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Negan’s unwelcome visit to Alexandria continues as other members scavenge for supplies.
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Happy Holidays! Tonight’s the last episode until the show comes back from winter hiatus (I hate the term “mid-season finale”). It’s also another 90 minute episode.
Norman Reedus and Robert Kirkman are on Talking Dead.
“Carol, I imagine that violence & fighting is something you haven’t been a part of.” 
That was awesome. 
Loved it! I can’t wait for it to start back up. I wish it was next week. 
I think I got some dust or something in my eyes, the last 10 minutes or so.
It really didn’t have to be 90 minutes, though.
I thought it was the right call by Negan to kill Spencer. You cannot trust connivers especially if you’re in Negan’s position. Yeah, he’s all sweet and loyal now, but he’s the sort of guy who will plot behind your back. And you can be sure of this because he’s doing it right now.
Also, smart to know that a bullet maker (Eugene) is more valuable than killing a would-be assassin.
Yeah, he also had a point that he went very easy on both Carl and Rosita, both of whom majorly fucked up.
As soon as Spencer cleaned himself up I knew he was dead. And good riddance.
A good episode. Nice to have 2 in a row. But I gotta say the whole thing about paddling a boat with holes in it through a walker infected lake seems like a set-up to a video game.
It was just under 60 minutes without ads.
I used to think Negan was sadistic but rational. Now I think he’s straight mental. He does make a good looking spaghetti dinner though.
I never understand this argument. It’s not like a regular 60 minute episode is actually 60 minutes; it’s 40 and change, but billed as an hour. You don’t say “man, that should never have been 42 minutes long,” you say “that shouldn’t have been a full hour.”
This episode was billed as 90 minutes, so it makes sense to complain about it being 90 minutes- because if you’re watching it live, that’s how much time you have to budget. It’s not like you can walk away at the 60 minute mark and assume you’ve seen the whole thing since the actual show run time is 60 minutes.
And yes, people DO still watch live tv with commercials and everything.
I’ve been wondering about the running times as well. It seems like this whole season the episodes have been running anywhere from five to thirty minutes over the ‘standard’ one-hour slot. What happens when these are re-run, especially in syndication? I don’t think the different running times are entirely due to varying numbers of commercials, so it seems guaranteed that the re-runs will be edited for time, no?
I enjoyed seeing Spencer die! Negan did do the right thing.
I was thinking that Rosita’s number was up, though. I’m glad I was wrong about that!
Finally! Rally the communities and lets go to war!
Loved the episode; thought it was really well done. Huge tension with Spencer & Negan in the street. Loved the homecoming at the Hilltop…and who was that man with the mismatched boots?
Is it February yet?
Question: After the preview for the next season after the winter break it seemed they came back to a scene at Alexandria set during the night-time. My DVR stopped recording just as that opened. Can someone please fill me in on what happened?
MeanJoe
From last week’s thread:
Nailed it!
Freaky boots from the zombie pond looks to play a role in the second half of this season.
You see a person in the shadows watching Alexandria with binoculars. They jump down from their position and they’re wearing the same boots as we saw somebody wearing back at Walker Pond.
Dun dun duuuuuuuun!
I was really hoping Rick was plotting and planning all long. Just figuring it out now that Negan has to go is kind of weak on his part.
I like the Kingdom more and more. I wouldn’t mind another episode set there.
A shot of somebody, most likely the boots-wearing-person from the zombie pond, peering through binoculars. Someone is watching/spying, and it could be one of the ‘amazon women’ from last week (that’s my feeling).
I think a real-world villain would have killed Rosita. But Negan is using comic book/tv/movie villain logic that he can leave a defeated hero alive because he’s defeated them, so he can gloat in his superiority over them. Surely now that he’s won they will never rise up against him because he’s shown them that it is futile to resist. And for this record this doesn’t bother me at all, although I know some people expect ultra-realism in their fiction (and that’s ok too).
He really should read:
By the way, the moment when Rosita shot Lucille and Negan’s reaction was awesome!