The Walking Dead

[McMetal]

I feel more and more it's gonna be Glenn

The more I think about, the more concerned I am that it's actually going to end up a cliffhanger and we won't know for sure til the fall premier. 

[Pete_Fett]

My vote is that it's actually gonna be Morgan. Like Matt said - a different choice than the comics, will throw the comic book fans for a loop and kill off a character that a lot of fans wanted back, but lately with the whole "you don't have to kill" stuff he's been preaching, I think there are quite a few fans out there that wouldn't mind seeing him go - which would make him a semi-safe "sacrifice" by the producers.

[McMetal]

My vote is that it's actually gonna be Morgan. Like Matt said - a different choice than the comics, will throw the comic book fans for a loop and kill off a character that a lot of fans wanted back, but lately with the whole "you don't have to kill" stuff he's been preaching, I think there are quite a few fans out there that wouldn't mind seeing him go - which would make him a semi-safe "sacrifice" by the producers.

They do have a recurring habit of killing off the "moral compasses" on the show, so he's got that going for him...(fingers crossed you are right)

[McMetal]

Gripping stuff...Jeffrey Dean Morgan was just a brilliant casting choice. what a great introduction.

Cool to see the dudes from The Kingdom. Also like what they have done with Father Gabriel lately. Awesome to see Morgan finally man up and realize hard choices are inevitable.

too much else to process tight now, gonna be a long six months...


Meanwhile, next week FTWD will return with an entire cast I wouldn't mind seeing meet Lucille.

[GrandMoffNick]

I agree I need more time to process......

But Negan's first kill has to be a HUGE kill: Michonne, Daryl, Glenn or Maggie

Abraham would be on the far edge of ok

Anyone else would be a let down.

Carl would be ok but I'd be really disappointed if we don't get the Negan/Carl interaction from the comics.

[Scockery]

Cheap tactic reused again. They made this season very uneven with their gimmicks. First was Glenn and the magic dumpster (Has anyone found a dumpster in our reality that you can crawl under?), second was the mid-season "finale" with its non-ending (leading to a mid-season premiere that picks up where it left off, a rarity for this show), and now we have EENY-MEENY-MINEY MOE---CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE...SEE YOU IN OCTOBER!

Morgan wasn't very convincing at first, but the benefit of letting him talk for 20 minutes help push his character. Shouldn't he have been clean shaven?

An episode consisting of them driving into roadblocks and Negan talking, I felt the Morgan/Carol bits were a decent diversion. It was odd she finds the library that was recently sacked. Small world.

[GrandMoffNick]

I'm confused about people's shock at a cliffhanger in a tv show

And I've said this before and I'll be a pain in the ass again,  why do people watch a tv show they hate so much?  Just to bitch?

Though that fits with the majority of the toy collectors that hate all the toys they buy I suppose

[GrandMoffNick]

I thought the "fall of Rick" was brilliant. His cockiness to start and on his knees as Negan's bitch at the end was great.

[Scockery]

I'm confused about people's shock at a cliffhanger in a tv show

And I've said this before and I'll be a pain in the ass again,  why do people watch a tv show they hate so much?  Just to bitch?

I'm confused that you'd even ask that question. Is this your first day on the internet?

I had a longer response. But it would probably be interpreted as "bitch bitch bitch". So why bother? I mean, I got tv shows to go "hate" watch.

[GrandMoffNick]

The internet is for bitching and porn. I get it.

[BillCable]

I'm confused about people's shock at a cliffhanger in a tv show

It felt like a rip-off.  For the entire second half of the season, they've been hyping up to this huge death, and then they don't give it to us?  That's just weak.

[Pete_Fett]

I agree with Bill and Scockery - this was a total cop-out and then to have Gimple sitting on the couch acting all smug and saying "we now owe you a good story in six months when we come back". How about giving us a good finale a**hole?

You just made us sit through 90 minutes of driving around and road blocks and you can't even commit as to who is killed?!?!

This is a stunt, nothing more, nothing less, to get people to talk about TWD during the summer break.

And to respond to Nick's comment about watching a show I hate, I didn't hate this show until that last minute when the pulled this junk - so now I'm seriously wondering whether this show is even worth my time. I already am pretty lukewarm on FTWD so I could walk away from the franchise no problem at this point.

It's like Kirkman said during The Talking Dead - for issue 100 of the comic he had to do something big so that readers would stay and not go "I've read this for 100 issues? Time to move on..."

Well, I've watched this show loyally for six seasons and a moment I've known is coming for many years was just messed with? Time to move on...

[Matt_Fury]

To be fair...we did get a big death...we just have to wait until October to see who it is.   

I did like the build up to the Negan reveal...it was a great way to illustrate that Rick and Co had no idea who or what they were dealing with in regards to the saviors.

I enjoyed the Morgan/Carol story as well...looks like the Saviors took care of whoever was holding up in that library as well and we got another glimpse of the folks from the Kingdom.  I can't wait to see who they cast as Ezekiel.

It's definitely going to be a long wait until October...but at least Fear starts up next week, then Preacher, then humans, then Halt and catch Fire....

[dave in the basement]

I was hoping for some sort of payout with the big finale, but I'm not surprised they ended it in a cliffhanger. I really wish they had kept the episode to 60 minutes, since the driving and soliloquy seemed to be just fluff to me.

I hope Abraham was spared the bat.

[BillCable]

I did like the build-up, but I gotta ask how the Saviors knew to block the first road in the first place.  They couldn't have known Maggie was sick.  So the plan was to drag some dissident into the road and wait there until Rick eventually decided it was time to visit Hilltop?  I liked the escalating roadblocks as a way to build tension, but it shows a ridiculous degree of psychic knowledge.  Sure, they could map out probable routes, but knowing which they'd take next, boxing them in, and then somehow realizing they started on foot... really, really convenient.  And then driving them to the circle where they had the RV?  That's borderline ridiculous.  Did they have scouts patrolling every square foot of forest?