The Walking Dead season 7 finale first look: Tense showdown coming up

There were two storylines, and we basically knew how both of them would end: 1) The first is Sasha and Rosita’s suicide mission to kill Negan, which we know ends in failure because that’s not how the series’ new main antagonist is going to meet his end, and 2) The Saviors arrive at Hilltop and Maggie and Daryl have to hide again. It smells pretty bad for the Savior not? After fending off a rape with Negan’s help, and then using the knife he leaves behind to finish off her attacker’s undead corpse, she gets the usual sales pitch about how the Saviors are “not monsters” and how she should let go of her hard feelings about Abraham’s death. The Walking Dead turns their heroes into terrorizers, doing the same thing Negan does. He’s not just a smirky, grandstanding bully anymore.

“We stand before you three communities united, saying to you and your people – no more“, Rick shouts at Negan. One way or another, people in this world end up killing others, and you might as well be protected by the folks who are best at it.

This is a more insidious kind of cruelty than bashing in heads with a baseball bat-the kind that convinces you to accept something frightful because you’ve convinced yourself you have no other choices.

Sasha was dazed and confused as her former ally tried to explain why he was not joining in the fight against Negan. This makes sense, more or less; there are other ways it could’ve gone, but having Tara decide to betray a promise is probably a stronger choice for her as a character than having that truth come out on its own. When Negan comes outside, Rick offers an ultimatum: live in peace, or die.

Throughout its seven-year run, The Walking Dead has largely shied away from onscreen depictions of sexual assault.

Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” opened with Tara leading gang Grimes to the reclusive Oceanside community. It was a bloodless heist and an unsurprising one. Michonne, still in her sniper perch, calls out “Walkers!” That can only lead to bad things.

Natania is not swayed. The cheap, uncomfortable nature of that attempted rape scene aside, this is now the fourth occasion someone from Rick’s group has been captured and invited to join the Saviors, raising the question of how many outcomes this version could possibly have. He goes to visit Maggie while she’s outside the walls digging up a blueberry bush, and he somewhat tries to play nice and agree to work together. “The world can belong to good people-to fair people-if we’re just fearless enough to try”, Tara insists.

Hey! Did you watch last night’s episode of The Walking Dead? They are skeptical of anyone who isn’t part of their community. Which camp was kinder to Eugene, the “good guys” or the “bad guys”? We probably haven’t seen the last of them, but for now Rick and company have put them in a more risky position without really trying to make an alliance. How is leaving Oceanside totally defenseless any less of a wound? It’s a rather odd plan Rick has drawn up: Set off huge bombs around the Oceanside perimeter, scare the bejeezus out of everyone, take all of their guns – and hey, if they’d also like to join the fight, that would be swell too. Unsurprisingly, Rick was skeptical, punching Dwight in the face in typical Rick fashion. However much she’s supposed to believe in Rick now (and clearly, she’s supposed to believe in him a lot), for her to willingly go in on such an openly aggressive scheme is freaky. This isn’t a show that functions well at a snail’s pace-it’s no Mad Men-and in place of the final battle that literally even a child knows is coming, they’ve given us these false moments of progress that are actually just boring diversions. As with most of the episodes this season, “Something They Need” was another slow, meandering episode that wanted to feel important, but ended up as mostly filler.