Aside from merely killing folks close to Rick’s heart, Negan taunts him endlessly by asking him to get his axe or even, at one point, demanding that Rick cut Carl’s arm clean off. While Rick wasn’t able to hurl too many barbs back toward Negan, it will make for some good scenes moving forward into the season as they interact more with one another.
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This new villain is easily the best part of the series right now, from his swagger to the actions he performs in this episode, he manages to be electric every time you see him on screen. Negan chews scenery like a lawnmower, spouting one liners and crass dialogue at a rapid pace. Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan continues to be the brightest spot of the series currently, offering an antagonist who is as deadly as he is charismatic. Considering the outcry from audiences last season to “shit or get off the pot”, it’s almost unbelievable that audiences were still left hanging for the first 15 minutes.
Rather than getting these deaths immediately out of the way and finally putting an end to the suspense that’s been clutching audiences for many months, we’re given even more build up with scenes of Rick and Negan driving away from the site and playing a game of fetch with an axe. Does tonight’s episode give us the answers we’ve been looking for since last spring? Yes, but in a way that are not as satisfactory as one would hope. The “winner” of Negan’s game was given the prize of a horrifying date with his baseball bat, Lucille, and while it was apparent that one, or more, of the crew was fit to meet the grim reaper, the showrunners decided to keep a lid on the reveal until tonight’s season seven premiere. I know my stress levels were through the roof.SPOILERS follow for anyone who hasn't caught up with the Season 7 premiere of AMC's The Walking Dead.įor those not in the know, season six’s finale saw the new big bad of the series, Negan, holding Rick Grimes and his friends hostage as he played a sadistic game of “Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo” with them.
The show took as long as it possibly could to finally reveal it, seriously playing on the audience's anxiety. But for the death to have an equally extreme impact on both the characters and the audience, Negan's victim had to be an important one, even a fan favorite, and the show definitely followed through on that. The outcome was going to be devastating whoever the deceased turned out to be because every single character was one fans had come to know and love. Negan killed Abraham in The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere and it was just as awful as everyone expected.
But now that the new season is here, the identity of Negan's victim has finally been revealed.
Negan was ready to joyfully dole out some punishment for the strikes Team Rick made against his people, but the episode didn't reveal just who was unlucky enough to end up on the receiving end of Negan's barbed wire bat, Lucille. The last time fans saw Rick and his crew, they had been rounded up by Negan and his people, the Saviors. It's finally here: The Walking Dead is back after months of agonizing and wondering and theorizing about its Season 6 finale, which ended on the worst possible cliffhanger.