POLL: What Did You Think of Negan's "Walking Dead" Debut?

[CBR News]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan has finally arrived as "The Walking Dead's" Negan -- what did you think of his debut?


Full article here.

[Sacred Knight]

Pretty damn cool. Only thing is he should be clean-shaven, though I think he in jest mentioned he would so maybe he actually will shave for next season, and of course its not quite the same without the excess of cursing but that's not anyone's fault. But its due to that loss of the cursing that we really haven't seen how off the rails his personality is. We get the darkness and the glibness, now we need to see the controlled crazy. So that's going to have to be displayed in other ways next season.

[Professor Bazinga's C-Men]

Should've been a third option. I won't say any more because of spoilers for people on the west coast.

[Andy E. Nystrom]

Should've been a third option. I won't say any more because of spoilers for people on the west coast.

If you're saying what i think you're saying I agree. Morgan was great but I was a bit soured on that one bit.

[Professor Bazinga's C-Men]

If you're saying what i think you're saying I agree. Morgan was great but I was a bit soured on that one bit.

That's what I'm saying. lol.
Cliffhangers are all fine and dandy unless they're not needed.

[tabo61]

Morgan's doing a great job playing Negan

[Doodlee]

JDM was a competent Negan, but the lame Gimple Cliffhangers have put me off week to week viewing. i'll wait for season 7 to debut on Netflix so i can bingewatch.

[whiterabbit]

Good debut, bad episode ending.

[JediMindTrick]

JDM was awesome but I was disappointed that the writers didn't do Neegan's whole political correctness rant over who he should kill. Given the outrage culture we live in now I'd loved to have seen it on TV.

If you haven't read the comic, Neegan instead of doing eenie, meenie, minie, mo goes off on a rant over why he can or can't kill each person based on their minority status, orientation, handicaps, or if killing a white guy would mean he was too afraid to kill one of the others. It was awesome and a huge **** you IMO to all the so easily poutraged every time someone is killed and they happen to belong to some diversity group: a recent example being the poutrage the LGBT groups are having over killing Lexa on The 100 even though the actress was leaving the show as she's a character on Fear the Walking Dead so the writers had little choice but to write her out somehow and given her character on the show she couldn't / wouldn't just leave, she pretty much had to be killed.

[obatalla]

JDM was awesome but I was disappointed that the writers didn't do Neegan's whole political correctness rant over who he should kill. Given the outrage culture we live in now I'd loved to have seen it on TV.

If you haven't read the comic, Neegan instead of doing eenie, meenie, minie, mo goes off on a rant over why he can or can't kill each person based on their minority status, orientation, handicaps, or if killing a white guy would mean he was too afraid to kill one of the others. It was awesome and a huge **** you IMO to all the so easily poutraged every time someone is killed and they happen to belong to some diversity group: a recent example being the poutrage the LGBT groups are having over killing Lexa on The 100 even though the actress was leaving the show as she's a character on Fear the Walking Dead so the writers had little choice but to write her out somehow and given her character on the show she couldn't / wouldn't just leave, she pretty much had to be killed.

It's funny how mostly the only ones who have an issue with proper diverse representation (and the sensitivity associated with it) are white males in their 30s on up. Spoiled raging becuase you guys cant insult and dismiss others who don't look like you and it's ok...sorry 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s are over.

[JediMindTrick]

It's funny how mostly the only ones who have an issue with proper diverse representation (and the sensitivity associated with it) are white males in their 30s on up. Spoiled raging becuase you guys cant insult and dismiss others who don't look like you and it's ok...sorry 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s are over.

Proper diverse representation largely depends on setting. I'd expect a show set in Georgia (as this show started out) to have a far more diverse cast than say one set in Nevada. And it would be hard to argue that TWD isn't a diverse show given how huge of roles many minority characters have and its numerous interracial relationships.

As to who gets killed, it would be hard for anyone to credibly deny that any time a minority or LGBT character gets killed on a show that there isn't an outcry. Doesn't matter if if had to happen (Lexa on The 100) or if more white major characters have been killed (The Walking Dead - Shane, Lori, Andrea, Herschel, Beth, Denise, Jessie, and many other white dead characters far outnumber the dead minority characters of note like Tyrese and Bob).

Going back to my point. I don't know if you watch The 100 or not. Alycia Debnam Carey played a character named Lexa who was raised from birth to be the leader of her society which she now was. Lexa had been built up over 2 1/2 seasons and there was no way Lexa just leaves her position and her people unless she dies. Over this time she had also began a lesbian relationship with the show's main character. It was fairly well written to boot. Problem is that Alycia Debnam Carey in the meantime was cast as Alicia Clark (the daughter of the main couple) on Fear the Walking Dead which is a much higher profile show and bigger role for her. The timing of filming allowed her to do the first season of FtWD without conflicting with The 100 but not the second. The showrunners had to beg, steal, and borrow just to get Carey long enough from FtWD to do a few episodes with her in the 100 to give her character an exit which was her death as that was the only credible way her character leaves her people.

After Lexa died in The 100, LGBT groups began organizing boycotts of the show for killing her off even though it had to happen because of Carey moving on to FtWD. This is what I'm talking about. We've reached a point where people throw a fit unless special interest characters are functionally immortal on their shows.

[spacegoatpurrp]

Negan might be the first bad guy through all 6 seasons that I actually might root for.

[Rey Leopard]

This show has been very uneven from the beginning and has never lived up to the first few excellent years of the comic. The season six cliffhanger was horrible. It was a really low point for this show. The creators used the closing event as a cheap stunt to get people to tune in next season. This event could have been used to further illustrate the horror and unpredictable nature of this zombie infested world. But Jeffrey Dean Morgan was very good.