I apologize for the necro-post, but I recently watched this on DVD and needed somewhere to vent about it.
Season 7 not only killed too many favorite characters, it also killed my interest in the series.
I’d invested years (years!) getting to know and like the characters they destroyed in this single season. It feels like a betrayal, and I don’t like that feeling.
Also, I can get all the depressing depravity I want in real life from the news. I watched the series to escape such things.
Finally, the basis of season 7 was all wrong to me. People are surviving in a world of zombies with grit, guns, other ingenious weapons, and hope. So now they’re going to submit to some jerk strutting around with a baseball bat?!? Is Rosita the only one with cajones in that post-apocalyptic world? How can dude play his murderous mind games on people who have already lost so much by threatening or actually taking away what they love most? This would only make them more dangerous. And yet he surrounds himself by people who actively hate him, and he pimps all his neighbors…while strutting about with a baseball bat??? Oh, please!!! All his victims need is a sniper and/or strategic mines around the perimeter. None of his “wives” can figure out poison without mullet-man’s help? Get real. There’s a reason poison is called “a woman’s weapon.” All Negan's servants need to do is walk away the next time they're surrounded by zombies and see how far he gets with his precious “vampire bat”. Sheesh!
