Walking dead - the beginning is nigh upon us.

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I must be dead inside. I never cared about Glen.

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Yup. You are.

What was Glen trying to say when he was being killed?

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I initially was disgusted by last night's episode. Certainly won't watch it again. I felt it was over the topic gory. They didn't need to glorify the violence. But after 24hrs...I have come to my senses. The whole point of the episode was to break the will of the group and to break Rick specifically. The gut wrenching scenes effectively broke us, the viewers too. I get it now.

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Anonymous wrote:I initially was disgusted by last night's episode. Certainly won't watch it again. I felt it was over the topic gory. They didn't need to glorify the violence. But after 24hrs...I have come to my senses. The whole point of the episode was to break the will of the group and to break Rick specifically. The gut wrenching scenes effectively broke us, the viewers too. I get it now.

I meant to say I certainly was NOT going to watch it again. I will now.

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I muted and looked away for those scenes. I will still watch. I was, however, far more upset when I thought Glenn had died at the dumpster. I was screaming at the tv then. Now, I don't know, maybe the summer passed and there was time to think about it, and I came to terms with it. I cried my big tears at the dumpster.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. You are.

What was Glen trying to say when he was being killed?

he told Maggie, "I will find you".

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Anonymous wrote:I must be dead inside. I never cared about Glen.

Nope, he had gotten pretty boring in the last few seasons. I wouldn't have cared if Maggie had gone with him.

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Anonymous wrote:I must be dead inside. I never cared about Glen.

Nope, he had gotten pretty boring in the last few seasons. I wouldn't have cared if Maggie had gone with him.

Me either. Now if it had been Daryl I would have turned against the writers and never watched again.

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Anonymous wrote:I must be dead inside. I never cared about Glen.

Nope, he had gotten pretty boring in the last few seasons. I wouldn't have cared if Maggie had gone with him.

You have a black soul. He was a moral compass of the show and an original cast member. Crafty, smart, compassionate . . . he was one of the best people on the show.

As for his last words, to the PP above: "maggie . . I will find you." Heartbreaking. As was the flash to the Sunday dinner that will never happen, with his son on his lap and laughing with Abraham. So sad.

And how about that foreshadowing when he found the pics of the bashed in heads in the survivor compound a season or two ago . . . ugh!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I must be dead inside. I never cared about Glen.

Nope, he had gotten pretty boring in the last few seasons. I wouldn't have cared if Maggie had gone with him.

You have a black soul. He was a moral compass of the show and an original cast member. Crafty, smart, compassionate . . . he was one of the best people on the show.

As for his last words, to the PP above: "maggie . . I will find you." Heartbreaking. As was the flash to the Sunday dinner that will never happen, with his son on his lap and laughing with Abraham. So sad.

And how about that foreshadowing when he found the pics of the bashed in heads in the survivor compound a season or two ago . . . ugh!

One of the last scenes with Negan's group leaving one of them took a polaroid of Glenn's body.

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I knew it was the two of them, but it didn't make it any easier to watch... Poor Glen. He's been there from the beginning and had really grown. Abe was a good guy, but contemplated killing himself a few times, so sad, but not as sad.

Rick almost having to cut off Carl's arm... yeesh. Why didn't Carl tell his dad's it's okay LONG before Negan was counting?

Curious to see what happens between Negan's group and the Savior.

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Anonymous wrote:I initially was disgusted by last night's episode. Certainly won't watch it again. I felt it was over the topic gory. They didn't need to glorify the violence. But after 24hrs...I have come to my senses. The whole point of the episode was to break the will of the group and to break Rick specifically. The gut wrenching scenes effectively broke us, the viewers too. I get it now.

I meant to say I certainly was NOT going to watch it again. I will now.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I made a deliberate decision to not watch the episode and just read the spoilers. I had a feeling it was going to be more gory than I could handle and it sounds like I was right. Some of last season's episodes were already interrupting my sleep so I was considering quitting the show anyway. I might just let them stack up on my DVR for a while.

There's a website I like: http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_Wiki

They follow the plot and characters in detail for both the TV show and the comic book series. I might just read the episode synopsis on that website for a while so I can keep up and not have to watch the gruesome scenes.

You'd think this would be the last season anyway. Who can keep this up for more than 7 seasons?

+1 My husband and I watched last night's episode but I felt sick to my stomach watching the gory details. I've watched the show from the beginning and have always loved it, but this was just too much for me. The eye socket scene with Glenn threw me over the edge. And then Rick almost mutilating his son? No. I couldn't take it. And then to see the last sequence with Glenn and his son, who looked to be about the same age as my Asian/White mixed son... are you kidding me? Too freaking intense, all of it.

The zombies are scary and all but the evil characters like Negan keep me up at night. I get that that's the whole point of the apocalyptic world scenario, that the humans can be scarier than the zombies, but as my husband said, why the hell would we want to start our week off feeling depressed and horrible because of this show? I'll follow along via the internet this season but until this storyline breaks off into something new, I'm out.

Could not agree more, PP. I could have written your post (minus the kid who is half Asian, although my son is also around that age). The moment that nearly broke me was when I thought he was going to chop off Carl's arm. I was having heart palpitations and honestly had trouble falling asleep. I've always been invested - to a fault - in the shows that I get really into, so I kept saying to my wife "If they chop off Carl's arm, I can't continue watching this" and I think she thought I was being a little silly.

Me too!! DH and I were shocked and sickened by the complete horror of Glenn's murder. Then during the scene with Carl's arm DH grabbed my hand and we were basically both about to lose it. I started saying 'Negan's going to stop him at the last minute..this is just a test.." Thank goodness or else I would have been traumatized. DH was all 'I don't want to watch anymore! Let's turn it off!' We thought everyone's reactions to the murders were not believable - at least one of them would have thrown up, gotten hysterical, passed out or crapped their pants, right??? Mind-blowing episode, however hard to watch. I think they should have ended last season with this episode. I need more than a week to get over that!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I must be dead inside. I never cared about Glen.

Nope, he had gotten pretty boring in the last few seasons. I wouldn't have cared if Maggie had gone with him.

Me either. Now if it had been Daryl I would have turned against the writers and never watched again.

"Dead inside" PP here. Totally agree.

They can take Rosita while they're at it.

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so was pretending to kill Glenn the first time (the dumpster) so that this time around we would care less? I am sad that he is gone and will miss his character a lot, but when I thought he died I was much more upset and actually cried during that scene. This time around I was sad, but there were no tears. maybe I just expected it this time.