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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
I think rick’s plan is to have this drag out for a while and psychologically rip Negan’s group apart. Maggie kept saying she had to be there at least at the “start”. This seems like it was the first phase in a long series of planned events. I think we eventually end up with rick killing negan in front of his lieutenants like negan killed glen and Abraham in front of their friends.
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That's a terrible plan seeing it's likely going to result in the needless deaths of more people until the predictable Negan vs Rick battle to the death at the end of the season. There are people on these lookout towers getting taken out from afar by arrows and they let Negan strut around on a balcony without a weapon for all that time where they could have ended the conflict and bloodshed quickly. I get that it's TV but the show is pushing the boundaries of ridiculousness. My wife was particularly annoyed and she's not usually overly critical as this simply doesn't make for good TV.
I feel this show is at a crossroads. Ratings are down and I don't think another season of dragging out an inevitable conclusion is going turn the tide in ratings. They need to figure out how to get the zombie threat back into the story as I don't know how much further they can take the storylines of the group running into a group of bad people with an over the top bad guy leading them.