overall it was what you'd expect, as dooms says. we knew rick wasn't going to die so how many options does it really leave? all this time though negan showed more interest in what carl wrote than rick but in the end, they flopped it pretty quick. kinda odd but hey, that's the dead these days.
we finally see why rick collapsed at the tree with bloody hands. yay. i still hate those month long plus "cliffhangers". i had forgotten about it til he walked by after cutting negans neck and i was then like "oh yea...that". i just don't think it adds more than it takes away to do this.
i swear they're running daryls voice through whatever they did batmans in the dark knight series. guys, you only give him 3-4 words a show anymore so please don't make him sound like he's constipated *and* angry. and in the end when he "banished" dwight - i don't get it. redemption and all with a comeuppance, but dwight, while used like a $2 hooker at a shriners convention, did his best to help hilltop, daryl and everyone. the banning was pointless and really made daryl look like a penile projection.
there goes maggie. screaming like banshee and insisting negan must die and all is lost without. to be expected but she's not shown more than 1/2 an ounce of emotion all year and is only marginally ahead of daryl when it comes to lines anymore and now she's angrier than rick ever was with her, jesus and bat-daryl now plotting to bide their time and jump rick later. totally a stupid direction for the show to take and hopefully jesus is there to be his normal "calm down and work together" self. and hey, he had less lines than daryl this season. if they start paying these guys by the word they're gonna quit the show.
the only real foreshadowing was the helicopter that flew over bundled up negan and the trash can girl. that and the lady that trades albums for food. that and the lesbian chic is already hitting on a savior. she needs the boot as her character is just annoying.
who the hell was tossing the molotov cocktails? was that the group of women from the beach or a new group that skinnyboy on a suicide walkabout found? they came and went w/o fanfare.
and i really don't think that many guns are going to explode AND kill the people holding them. a few maybe, the rest just now in the dwight fan club and ready to get some revenge, but hey, as BP would say, it's the dead and sometimes you just go with it and i'll slide that to this section.
as for fear the walking dead, strange start. but i guess they want to do something with established characters that doesn't stay with the comic lines perhaps but not sure why they insist on having someone talk funny as a prerequisite to a series.
not sold on the direction right now so the helicopters and album lady needs to be pretty compelling or watching the group implode will hurt me mentally.