Walking Dead, Season 8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am SO glad the negan war is over. it was extremely overdue. I didn't like the Maggie twist, because I don't want her to suddenly become the villain and be killed off. Jesus joining them didn't make any sense as he's been preaching peace the entire time, so I think there will be more to the story there. I hope they give us a few episodes of rebuilding without jumping into another fight.

I'm not sure they'll really make Maggie a villain. Remember that in Walking Dead time, we're only something like five or six weeks since Glenn was killed, so her grief is still very deep and raw. I think this is setting up the internal conflict of two leaders in the group, each with their own band of loyal supporters and each with their own very deep grief over the death of a loved one that they're processing via the handling of Negan. There's a lot of room there for this to play out without Maggie becoming a villain.

Jesus joining in was a bit surprising, but at the same time, his view has always been about not killing the Saviors because they could be redeemed, and wouldn't necessarily feel the same way about Negan. Also, I wonder if Jesus may be more of a loyal follower of whoever's the current leader than the free-thinker we've understood him to be so far. Back when we first met him, Jesus was pretty loyal to Gregory until Maggie started to stand up to him, and as she started to become a leader Jesus switched his loyalties to Maggie. He has his principles, but maybe they're a bit flexible at times depending on who he's following.

[Anonymous]

The big question is WWJD?

[Anonymous]

Lauren Cohan has signed on to an ABC pilot, so I think the writers might be using this as a way to give themselves some options depending on what happens with that (with the further complication that Cohan and AMC have not yet been able to work out terms for her new contract, but let's assume for now they can work something out). If her show doesn't get picked up or she's going to do both with a reduced role in TWD after this season, there are ways they can resolve this conflict with Maggie staying in the group. If she decides to leave the show after Season 9, they could resolve this conflict by killing her, or by having the group split into two communities again due to the conflict with the main focus going forward being on Rick at Alexandria, and either there's a total break between the communities so they don't interact anymore or we see other Hilltop community members and only hear about Maggie without seeing her.

[Anonymous]

Hated this season. Not enough Machonne bad assery.