# The Walking Dead; 7.04 "Service" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920 "2016-11-14T01:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920/101 "2016-11-17T21:37:12Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I can understand if the writers are having a lot of fun writing dialogue for Negan, but his constant monologuing is driving me potty. I hear ya. I said “Good lord he’s talking her ear off too. I bet Olivia is begging for the sweet release of Lucille just not have to listen to that guy any longer.” > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > First we had torture porn, now we have degradation porn. I feel like I need a shower after watching “The Walking Dead.” This Negan arc cannot end too soon for my liking. Agreed. I’m not enjoying the show right now. I’m just watching it out of habit to see how it eventually ends. > [@salinqmind](#): > > …and all across the land you would hear the sound of tv’s clicking off AMC.:mad: Oh yeah. I’d be out. (curled up under my Daryl-wings blanket and wearing my “Team Daryl” t-shirt.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920/102 "2016-11-17T23:06:20Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > Is _Easy Street_ the most annoying tune in America right now? Annoying…but catchy! 'Cause the world is but a treat when you’re on Easy Street. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920/103 "2016-11-30T22:43:54Z")
OK, so I’m a couple of weeks late to this, mostly because right now it kind of feels like a chore to sit through Negan’s cartoonish evil theatrics and incessant monologuing, but even given the usual level of foresight and planning our plucky heroes show, how the hell do you get taken over by a hostile force announcing their return within the week, and then are surprised by their actual arrival a few days early? I mean, not even a single guard on the wall? Nobody capable of seeing a convoy of trucks before they’re right up at the gate? I mean, really, is there any excuse that they weren’t seen at least three miles out, giving the residents of Alexandria more than enough time to get themselves armed, get out into the surrounding bushes and behind cover they’ve undoubtedly built up in the meantime, and just open up from every possible direction on the guys whose cunning plan is ‘just drive right up to the gate, and knock’? Eh, anyway: I’m hoping there’ll be more to this season than ‘watch people get more and more miserable while Negan whoo-heys and grins and somehow manages not to just be a walking bullet-magnet’—but this episode definitely wasn’t a high point of plot movement. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920/104 "2016-11-30T22:58:33Z")
Last season they showed us (or tried to show us) that Negan has complete control by having all the roads blocked and always knowing just where Rick’s team was. So the way it’s written, if Rick’s team had lookouts, Negan would have his lookouts watching Rick’s lookouts, and if Rick stationed people out in the woods, Negan would invariably have people out in the woods, covering Rick’s people in the woods. They haven’t done such a great job showing us that though. As you say, it’s just Negan monologuing and scene chewing and we’re just supposed to know how awesomely eeeeeevil Negan is. I’m actually a couple eps behind now too. Watching the Negan horror show isn’t making to my weekly watch list. Not enough happens. It’s kind of a wait and binge watch show, though it’s impossible to avoid significant spoilers that way. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920/105 "2016-11-30T23:00:14Z")
I’m thinking the show would be better if instead of Negan, it was Jordan Peele’s character Meegan. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920/106 "2016-12-01T01:10:13Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > I mean, really, is there any excuse that they weren’t seen at least three miles out, giving the residents of Alexandria more than enough time to get themselves armed, get out into the surrounding bushes and behind cover they’ve undoubtedly built up in the meantime, and just open up from every possible direction on the guys whose cunning plan is ‘just drive right up to the gate, and knock’? It’s a comic book. Even without look outs, “Don’t make me ask ha ha” should have been met with half a dozen M-16s. But, it is TV and a comic book. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-04-service-open-spoilers/771920.md?page=5)