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Post by reckon on Oct 22, 2016 8:50:23 GMT -5
Great article from Erik Kain on Forbes:
www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/10/22/this-is-who-negan-should-kill-in-the-walking-dead-season-7-premiere/#1c9c81bc578c
"In the comics, Negan kills Glenn, but last season AMC pulled the dirty trick of faking Glenn’s death. That entire story line was a disaster. The show toyed with viewers’ emotions and ultimately didn’t deliver the kind of surprise and tension that it needed to. (I go into great length on why it failed in this post.) Now that they’ve messed with our heads this much, they can’t have Negan kill Glenn. It would pour salt in the wound and leave a lot of viewers angry. Likewise, they can’t really kill off Maggie because that would be equally cruel given what she and Glenn just went through. Besides, she may have a zombie baby inside her and that’s way more interesting than a bat to the head."
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Oct 22, 2016 20:32:43 GMT -5
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Post by MorganBGone on Oct 22, 2016 20:57:46 GMT -5
How Gimple should react, reading an article like this: How Gimple does react, reading an article like this:
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Post by v on Oct 23, 2016 0:38:25 GMT -5
Here’s who will probably die.
The most likely characters to die in the Season 7 premiere aren’t the show’s central figures. My money is on Abraham or Eugene, or possibly Sasha. After all, in that line-up pictured above, there are no black men or blond women, the two classes of people in the show most likely to die. Abraham in particular has been set up as a likely victim, both because of his recent infatuation with Sasha, and the fact that he’s a big guy and Negan may want to remove him as a threat.
I hope I’m wrong. These are terrible choices for a major death. You don’t make audiences wait half a year only to discover that a secondary character we don’t even like all that much is a goner. That’s lame.
(rofl)
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Post by v on Oct 23, 2016 0:40:00 GMT -5
It would deal the biggest blow to Carol, who isn’t with the prisoners at this point, giving her the motivation she needs to become a stone-cold killer again. And it would blow the internet up, maybe forever, maybe beyond recognition.
TRUTH!
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Post by Ripley on Oct 23, 2016 9:10:52 GMT -5
Walp, for the Glenn part, he certainly nailed how I am feeling today
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Post by Meggo358 on Oct 23, 2016 9:30:35 GMT -5
There's so much i love about this article - Daryl most certainly would have been my preferred choice and I sincerely believe that would have made sense in a lot of ways, but that was never going to happen. Still, its nice to see a write up as thoughtful as this, with zero elements of click bait and a ton good insight to what would make sense in terms of gee, I dont know, the story, as opposed to gimple's torture porn fanfic, it was was a really nice read.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 23, 2016 9:38:30 GMT -5
I think having Daryl die on the show would have re-established TWD's credentials and also made true, finally, "no one is safe". It would have shocked the viewers, been heartbreakingly tragic and reset the show back on the course it first started.
I say this taking Glenn out of the equation and after even imagining Daryl and Glenn dying together in place of Abraham.
It was a great read IMO and also I was glad to see someone call out the issues with the show. The point about ratings being high and how that does not excuse bad writing and directing resonated here.
But, we get the show we get, not the show we want sadly, so I will be over here, pickaxe in hand, chopping my mountain of special "appalachian finishing gourmet salt" ,ready to pack and ship to customers starting tomorrow morning...
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Post by MorganBGone on Oct 23, 2016 10:17:50 GMT -5
Even as a Glenn fan, I'd accept His death by Lucille readily... if the show hadn't tried to manipulate viewers already with a fake out death AND he were the only victim or at least the first victim ("the very best") AND he weren't being used as Daryl Dixon plot device by death #384 AND the ep itself didn't sound like an over the top attempt at a shock fest via gore and trauma AND the show weren't delaying any further payoff/emotional fallout by using the ep as a lead-in to something it worries will be unpopular. The whole thing encompasses, really, all that's wrong with this show.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 23, 2016 11:04:05 GMT -5
MorganBGone "other than that, how did you like the play Mrs. Lincoln?"
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