This show has been around now for a full 6 seasons worth. It had been out several years and I had not watched it as I had missed the first few episodes and I didn't want to see it in the middle but rather start to watch it from the beginning.
The Walking Dead is about a zombie apocalypse. Some sort of air-borne disease that infects everyone so that when you die, it turns part of your brain back on and you become a zombie wanting to feast on the flesh of the living. What you were before is gone, you only want to feast on live flesh. This is so not for kids!
It is mostly based on a comic book series written by Robert Kirkman. It focuses mostly around a police officer Rick Grimes, his family and other survivors that they encounter or that the show introduces you to. It shows you how they learn the skills needed to survive in such a world to where society as a whole has fallen. They quickly realize that they have more to fear from those still alive than the dead 'walkers' wandering about. Lots of violence, cruelty, and gore, it's just a really brutal of a show and you realize not everyone is really all they seem to be. You see a lot of character development as well as the degradation of humanity itself and yet, there are beacons of hope mixed in. Many friends could not believe that 'I' of all people, was not watching this show. My friend John Adams had nicknamed me the "Halloween Queen" a few years ago after learning of my love of this holiday. Now I am not the only Halloween Queen, there are many other wild and crazy women who are as cuckoo for Halloween as I am and have taken on that title as well.
I was never a big zombie fan. I remember watching the Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead and just found it a bit goofy and I much preferred some of the other classic horror monsters.
But, finally, a couple years ago, I got curious enough to see what all the hubbub was about and I was able to watch The Walking Dead from the start. I had it in my mind that I'd watch the first one, maybe two episodes and if I didn't like it, then I wouldn't bother.
As my friend Robert Johnson told me when I started to watch it, don't get too stuck on any character because you just don't know who may die or be killed.
Well, I was hooked from the first one! I watched and caught all the way up to the current season with my son and then I rewatched it all again with his dad!
I will say again that this show is NOT for kids. It's very raw, bloody, gory, and downright gruesome! Not to mention the violence and adult situations right off the bat. It maintains that whole slaughterhouse type atmosphere with zombies eating everything from kids to animals. It's pretty gross and gnarly.
So with that in mind, you can't be squeamish to watch this. And did I mention the season cliffhangers? Oh yea...they will have you on the edge of your seat! Cringing and recoiling and maybe even hiding under the blankets! We sit and watch it the week after on the DVR normally with dinner but that's just me. :)
I had to finally write about this show however on this blog after seeing the season 6 finale last night.
So SPOILER ALERT on the rest of this post!
If you watched last night, the question left on everyone's mind is who did the new character of Negan kill with his barbed wire wrapped baseball bat nicknamed Lucille?
There they were....knelt in a line while Negan does the whole kid rhyme of "Eenie, meenie, minie..." The problem is that he didn't do that right. Didn't go in order of them kneeling and didn't point at each one for each word and some they didn't show who he was pointing at so you can't go by the rhyme at all nor how they were knelt. So that leaves you guessing and not so easy to reason out with knowing the sing-song rhyme.
Well who can we remove from the list of possible victims with logic and reasoning?
Carol and Morgan right away, as they are over with the new group, The Kingdom. So it's not them.
Not anyone of course at Alexandria.
None of those are there at all.
So we are left with those who were knelt there:
Rick, Daryl, Michone, Carl, Eugene, Abraham, Maggie, Glenn, Rosita, Aaron, and Sasha.
Deduction of course tells us that it's not the following for these reasons:
Rick---Negan says to feed Carl's last eyeball to Rick if he moves.
Carl---Same reason as above
Rosita, Sasha, Michone, Maggie--Safe bet to remove all the women as Negan doesn't kill women according to the comic. This isn't 100% as we know the show does not follow the comics but how this went down, it was doubtful it was any of the women.
That leaves Daryl, Eugene, Aaron, Abraham, and Glenn.
If they do follow the comic book, it is suppose to be Glenn.
The character of Daryl does not exist in the comics.
But looking at these 5 men that are left, this is my theory on them:
Eugene does not appear to be a threat to Negan and although Eugene's character has come full circle and now recognized as being more capable and strong, he comes off to not be that strong as he was already visibly upset knelt there and showing his emotions. If he were to get bumped off, it would make the others get more pissed off and want to fight more.
Negan is about fear. Wanting these characters to fear him. He wants to instill it so that they do his bidding.
Aaron does not seem to be a threat at all. And if Negan were to kill him, I doubt we'd have the women screaming that loud. Still a brutal death, but Aaron is more expendable and wouldn't make too much an impact.
Daryl is already hurting and although yea, he is a great marksman with his crossbow and a good fighter, he's incapacitated right now and of no real threat to Negan at the moment. So I doubt it is Daryl. If he were chosen, it would be because of how much trouble he's been to these guys as he blew up several of them on the road. But, I don't think so as he is a hurt puppy knelt there and it wouldn't mean a lot to Negan to take him out in front of the others in such a way, it wouldn't instill fear.
That leaves Glenn and Abraham.
So I thought about this and recall what Negan says as he is beating the crap out of the person knelt there. How they took it like a 'trooper'. I believe if he hit Glenn with Lucille the baseball bat, Glenn would have gotten knocked into next year with one blow. Plus the screams would have been more shrill coming from Maggie.
When you watch, the only one not kneeling back with butt to heel is Abraham who also in fact, leans up towards Negan as if to dare him to hit him. He is showing no fear and is one big guy. It would stand then that Negan clubs Abraham who would not recoil at all, but 'take it like a trooper'. It would also take out one big strength of Rick's group in Negan's eyes.
Another case in point to this is that Abraham's character also came full circle and you realize this after his conversation with Sasha while driving the RV. That he is 'ready' to do what Maggie and Glenn have. Many stories/shows, including this one, seems to target or take out those characters that have come full circle and learned what they needed to in this new zombie filled world.
So that's my choice and unfortunately, we won't find out for sure until the next season premieres sometime in October!
Again, this is very brutal and nasty and not for kids.
If it is Abraham, it will be ashame as I always felt they underused his character. Time will tell!
