The Walking Dead: Last Day on Earth review (DEFINITELY SPOILERS)

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Thar she blows. Was that good? Was it? I can’t tell.

I mean, I think it was, I liked it. Yeah, I liked it.

So, yes, once again the writers have manufactured a way to stretch out the anticipation. Instead of doing what they’ve been promising and building up for weeks, killing someone by Negans hand, they, in fact, don’t. Negan does beat someone to death, but that person is in first person so we don’t know who it is. Not until the Autumn anyway.

Now we have to wait for another bunch of months, the adverts and the anticipation building even more until we learn who exactly got pulped. It’s just a shame that we didn’t see who. The whole season has been building to this and we’ve been told that it would happen but nah, not really.

It could still be anyone. My bet is on Eugene, I mean, he got that whole emotional goodbye which actually got me. So It’s most likely him, or Abraham, Carl or Rick. To be honest, I’m gonna be annoyed if it’s none of the biggies (yes, I may have a bloodlust).

Don’t you think the cliffhanger will lessen the impact, though? What are we gonna do, cut right back to the dead face of whomever in the Season 7 premiere? or are the writers gonna drag it out till episode 2 and spend the first episode with Morgan and Carol sipping Tea?

Sorry, I thought I’d just get down my points on the page, it has no real cohesion but it kinda suits the episode, no?

Negan was great. Jeffrey Dean Morgan had menace and all the good evil qualities he needed to have which really ramped up the tension.

For a little while, the game of cat and mouse the saviours were playing with Rick was menacing, blocking the road here and there until the RV had to be abandoned. Though, It did get a bit tedious as we realised the minutes were drawing steadily down.

Still, when the gang walked into the clearing, surrounded by hundreds of saviours, all whistling a creepy tune. It was very effective and damn scary. For once, Rick looked like he was helpless and scared.

The final confrontation was good and had that real bone-rattling feeling, Daryl, Glenn, Michonne and Rosita being thrown into the final line up with the RV lot, including a probably dying Maggie (Bad idea?). Negan tormenting them as they powerlessly kneeled before him was pretty cool, it’s just a shame that we couldn’t have lost more the unimportant stuff and actually saw who died.

Surely the death of a beloved character would have been a better cliffhanger followed by Negan saying that maybe he’ll do just one more then we cut to black. The writers keep their word and set up a cliffhanger both at the same time.

The whole Morgan Carol story was fine but really who cares? Morgan shot someone which was cool and some guys on horseback arrived to take them somewhere but apart from that, Carols deathwish was really only just passably interesting.

What happened to the queasy feeling that the cast felt? Maybe cause they know who got the chop cause they filmed it back to back with the season premiere, that would make sense. Yet, really, couldn’t they just not leave us hanging, just this once?

So really, despite the tension, nice music, great performances and some good character beats, it looks like this was an eh finale only livened by the final scene.

C’mon The Walking Dead, I’ve been rooting for you.