I have been watching TWD since it started coming out some number of years ago. Never before have we gone through what this episode is. I believe in a previous review of mine, I said gave that episode a 2/10, because I was reserving the 1/10 for something even worse. Well ladies and gentlemen, here it is, and boy what a show!
I haven't been writing reviews about season 7 so far, as I did for many episodes of season 6. Quite frankly, its because season 7 has been alittle better than season 6, at least better than the specific episodes I felt inclined enough to review. This changed with last episode, being the giant cluster of garbage spewing from some TV scriptwriters fingertips. Now allow me to tell you why I think that.
First off; is anything that just happened even believable? Teenage "psycho" kid jump out of a truck saying "drop your weapons! I only want Negan" and as Negan appears, does nothing to him... like seriously? TWD is known for character mediocrity and idiocy, but this specific occurrence doesn't stop with one single moronic action. It doesn't even take 5 minutes before Carl is all wet about Negans power and looks like he is contemplate how cool this guy is. The very guy he wanted to kill 5 minutes ago!! The guy who killed a bunch of his friends!! The guy who is the leader of the other two guys Carl just murdered!! Is no one going to question this? or are we just supposed to take it as it is? you can't just skip this character development where Carl is suddenly a "psycho" who wants to be Negan 2.0, when all you did is give him a Cheetos-level cheesy line as he exits a truck and shoots a guy. That is not good television.
To put salt on this very fresh wound, here comes the series of absolutely brutal and cringy Carl-Negan scenes. Carl CRIES because Negan makes fun of his eye hole?! huh? wasn't Carl just set up to be a "pyscho"? Then here comes in Fat Joseph spewing terrible apologies unbecoming to the projection of what a "savior" would act like. Ask yourself, did that scene add anything to the show? it added to the point Negan was trying to make, but the point Negan was trying to make was literally that; I like to joke around! sorry for making fun of your eyehole! wanna be friends Carl!? Then lastly, Carl does full circle and starts acting "psycho" and says to Negan that he "can't" kill all the people at Alexandria. Okay Carl, I see you must have suffered brain damage with your eyehole injury, or your character is just supposed to be that stupid and illogical at all times. I guess the latter would show as to why you were the moron you were in season 2
I really want to talk more about the Carl-Negan garbage that was this episode (Carl singing, Wife scene, Carl giving Negan the tour of his house like they were best friends, etc) . But apparently there were other people present in the episode. The imbalance of the episode between the characters it focused on was embarrassing to watch. Ricks few scenes were made to look edgy and mysterious when really they are just doing almost nothing. That part should have been cut completely or just not spread throughout an hour long episode. Anything really that wasn't what they did would have been better. Michonne's scene was another example of how terribly spread this episode was. Two scenes, almost an hour apart, isn't really the best way to develop anything. It took me awhile to remember that Michonne was in the episode when the zombie-pile was shown. And I will also mention the atrocity that is Michonne's character in this episode. You told Rick not that long ago that you would try to make it work (work for Negan, that is), and the next scene we have of you, you are doing the opposite! There was absolutely no indication to the viewer that you weren't going to follow through with your promise, and that is bad television, where the viewer doesn't understand the characters we are watching.
it really worries me that as of this review, 45% of viewers gave this episode a 10/10. It worries me in the sense that no one knows what good television looks like, that they will just settle for this with whatever reason they have. I will continue to watch this show, mostly for the "bigger picture" story that the show sorta is, or I hope it will become. But for now, I do declare, that this was the worst episode of TWD I recall in my memory, as of December 5, 2016.
I haven't been writing reviews about season 7 so far, as I did for many episodes of season 6. Quite frankly, its because season 7 has been alittle better than season 6, at least better than the specific episodes I felt inclined enough to review. This changed with last episode, being the giant cluster of garbage spewing from some TV scriptwriters fingertips. Now allow me to tell you why I think that.
First off; is anything that just happened even believable? Teenage "psycho" kid jump out of a truck saying "drop your weapons! I only want Negan" and as Negan appears, does nothing to him... like seriously? TWD is known for character mediocrity and idiocy, but this specific occurrence doesn't stop with one single moronic action. It doesn't even take 5 minutes before Carl is all wet about Negans power and looks like he is contemplate how cool this guy is. The very guy he wanted to kill 5 minutes ago!! The guy who killed a bunch of his friends!! The guy who is the leader of the other two guys Carl just murdered!! Is no one going to question this? or are we just supposed to take it as it is? you can't just skip this character development where Carl is suddenly a "psycho" who wants to be Negan 2.0, when all you did is give him a Cheetos-level cheesy line as he exits a truck and shoots a guy. That is not good television.
To put salt on this very fresh wound, here comes the series of absolutely brutal and cringy Carl-Negan scenes. Carl CRIES because Negan makes fun of his eye hole?! huh? wasn't Carl just set up to be a "pyscho"? Then here comes in Fat Joseph spewing terrible apologies unbecoming to the projection of what a "savior" would act like. Ask yourself, did that scene add anything to the show? it added to the point Negan was trying to make, but the point Negan was trying to make was literally that; I like to joke around! sorry for making fun of your eyehole! wanna be friends Carl!? Then lastly, Carl does full circle and starts acting "psycho" and says to Negan that he "can't" kill all the people at Alexandria. Okay Carl, I see you must have suffered brain damage with your eyehole injury, or your character is just supposed to be that stupid and illogical at all times. I guess the latter would show as to why you were the moron you were in season 2
I really want to talk more about the Carl-Negan garbage that was this episode (Carl singing, Wife scene, Carl giving Negan the tour of his house like they were best friends, etc) . But apparently there were other people present in the episode. The imbalance of the episode between the characters it focused on was embarrassing to watch. Ricks few scenes were made to look edgy and mysterious when really they are just doing almost nothing. That part should have been cut completely or just not spread throughout an hour long episode. Anything really that wasn't what they did would have been better. Michonne's scene was another example of how terribly spread this episode was. Two scenes, almost an hour apart, isn't really the best way to develop anything. It took me awhile to remember that Michonne was in the episode when the zombie-pile was shown. And I will also mention the atrocity that is Michonne's character in this episode. You told Rick not that long ago that you would try to make it work (work for Negan, that is), and the next scene we have of you, you are doing the opposite! There was absolutely no indication to the viewer that you weren't going to follow through with your promise, and that is bad television, where the viewer doesn't understand the characters we are watching.
it really worries me that as of this review, 45% of viewers gave this episode a 10/10. It worries me in the sense that no one knows what good television looks like, that they will just settle for this with whatever reason they have. I will continue to watch this show, mostly for the "bigger picture" story that the show sorta is, or I hope it will become. But for now, I do declare, that this was the worst episode of TWD I recall in my memory, as of December 5, 2016.