Alright so here we are not long after the last season we see the group on the beach training, looking like spartan warriors with makeshift shields, bows and arrows, spears, and swords. They are training to fight the Whispers or dead heads as I call them… Again I can't help but ask the question again, where's all the guns? What happened to the armory that Alexandria and the others had built up to defeat Negan? Why isn't Ugene making bullets? Oh there's a simple answer to this. One, The writers think you’re stupid and wont remember the infinite ammo cheat code they unlocked with all their fully automatic weapons when they fought Negan and his army. Because they knew the war with Negan would be far too “Boring” if they group actually had to think about how to tactfully take out or commedere resources from Negans outposts to aid in their fight against Sanctuary. So instead we will just have big explosions and lots and lots and lots and lots of gunfire…. But don't worry none of your favorite characters will get it.. Sorry I digress.. Two, the writers know that the whisperers would be a pretty easy foe with the colonies having all their firepower so instead they wrote them back to the 8th century.. Now don’t get me wrong I thought it was pretty cool that they were able to build these shields and adopt this tactic of fighting, especially against the Dead. But its still laughable because again, They have a bullet maker. Suddenly out of nowhere a satellite comes crashing down to earth creating a massive forest fire that Oceanside and the others will have to cross into Alphas territory to deal with. They manage to work through the night into the next day and put the fire out and Ugene sees an opportunity to grab some hard to find parts off the wreckage. So we get a little back story on how Alpha and Beta met, further showing us just how insane Alpha is and Beta seems to maybe been a resident at the funny farm she stumbled into? That's what I got from it. If not him, certainly some one he cared about because she takes him out as a walker. We get introduced to a new dead head, her sister was the one with the baby in the last season at hilltop. Needless to say, losing her kid drove her nuts, (more nuts than you already have to be a part of Alphas group). I mean honestly what rational person would stumble upon that group and think to themselves, yup this is the life for me! Walking around smelling the dead all day eating worms. SURE! I hate this enemy, because they’re just too ridiculous… but yet they seem to be far more interesting than the war with Negan, and that's sad. So she ends up killing her sister to gain favor with Alpha… something she will later regret. Back at Alexandria they are getting pounded by hordes of walkers, one after another. They fight all day and night, exhausted to fend them off. They are all very sure this is Alphas doing. And Gamma shows up telling them Alpha wants to meet. We get a little more Negan time as he fights off walkers with a very resentful Aaron. Meanwhile Carol starts having hallucinations from the lack of sleep and the pills she's taking. This episode was strange… but whatever, felt like filler. Back at the hilltop a wall collapses and a tree falls on a building trapping people inside. Folks from Alexandria head off to go and help them. Lidia encounters a bit of bullying from some alexandria folks, that escalates into them jumping her at night and almost killing her. Negan magically comes out of nowhere to save her and accidentally kills one of the bullies. Oh well.. And the others have the audacity to get upset and blame Lidia and Negan…. Idk, maybe next time don't try to kill the girl and one of yours won't accidentally die in the process… Regardless, the two boys are punks and very unlikeable.. They are after all the ones that got Henry in trouble. Needless to say, Negans in trouble, where half the community wants his head, and the other half understands he saved Lidia, yet they really don't care if Negan dies because no one likes him. So somehow Negan escapes prison and leaves alexandria. We know someone let him out but not who. We get as an audience what we want, well at least what I want. Which is more focus on Negan. See Negan is the only really interesting character left on this show, he's funny too because he is a smart ass. But he lives by his own moral code, much like an Anti-hero. He’s now wandering the woods in search of food and shelter. Where he stumbles across an obsessed fan boy named brandon. Brandon reveals that he has Negans original leather jacket, so for a moment we think hmm, maybe the old Negan is coming back. They stumble across a woman in a bus screaming as shes being attacked by walkers. Negan saves her and finds a boy with her as well. For whatever reason Brandon seems to think Negan would want to kill them, because that's something he used to do. Negan calmly tells him ...
