A True Kaniggit Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Wow What a shitty way to end the episode.Seconded. And I thought we would see the annihilation of the herd as the mid-season finale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 "Prologue" shittly embedded in the first commercial break for Into the Badlands has the first mention of Negan. Sasha, Abraham, and Daryl are stopped on the road by a gang of guys on motorcycles, the one who speaks tells them to lay down their weapons because everything they own is now property of Negan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairparavel Posted November 30, 2015 Author Share Posted November 30, 2015 Wow What a shitty way to end the episode.Also Morgan is such an idiot, crazy how bad they ruined his character. So much this. And that 2 minute preview during Into the Badlands did nothing to stir interest for February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I'm sure episode 9 will be big because this felt more like a build up episode and a shitty way to go into a break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Last one before the break I believe. Why are these people still using revolvers?!Nothing wrong with revolvers. Sure, you sacrifice capacity, but they're also easier to use for inexperienced shooters (Deanna). More reliable too.Just finished the episode, and I'm wondering why I bother anymore. Just a terrible hour of television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 What a painfully dreadful episode, my god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Not only capacity, but also reload time, which is what I'd be more worried about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Well, they do make speed loaders for revolvers, but I can't remember ever seeing anyone using them on the show.Rick will always have his Colt Python though. At this point it's iconic, same with Michonne's katana, and Daryl's crossbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Was totally expecting both of Jessie's kids attracting attention and panicking. resulting in Jessie trying to shoot a zombie eating Sam, only to hit Carl in the eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The BlackBear Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I've been waiting for the eye thing all series.Put me in the: 'is that all?' camp. The episode was middle of the road at best, but for a midseason finale it was atrocious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 The thing about the plan with covering yourself in guts, is that once the walkers are ignoring you, you are perfectly fine (for a while) or staying right where you are. So Rick, Michonne and others could have gone out and lured the walkers away, leaving Jessie, Ron, Sam, the priest, Carl and Judith safe in the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alia of the knife Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 The thing about the plan with covering yourself in guts, is that once the walkers are ignoring you, you are perfectly fine (for a while) or staying right where you are. So Rick, Michonne and others could have gone out and lured the walkers away, leaving Jessie, Ron, Sam, the priest, Carl and Judith safe in the house.Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alia of the knife Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 The thing about the plan with covering yourself in guts, is that once the walkers are ignoring you, you are perfectly fine (for a while) or staying right where you are. So Rick, Michonne and others could have gone out and lured the walkers away, leaving Jessie, Ron, Sam, the priest, Carl and Judith safe in the house.Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alia of the knife Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Wonder what the chances are Negan takes a shine to Carol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The BlackBear Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 So uh Neegan? I kind of thought it was Neg-an. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alia of the knife Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 So uh Neegan? I kind of thought it was Neg-an.Yeah, I don't know why that annoys me, but it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Haven't seen the last 2 episodes yet and can't really be bothered. Starting to think the show might fare better for me as a binge, that way it only takes a few days for the plot to progress instead of 6 weeks.I'm certainly not missing it, anyhow. Well done to the creators for making me curious as to Glen's fate to being bored about Geln's fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettG Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 So in the process of writing a way too long post in the non-spoiler thread, I had a spoiler thought. I think we can all agree that the Negan bat scene is going to be in the finale. And everyone is speculating about who is going to take Glenn's place. But what if all this Glenn bullshit from the first half is just a smokescreen to cover up the fact that...it's still going to be Glenn. As in, the writers are purposely trying to make the viewers go "Oh man, they don't have the balls to kill off any major characters anymore. Of course Glenn can survive anything. Of course he won't die if Maggie's pregnant." Only to then kill him off brutally in the finale, when even comic book fans are thinking he's safe. I think this would be a terrible decision, don't get me wrong -- purposely making the first half of the season shitty in order to generate a bigger shock with the second half doesn't change the fact that half the season is shitty. But after how badly Gimple and Co. misjudged the Glenn fiasco in the first place, I wouldn't put it past them to do something this stupid later.Before, I had narrowed Lucille's target down to Morgan (I'm 100% sure he's dead this season, as I doubt Lennie James will or even can commit to more than one season, but I wasn't sure if he was going to die this way), Daryl (in order for the scene to have the same devastating effect it did in the comics, it has to be Daryl), or Carol (her story is basically at its end, and the longer she sticks around now the more of a ridiculous caricature she becomes), but I'm unfortunately forcing myself to add Glenn back to that list, albeit in a fourth place, Donald-Trump-esque "God I hope this doesn't happen" fashion.But it has to be one of those four, right? There's no way they'd think anyone else could have close to the same effect? They can't be that stupid? Dear God if fucking TARA is the big death I'm quitting this show... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Olenna Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I'm gonna go ahead and place my bet that it's pregnant Maggie who meet's Lucile. Going on the assumptions that they want to be as shocking as possible, and probably don't want to have to deal with another baby cast member. It also has the benefit of sparing glen while subjecting him to a fate that's actually probably worse than death. I think I'm with you on this. Having to film Cohen with a faux belly and then cast yet another infant seems really unlikely. I was previously thinking that they wouldn't do it because Maggie's arc is central to the development of The Hill (is that the name? Can't remember). But with Maggie gone, Carol, Michonne or Sasha could easily take that role. I can also see the impact that the death will have on viewers. What more horrendous act could Negan do than club a pregnant woman's head right in front of her husband? I find that scenario more believable and less hokey than killing off any of the rest of the cast. They have gone out of their way to set it up to be Morgan that gets the axe so I wonder if Maggie dying will get that complete shock from the audience. If it does play out that way Yeun will have to really pull off a very emotional scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettG Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Maggie's had almost no screen time so far this season though. Unless that changes radically over the next eight episodes, I don't think it'll have the effect the producers are hoping it'll have. It'll be sad and all, but since Maggie at this point is about as important to the ongoing story as Rosita or Tara it'll be pretty easy to get over. All the Glenn bullshit from earlier has honestly soured me on both of them, though, so I might just be biased and it might be devastating for everyone else watching, idk.As for the faux-belly point, though, I suspected they'd use the time jump to get rid of that problem. I'm assuming their plan is to do the all-out war arc over the course of the entirety of season 7, and then flash forward a couple years to start season 8. And since this entire half-season took place over the course of two days, I can see them doing everything over a relatively short period in-universe time, and just having us assume that Maggie isn't showing yet. Then when they come back she's already given birth, hence no bump, and the child is already going on two years old, with Judith already three or four. Also avoiding the multiple infants problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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