Issue is they arent going to film one episode. They are going to be filming a lot. Same way we already know Jon Snow isnt dead for good. Theyd have to keep it under wraps until it launches again, and thats REALLY unlikely. Its going to leak.

I find the second paragraph possible, I find the first paragraph probable. Unfortunately, because I agree that this would be terrible storytelling.

DINGDINGDING right here.

Because it’s bad TV simple as that. In an otherwise good episode were everything that happened was some sort of build up to the Negan intro and this moment it really sucks. It takes the spotlight away from Lucille. A name many people won’t remember or care.

It’s always been a problem for TWD since season 2. Every…

Exactly. A legitimate and good cliffhanger builds throughout the episode, if not the season. It should leave you wondering what the hell you just watched. This finale was so boring and slow, and the end scene felt tacked on. Oh well, still better than Fear the Walking Dead.

Dexter finale?

Well, people were pretty upset with the “cut to black” series ending of The Sopranos. That one comes to mind.

Which is pretty much why The Walking Dead doesn’t even work for me as a hate watch any more. Cliffhangers are a perfectly legitimate storytelling device, but when they’re just part of a show that isn’t even trying to plot, pace and characterize with any kind of coherence, let alone consistency? Meh. Obviously, that’s…

Not so much “screwed the pooch” as “shit the bed”. Scott Gimple is a useless flesh bag.

Ratings. And I’m sure there’s a new show AMC wants to push in the Fall and we’ll be treated to an extended preview before the reveal, which will happen at the very end of an all-Carol & Morgan episode.

It’s the highest rated show on cable fucking TV. This just infuriated a fan base and has turned a lot of people off of the show. If your description is accurate, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I want to believe you, but I can’t. This has Scott Gimple’s smarmy infallible touch all over it. He had plenty of leverage to tell AMC “no” if they were the ones behind it.

Right, and that’s exactly what I’m saying. A LOT of people were mad about that scene (and as I mentioned A LOT of other people werent’), but it was still a notably large amount of backlash for a single episode of a TV show. And yet it was NOWHERE NEAR the kind of absolutely unforgiving, monolith backlash this episode…

They’ll have everyone showing up to work if not for flashbacks, then just to disguise the issue.

Exactly. It's only a matter of time before set photos start hitting websites, and at that point it will be easy enough to figure out. Same thing happened last season with Glenn. After the ridiculous dumpster dive fake out, photos emerged showing Glenn in Jesus in the same shot. Jesus had not yet debuted at the time of…

I think that was the turning point for me and The Walking Dead. Here was a character Beth died to save...and then got Tyreese killed.

Fuck Scott Gimple.

Ha! Love that the guy who played Noah would chime in and throw Gimple under the bus considering how shit his character was treated and the godawful and needlessly violent death he was handed in the end.

What’s funny is that I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a universally negative reaction to a single episode of a show before. Even with Game of Thrones, with the bullshit Sansa rape episode, that fucker got nominated for an Emmy, so clearly there was a large faction of people who thought it was good (but that doesn’t…