So this is a pretty predictable episode, nothing special (try to see through the hype, here). Kind of disappointing, honestly.
They opened the, "War Against Negan," with a series of interlocking armored vehicles. Pretty neat. Negan strolls out of his office which apparently overlooks the EZ-access-entry-for-revolutionaries. Then after some tacky, hyper-cliché dialogue and some mental projectile vomiting, Rick decides to take his shots. He misses... somehow. He has a fully-automatic rifle and misses his dozen or-so shots he takes. Surprise: Negan is faster than bullets, and shame on you for not knowing that (wink). It wasn't even the cliché, "Oh they missed!" - it was a blatant and reckless spin in the story's writing to sustain Negan and his role in this everlasting, looping story that is the bundle-o'-disappointments: The Walking Dead.
Later, the Pastor (what's his name?) is locked in a room with Negan. Scary! Here's the twist, Mr. Pastor is armed to the teeth with a fully-automatic rifle. Negan has his bat (spooky!). The tone of the scene leads one to believe Negan dominates Mr. Extremely-Armed Pastor, which is pathetic writing. The scene dims out and the episode ends with an overplayed get-you-going speech from Rick, tucked in nicely with some glittery eyes from Maggie and other followers.
Between some of those scenes, when Carol and her gang were raiding the outpost, how did they miss? A group of a dozen people with fully-automatic (that's the firearm-theme here, if you didn't catch on) rifles somehow miss a guy who slowly ducks behind a beat-up car. Watch the clip, there are literally bullets fired directly at the ground.
Get it yet? The whole episode was a fabrication, with sub-fabrications forced in here and there to sustain the rest of the season. They lead one to believe that they'll get the season going with some momentum (a foreign idea to TWD fans), only to throw in constant impossibilities to drag it all out (a familiar idea to TWD fans).
For those of you hanging on for the rest of the season, enjoy. I know reading this will be harsh for those caught up in the hype, and that it's difficult to see through the hype's fog.. I genuinely hope they restore some dignity from this one. It seems to me, though, that they're tumbling into the same loop they've been in since after the CDC episode (remember that?).
They opened the, "War Against Negan," with a series of interlocking armored vehicles. Pretty neat. Negan strolls out of his office which apparently overlooks the EZ-access-entry-for-revolutionaries. Then after some tacky, hyper-cliché dialogue and some mental projectile vomiting, Rick decides to take his shots. He misses... somehow. He has a fully-automatic rifle and misses his dozen or-so shots he takes. Surprise: Negan is faster than bullets, and shame on you for not knowing that (wink). It wasn't even the cliché, "Oh they missed!" - it was a blatant and reckless spin in the story's writing to sustain Negan and his role in this everlasting, looping story that is the bundle-o'-disappointments: The Walking Dead.
Later, the Pastor (what's his name?) is locked in a room with Negan. Scary! Here's the twist, Mr. Pastor is armed to the teeth with a fully-automatic rifle. Negan has his bat (spooky!). The tone of the scene leads one to believe Negan dominates Mr. Extremely-Armed Pastor, which is pathetic writing. The scene dims out and the episode ends with an overplayed get-you-going speech from Rick, tucked in nicely with some glittery eyes from Maggie and other followers.
Between some of those scenes, when Carol and her gang were raiding the outpost, how did they miss? A group of a dozen people with fully-automatic (that's the firearm-theme here, if you didn't catch on) rifles somehow miss a guy who slowly ducks behind a beat-up car. Watch the clip, there are literally bullets fired directly at the ground.
Get it yet? The whole episode was a fabrication, with sub-fabrications forced in here and there to sustain the rest of the season. They lead one to believe that they'll get the season going with some momentum (a foreign idea to TWD fans), only to throw in constant impossibilities to drag it all out (a familiar idea to TWD fans).
For those of you hanging on for the rest of the season, enjoy. I know reading this will be harsh for those caught up in the hype, and that it's difficult to see through the hype's fog.. I genuinely hope they restore some dignity from this one. It seems to me, though, that they're tumbling into the same loop they've been in since after the CDC episode (remember that?).