Wrath

This is what it is - a redemption. Not only did I enjoy this episode very much I also figure out for myself the main problem with 7 and 8 seasons - it's two freaking seasons instead of one. Everything would have worked so much better! EVERYTHING "Oh no, but how would we be able to kill so many main characters in just one season?" You can and you should have! It would have worked better! It would be so much more spectacular, the drama would have overflow along with action and thriller! Yeah, you would have to cut something out, but maybe, just maybe, it would be exactly all the cringe-worth stuff and far-fetched stuff. I personally love all the reflection and emotions heroes have to go through. But the weakest part of the late Walking Dead is bad directing and writing for the most episodes since there weren't enough substance to fill them with! By the end of this finale however I was overjoyed by how lots of lines was completed (that of Rick, Morgan (in this story), Eugene, even bloody Oceanside(!)) And suddenly I figured out that many of those lasted throughout not one but two seasons - that's why the season 7 finale was such a shit storm. Without this slowness the absence of Maggie's pregnancy traces wouldn't bug me at such extent. All in all, well-done episode, finally a decent finale. My hope in better Walking Dead is as of now resurrected.

Rick and gang head out to finally end the war with negan and the saviors.

It never ceases to amaze me the really crass 1 out 10 ratings on here, are these people just not right in the head, because they are just hating for the sake of it and it is easy to to tell because they say the same thing over and over, I am just wondering why! Too intellectual/emotional for most I expect . This story arc has gone on a long time and could have been better paced I agree but the emotional heft of the second half of the season was immense. Hope that a change comes along in the next season with some kind of end game in sight.

We are seriously going off road here, and I hope it pays off!

I don't understand why the reviews are dominated by the 1/10 iconoclasts and the 10/10 sycophants. Neither group can write a review I'd trust. I notice the IMDb ratings tend to support the sycophants, however. I gave the season finale an eight because it was the conclusion (praise be!) of all out war. I didn't give it a nine because it failed to provide closure. I'll be terribly disappointed if I ever see Negan again. I want him gone. Out of the picture. I don't want him hanging over this series like a sword of Damocles. I thought the introduction of the new subplot was rather ham-handed and could have been introduced more slowly and with better grace in the first few episodes of season nine. I didn't give this episode a lower episode a lower score because I liked the clever way Eugene found redemption. Everybody knew Oceanside would help Hilltop eventually but I wondered how helpful they could be armed only with pointy sticks. Now I know. Nobody died that I didn't want to die. For eight seasons the survivors of the zombie apocalypse have been living off the corpse of collapsed society, eating their canned goods and burning their remaining gasoline. I would really like to see a period of relative peace in which the survivors apply their ingenuity to improved their standard of living and make the world better for generations to come. I keep wondering when the instinct to propagate is going to kick in. To the iconoclasts out there I suggest you save yourself a lot of grief and anxiety and stop watching the show, but if you do and feel compelled to write a review, do us all a favor and offer something a little more substantial than "the show stinks and I hate everyone in it."