Not surprised the junkyard community turned on Alexandria in favor of Negan. Negan knew about Ricks plan prior to Sasha being taken prisoner and Gregory didn't.
I thought Eugene was gonna meet Lucille at the end of the show. As for Dwight, he left behind his figurine which conveniently Darryl finds. Still think he wants Negan dead.
All in all, the season finale was good and well written. Sasha did exactly what I thought she would do. Loved seeing Abraham again.
Going into season 8, Negan now knows Maggie is alive and Darryl has surfaced. He's pissed and that makes him dangerous to hisself. Now he will be after revenge for being out smarted by Rick and his groups. Which makes his decision making processes rather screwed up. He's vulnerable to some degree because now he cannot collect his "donations" from the other communities. He might be on the verge of losing respect from the saviors.
Apparently Maggie and Ezekiel will move their groups into Alexandria for safety in numbers.
Although I liked Sasha's send off, I don't think the climatic fight was all that well orchestrated, it felt forced, but maybe I was expecting too much. I don't remember the Junk Yard people in the comic, so they strike me as filler to pass the time for Rick's group this season in their thorny relationship with the Saviors and to facilitate this season's climax.
I have no issue with added plot complexities, but I don't like that the mini-showdown and doublecross was orchestrated to toy with the audience, creating what appearence of a hopeless ending for the Alexandria folks just to have their bacon pulled out of the fire to make a big Season Final. Now it's possible my knowledge of the comic has tainted me.
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My biggest complaint was the fight. I have an issue with numbers. There were possibly more Junk Yard people there than Alexandria folks, so add in the Saviors, I could see a large, complex, and complete bloodbath when the Hilltop and Kingdom groups appeared. Visually the filming and editing failed to bring the scope of such a fight to the screen and was a failure imo. Magically all of the major characters survived. It's hard not to imagine bullets for Rick or Negan finding their way home. The believability quotient of this scene gets a D from me. I was also irritated at how easily Ms (
I will lay with him afterwards) Stoneface evaporated at the end.
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The Junkyardians are the worst. It's only been like 2 years since everything went to crap but they've already lost the ability to speak properly. They sound like those kids from Beyond Thunderdome in the "long long ago". Ugh. And seeing the saviors, with guns, running when the see the tiger made me ill.
Negan should have crushed Eugines skull at the end.
5 guys with guns are firing at Negan at almost point blank range as he drives away no one hits him?
This felt less like a season finale and more like an average episode setting up a big finale.
Too many shots of Sasha in the coffin. We get it, she's in a small space. We don't care.
Don't speak in the plural.
😉 I thought Sasha's sendup was good, however they said the trip was a couple of hours and I would have expected her to suffocate in a coffin without the need for poison. I don't see Negan agreeing to this if his goal was to turn her to his side, besides it would have been miserably hot in there.
I'm not a fan of how this climax was orchestrated, a bit too convenient and not real convincing. The audience through bits and pieces just has to accept that the good guys prevailed. I could buy that the added forces from Hilltop and The Kingdom, could have turned Rick's defeated situation around, and this coordination between the groups did happen and they knew Negan was coming, but the Priducers bit off more than they could chew and a convincing filmed sequence was just not produced for the audience to watch.
That episode was garbage. The have all of Alexandria taken and less than 10 people from the Kingdom show up and takeover???
I get it...they want to keep the show going but that episode was terrible.
The thing I like about GOT is the show will end in the next 13 episodes...the story will end. I won't be surprised when we meet season 15 of TWD. AMC and the comics are going to milk this thing forever.
Truly disappointed, but hey, I'll keep watching.
There were people from both The Kingdom and Hilltop.
And how does the tiger know to just attack bad guys?
Ezekiel sicced it on him/them.
I came here to ask that and what did "didn't know" mean on the toy soldier? Rick is supposed to be super smart but he totally trusted iron face and had no backup plan. Why not keep some people outside the walls and attack Negan from the front and the back?
Dwight did not know the Junk Yard Dogs were in on a double cross.
