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The tides turned, and the final standoff was belting along in a loud and satisfactory manner.
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Yes, Eugene’s plan did admittedly rest entirely on the assumption that no one besides Negan would care to crack off a few practice shots just to check their guns were tickettyboo, but never mind that. Eugene’s betrayal was the perfect catalyst, Negan realising only too late that it was his overconfidence in his droogs’ loyalty, and his ability to sniff out a rat, that was his eventual undoing. The ingredients for a decent Jeffrey Dean Morgan exit were all there: Negan’s fakeout with the map and his early scenes in Savior HQ built him up as unstoppable, and enjoyably cocky along with it.
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Whether at the hands of Dwight, Rick, Eugene, Jadis, or any of the litany of other idiots Negan’s irked, surely he wouldn’t be ending season eight with all his bodyparts present and accounted for? And yet, here we are, with him thrown into a cell to gently live to death. Only Neegs’ staunchest apologists would argue that it wasn’t time for The Leaning Tower of Geezer to go. The primary point of contention is of course going to be Negan surviving to swing Lucille another day. Thus, this season ends on a wet squelch rather than the wallop that – as many viewers debate whether to stick with it at all – was so desperately needed. What we got was a lot of people being quite nice to each other, some classic Walking Dead just-in-the-nick-of-timery, and none of the brutal finality that was so vehemently promised. It was built up to be a game-changing crescendo of excitement and death and long-overdue score-settling, with character arcs and the “all-out war” narrative we’ve been asked to invest in arriving at an explosive and cathartic conclusions. And as a season finale, classically when this show’s at its absolute nastiest and unpredictable, it’s a shame to report that Wrath was a load of old bobbins. Wrath wasn’t the show’s last hurrah, though.
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It would have been a decent, if slightly soppy, farewell, in which nothing particularly stressful happened and everybody made some new friends. And the world – or the tiny smidgen of it our characters insist on never leaving – was on the verge of being rebuilt. Dwight looked set to receive one of the show’s rare happy(ish) endings. Negan got some comeuppance of sorts, in that he now poos in a bucket. If The Walking Dead had been cancelled and this were its last hurrah, Wrath would probably have been adequate.