"has ended, and fans of the show are again overwhelmed with emotions - indignation, disappointment, emotional devastation. The main event of the second half of the sixth season has been awaited since the fall of 2015, when it was announced that Jesus, a character associated with Negan in the printed comic, would appear in the sixth season. The halo of glory of the villain of all times and peoples was supposed to mark the beginning of a new confrontation between the communities of people in the series - the Saviors, of which he is the leader, and the Alexandrians, led by Rick and Co. And the new chapter was supposed to begin with Negan’s brutal reprisal of one of the members of Rick’s group. .
So, Negan, whose role was very successfully cast, both in the comic book and in the series, satisfies the base feelings of readers and viewers and is responsible for the release of adrenaline - with a sinking heart after him, we repeat the rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe” and follow , who will his notorious baseball bat Lucille. Lucille settled on Glenn, and the showrunner of the series remained behind the scenes who fell victim to her. In other words, we are once again swallowed the bait, which, although it looked appetizing, turned out to be inedible.
So, in the episode “Last Day on Earth”, repeating the events of the 100th issue of the printed comic, eleven bound heroes kneel in a semicircle in front of Negan. They are: Rick (), Michonne (), Glenn (), Daryl (), Rosita (), Carl (), Maggie (), Aaron (), Eugene (), Abraham () and Sasha (). Negan introduces them to Lucille and explains that he will kill one of them - an eye for an eye - like they killed his people. Counting table, Lucille poking at everyone in turn, a swing, the camera changing angles, blood, screams and the crunch of a broken skull, credits.
And here a wave of anger hits you - wait more than six months to find out the name of the victim? They're joking! But the first shock passes, and the “disgusting act” of the producers can be explained and, if not accepted, then at least analyzed.
1. It’s not even worth talking about ratings - and it’s clear that the premiere of the seventh season will “make history.” 2. The creators of the show leave hope for six months that will fall victim Glenn after all. At the same time, romantic people will firmly believe that the child must have a father, and Glenn will be spared. 3. The producer and director who shot the finale openly says that a cliffhanger in the sixth season is simply necessary - the group has never been in such danger, and this time we should not wait for Carol () to save everyone once again. In fact, Nicotero admitted that the actual murder scene has yet to be filmed and the actors don't know whose character will die. 4. We cannot rule out the possibility that the creators of the series secretly wanted to see the audience’s reaction to the ending. The idea of interactive interaction between those who create the story and those who watch it, actively discuss and express their opinions makes sense.
So who, according to users of the Cinema News website, will be Negan's first victim?
The Fox television channel began broadcasting the long-awaited eighth season of the television series “The Walking Dead”, whose release the audience was waiting for with no less impatience than “Game of Thrones”, since it was in the eighth season that they would come together in battle main character series Rick Grimes and his antagonist Negan.
A villain who has played with power will be betrayed by his own associates, which was clear in the finale of last season. The revived dead have long become an unpleasant routine for heroes. "Fear the walkers!" - a call that does not frighten even nervous viewers, since it has long been clear: the main intrigue of the series is hidden not in the dead, but in human passions.
Who is Rick Grimes mourning?
The first episode of the new season of "The Walking" asks more questions than it answers. A number of scenes are so contradictory that you can’t help but wonder: will Andrew Lincoln’s character survive until the end of the new season? Moreover, there were already rumors about Lincoln's departure from the central role of the series. So should Rick die and why?
Throughout the first episode, the events of the fight with Negan's gang are interspersed with strange memories of Rick waking up in a clean bedroom. There are flowers on the bedside table, and his entire current family is at the table: his beloved Michonne, and his children, Carl and Judith. The calming, slightly blurry picture suggests that all this is unreal.
Jagged footage then shows Rick crying next to an unmarked grave, suggesting that someone close to him is buried there. Therefore, the audience is left to guess: which of his loved ones Rick will go to take revenge for, and whether he will remain alive after this, because just before the fight with the Saviors, he tells Maggie: “I will follow you.”
Is it possible that Maggie will become the new leader of the handful of survivors of the zombie apocalypse? Quite. Moreover, the charismatic Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) has already proven the importance of her character, even after Negan’s brutal murder of Glenn (Steven Yeun), and her courage is much better than the endless reflection of Rick, who doubts every time before killing the main negative character.
Rick's problems lie in his mercy, which should have diminished by the eighth season, but for some reason he always remains a person who is always whining about any reason, and even at the most crucial moment, having shot a lot of people, Rick leaves Negan alive: they say, he It’s not worth it, which is exactly what the villains need.
Negan and his Lucille
Negan is the leader of a group of survivors called the Saviors who are stationed in the Sanctuary. Despite good motives aimed at the survival of people in a zombie apocalypse, he is a cruel person who does not waste his humanity. Oddly enough, his methods actually help those who join him to survive.
Negan named his favorite weapon, a baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped around it, in honor of his late wife, who died of cancer and turned into a dead zombie. Negan's debut in the series happened in the last episode of the sixth season " The Walking Dead».
We can safely hope that the most charming villain of the series will remain with the audience for the eighth season. If only because compared to the other brutal killers of The Walking Dead, Negan stands out with his white-toothed smile, even when he smashes the skulls of his enemies with a baseball bat.
A charming killer, indeed, touches the feelings of the audience much more strongly than a character painted only in black colors, such as, for example, the Governor, who does not evoke sympathy even because of his love for his converted daughter. And therefore, in the battle between Negan and Rick Grimes, the outcome is unknown.
Bold assumptions predict a bloody outcome between the surviving Saviors and Rick Grimes' group, in which not only his children will fall, but also Rick himself. Even bolder ones say: the honor of finishing off Negan will fall to Maggie, and this will happen in the final episode of the eighth season. Is this true? Viewers are yet to find out.
This news contains spoilers for the Season 7 premiere episode.
As 17 million viewers already know, he died in the premiere Glenn Rhee(Steven Yang) is one of the most beloved characters among fans of the series. Moreover, he died a very cruel death, one of the bloodiest in history. Repeating the events from the comic, Negan literally smashed Glenn's head into mince with his favorite bat, Lucille.
Negan promised that he would kill one of the people Rika, to show who's boss and make it clear to Grimes' group that they are all Negan's slaves now. The promised victim was Abraham(Michael Cudlitz), who stood strong until the very end, and as Negan said, "took it like a champ". Unfortunately, Daryl allowed himself to express his anger and hit Negan, provoking him to the bloody murder of another prisoner - Glenn.
Remembering the famous scene with Glenn's fake death in, many fans concluded that the creator of the series Robert Kirkman and showrunner Scott Gimple they won’t kill Glenn for real this time either, despite the fact that in the comics, in the scene with Negan, it is Glenn who dies. After all, the series has deviated significantly from the comic book plot more than once. However, in in this case Kirkman ultimately decided that Glenn's death was necessary to further development plot in the series. In an interview with the resource, Kirkman explained:
The thing is, in the comic, a lot of things happen because of Glenn's death. And while we try to change things up in the show to keep the audience interested, in this case it's too much about Rick, too much about Negan, because he killed that character. And Maggie's subsequent actions will definitely impact multiple storylines and character development. Therefore, unfortunately, it was necessary to carry this part of the scene into the series verbatim.
However, Kirkman and The Walking Dead creative team at least considered other options besides killing Glenn:
Yes, we discussed options. But, in the end, we realized that if we start deviating from the original idea, then everything will fall apart and it will be too difficult to return to the given trajectory without this death.
That is, it turns out that Glenn's death creates a butterfly effect that will influence the future of The Walking Dead, so leaving Glenn alive was absolutely impossible. This fact, of course, will not reassure fans who were outraged by Glenn's such a terrible death and were damn upset that he and Maggie had finally reached the "till death do us part" stage in their marriage. Unfortunately, in every war there are casualties, and what Negan just did will soon lead to a massive war between Rick's group and the Saviors. And the cruelty shown serves only as a warm-up for the upcoming carnage.
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