I disagree on two things:

I’m betting Abraham, because Negan says “Look at you, taking it like a man” before hitting him again. Not that I think anyone would take a bat to the head stoically unless it instantly brain damaged them, but it is in character for Abraham to brood so powerfully. Also, the show doesn’t lose that much with Abraham…

I just finished A Dance With Dragons, and I can’t stop hearing the Batman 66 teaser voice in my head; “Tune in next week, same BAT-time, same BAT-channel!” except next week is an undetermined time, and the next book after that is at least 5 years away. Having TWD do the same thing to me within a few weeks of already…

If it was anyone other than Eugene or Abraham I’ll be annoyed. That said, they and their strange way with words were my favorite parts of this season.

I came here to read Rob’s article, not yours.

So, of the people present for Negan to kill, it’s: Rick, Carl, Michonne, Daryl, Abraham, Sasha, Rosita, Eugene, Glenn, and Maggie.

AMC, Scott Gimple and Robert Kirkman can fuck right the hell off after that clown show of an ending last night.

Yeah, I thought this was one of the best episodes I’ve seen in a long time. You know that when the first bulletpoint under “Assorted Musings” is the writer defending their opinion before anyone’s had a chance to disagree, there’s a problem.

Rob, it was a daisy chain to the Carl thing which is going to have major impact down the road. Nothing gratuitous about it. Not to mention that Mr. Lincoln played the scene incredibly well in how one of those deaths affected him. Otherwise, he doesn’t go Rambo with his hatchet and cause the action that brought people…

Gods, I hope it goes “too far”! I’m sick of post-apocalyptic books and films that make it look almost fun to wander around in the shambles of civilization—The Walking Dead just curbstomps you with the reality of how awful it actually will be.

If I was the show’s writer I would drive it into the ground with unannounced/unexpected claymation episodes, musical episodes, death by bee sting allergy, peanut allergy, spontaneous combustion, have a zombie proof unicorn pegasus make one appearance where he saves one character then never mention that character or…

Maybe he’s disgusted because the zombified remnants of Jethro Tull show up and put on a shambling 153-minute performance of A Passion Play. (Ian Anderson is his father-in-law, you see.)

Listen, we know the BowlCut Kid gets it. It happened in the comics and I'll be fucking surprised if that kid makes it out of the episode alive. I don't think showing a kid biting it on this show is necessarily going to far. We've already seen zombie kids on this show, so its not like we're unaware that kids died…

So...I think I think that this article shouldn’t have been published till Monday. Full disclosure: I read only about a quarter of it, was aware there were minor spoilers, and I don’t read the comics although I do read comments so I know a bit of about what happens in those pages.

“Characters display a general core competency”

You mean baby Judith, not Sophia. Come on, man.

This was ultimately why I had to abandon the comic after the 100th issue. It’s not that misery porn is too depressing a narrative to endure. It’s that it becomes so relentlessly predictable. Without any kind of comedy or triumph contrast, misery porn begins to suffer from its own brutality anaesthesia, rendering…

I gave up on this one. They do a lot of walking, and a lot of dying. It’s all in the title.

There is walking into the Lion’s Den.

You know......sometimes I think about how awesome the park would have been if they had just decided not to re-engineer any of the dangerous, meat eating dinos. I'd still go.