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This is going to be my walking dead mid season finale video so much craziness.
So much stuff to set up for the back half of the season so try to cover everything.
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Let's do it the episode either Daryl who went full Negan depending on which way you go
on it or Spencer who just totally went for that brass ring for little bit short did not
quite stick the landing but it's okay I'm sure Rosita found somebody else to have dinner
with that night, but that was kind of funny like she holds him in such contempt that she
still relented and was like yeah okay I'll have dinner with you whatever, but the whole
thing about this episode is that they're finally coming to the conclusion that they need to
come together at the evening tease that in the promo we need to work together to do something
about Negan so that is all marched toward that's like the next volume in the comics
so that's what they're going to work through to the back half of the season and then we'll
start teasing all out war and I know everybody's asking who do those boots belong to there's
a new person that they cast all talk about that is.
I work through top 10 WTF, but here we go number 10 Maggie versus Gregory. Maggie for
president of hilltop.
You can see exactly what they're setting up here.
The thing about Maggie is that Bino because of what this episode was implying how the
gonna start fighting back.
They want to be hopeful.
Maggie is affectively invincible or I should say untouchable is a better word inside the
writers room, so if you're making a short list of characters that will probably never
die, at least anytime soon.
Maggie is close if not at the top of that list, along with like Rick Michonne.
Daryl baby Judith, so give the pregnant lady the apple they really want to make Gregory
seem like a super asshole, but he's a comic book character he is a very specific comic book
arcs so you could totally read ahead and find out where that goes.
Because it's going to be right out of the comics so if you actually do want to read
ahead in the comics during the break.
March to war starts out with walking dead.
Volume 109 goes through 114 and then right after that is all out war part one number
nine, comic book Neegan shaves himself just like Rick in Rick's house very different scene
from when Rick shaved his beard back at the beginning of season six.
Remember how big his beard had grown.
He was more beard than man.
At that point, but now the beard is totally coming back.
So was so hilarious that Negan is losing the beer beard equals power in The Walking
Dead so Rick's beard is like slowly growing back out, just as Negan shaves his, so
it's a bit of a hat tip to the shift in power on the show now now that Rick's like come
to this realization.
Oh yeah we can fight Negan and Negan just getting too comfortable in the suburbs, but
the whole thing with Negan beard has been talked about.
It has something to do with Jeffrey Dean Morgan being on the good wife and having to have
appeared on that TV show when he came on The Walking Dead so we had to keep the beard for
a little while but comic book Negan has never had a beard.
So now he just closer to comic book Negan the really funny part about this isn't so
much knee can though is is the look on Judith's face just when you consider that were on.
Like maybe our 10th or 12th baby Judith.
I don't know how many different kids that they recast as Judith, just because the timeline
of The Walking Dead move so slowly but kids age.
So fast were running into the same problem with Carl to so I'll talk about Chandler Riggs
at the end of this there's a lot of talk about him re-signing his contract.
That's a completely separate thing, so number eight.
Daryl finally busts out with the help of that note in that key.
So the handwriting still looks like Sherry's handwriting in the room that he busts into
looks like the whites that he suddenly realizes he's looking around like you see the TV set
that Dwight was watching TV on.
You see the peanut butter the funny thing about the peanut butter like Daryl just goes
to town because he so hungry he's been so underfed on all that dog food they been giving
him is that Norman Redus is like I can't stand peanut butter but they probably had to shoot
a couple versions of the season so when they were filming he probably had to eat a whole
bunch of peanut butter, but I love the way he acted when he was getting ready to leave
that room like you sitting in the chair is kind of waiting for his opportunity waiting
for the conversation to die down nearby and then see the little model with the fortress
and the soldiers and just upends the table just like screw this guy whoever's room.
This is so he may not have actually known that it was Dwight's, but I feel like he felt
that was so you know whoever it was, he just want to trash it just a little bit just like
screw you saviors you guys suck, so number seven Negan versus Rick's kitchen make some
spaghetti even sets a place for Lucille because who knows where Rick is well and not wait
anymore past the roles I love how passive Negan was in this episode.
Usually he's up everyone's faces, but in this episode he was just trying to enjoy all the
air-conditioning the nice kitchen.
The food, just chill out put his feet up so the really took the entire episode for him
to get pissed and that was really only when Rosita took a shot at them but the whole idea
with seems like this is that he's meant to feel like the unwelcome houseguests that won't
get out like dude, this is our house.
You need to get out of here.
So they just really wanted to beat you in the face with that.
Now is the time to kick the saviors out of our house talking about the save zone people
maybe we can agree on this, but did you guys feel like with the extra emphasis on Olivia
on the episode like that extra long scene with Tara that almost seem kind of pointless
like she was getting ready to throw herself on a spear for Negan the save Judith or
just keep everything in Rick's house from spiraling out of control because she felt
like it was her duty to protect Carl and Judith that she was gonna die at the end of the episode,
no matter what happened like anytime they focus this much on a C-list character like
Olivia you know they're getting ready some big twist to gonna pull the rug out from under
you in some way.
And just because this is the midseason finale and they haven't killed someone in a while
you will most sense that she's going to be one of the people to die Spencer could've
gone either way.
He was the more fun kill like I was really happy they got rid of him, so number six.
Rick and Aaron make their way to the houseboat to look for supplies.
So the just all kinds of weapons are bulletholes and everything there bunch of Walker traps.
So the whole point of this scene isn't so much that they're getting supplies.
It just an opportunity for Aaron to double down on Rick's cause like he's like, dude.
I'm totally in on what were doing helping people even if it means that we have to bargain
with the saviors.
I understand what you're doing.
I'm with you.
So the last couple of episodes there's been this thing with people questioning Rick's
leadership people wondering what was going on like even Carl went to kill Negan because
he wasn't satisfied with how far Rick was going so this Aaron scene was really like
the answer to that look there are people that believe in what you're doing that understand
what's going on the situation were in so they did have like a fun bait and switch where
Aaron goes under your like oh my God, they just kill Aaron that he pops back up I'm fine
I'm fine.
I was kind of a metaphor for the episode like everybody starts drowning.
But then by the end they're all like okay we're fine, we're gonna fight Negan now.
So number five they make it onto the boat and they find that middle finger on that piece
of paper that was so hilarious, you win, but you lose I feel like the reason they included
that was just so that they could have that moment later with the saviors picking it up
and going, what the hell does this mean you win, but you lose that was meant to be more
of a metaphor for the saviors and then you know number four who the hell of those boots
like somebody's been peeping on them, and there's gonna be a lot of debate about this
during the break because there are a couple big characters that need to be introduced
in one of those is the whisperers. Those are big characters.
So there's a female character that leads them called alpha.
There's also another female character that leads another small group that's near Alexandria
called magna.
So I think that this character is probably magna, just because she debuts before alpha
in the whisperers do in the comics so the thing about this is that the really just teasing
that somebody's watching them you don't know if they're good you don't know if they're
bad, but there's a character that there casting called Briand and they haven't announced which
actor's this playing her yet.
So that's probably who this character is and here's the thing about that the name is not
somebody from the comics but she supposed to be a tough female character who is the
leader of another group.
So they're basically casting either magna or somebody from the whisperers or somebody
from a totally new group that I do think that it's from one of the comic book groups and
the names are using that Briand name is just fake to misdirect people.
So even though whisperers whisperers war is something that happens away after all out
war which is something that were not even close to yet on the TV show you guys can let
me know who do you think these boots belong to magna or somebody from the whisperers,
we can talk about that during the break, but number three zero goes full Negan on fat
Jerry I love the way he performed the scene to Norman Redus he was almost like an animal
in this moment just completely lashing out but then Jesus comes in and he slowly comes
back to consciousness he starts acting like a human again okay let's get out of here and
he grabs Rick's revolver so very important for later.
But can we just appreciate Norman Redus his performance in this moment here.
He's so great at underperforming Daryl.
Daryl is in somebody that emotes a lot like he speaks in grunts like that later moment
where he almost breaks down crying and hugs Rick it's very underperformed compared to
somebody like Jeffrey Dean Morgan doing his Negan who just pontificates just goes on
and on and just talks his head off.
So Daryl performances are like the exact opposite of that.
So it's really funny to see him and scenes with characters that won't shut up, but number
two; shit goes crazy at the save zone. Negan finally got Spencer now we know why they kept
him on the show that long.
He was one of the most unlikable characters ever.
I hated Spencer so I'm so glad that he's gone the way he was killed was exactly like the
comics like Negan guts him with his knife so they've actually been pretty good about
doing like the big deaths exactly the way they happen in the comics there couple characters
that they don't have from the comics like Daryl is in a comic book character in they
didn't kill Abraham in the comics.
That way he got killed in a different way.
So there are a few minor changes over the biggest Deaths they been happening just like
they did in the comics and I love Eugene's performance here to, just completely breaks
down Negan is taking him because he wants more bullets and Eugene can make bullets so
even though it sound like he's gonna go kill him like I'm taking your bullet maker from
you is just because he wants Eugene to mass produce ammo for the survivors which is actually
very dangerous considering the everyone wants to take them on.
Now, so a lot of people were blaming Rosita for the deaths in this episode because she
took a shot at Negan, but Spencer was killed before she ever took a shot, so that had nothing
to do with Rosita, you could blame Olivia on Rosita, but the thing about that is that
she was a relatively minor character I don't feel like they really needed her on the show.
So what they're doing here is there giving you like the Gore like all my got a couple
people died that have been with us for a while but there holding off on really big a list
character deaths for season finale.
So if you want to speculate on like a really huge deaths the just save that for whatever
the season finale is going to be in episode 16, but it was really great seeing the way
they played it in the episode itself wasn't that crazy like there was just a lot of storylines
that they had to wrap up that they could get to this moment at the end where they all decide
hey were going to fight Negan, but number one was Rick getting the revolver back everybody
meeting at hilltop better watch out.
Now, the Sheriff's back in town, so the only thing that would've made the scene better
is if Rick had taken his hat off of Carl's head and put it back on but that might've
been too on the nose, you guys can let me know like what you think about that moment
when Rick took his revolver back check the bullets and just holstered it like damn time
to get the business.
The ending was the ending that they had needed to get to for a while.
I feel like one of the big complaints for the last couple of episodes is that things
had just gotten so depressing, but you can see why they wanted to do that they wanted
to have this big payoff moment where they all decide you know based on michonne speech
with Rick hey were still standing here we can fight back in Rick's like I realize that
now, they just wanted to take their time getting to that moment dragging the characters through
the mud making Negan feel like the unwelcome houseguest.
So now I feel like the show can be a little bit more fun because it can be all about them
making their plans marshaling forces to fight Negan.
So now we actually have some momentum heading into the season finale when the show comes
back you guys can let me know like what you think of this first half of the season and
The Walking Dead there were a couple really crazy moments, but it was really just all
about the reign of knee can dragging everybody through the mud.
The breaking of Rick Grimes.
So whatever your complaints were about the first half of the season.
I feel like it's going to be completely different in the back half.
They tend to do that with The Walking Dead every eight episodes they try to change with
the show is so when it comes back should feel like a totally different experience which
I think is a really good thing can happen next is I'll do Westworld season two predictions
that I'll do a walking dead trailer video for the rest of the season so I'll try get
those videos up as fast as possible while you guys wait for that to post you can click
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thank you so much watching everybody high five I'll see you guys tonight!