I honestly don’t understand how this episode gets so many good reviews here. I’m not sure how I would rate it, but I wouldn't say it’s a good episode.
First of all it was 40 minutes of Negan holding a monolog. I’m not even exaggerating. At the end we had a few sentences spoken by Maggie and Rick, but that’s it. 40 minutes of a monolog. That’s ridiculous. I do like the actor and I think Negan has potential, but at some point I just wanted to mute that episode because I just didn’t want to hear him talking anymore. It dragged on and on and on and on. Second of all, Glenn. If they hadn’t pulled that dumpster shit in the last season than it would have worked as a shock effect I guess. But everyone was so freaking angry at the writers for that dumpster scene and I read so many rants during the last few months where people didn’t want to believe that they would kill Glenn “again”, but here we are. I’m just speechless. Yes, it was pretty similar to the comic from what I've seen, but that doesn't matter because they don't really stick to the comic anyway. Thirdly, the general video quality and special effects. I already noticed that in the last season - The quality dropped so badly. The video quality is awful. I’m not sure if they use this grainy and grey effect on purpose, but it looks like this series was filmed 15 years ago. And the special effects (e.g. the gun fire) looked ridiculous again. Fourthly, the gore. Don’t get me wrong - I absolutely have no problem with gore and it’s a freaking zombie show, so of course there will be blood and guts, but this episode seemed so over the top with the blood and brain pieces and guts. This whole episode didn’t feel like TWD, but more like SAW or some other gory horror movie. Yes, Negan is supposed to be batshit crazy (at least from what I’ve heard), but for me it was unnecessary bloody. And yes, Negan wanted to break them all, but somehow… It just seemed so over the top to me. How will they ever recover from that?
Maybe I need to accept that this show is different now. It's not how it used to be. Some people like it, but I don't. I'll probably keep watching, but I'm not happy where this is going.
Review by HaibaraBlockedParentSpoilers2016-10-24T20:51:49Z
I honestly don’t understand how this episode gets so many good reviews here. I’m not sure how I would rate it, but I wouldn't say it’s a good episode.
First of all it was 40 minutes of Negan holding a monolog. I’m not even exaggerating. At the end we had a few sentences spoken by Maggie and Rick, but that’s it. 40 minutes of a monolog. That’s ridiculous. I do like the actor and I think Negan has potential, but at some point I just wanted to mute that episode because I just didn’t want to hear him talking anymore. It dragged on and on and on and on.
Second of all, Glenn. If they hadn’t pulled that dumpster shit in the last season than it would have worked as a shock effect I guess. But everyone was so freaking angry at the writers for that dumpster scene and I read so many rants during the last few months where people didn’t want to believe that they would kill Glenn “again”, but here we are. I’m just speechless. Yes, it was pretty similar to the comic from what I've seen, but that doesn't matter because they don't really stick to the comic anyway.
Thirdly, the general video quality and special effects. I already noticed that in the last season - The quality dropped so badly. The video quality is awful. I’m not sure if they use this grainy and grey effect on purpose, but it looks like this series was filmed 15 years ago. And the special effects (e.g. the gun fire) looked ridiculous again.
Fourthly, the gore. Don’t get me wrong - I absolutely have no problem with gore and it’s a freaking zombie show, so of course there will be blood and guts, but this episode seemed so over the top with the blood and brain pieces and guts. This whole episode didn’t feel like TWD, but more like SAW or some other gory horror movie. Yes, Negan is supposed to be batshit crazy (at least from what I’ve heard), but for me it was unnecessary bloody. And yes, Negan wanted to break them all, but somehow… It just seemed so over the top to me. How will they ever recover from that?
Maybe I need to accept that this show is different now. It's not how it used to be. Some people like it, but I don't. I'll probably keep watching, but I'm not happy where this is going.