This post contains major spoiler forThe Walking DeadSeason 7 premiere , " The Day Will get along When You Wo n’t Be . "

From a certain decimal point of view , last Nox ’s installment ofTheWalking Deadonly had one purpose : to respond the question posed six months ago by the show ’s 6th - season finis . Which of our beloved heroes wouldface the wrath of villainous Negan ’s conducting wire - wrapped bat Lucille ?

This is a query we ’ve been forced to ponder to the point of boredom for half a class now . meditation has been rampant all but hebdomadally in the news and across social media . consultation with dramatis personae and crew have drummed up hype exhaustively . AMC’sWalking Deadtrailersand card have exploited the mystery since the instant theSeason 6 finale , " Last 24-hour interval on Earth,“went to air . So when we all tuned in last night to get the seventh - season premiere live , it was n’t for the sake of flesh - eating blockbuster activity or mellow - stakes overseas telegram drama . It was to see who ’d be amaze by that .

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The targets turned out to beAbraham and Glenn , both common victim prediction ( tending to rank bushed last onsurvival - odds survey ) , but still painful and bold . Abraham has mat up expendable for some time – likable though he sure enough is . Glenn , on the other mitt , is second only to Daryl in term of interview warmness , making his destruction really count . Steven Yeun has been with the serial from the very beginning , and it ’s a testament to his fine workplace that , even though his murder - by - bludgeoning followed the source stuff to the parole , the execution was absolutely shocking . This may have been the solution many of us had been expecting since April . That did n’t make it any easy to hear .

The mystery was puzzle out and the question was answered . But what ’s interesting about last night ’s premiere was just how many other questions it pose . How will the citizenry of Alexandria feel about working under Negan ? How will the group adjust to a life of slavery ? How severely will it be to meet Negan ’s demands , and will he even play overnice if they ’re conduct ? What will hoi polloi think of Rick now that he ’s admitted frustration ? Is Rick even still accommodate to be their leader ? What go on now that Abraham and Glenn are stagnant ? How will the group take it emotionally ? And how will they take revenge ?

time of year 7 was never about who Negan prefer to kill , and always about what would come next .

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Then there ’s Rick . It seems absolved that Rick , however unrelenting he ’s been under duress in the past times , has meet his match in Negan . That was the episode ’s most surprising reversal : Our poor boy ’s will has been crush by this terrific alien . Rick is hardwired to dominate , to fight back , to front every challenge head - on and best it . Last night we saw that impulse essentially neutralized . Negan made Rick understand that he ’d been defeated – utterly and totally . Rick ’s been had . He ’s been emasculated . I do n’t imagine we can expect him to gird his loins and climb a counterplay next week . Negan ’s taken off his power , and he no longer seems to be our hero .

All wager are off . The kind of foregone conclusion we had back in Season 5 , when a run - in with malevolent man-eater ended in bloody annihilation almost as soon as it started , has been replaced by unpredictability . Negan is not The Governor : Part 2 . He is n’t underestimating his enemy . He is n’t getting in over his principal . He ’s done this before , dozens of times probably , and he ’s faced and beaten men like Rick Grimes so many times that no hope of revenge is pop off to faze him . The mathematical group ca n’t just hatch a plan and smartly retaliate – not this clock time . For now they ’re going to have to live under their unexampled political boss ' quarter round .

You might say that Negan ’s practically theatrical flamboyance is what progress to him so intimidating . The way he smirk , guffaws , and prances as he devote sadist - grade atrocities puts him firmly in the realm of sketch supervillain , like Hannibal Lector or   The Joker inThe Dark Knight . But that same over - the - top verve may be what an English John Major would call the man ’s " fatal fault . "   Negan , we can tell , ca n’t do what he does without showmanship . There may be a way for our heroes to overwork that pursuit in the weeks to arrive . Not that they ’re anywhere nigh ready to . The events of this premier membership as some of the most brutal and ghastly ever witnessed by the radical on this show . They ’re go to involve some fourth dimension to digest and accept – so whatever vengeance the show is working toward will no doubt be a farsighted meter coming .

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