reading the other few reviews here, this episode seems to cause quite a different reaction in other people compared to how I experienced it.
Yes, Rick is broken, I got that part but seriously, I'm not convinced this would really happen like it did in that episode. Although it was more than horrible what Rick and the others had to witness with Negan it doesn't really make sense to me that after that they get back to Alexandria, have all their weapons still there, then wait for Negan to show up (and of course he would show up only with 10-20 men) and yet no one get the idea to just position snipers all around Alexandria, wait until he comes knocking and then shot him and the few that accompany him. Even if Rick was too much in shock still to react somebody else could have had that idea and just be done with Negan. Would he be gone and the news would go back to his camp, his followers wouldn't try to attack Alexandria without their psychologically important leader. So no, I just don't buy this episode from a psychological point of view. Also I am getting tired of the ever same faces and tone of Negan and the rather bad writing too. (letting him say " looook at thiiiiis!" five times in one episode is almost irritating and makes the character seem unreal to me for example)
And this episode just completely failed to impress me, I wasn't scared of Negan, I didn't find it to be tense, I was just annoyed having to see this being dragged way too much with the Negan intimidating Rick, Rick looking broken, Negan saying yet another predictable phrase in a predictable tone, and yet, while Rick is so broken, Carl of all people dares to be the cool kid again, raising a gun and having a really weak line like "you just don't know yet how strong we really are".(although he also witnessed those horrible killings of Glenn and Abraham and he is still just a kid but hey, of course he takes it way easier than the grown-ups - no way and totally unbelievable for me) So, it starts feeling like the writers really seem to have had problems with a logical plot and instead filled episodes with way too long sequences of Negan rambling and babbling on and on with the ever same annoying tone and phrases. So, no, I didn't find this tense it just annoyed the heck out of me.
Yes, Rick is broken, I got that part but seriously, I'm not convinced this would really happen like it did in that episode. Although it was more than horrible what Rick and the others had to witness with Negan it doesn't really make sense to me that after that they get back to Alexandria, have all their weapons still there, then wait for Negan to show up (and of course he would show up only with 10-20 men) and yet no one get the idea to just position snipers all around Alexandria, wait until he comes knocking and then shot him and the few that accompany him. Even if Rick was too much in shock still to react somebody else could have had that idea and just be done with Negan. Would he be gone and the news would go back to his camp, his followers wouldn't try to attack Alexandria without their psychologically important leader. So no, I just don't buy this episode from a psychological point of view. Also I am getting tired of the ever same faces and tone of Negan and the rather bad writing too. (letting him say " looook at thiiiiis!" five times in one episode is almost irritating and makes the character seem unreal to me for example)
And this episode just completely failed to impress me, I wasn't scared of Negan, I didn't find it to be tense, I was just annoyed having to see this being dragged way too much with the Negan intimidating Rick, Rick looking broken, Negan saying yet another predictable phrase in a predictable tone, and yet, while Rick is so broken, Carl of all people dares to be the cool kid again, raising a gun and having a really weak line like "you just don't know yet how strong we really are".(although he also witnessed those horrible killings of Glenn and Abraham and he is still just a kid but hey, of course he takes it way easier than the grown-ups - no way and totally unbelievable for me) So, it starts feeling like the writers really seem to have had problems with a logical plot and instead filled episodes with way too long sequences of Negan rambling and babbling on and on with the ever same annoying tone and phrases. So, no, I didn't find this tense it just annoyed the heck out of me.