The Walking Dead - returns next Sunday

[NewJeffCT]

Season 8 premiere is next Sunday night, October 22 at 9pm EST. I've heard we're going to get fewer "bottle" episodes that focus on just 1 or 2 people this year, which I think is a good thing.

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[NewJeffCT]

1. articles/interviews/memes

http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/14/the-walking-dead-season-8-katelyn-nacon-enid/

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/866141/The-Walking-Dead-season-8-Andrew-Lincoln-nervous-reveals-way-Rick-Grimes-will-die-Negan

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/15/walking-dead-season-8-cast-spoilers/

[Iggo]

4. Third link is jaw-dropping!

[Miles Archer]

2. I'm not convinced that Negan can stretch beyond one more season

I don't read the comic, but I did hunt down the issue that wrapped up the Negan story line, but I am reminded of Jonathan Harris' recounting of why the Dr. Smith character on "Lost In Space" went through such a dramatic shift in the second season.

Pretty much all of the humor, nuance, what have you from the Smith character came from Harris himself. Director Irwin Allen told him to take it and run with it. The core of the show became Will, the Robot, and Smith (and there was no shortage of resentment from the rest of the cast over that).

Smith was a stowaway, Smith was a villain, Smith...from the first episode on...was a one-dimensional character who would have been "taken out" in real life early in the series. So Harris made him less one-dimensional, and he became the star of the show.

Negan is evil. There's not much to say after that. All of the character studies and dealing with inner feelings in the world still adds up to the fact that Negan's days need to be numbered. It's like the old Gilligan's Island meme about the castaways building a short wave radio out of a coconut. In the real world, no matter how outnumbered they may be, no matter what loss they have suffered, no matter how low their morale might be, Negan needs to be vaporized in this season.

[Iggo]

3. It's weird.

The bottle episodes are a serious drag on season continuity.

But they're easily the best episodes of the entire series.

[NewJeffCT]

5. some of them are

but, the two Governor bottle episodes could have just as easily have been done in 10-12 minute segments over the first seven episodes of season 4B...and, while I like Tara as a supporting character, I'm not sure she deserved an entire episode for herself... and, not sure that Beth deserved 2 episodes in a row.

[Iggo]

7. Yeah, I guess I was just remembering the ones I like.

[herding cats]

6. Season 8 official trailer.

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I'm excited! 😄