spoil it for anyone but damn. If this doesn't get you watching the show, then I don't know what will. I thought the lead up to finding out who Negan kills was great. It didn't take too long and even better, they didn't let us wait until the end of the episode. I'm still reeling over it. Literally just finished watching it 10 minutes ago.

Calling off from work tomorrow lol

 

[Dave]

Yeah, it was a particularly brutal episode of TV to watch.

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Negan is a cruel son of a bitch there's no doubt about that anymore. The fact that he found it necessary to kill off two of the best characters on the show was a tough pill to swallow. Killing Abraham wasn't a particularly big shock for me because I think he was the most expendable. In some ways, I think he had run his course on the show and that we didn't really need a tough guy like that this season.

But to also kill off Glenn was tough to view. That's especially true given Maggie's pregnancy and the way he tried to tell her that he loved her as he went through the process of dying. Seriously, that's so tough to watch. And what's more, I just don't know if it was totally necessary. They got the fans hooked with the cliffhanger and made the right decision to kill off Abraham. But to also kill Glenn seemed quite gratuitous to me.

I shouldn't have expected any less from the Walking Dead though...

 

[Slyfox696]

Episode Spoilers within:

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I thought the episode was pretty decent. I thought killing off Abraham before killing Glenn was a pretty good stroke. I think most people were expecting either one of them to die (Abraham apparently was already dead by this point in the comic and Glenn apparently gets the bat in the comic). But when Glenn got killed AFTER Abraham died, I don't think many people saw that coming. And then with Neegan demanding Rick chop off Carl's arm with the hatchet, it made it pretty clear Neegan is one bad person.

It'll be interesting to see how the show goes from here. There's been quite a bit of talk about how Walking Dead has kind of gone downhill over the last few seasons, so last night certainly seemed like they were hitting the reset button. We'll see how it turns out.

 

[ztwhite]

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Sunday night’s episode of The Walking Dead was brutal, sad and hard to watch. It was one of the most painful, disgusting, and tragic episodes in the show’s seven season run.

The show badly mishandled Glenn’s fake-out death last season and I didn't think they wouldn’t follow that up with killing him for real. But it made for some great drama. They just killed Glenn. Then they brought him back. Now they’ve killed him off again. It was torture porn.

Loved the sequence with Rick nearly cutting off Carl’s arm. It was almost biblical -- the binding of Isaac, in which Abraham is tasked by God to take his son Isaac and sacrifice him, only to withdraw the command at the last moment.

I'm excited for next week. Just hope the show will keep that momentum.

 

[enviousdominous]

I think that this is really where the show starts to remind the viewers of Rick's mortality. The story up until now has had the characters consistently triumph over evil while rarely taking a significant loss. When a main or secondary character died, it was a random occurrence and the good guy squad still maintained control of the show's direction. The main characters were winning so often that they seemed desensitized to fear. Now, the characters that Negan allowed to live are faced with a higher power that has reminded them of what fear truly is.

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I had already made peace with the idea of Abraham being nixed from the series, every credible source was predicting that he would be the one who died. I thought they were going to let Glenn survive into this season, and boy was I mistaken. AMC is really wanting to drive it home that this isn't supposed to be a fun show, the makeup for Glenn's head-wound was disturbingly realistic. His sputtering of "Maggie. I will find you" was pretty damn haunting as well.

I love the fact that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is playing Negan, I think that he's doing an uncanny job of presenting a character that is as ruthless as he is charismatic.

The scene itself gave me chills up my spine because I knew the kind of hopeless situation those characters were in, and hearing Rick threaten to kill Negan only made it certain that Negan was going to make him his bitch. I honestly thought that Rick was going to lob off his own arm to save Carl, but Negan turned out to be pretty damn merciful for a deranged sociopath. I'm sure that Negan getting to put Rick in that state of distress was all that he wanted though.

 

[THTRobtaylor]

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Apparently they filmed them all... there is leaked footage out there of Maggie dying... that's fckued up...

 

[SSJPhenom]

What an episode.....

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This show just went to a whole new level. This was the first time, since I've been watching the show, that I found it difficult to watch. At first, when Negan killed Abraham, I was thinking that that was a little anticlimactic. Apparently, the producers thought so too cause when Negan said, "Back to it", and started in on Glenn, I lost my shit. When Glenn started sputtering, "Maggie, I will find you", I started tearing up.

As hard as those were to watch, though, the scene where Rick almost chopped his own son's arm off was the most difficult for me to watch. The acting in that scene when Andrew Lincoln started pleading for his son was Oscar worthy and totally believable. I think even a snot bubble flew out of his nose. Negan is definitely already the worst villain of the show and by worst I mean best. He's such a son of a bitch, but he's so charismatic that you almost like him. Creepy.

Best episode of the show IMO.

 

[Slyfox696]

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Apparently they filmed them all... there is leaked footage out there of Maggie dying... that's fckued up...

If you're referring to something which may happen in the future, please refrain from posting spoilers. If you're referring to something which could have happened in the past, please use the spoiler tag as a courtesy for those who may not have seen the episode.

 

[enviousdominous]

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Apparently they filmed them all... there is leaked footage out there of Maggie dying... that's fckued up...

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They used that scene in the episode. I figure that they recorded footage of each character being thwacked by Lucille as a way to avoid having trustworthy spoilers leak.

When Rick is going after the axe, he imagines what might happen if he doesn't obey Negan's commands. That's when he envisions the scenario of Maggie getting her skull crushed. I highly doubt that they ever intended to kill a pregnant woman on the show