Kirkman's a *******. That is a known fact, because over the years, he has learned how to ramp up tension like no other person. Thing is I didn't expect to get the welcoming back into the series without seeing the victim. Then again, I should have known, because that is a very good example of writers ability to grab the audience, and keep them locked in their seats for the whole glorious ride.
It's good to have The Walking Dead back in the weekly schedule.
I know some people have claimed this series is going down, because the average viewers is below the average. The number is twelve million, plus unknown number of people that doesn't get registered by the system, because of the piracy. In fact, this series is one the most favourite shows and it reaches as much audience as the Game of Thrones. Also, it has already been renewed for the eighth season. How many series can boast on that fact?
However, I don't think this series will ever broadcast numbers of Coronation Street, or some other BBC products that has been in the production for decades. It has an ending. Kirkman has confirmed that many times. But please don't believe, this is going to ending in this, or in the next season, even if people walk away after this episode.
What I can say about Negan is, that they have nailed down the way he speaks, minus swearing. This villain is super intelligent and so ruthless towards his victims. I don't know anything that he's afraid. Instead, he provokes fear in the people around him, and he knowns how to twist them in his course of showing them how powerless they're against him. Not only that, but I know the character, and the way story is written intimates people, readers and viewers alike, because he's so wickedly brilliant as a bad man.
Well, at least to me. And Rick. Probably.
He needed to drive Rick in the lowest point of his life, in order to make him understand the reality of Kirkman's world and that "there's nothing you can do to me," before he set them lose. Rick has never been so vulnerable as what he were, when he faced the zombie horde on his own. He had no weapons. Just his anger and a will to want to live for another day.
So many people would have given up. And, to be honest, it would have been easier, if Rick had let the walkers to end his misery, after the fact that he had lost two of his top people. I can imagine the hatred in audience, when Negan swung Lucille for second time, because I was feeling that coldness within me. Together, Rick and Negan would make a great team, but odds for that happening, in the near future, are well below the zero.
Two Alphas doesn't make a team.
There has to be a reckoning. The cost of Rick's failures is too high.
Do you agree?
PS. Daryl's fate is Kirkman pissing on your corn flakes. He knows how much the audience loves Daryl.
