Negan beat the crap out of the viewers. That's why it was 1st person POV. The viewers are taking it like a champ and coming back for more next season no matter what they are complaining about hahaha. .......I'm one of them
Just finished the episode- great episode, IMO. It's a soap opera, plain and simple. Cliffhanger was a surprise to me but the show has always given something to look forward to for the next season. What are they going to do? Hype up the doom and gloom of Rick and company being subjugated? I think the audio breakdown posted a few pages back is pretty dead-on. And gruesome. The comic version of this made me so angry I stopped reading it for a year. But the Negan scene was pretty damn accurate. He's well cast. Not a roided up biker as someone else said in this thread. Anyone see what Darryl's injury was? Looked like he was favoring his hand. Dwight is a sumbitch.
Looked like Daryl's shoulder was hit. I think it was a good episode but I also believe that they messed up with the cliffhanger over the entire summer. It's the finale you expect something to happen but nothing really happened we know one person will die and the others will be let go and I think that ruins the story a bit. It's a long summer people are going to stop caring, lol.
I'm totally looking forward to how to make jam in Alexandria and other random zombie apocalypse BS filler for half the season. This is definitely a series to binge watch in batches.
:grin: Exactly. I think that's where I'm headed with the show. Might just stop watching until it's on Netflix so we can binge / fast skip around....
I know I replied earlier, and while the show does a good job concerning network tv... You don't get the great dialog from Negan, don't get me wrong the show did great with what they could do. But you don't get the better version of the Lucille intro when Negan says "so I'm going to beat the Holy **** ****ing ****edy **** out of one of you with my bat. Who I call Lucille." and obviously I expected that they wouldn't do that, I did hear however that there might be another take where they allow him to say the actual dialog... But it might be on special edition (I think that's rumor). Again I had np how they represented Negan on the TV show or even the pacing (very similar to comic), What I was complaining about/making fun of earlier is not the comic but how the TV show did this ****ty cliffhanger. It's like in the TV show they did great with Negan scene but then not showing initial aftermath was a **** up. The comic handled that scene a lot better.
I don't see how Netflix is going to resolve the gripe of the cliffhanger(s) unless people are willing to wait till the series to be over. You don't have to wait as long between episodes, but you will still have the cliffhanger problem between seasons. One of the attraction of watching a series in real time is so that you have water cooler conversation material. You will lose that if you wait till the season is over. By that time, very few people will talk about it (much less remember the details) when Netflix has it out. Most people like to be on top of pop culture or to be "in the know". TWD is part of pop culture. You will not be one of them if that is important to you (not to me) as far as TWD goes. You wait till the end of the season to watch the episodes, there is a very good chance you'll be spoiled via social media. I knew about the Red Wedding before I begin watching GoT and it was just not as powerful when I finally see it. That's another disadvantage.
I don't know...when I watch the original scene again I don't hear any of that. the part where he supposedly says "MAG" is actually Negan saying "look at THAT" ...TAKING IT LIKE A CHAMP As for the rest it's really hard to make out. I think it's still the same person in the comics just for continuity purposes. It seems they are trying to get back in line with the comics a little.
There's a difference between ESB and how TWD did their cliffhangers. One wasn't a cheap stunt intended to antagonize and agitate their fanbase and the other was a natural stopping point with all the fates of the characters relatively shown.
I can't believe it's taken you viewers this long to realize the writing is crap. You know you're still gonna watch it next season.
I agree with the negative feedback towards the cliffhanger. They're gonna get the views with or without the cliffhanger for the simple reason that if they show Negan killing whoever's there (a main character) everyone would be dying to see how Rick's group would take their revenge. They didn't need a cliffhanger, all it did was piss the viewers off. Bad move.
As a comic reader, I don't know what this "unique turn" he is referring to. Unless they make the Savior to be a group of Vampires a la Dusk Til Dawn (that would be aweful), what would be the unique turn? Rick's group being the underdog is NOT a unique turn. I can't imagine they will stray away much from the comic, so this is nothing but lip service IMO. I don't like ragging on this show, but some of the stuff Nicotero and Kirkman have been saying makes me shake my head. I'm not one of those viewers who vowed to not watch the show.
Exactly. This was pointless amateur dumbf**kery done strictly to please the jagoffs in the marketing department at AMC who wanted to get some stupid hashtag trending.
IMO, they are doing this so that it will generate more talk and discussion (positive or negative) on social media during the down time. People will discuss more and for longer time on who got killed rather than how sad they felt because actor x got the bat. They are banking on the angry viewers will still come back next season to see the resolution. What they are hoping is with all the "who got killed?" discussion, it will bring in more casual viewers for season 7. Will it work out that way, I doubt it. Let's see what #s will they pull for season 7 opener. It would be ironic, if these guys' over confidence drove the ratings down next season. Nicotero would be the one getting the bat.
