'Walking Dead' Watch: Is Negan Going to Kill Someone Else?
by EG
The last time The Walking Dead generated much excitement, it was at the end of season 6, when we all wondered who Neegan was going to kill at the beginning of season 7. Now that season 8 is almost half finished, and excitement has been in short supply, the series is trying to evoke that kind of anticipation once again. A new teaser seems to indicate that Neegan and the Saviors might be about to exact another heavy toll on Rick's group.
[Warning: this story contains spoilers through season eight, episode seven of AMC's The Walking Dead, "Time For After," as well as preview material from the upcoming midseason finale.]
It wasn't long ago that Walking Dead fans spent an entire summer wondering which one of the show's many main characters was about to meet their demise at the business end of a barbed-wired baseball bat named Lucille.
Sure, they could have read up on what happens in the comics, which would have provided an answer of sorts, but not the whole picture — not the full impact of losing both Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun) and Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) in what would be best described as "one fell swoop," if that phrase didn't clean up the messy effort involved in caving both of their brains in.
Given the nightmarish memories involved with both of those characters' cruel fates at the hands of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), it's forgivable if fans forgot how Glenn and Abraham reached their horrible fates. The double homicide only occurred after a painstaking season six finale, in which Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his allies attempted to bring an ailing Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) to the Hilltop, in order to visit the good Doctor Harlan Carson (R. Keith Harris) about problems with her pregnancy. Along the way, Rick's RV was stopped at multiple points by blockades on the way, created by the menacing Simon (Steven Ogg) and the rest of the Saviors. Turn after turn, road after road, it was the same story: barricades and Saviors at every turn, a grim end to the last day on earth for two of the most fan-favorite characters on the show.
Well, to borrow a phrase from another nightmarish show that had a resurgence of its own this past year: "It is happening again." Watch the sneak peek of the upcoming Walking Dead midseason finale below to see for yourself.
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