45 minutes of pure psychological terror, probably the best episode of the whole show. I'm definitely hooked again.
Negan > The Governor
Glen will be sorely missed, I can't believe he escaped zombies for all these years then died in a bar room brawl. That will teach him to disrespect John Snow, the New king of the North.
Brutality for brutality sake.
Primitively playing with the lowest of instincts and fears ( of the watchers...).
Hope the rest of the season will be better than this.
I can't understand why everyone is so hyped about this episode there was just violence without any tension. it was just 45 minutes of wasted time! After that massive cut of the last season this episode was just made to rekonstruct the set of main charachters for season 7. This could have been direkted better by a 5 year old!
I was waiting so long for the new season....now i don't know if i'm even still interestet in TWD.
Thanks for that!
Holy sh*t... One of the best openings for a new season ever. Thrilling, not giving everything away at once, constantly on the edge of my seat and finally crying my eyes out. Awesome and man... I know it's wrong after what he did but I do love Negan... brilliant character already.
TWD is a gross, violent show and normally I love that about it because it'd be weird if it weren't, given that it's about the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. But tonight's ep was just gratuitous. Just ugly and crude and in-your-face for its own sake. Negan's not even the kind of bad guy you can love to hate. He's a bully and you KNOW he was already evil before the world to shit.
If this is what this season's going to be about... trying to crush the spirits of those who've managed to survive this long - people who are trying to rebuild a better world, all because you're a selfish prick who wants to be king of the trash heap? Nehhh. I'm not on board. That's not even an interesting story to tell. I hate Negan so much he almost makes me miss the Governor.
This show has been losing steam anyway. I'll give it a few more episodes into this season but if this doesn't take a serious turn in that time, this may finally be it for me.
7.8/10. Most people know the bible story of when God tested Abraham. It’s one of those biblical references that just filters through the popular consciousness even if you can’t remember the last time you cracked open Genesis. The Good Lord tells Abraham, his devoted servant, to prove his devotion by offering his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice. Abraham follows this command, building an altar, tying his son to it, and raising his knife in the air to do the grisly deed himself. Then, God stops Abraham, explains that it was simply a test of his devotion, and provides a ram to be sacrificed instead.
I can remember hearing this story in Sunday school, and how the rabbi would milk this moment a bit. Keeping second graders enthralled in bible stories isn’t necessarily easy work, but he knew how to draw out the details, embellish a little at the margins, and create a great deal of suspense. Even if you’d heard the rabbi tell this story half-a-dozen times before, he made you believe that maybe, this time, it would be too late, that Abraham would act and all would be lost. In short, he knew how to build the suspense.
And that’s a sizable chunk of what The Walking Dead’s season premiere is – an exercise in building suspense. After the minor audience revolt at the cliffhanger that TWD left us with in the Season 6 finale, “The Day Will Come When You Won't Be” takes its sweet time in revealing who met the sharp end of Negan’s bat.
Instead, we just see a pile of brains and viscera splayed out on the dirt as Rick is drawn away by Negan. The show teases us as Rick is sent of a Saw-esque quest to retrieve his axe in a horde of zombies by his captor, and in the midst of this adventure, has flashbacks of all of the people around that circle, brought to their knees by The Saviors. It gives the audience a mini-recap, a brief reminder of all the people who might be the one done in by Negan in “Last Day on Earth.”
It’s a little too cute by half. To some extent, you have to fight the people who are, understandably, a bit disgruntled with the show, apt to tune in just to get closure on the cliffhanger, and then return to the rest of their lives, zombie-free. TWD fights this by basically putting that reveal in the middle of the episode, forcing anyone watching (or at least watching without the benefit of fast-forward) to witness Rick’s emotional arc in the first half of the episode before finding out the answer to the show’s whodunit.
And that arc is pretty good! (Albeit a bit trite.) The big question that the episode tries to answer is this – why would Rick, why would anyone, work for Negan? Why would our semi-noble, resourceful heroes, throw their lots in with this fiend instead of stand up to him? The answer the show offers is a simple one, one that lines up with the explanation offered by its network sibling. Rick, who is devastated at having lost one of the first people to help him and another friend and ally who told him that the world needs more people like him, does not give into despair or to hopelessness with the idea that by following this man’s orders, he can keep the people close to him from having to share the same fate. It’s a horrid compromise, but a necessary one to keep his friends and his family safe.
That is, as is par for the course for The Walking Dead, dramatized in a way that doesn’t make much sense, but is awfully nice to look at. The action as Rick is surrounded by zombies, brain-addled by what he’s been through, and being goaded by Negan throughout has the rhythms of some bizarre dance. Surrounded by fog, isolated in a sea of grasping, groping hands, Rick lies prone but eventually fights for his life. For all of TWD’s flaws, it knows how to do these set pieces well. And having Rick dangling while holding onto a dead man trying to kill him on the one hand, but which keeps him from the hungry mouths below, is a little too on-the-nose in terms of symbolism, but makes for a cool visual, even if Negan’s eleventh hour save comes too conveniently, as with most of the hairier zombie-related situations on this show.
But it’s really Negan’s episode. Jeffrey Dean Morgan gets the “And ______” credit in the opening credits, and he earns it here, offering ninety percent of the episode’s dialogue. That dialogue isn’t exactly crackling, devolving into Bond Villain-esque clichés at various points, but Morgan (the actor, not the bow-wielding pacifist, who along with Carol, doesn’t appear in the episode) saves as much of it as possible. While there’s a few odd quirks that took me out of the moment here and there (his little kissing noise for one), Morgan is clearly having the time of life going full magnificent bastard here. He leers and mocks and preens and generally chews the scenery with a presence and authority that the show seemed to be shooting for with The Governor but never really achieved.
As much as the Season 6 finale was Negan’s introduction, the Season 7 premiere is his coming out party, a chance to show that he’s not just another in a long line of underwhelming big bads on the show. The Walking Dead establishes this by not just giving him the lion’s share of dialogue here, but by establishing for the characters and for the audience that he means business by having him kill off two major characters.
The first is Abraham, who throws in one last cocky boast before bearing the brunt of the barbed-wire bat. It’s a sad end, one that traffics in the bitter irony of seeing Abraham’s journey through the Alexandria arc, of going from having trouble adjusting to the calm of life behind those walls and harboring something of a death wish, to finding a reason to hope and to want to live to see something more. It’s grist for the mills of fans and critics who contend the show is steeped in nothing but nihilism and tragedy.
But sadder yet is Glenn, whose death is one of the defter narrative moves of “The Day Will Come When You Won't Be.” After Abraham’s death, we assume the rest of the crew is safe for now, that the promise of the cliffhanger has already been delivered. That makes Glenn’s death a legitimate surprise, something that has a little more force beyond the episode’s strained attempts to stall for time before revealing who was behind the POV shot at the end of Season 6.
It’s also legitimately horrifying, both visually and emotionally. Again, the effects work on this show is never shoddy, and the image of Glenn after suffering the blow from Negan’s bat is appropriately gruesome and disturbing, a sign of how terrible the man who dealt it is. The death also has the weight of the fact that Glenn is one of the few characters left from the very beginning, after those with weaker plot armor have been winnowed away. He’s an expectant father, someone who always believed in the potential of this group, who says his wife’s name with his last breath.
He is, unlike mercurial Rick, or the pugnacious Daryl, or the deadly but complicated Carol, someone who never wavered, who represented the best of what these people could be. So there’s more symbolism when it’s his death at Negan’s hands that’s meant to send a message. It’s meant to make Negan an antagonist unlike any other the show’s offered, who represents a terrifying antidote to Glenn’s optimism and determination. That’s what Negan, and the show, is trying to impart. It’s trying to teach our heroes, and the viewers, who and what this man is. He needs to show them what he’s capable of, to show them the consequences of going against him and how futile and awful the result will be.
In short, Negan needs to break them. So when it comes time for his final act, his biggest show of force, he takes a page out of The Good Book. Not convinced that he’s fully cowed the leader of the group that’s caused him so much trouble, Negan has his goons drag Carl next to him, and orders Rick to cut off his son’s arm or The Saviors will slaughter the lot of them. He makes Rick beg him not to do it, to drive him to the point of having to make that terrible choice for the greater good, to prove his devotion, his utter submission, to the man who has made the last few hours of his life a living hell.
But Negan stops him. He forbears. He makes himself clear. Because Negan sees himself as a god, not the beneficent and kind master of all, but the vengeful, Old Testament god who wins the devotion of his followers or punishes the unfaithful. That is what Rick and his company are up against. That is why these people who thought they owned the world may cop to what this man demands of them.
They’re denied the fantasy we see at the end of the episode, a vision of almost everyone dressed in white, getting to break bread together, Glenn with his child in his arms. It’s a beautiful image, one of a paradise they may never be able to bring to pass with people like Negan lurking beyond their doorstep.
“The Lord will provide,” said Abraham to Isaac. The words can be chilling or hopeful, either a reflection of Abraham believing that his son will be the sacrifice or trusting that God would save him. Here, it’s Rick who is expected to provide, to “produce” for his new god. And that final image can also be either devastating or wonderful, a look at something Negan has ensured they will never have, or a dream that they may still one day achieve.
I want every network to pay attention. There is a way to make a perfect episode, and this is it. From the superb acting and emotion, to the endless suspense and shock factor, this episode did something I thought I'd never see...it turned into the best episode I've ever seen in television history, and introduced the best villain in television history. In every sense of the word, I was impossibly floored.
Just end this show I can't deal with this
I do not like the direction this show is taking. I mean what is the point of the whole group we got attached to over 7 years now becoming slaves to an overwhelming force. I do not want to watch Rick's Frodoesque expression for many more episodes so I hope the writers start dishing out payback very soon. This is not enjoyable at all. And what the fuck is happening to Hilltop and Gregory? He was the one who did not say shit about the size of Negan's army and totally mislead Rick's group regarding what they were getting themselves into.
This is the episode where I stopped watching the show. It was getting old with the focus on human killing human, instead of zombies, already. The level of human on human violence was uncalled for.
The worst episode ever...im thinking about not
Further watching TWD
What an utter piece of sadistic shit. The scripts are getting worse, and more cliched every season along with the direction. Absolutely fucking woeful.
This episode and the season finale of season 6 were two of the best and most intense moments in TV history I’ve EVER witnessed oh my god
This was both the best and worst episode. Best because it kept you on the edge of your seat the entire time while awaiting the terror that was about to be unfolded. Worst cause I got to see one of my favs, aka Glenn, brutally murdered which caused me to pause the episode, take a 15 minute breather and come back for the waterworks to continue. Absolutely phenomenal episode.
Some scenes were not necessary and are there obly for the gore effect. I really liked the beginning of the show and idea of exploration of this world. But this just crosses the line. Nobody cares who dies in this show anymore. They might as well make them kill each other over and over.
Just finish this show already. The finale is long overdue.
This episode was pure garbage. Lost me as viewer. I don't care about ppl dying, but to draw everything out, the bad acting from JD Morgan, the bad cutting, the excessive violence. No thanks.
Not gonna watch this shit anymore.
Killing off characters should be memorable but in this season opening -- among the worst I've seen in recent years -- it feels trivial. Maybe it's due to being away from these characters for months or really not enjoying the previous season, but I honestly didn't care when these characters died. They stopped feeling real, and thus dead, long ago when they started making uncharacteristic jokes the writers came up with. That the entire episode revels in this hollow gorey mess for its entirety and introduces a villain that is boring -- what is more generic than a sadistic violence-loving brute in an apocalypse? -- makes it excruciating for all the wrong reasons. Game of Thrones makes character deaths so memorable and epic, but I feel like I'm already forgetting about this one.
Negan probably was a cool dude to sit with and have fun with him before everything happened in the world lol
Its too early for downrate, dont you think?
Damn it! You guys have no mercy with the fans. Anyway, THANK YOU for this amazing job. I'm angry with Negan but at the same time, very impressed... He's surely the best villain until now.
The most disturbing episode ever! It's hard-core adult material lol not for kids
It feels like i just lost someone i love.. I was fine with most to die...
Everyone! except Glenn, Rick, Darryl and Carl!
TWD will never be the same anymore... At least not for me.
You will be missed Glenn ♥
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.
What a way to start the season, one of the hardest episodes I've ever had to watch, but damn that's how you start off a season! I'm just curious how they're going to live up to that now
After 4 meh seasons and a lot of shitty episodes I can say that THIS WAS A MASTERPIECE!!!!
WHAT AN AMAZING EPISODE
Glenn, we all gonna miss you but I've just to say that they couldn't let down the comic fans, it was just his destiny; just go back and re-watch the entire series, in different occasions they play with his death or his fate being hit by Lucille.
For what concerns Abraham, he could confirm the Orange Crush theory, he was loved by the fans but not so much in order to completely shock them (see Daryl's or Carl's fans... they are really tough and dangerous (just kidding) fans, ha)... what I mean is that two deaths are the best way not only to give the proper Glenn's death to the comic fans, but also the death of one of the most loved characters... all this waiting, hype and misterious death theories and then what? Glenn dying? just like in the comics? well, if so you could have killed him right in episode 7x16, but adding Abraham to the "Lucille scene" it makes a lot more sense to me!
Shame on who spoiled (1/2- 2 months ago) the number of deaths and Carl "losing a hand"! it seems to be one of the crew members!
Very slow and boring episode, probably the worst season opener ever.
I don't know what to think about what happened. Good: the show taking a new direction. Bad: Glenn's death. In such a horrible way. Basically, I reacted like Maggie did. I'm thinking about dropping the show, I don't know if I can continue without Glenn.
Brutality for the sake of brutality. Two likable characters are killed, all those lines about "not dining together happily", brilliantly played grief and self-blame by Lauren Cohan, headless bodies lying around - all of this is enough to make viewers shocked and sad. Nevertheless, the episode is full of unnecessary shots like Glenn's face after being hit by Lucille, or Lucille itself getting more screen time than half of the characters, making you wonder "why am I even watching this?". Also, thanks for further ruining Daryl's character - since last season he's been an unpredictable hothead, and it seems he will continue to be so. Good thing he got locked up!
Total disappointment, 6/10 just for performances of Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The show was too intense I had to pause a bit when Rick was about to cut his son's arm off, never ever done that in a TV show
I was very close to quitting this show after this episode.
1) Negan is annoying as hell. Love JDM but Negan is a sociopath that just won’t shut up. No idea why people like him.
2) The overly prolonged viewpoint of people in the truck...get on with it!!! So boring.
3) The murders. The show went waaay too far. Little blood splatter and eluding to what’s happening would be enough. Actually it would be scarier too. But to see hair, blood, and skin hanging off the bat..,to see a close up of one person’s head being bashed in and another with an eye about to pop out....NO! Wtf? Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. None of us want to feel like we’re witnessing an actual murder!
Unfortunately the season was the beginning of the end of the group. :(
Serious schlock with too high of a budget. Here we see a non-character bash in the brains of two other cardboard cutout characters and not much else. Episode mostly consist of Rick's endless stares into the abyss. Someone might consider that deep, but it really isn't, since we've seen it many times before already in earlier "shocking" episodes. I don't really understand how anyone can sincerely consider this show good at this point.
Man, that was absolutely brutal....I had to turn away from the TV screen at one point and wait for the thudding to stop! I feel the need to go and watch something by disney now!!
This épisode are fucking awesome. Probably one of the best episodes of this show.
Quite probably the worst episode I've ever seen, It was brilliantly horrific! Not what I expected and the horror just keeps on coming.
Negan is just fantastically evil and does great credit to the character.
This episode would be too much for almost everyone to handle.
holy sh**t! didnt see that second kill coming... ma gad...
Just one week to go... Sunday come quick
The whole episode drove me crazy!
This is the kind of change in tone that the show desperately needed. Rick's group had started to get soft, and Negan will get them back on track.
One of the most disturbing episodes of a tv-show I have ever seen. I was feeling both angry and sad but I also felt this void inside of me.
Both me and my wife had the same opinion, that it was a bad start of the season and we were not particularly happy about the new season.
I was laying awake later that night and reflected over what I had seen and I realized that the episode was brilliant. Never have I ever felt all these emotions during one and single episode.
Great cast, great producers, best tv show ever!
Holy cr*p! I literally have no words for what I just saw. What an opener! I hold my breath for 45 minutes. Never thought a TV show was gonna make me. I didn't see that one coming. I kinda knew Abe was a goner, but Glenn. Holy shit! I need a psychiatrist for life. I expected the episode to be heavily shocking but not that gruesome. They played with watchers' fears. It was brutal. So brutal. It was like psychological terror. So disturbing. I have no words. And damn, that dinner scene.
All the actors were absolutely amazing. they were on top. And that Negan. I hate him, but hey, he's the best villain so far.
I felt like someone just ripped my heart and threw it away.
Holy sh*t. I think I need a hug. We should get together and have a collective hug.
anyways, looking forward to the rest of the season. Glenn will surely be missed.
Can you hold your breath the entire episode? 'cause I just did.. (exhales and dies)
Well, I'm so very glad it went the way it did. I can safely say that I was well prepared for this extraordinary episode, and took it like a man.
I want every network to pay attention. There is a way to make a perfect episode, and this is it. From the superb acting and emotion, to the endless suspense and shock factor, this episode did something I thought I'd never see...it turned into the best episode I've ever seen in television history, and introduced the best villain in television history. In every sense of the word, I was impossibly floored.
i have never wanted to die more
ahhh, i cant wait till Oct!
i remember the first time I watched this episode - the night it aired. and i still remember sitting curled up on the couch watching every detail of the plot unfold while wishing to god it didn't. this episode is the perfect blend of psychological horror and blood/guts/gorey horror and it's precisely what makes TWD such a fantastic show.
i was so damn excited to have JDM joining the team. as a supernatural fan i was all for the decision to cast JDM as negan and I knew that was going to be a match made in heaven, but alas it was bittersweet to also say goodbye to my favorite character in the entire show. I had literal tears streaming down my face after this episode.
this episode makes me think that the previous episode where glenn nearly died was a test run to see how the audience would react to such a major death, and for the life of me i don't understand how so many people talking about it wasn't a hint that maybe you shouldn't kill off one of the best characters of the show. from this point on, although negan adds a lot of flavor to the upcoming seasons (and he's one of my favorite villains ever) i think this show started to take a deep dive off the side of a cliff.
in any show, there's a fundamental core group of characters that you cannot kill off. TWD has historically said 'fuck it' and ignored that completely, and that's part of what made it such an intriguing show in the beginning (and why i was continually excited for each new episode coming out - 'who's dying tonight?') but there's also a crucial balance to that. in these high stakes, high emotion type of shows, the audience builds strong attachments to the characters they really like. glenn, maggie, carol, daryl - they're so fundamental to the cast that getting rid of any of them would be a major mistake. and getting rid of glenn after six solid seasons was a mistake i don't think this show ever really came back from.
that being said, of course i continued watching it then and i'll continue with my re-watch, but the show isn't the same after this episode and i still have a bitter taste in my mouth that they gave him such a poor death.
wtf did I just see. There must be a way to unwatch this :'(
But Negan is crazy as hell. I don't think I've seen a TV character I hate to love in a long time.
Excluding Phillip/Governor; who was love to hate.
But damn that was brutal!!!
`jesus.. i know they have to build up the baddies to make the latter revenge against them sweeter, but this was like watching a snuff movie..
I don't know what the fucked happened to this show, but the writing and character development went to shit. Characters I used to love, I now feel conflicted about (Carol and now Daryl among other character's actions that were out of place). This episode went too far in my opinion. It's not like I expected them to all live happily ever after, but as a viewer, you feel crushed because you know none of the characters you've been following for all this time will ever be the same again. It feels like they have no reason to keep surviving. It feels like there is no way they could survive a battle, and so all hope is lost for those who are left.
I wish I could unwatch this one. Every time I close my eyes I see the gruesome scenes from this episode. I'm disappointed in how the season premier went and really don't know if I will continue watching. It seems that this was a love it or hate it episode for everyone!
This season premiere was terrible, probably the worse of the whole show, they should have made this part of the season 6 finale instead, it would have made more sense. I feel like if they don't do something big soon the show will just get worse and worse. It's not because it doesn't have a happy ending that I say that but more because there is nothing impressive in the episode except for the most disgusting and realistic horror scenes I have ever seen in my life. It's not the effects that are bad but more the story, but again, this is more Robert Kirkman's fault as AMC are only following the comics for this part of the story.
Ok i'm out. I don't want to accept this reality.
Well that was a disturbing hour of tv.
Goddamn this episode! The suspense level in this episode is over 9000! Very well made but Glenn surviving from all dem zombies previously just to die violently now is just too much imo, but it shoulda have been Eugene :'( Also If Daryl dies I'm done with this show lol
Ok, just pressed play.... Let the countdown begin, one by one they go. But if Darryl dies, Im out!
Best episode ever. Sad for Glenn. My favorite
Good and bad at the same time. My feelings were through the roof and I couldn't believe anything that happened.
I called Abraham on that first kill, and I knew someone else was going to be killed. Deep down I knew it was Glenn, but didn't want to believe it, so I just went with someone not that important (at the moment).
S1 E1 - Glenn calls Rick an asshole.
Now
S7 E1 - Glenn gets pounded by Negan, because of Daryl, but I don't mind whos fault it is. Glenn should live for some time. But we can't get what we all wanted. Besides this show needed a refreshment, so I am kind of happy about it.
Abraham was not my top 5 character, but he was evolving his story, sadly in the wrong way (towards death).
As for the episode itself, I'd say it was good! It was mostly Negan speaking, which is a waste of an episode, but we got to see who he picked, what each character was going through and how nothing is what it was before.
/I hope Rick and the rest will be on top again\
Ok, at first I was like "They're dragging on the reveal of this dumb gimmicky cliffhanger for 12 minutes? WTH? Got to be honest, that kind of ruins the season premiere for me." But that other kill was brutally unexpected (or at least the timing of it).
And when Negan gets out this bottle of hydrogen peroxide or whatever that was, I'm thinking "Oh shit is he going to cut of Rick's arm?". Well, almost. Negan is surely one of the most amazing antagonists on TV.
But then Negan left and its back to the same BS we've seen for almost 6 seasons. Obviously, I can't know for sure what the rest of the season is gonna be like, but it feels like it's gonna be more of the same, except for the Negan scenes, and I'm not sure there will be enough of them.
Best episode since governor's death
glenn deserved better.
It's so so disgusting and gross
Oh my days!!! All I can say is...what an opening episode! I knew it was gonna be heavy but...damn!!! I kinda knew Abraham was a goner but I didn't think they'd follow the comic and do Glenn in too?!? I could go on and on about how great I think this episode was but I'm just gonna leave it at...roll on the rest of this season...literally can't wait :)
I haven't been this excited for the Walking Dead since.....well....ever!
one more week to go, omfg
Hate and love this episode at the same time, holy crap man my heart
one of the best episodes in a good AGE. only really got to know Negan this episode and i’m quite surprised that i’ve heard people like him from before. hoping that this standard continues.
Absolutely speechless. That's all I can say.
The acting is so unbelievably good:sob::sob::sob:
This episode is utter Trash.
my heart pounded so hard damn!
NEGAAN!!! What An Episode!!! what a character and what an actor ❤
negan: Simon, you got a pen?
Simon: I got an apple
uhhh apple pen!
Too lame? i shouldn't joke about such a scene I guess... but i am lmao
Теперь вы знаете почему русские НИКОГДА не сдаются в плен!
Now you know why the Russians NEVER surrender to captivity!
so shocking!! this episode surprises you over and over
Honestly too much...surely crossed some line..made me feel kind of "guilty"..or better..ashamed to watch... It was just violence with not even much sense.. And i agree with whoever says that if we were following the life of that bad guy instead of the victims..he would be our hero... In fact they are all bad guys who did bad things...we just feel for them cause them are those we are following throgh the story for 7 seasons... Zombie apocalypse makes little sense...but this fiction is making less sense episode after episode now... If Negan is such bad bad guy..why so many people are by his side? He has an army of people who do what he wants them to do..just like that..just cause he is ready to kill people with cold blood? Just makes you think who run the show wants you to think humans has no humanity at all...blah....
Finaly,I get to watch the next season.
I know this is going to happen...because..comics..but still, it's hard to watch
Not cool guys, NOT COOL! So messed up.
That was brutal. How could they?! The 2nd best character on the show is dead? Unacceptable.
Can't wait for the day that Negan's smile gonna fade away !!!
Une entrée en matière fracassante et émouvante
All in a nutshell: so f**king beautiful!
Couldn't it be Carl ? PLEASE !
That was some intense shit.
Good and bad at the same time. My feelings were through the roof and I couldn't believe anything that happened.
I called Abraham on that first kill, and I knew someone else was going to be killed. Deep down I knew it was Glenn, but didn't want to believe it, so I just went with someone not that important (at the moment).
S1 E1 - Glenn calls Rick an asshole.
Now
S7 E1 - Glenn gets pounded by Negan, because of Daryl, but I don't mind whos fault it is. Glenn should live for some time. But we can't get what we all wanted. Besides this show needed a refreshment, so I am kind of happy about it.
Abraham was not my top 5 character, but he was evolving his story, sadly in the wrong way (towards death).
As for the episode itself, I'd say it was good! It was mostly Negan speaking, which is a waste of an episode, but we got to see who he picked, what each character was going through and how nothing is what it was before.
/I hope Rick and the rest will be on top again\
how the f*ck is this the same amc that wouldnt even let a little bit of skin show in breaking bad
Despite the positive/negative comments the brilliant acting by the best villain (Jeffery Dean Morgan) and of course Andrew Lincoln can't go without a mention.
Wow, great episode. Like the comics book,same spirit, negan is a pure psykopat.
Andrew Lincoln is a fucking boss at acting.
I didnt care that much about abraham but glenn... Damn the first time i thought he died i shed a tear but now... god damn i lost one of my favorite caracters and shed more then 1 tear without question. We will miss you Glenn
the first time i can't rate an episode. i just can't. what's the point? what's the point of the show too, tbh? to grow attached to characters just to watch them being brutally murdered? not even by walkers. is it even a zombie show. what is its purpose. it's going nowhere. it's just here to beat our hearts to a pulp. poor fucking glenn and abraham. fucking hell i can still see that shit before my eyes. this fucking show. i'm so mad. i'm even mad at daryl for flipping out. and i'm mad at myself for being mad. fuck this shit. they should have done this in the finale. i need time to process this dammit.
update: so i've noticed that i kind of came off as a hater with that comment. which i'm not. i didn't hate the episode and i certainly don't hate the show. it's just it left me feeling devastated and instead of being justified it actually seems to be done just for the sake of shock value and to prove a point that no matter who they kill we all still gonna stick around. kind of felt like the show made the viewers into its bitches just like negan did with rick.
Who would expect what Negan did? Abraham's death was expected, and it put audience to relieve. It was a terrible death, yes, but "at least it's not Daryl/Glenn". However, Negan's first swing is a false flag. The producer surely knows this, and Negan swings his second swing: toward Glenn.
Like this is not enough, Negan pulls another stunt. That is, if Rick wants to have the remaining crew alive, he got to cut Carl's arm. When Rick finally put himself together to have his son's arm cut off, suddenly Negan stops him, pulling a Binding of Isaac-esque situation: "you don't have to cut his arm, Rick, you just have to obey me, your god."
Even after months of gap between Season 6 and 7, this episode can bring the intensity, the brutality, and the hatred toward this Negan character. It's a needed start for this season.
Well Season 6 was a complete waste of time then...
Hey, they are staying true to the comics. This is the same point I was out on that journey too...
Okay writers, you aren't allowed to kill anyone else for another 6 seasons. Won't be the same without Glenn.
holy sh**t! didnt see that second kill coming... ma gad...
"Popeye" has a whole new meaning!
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Goddamn if the tears didn't flow while they were all eating dinner. Brutal and satisfying, a spectacular way to open the new season.