Negan doing stupid things out of sadism is basically his character. Nobody claimed he was some criminal mastermind, he's just a figure that made a post-apocalyptic career out of psychological intimidation and murder. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Shane was great, and I think it was an intentional move from the show to turn Rick into more of a Shane type as the show went on. He's definitely done tons of Shane moves, from murdering the people at the Saviours outpost (not entirely unprovoked, but definitely in a cold-blooded way) to even smaller things like…

I think you might have misunderstood the character of Negan, if you really think "pragmatism" is a cornerstone of his. Maybe he was more pragmatic in the comics, but the version of Negan we've gotten in the show is a full-on dramatic performer, milking every bit of fear he can out of everyone around him.

THANK YOU. People bitch about the farm as if the Walking Dead is only good iffor constant action, but it was a great cooldown season after the "Let's go here, now let's go here, now let's go here" mess of the first season.

I thought this as well. Artistically speaking, the show runners did a good job at first of showing "Alexandria people = clean whites and bright colours, Saviors/Scavengers = dull browns and blacks". At one point they show a dead Alexandrian we've never seen before, and in an instant I could tell they were a dead…

I hate how people think the only way the show can "go nuts" is by killing characters off, and these days in the big TV shows (the Walking Dead, Game of Thrones) the concept of a "spoiler" is simply "who dies this episode?".

While I also find the Trash Cult people to be pretty far-fetched, it's definitely in the realm of possibility for a group of people that large to all start talking weird and acting weird. Hell, we have this exact same thing happen with modern cults, and people in modern cults have the buffering advantage of other…