While things ever be the same again? It's the final countdown (to Season 7)!
InGen_Nate_Kenny
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So rather than make the episode discussion super early (I'll still make it relatively early on Sunday), I've decided, hey, Season 7! It's coming, why not make a little hype thread for it?
Will Season 7 actually make up for Season 6's ending?
How faithfully will the show stay to the comics?
Who was Negan's victim?
I would post the teaser poster for Season 7, but it's pretty big, so I'm not, but here's a link to it:
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Well unlike most I actually liked the cliffhanger, so there's nothing to make up for.
Haven't read the comics.
I'm so excited! I'm really curious on how Rick will be this season. He looked broken last we saw him.
I wouldn't be surprised if they kept secret who Negan's victim was until the midseason finale.
They're not going to drag it that far. But they are going to wait till they're about 20 min in the episode (about 40min in with commercials) until they actually reveal who they killed. They don't want people to see who was killed and then turn their TV's off so they're practically forcing us to watch the whole thing.
Not really excited, honestly. There have been plenty of leaks about it. The ending remains awful
I still wish the iconic scene wasn't split up between a cliffhanger ending and a new season starter. It just doesn't have the same impact.
That would literally be impossible to do and wouldn't make sense in anyway. Doesn't matter though, what's happening in the premiere has already been leaked.
Minor spoilers below...
So although i'm looking foward to who dies, I can't say i'm really looking foward to the show in general. I saw a trailer on TV with some guy saying "i'm King Ezikel, welcome to my kingdom".... alright so as corny and ridiculous as that is, I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he was just joking around. A few days later I saw another trailer in which he has a fucking tiger next to him. Man, as if things aren't ridiculous and cartoonish enough with Rick and Negan being crazily over powered imo, now they introduce this guy.
Agreed I hate all the characters from the kingdom in the comics and they somehow look even more cringy here.
Even if they killed Daryl and Glenn, it wouldn't make up for it, Season 6's ending was and will always be one of the stupidest things the show has ever done. Gimple can talk about how, when we see what happens, it will explain why they did, but it's bullshit.
Well you have to remember that TV shows are businesses too. They need the viewers from Season 6 to come back and watch Season 7 so the cliffhanger was all they could do. I mean we're right here the premiere is tomorrow and it seems like Season 6 ended two months ago.
They didn't need to do a cliffhanger to get people to come back and watch, it's The Fucking Walking Dead, one of the most watched shows currently on TV. This cliffhanger isn't going to bring people back nor was it going to bring new people to the show, it just pisses off comic fans who saw one of the most iconic moment from the comics get butchered and pisses off show fans for leaving us hanging for months on end. I guarantee you, had they not ended it on a cliffhanger, more or the same amount of people would tune in for Season 7 just to see just how much worse Negan can get. That's the appeal now, Negan, him alone will bring new people to the show because of how much he's both feared and loved, it makes him a great villain, but with how it ended, it feels like it takes the spotlight away from Negan and puts it on this ridiculous cliffhanger.
If they were going to insist on doing a cliffhanger, what I would have done was kill 2 people, showed the first victim (most likely have it be Glenn since that's who he kills in the comics), then have Negan point the bat at someone else, say something like "Don't think I forgot about you," and leave the second person's identity a mystery, now that would be a great cliffhanger, it doesn't disappoint as it shows someone getting killed, it does the comics justice, it re-establishes the dying idea that no character is invincible or safe from being killed off, and actually leaves the fans guessing as to who he killed and makes us more excited for the season.
I am still wondering why they have to boost the viewer rating, the show is already popular and millions are already watching it. : /
It just sounds a little greedy to me, when Grimple explained it was to boost viewers. I have to believe that it was AMC executive who forced them to make the cliffhanger ending and Grimple was only forced to defend it in order to prevent a similar falling out and firing like Frank and Glen.
It's actually the most popular show on television lol!!
I can totally see that being the case. Gimple has shown to be a very competent and effective show runner and writer ever since he took over, doing something like this doesn't feel like him at all.