![]() ![]() And the promo campaign for the seventh season did the TV show no favors with the obnoxious, relentless hype for Negan and his signature baseball bat, which treated a character's death like the title bout of a boxing match. (At the very least, The Walking Dead could have ended its sixth season by clearly depicting the death of Abraham, which would have been significantly less anticlimactic and might have tricked fans into believing that Glenn was safe after all.) The baseball-bat executions-which, due to an inexplicable story structure, don't actually begin until 20 minutes into the episode-are extraordinarily grotesque but also kind of what you've been expecting, since Glenn's death is basically a shot-for-shot adaptation of a thing that happened in the comics in 2012. ![]() ![]() The mistakes begin with the long-awaited solution to the cliffhanger, which seems even more misguided now that the solution has been revealed. Part of the problem with the premiere is structural. ![]()
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