![]() Negan, of course, didn’t take well to the news that he’d been stood up by his “maybe-one-day fiancée” and robbed. ![]() She fell behind on the points needed to keep herself healthy, so Negan offered her a deal: marriage with him in exchange for safety, shelter, food, and her much-needed insulin. ![]() Unfortunately, Dwight’s sister Tina was diabetic-and the price of insulin, a difficult thing to scavenge post-apocalypse, was high. Like most newcomers, he and his “super hot” wife and his “ super hot” sister (Negan’s boorish descriptors) worked for “points” to earn their stay. Dwight, we learn, was married when he first arrived at the factory that Negan and the Saviors call home. In recounting the story of his relationship with one of his most loyal men, Dwight (Austin Amelio), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) offers a first unwelcome glimpse into his demented relationship with women. But if somehow The Walking Dead had yet to convince you of the depths of Negan’s depravity, Sunday night’s episode, “The Cell,” added a new, even sunnier dimension to the show’s latest Big Bad: He’s the type to extort a woman into becoming his “wife”-with all the sexual benefits that entails.īut of course, he doesn’t see himself as a rapist. We’ve seen his thugs extort peaceful communities for half their food and supplies. Next week’s episode, the penultimate episode, seems like it has to pick up where The Walking Dead: “Faith” left off and see Mercer spring into action, taking out Pamela Milton and freeing our characters (and the children) so that the finale can be more about the future.We’ve seen him gleefully bash in the skulls of two helpless men in front of sobbing friends and family. The future is in the Commonwealth but it needs a new vision and new leadership. That the family needs to stay together yes, but not go back to Alexandria and try to rebuild a home that’s largely destroyed. Which I think is a tell that fixing the Commonwealth so the children can have a better future is the end game. The parents in the show have their kids taken from them and are thinking about these things as we head into the final hours of the show, and it’s compelling television. Forcing them to grow up way too quickly and often, not putting their needs first. Putting them in dangerous situations with dangerous people. Taking the kids forces the characters to look at what they’ve put their kids through. From Carol recounting her feelings on her deceased children, to Ezekiel telling Negan he didn’t deserve to be a Dad and Negan’s reaction to that, to Maggie crying over her feelings and Rosita desperate to find Coco, the children were widely discussed but still not found. Parenthood was the other major focus of this episode. The Walking Dead: “Faith” brought Negan full circle, from the one swinging the bat to the other saved by the people on the other end of the bat. Our group, who has been so fractured and divided, stood together as a family to protect someone they weren’t sure they wanted to accept until his life was threatened. They banded together to protect Negan and Annie, despite everything Negan had ever done, all of the pain he had inflicted, and the lives he had taken. The man who brought about much death and terror was now on the other side of it all, feeling what his victims had previously felt.Įnter Ezekiel, who stood in front of them as a human shield, followed by the rest of our group. Negan and Annie sat next to each other on their knees, again taking us back to the circle he had our characters in. We saw Negan panic, thinking that his plan was ruined and both his wife and unborn child would meet a cruel fate. In one of the show’s most powerful moments, Negan, sitting on his knees just like how he had our characters sitting in the Season 7 premiere before he killed Glenn and Abraham, was told he couldn’t be a martyr and Annie would be killed instead. ![]() But our group would not allow that to happen. ![]() Negan, reminded of his past brutality by both the Warden and Ezekiel was prepared to sacrifice himself to save the group and especially his pregnant wife Annie. Our characters were trying to escape, were busted and someone was going to die for their sin of attempted survival. The story was a simple yet incredibly effective one. The group being held by the Commonwealth troops was under the control of a new character simply called the Wardon who did harken feelings of Negan when he was originally introduced to the show, the cruel leader of the Saviors. One group tried to rescue them, and the final group tried to reach Oceanside in an attempt to rally the remaining troops. Our characters were still divided: one group was captured by the Commonwealth. Which is part of what made The Walking Dead: “Faith” such a powerful episode and perhaps an all-time great in the series. In an episode where many of our characters had their faith tested, having Negan be central to a crisis of faith story was an interesting choice. ![]()
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