PorkChop wrote:I don't know why it's Carl either, actually. When it happened I was like "Holy shit that's Carl!" when in hindsight, there's nothing which really suggests that it is.
In fact, Carl, along with Rick, are the only two we can be sure are safe. Before Negan's bashed the persons head in, he said if anyone tries anything, then they will rip out Carl's other eye and feed it to Rick.
I thought it was a really good episode but was very disappointed with the ending. I thought Jeffrey Dean Morgan was great as Negan and I thought his introduction was really good. Sure, it may have dragged on a bit, but I think that was intentional to build up the tension more. I was really annoyed at the ending though. I thought it was stupid to not reveal who it was that got killed.
However, with that being said, I am trying to be objective about the whole thing. I don't blame readers of the comic book for getting angry. Because we all knew someone was going to die. So what we were all preparing for was exactly who that would be. By the time the show end, all we knew was that someone had died. But we already knew that would happen. So nothing was resolved for us. I think the creators of the show were thinking more about the wider audience. The TV audience is obviously much much larger than the number of people who read the comics. And how many of them really go online and read about what happened in the comics or what is going to happen in the show? Most people who watch the show probably don't know what is going to happen and had no idea someone would die. I think fans of the comics can be a bit annoying sometimes when they think they are the only ones who watch the show and when they get annoyed when things don't happen the way they expected it to. This cliff hanger was more for the wider audience. That's what TV shows do. It's what they have always done. They have cliff hangers.
With that being said, I still think it shouldn't have been a cliff hanger. I think them showing who Negan killed and showing the reaction of the rest of the group would have been a perfect way to end the season. I mean, how are they gonna start the first episode of the next season? By showing who died? You're not supposed to start a show with a death, you're supposed to end it. The creators of the show tried to justify it by saying that the fact that Negan's group basically got the drop on the main group is the end of the current story. The fact that he killed someone is the start of the new story. Which is why that's how season 7 will start. But a new story starts when the other one ends, so I think they could have very easily shown the death.
But hey, I don't create TV shows, so what do I know? I guess I just have to have faith that they will do a good job with it next season.