![]() Though it may have been what some comic fans were hoping for, it turns out that wasn't what an overwhelming amount of the show's audience wanted since viewership fell from over 17 million at the premiere to around 10 million a few short episodes later. On the flip side, it was tough for the people who worked on the show who were just trying to accurately bring a graphic scene in the comics to life, believing that was what fans wanted to see. It was tougher to see the fan favorite killed by a man who appeared to relish and take glee in the delivery of that death. ![]() The season seven premiere was difficult for a lot of show-only viewers who weren't familiar with how graphic Glenn's death was in the comic. But, at some point, fans don't want to be spoon-fed that Negan's the bee's knees after he killed one of the show's most beloved characters. The show strayed from having meaningful conversations about Negan in order to try and gain back the trust of its fandom. Kang worked to get the show back on track as an ensemble series, letting other characters shine before revisiting and adding more depth to Negan.īut in doing so, it seemed like many of Negan's past transgressions were simply going to be swept under the rug instead of actually discussed. At the time, Cohan briefly left the series. If the show can say something smart with the Negan/Maggie dynamic on the show's final season, that would be huge.Īfter the series started becoming more or less the Negan show on seasons seven and eight, defined by the character as a sort of one-dimensional villain who liked to hear himself speak, Kang smartly placed him in a jail cell for half a season when she took over as showrunner on season nine. Like Maggie, fans were never given proper closure for a traumatic moment that drove so many away from the series. At one point, he even asked if anyone wanted to leave the tunnels with him. Yes, all of our survivors have down some pretty unspeakable things to make it to the show's final season, but even this seemed pretty ruthless and a little out of character for Maggie.īefore that, on the season premiere, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) accused Maggie of being so caught up in her rage against him that it was affecting her ability to put the safety of her own people first. ![]() "Hershel and I filled the cart with it, and we left," Maggie tells the survivors after Gage's death, adding, "I don't feel anything when I tell you that." Maggie said her first thought wasn't to try and help them, but that there must be food in the house that was keeping them alive. After killing a group of men, she found tortured women alive in an attic with their eyes gouged out and limbs severed. Later, Maggie tells a pretty cutthroat and harrowing story about what she once had to do to ensure she and Hershel survived. Maggie makes a decision on Sunday's episode that divides her followers and makes her look a bit like a bad guy. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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