Current Events > Literally a new Walking Dead ep tonight and no topic (spoilers)

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Wow, dat fractured mirror symbolism is deep tbf
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At least Negan is upfront about who he is and what he does. Rick tries to act like he's a good guy, but he kills needlessly and without a second thought. How is he any better than Negan?
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jpenny2 posted...

I have more sympathy for Negan than Rick at this point.

Definitely
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Umm, Morgan is damn brutal. That was amazing.
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Since the middle of Season 2 Rick has slowly been transforming into the kind of person he's been protecting everyone from.

It comes and goes depending on the situation.
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Damn, Henry lived.
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Sophia flashback there.
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Who's the coward now, Zeke? Huh?!
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Hopefully Negan and Rick just randomly bump into each other out there lol
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XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

Hopefully Negan and Rick just randomly bump into each other out there lol

Might as well add coincidence #23432870 to the pile. It can't hurt at this point.
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Time for awkward fireside chat.
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Ezekiel: "So, how'd it go?"

Carol: "I saved the person I set out to save."

Rick: "I betrayed a bunch of guys and murdered them in cold blood for no real reason."
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so the junkyard chick is normal now?

how did she not die?
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Dear Dad,
Please stop betraying people.

Love,
Carl
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this shit better end in the next 2 eps
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So did Negan pick up that woman who knows that Dwight betrayed them?
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"Daddy's home" lol
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jpenny2 posted...

So did Negan pick up that woman who knows that Dwight betrayed them?

Probably, but that would make her the slowest traveler ever on the show given that at least several days to a week have passed since she left Alexandria.
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The Admiral posted...

jpenny2 posted...

So did Negan pick up that woman who knows that Dwight betrayed them?

Probably, but that would make her the slowest traveler ever on the show given that at least several days to a week have passed since she left Alexandria.

She could've gotten trapped somewhere along the way. I saw someone else speculate that it could be Gregory.
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Anyway, at this point, is there any argument for Rick being any better than Negan? He literally murdered those men at the diner for no reason. At least Negan would realize that those men were a potential resource for humanity's survival in the post-apocalypse and give them a chance.
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The Admiral posted...

Anyway, at this point, is there any argument for Rick being any better than Negan? He literally murdered those men at the diner for no reason. At least Negan would realize that those men were a potential resource for humanity's survival in the post-apocalypse and give them a chance.

Case in point, Negan let Jadis live. It kind of seemed like he might have been trying to trick her into letting him go so that he could kill her, just like what Rick did. But he was being honest. It's a bad sign when the main villain is more empathetic and reasonable than the hero.
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jpenny2 posted...

The Admiral posted...

Anyway, at this point, is there any argument for Rick being any better than Negan? He literally murdered those men at the diner for no reason. At least Negan would realize that those men were a potential resource for humanity's survival in the post-apocalypse and give them a chance.

Case in point, Negan let Jadis live. It kind of seemed like he might have been trying to trick her into letting him go so that he could kill her, just like what Rick did. But he was being honest. It's a bad sign when the main villain is more empathetic and reasonable than the hero.

Pretty much.

The show was framed to portray how evil Negan was when he killed Eugene and Glenn, but Rick murdered four times as many innocent people as that in this past episode for absolutely no reason. And if you recall, the reason Negan killed those two (actually, it was just supposed to be one before Daryl attacked Negan) was because Rick launched an unprovoked attack on one of Negan's outposts and massacred all of his men. Rick's group was an active antagonist at that point, and Negan still showed them more mercy than Rick did.
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Rick and Daryl are definitely more villains than heroes at this point, but it's important to remember than the Saviors aren't heroes either. Their society and oppression of other communities was wrong, and needed to be ended. Rick and a few of the others have just gone too far on the revenge train.

They're clearly setting up some kind of Negan redemption and Rick fall from grace, imo. We're not supposed to be cheering Rick on here.

Also, the entire first 20 minutes of this episode or so consisted entirely of conversations with the following line:

"We don't have to do this."

"You don't have to do this."

"I need to do this."

"We need to do this."

"Are you really going to do this?"
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spanky1 posted...

"We don't have to do this."

"You don't have to do this."

"I need to do this."

"We need to do this."

"Are you really going to do this?"

you mean watch this show? lol
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But how many times do we have to see Rick start to lose his humanity and do things that he would have had a problem with before? It feels like he's been doing that for years now, and it stopped being interesting a long time ago.
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spanky1 posted...

They're clearly setting up some kind of Negan redemption and Rick fall from grace, imo. We're not supposed to be cheering Rick on here.

I wouldn't be surprised if Negan ends up saving Rick or Maggie from something.
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