Watching my wall that I painted a year ago which is already dry, holds more interest than the whole 7th season.
The only thing that this episode manages to deliver is the ability to force feed all of the really bad stuff from the first 15 episodes into it.
A truly awful CGI tiger, totally predictable twists, bad direction, a new synth wave score that fits as badly as when The Alan Partridge Project scored Ladyhawke back in the 80s. Something so monstrous that people still use it as reference of how not to do things, even to this day.
Muhamm..Negans pathetic, obnoxious and boring rants. No one is afraid of him, no one cares and were I a producer I would have serious doubts of ever hiring Jeffrey Dean Morgan to play even the part of a statue that does not speak or move. I guess he can kiss his career goodbye.
Furthermore I now claim the right to be called the Oracle after correctly predicting everything that happened right down to all of the twists in the last few minutes. The predictability level on this one: Junior High Chemistry.
One would think that it would be absolutely impossible to fail a project like this with it's massive budget and great actors, so much so it's against the natural order to fail.
Since it's the season finale it should end with a cliffhanger. Sadly Nicotero and Gimple didn't make their way to the cliff but instead got stuck at the playground with the rubberized floor.
After the disastrous first episode of season 7 which laid the foundation for this heap of junk, the producers got a lot of flak for "unnecessary violence". If you are going to off beloved characters in a grisly manner you make up by killing of the bad guys in an even more gruesome manner. That's storytelling 101. Alas, this does not happen. Instead they tone down the violence making the action sequences better suited for a bad low budget action flick from the late 80's, people get shot, and well nothing happens, no blood or anything, and people run around with guns blazing, contradicting everything from previous seasons where they went for a true aim - here it's just firing off everything in full auto. Hence another poke at bad action movies from the late 80's and the bad guys die peacefully almost gracefully sending a clear message to the audience that they should not care or invest mentally in this show because we will make you sad and mad and then we will not do anything to make it up to you.
On top of that the sound for the scene was mixed down, and a bad synth wave score was played over to make the sound picture even more degraded. I've seen better sound mixing by non accredited teens during amateur hour on YouTube.
But the worst part is the fact that this episode is just plain boring. I caught myself actually saying "boring" quite a few times. It's supposed to have some heart filled moments, a last goodbye to one of the characters. But I got so bored I didn't care. Yada yada get on with it. Kindly die now.
I've hated every episode of this season. Each had been equally bad until the this episode came that is even worse. It's a perfect unicorn. It should not exist.
Most likely will I be forced to watch the next and final season since my combo still watches it. And yes, I said final. The show has lost half of it's viewers during the course of this season, why it's a valid guess that it will be canceled after the next season. Better shows have been canceled for less.
I would recommend anyone watching this to do it alone and use the fast-forward function on the remote. Or you will end up being bored and staring at the dried paint on your wall.
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