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After the cliffhanger of the previous episode, leaving the intrigue of who died at the hands of negan, twd returns with one of the best episodes of the series. the episode shows us the change of rick, after the death of glenn and abraham, going from being the master to the sum of negan. I love the interaction between Rick and Deny, the actors have great chemistry and their interpretation is magnificent. as soon as the double death scene is one of the best in the series. All actors manage to interpret their characters correctly and very convincingly. I love both deaths and they hurt. The best was when they killed Glenn, seeing all the characters watching made me suffer. Andrew Lincoln manages to get into Rick's skin and his situation and achieve a great performance, and his performance is authentic. The direction of the episode is impeccable, by Greg Nicotero, one of the best regarding this. in short a great episode, with great direction and gion, very good performance and great deaths.

It's one thing to predict what will happen (and pretty much know), but it's entirely something else to watch it unfold on screen in a terrifying brutal fashion. Tonight wasn't the most shocking Walking Dead episode of all time by any stretch, but it very well may be the most relentlessly devastating hour that AMC has ever put to screen.

So it turned out to be probably the two most predicted characters, Glenn and Abraham. Glenn was the obvious choice, but Abraham was the wildcard. Were we supposed to believe what Michael Cudlitz has said in recent interviews? Apparently not, because he took the first of many swings from Lucille, Negan's blood stricken bat. But as some people predicted, it wasn't the last time Lucille would make her mark.

The Walking Dead is obviously labeled as a horror show, but it's been a while since it's actually had a horrifying moment. But seeing Rick become powerless in front of his entire family and crew was about as horrifying as you can get. It's something that other shows can't really pull off. Sure, The Walking Dead has had some misfires over the years, but having Negan completely transform this show and the characters by breaking them down emotionally in front of each other was gratifyingly bittersweet. They have never been this vulnerable.

As upset as I was about the way the showrunners handled the season 6 finale, I was equally as pleased and impressed with the way they handled this premiere. Although we had to wait multiple commercial breaks to find out who died, I loved the way we saw everything through the eyes of Rick. Negan broke Rick down, and he even nearly got him to cut off his own son's arm. The writing, directing, and all around filmmaking was on top of its game tonight. I couldn't have asked for a better way to kick off a completely new chapter in this show's run.

Saying goodbye to Glenn and Abraham is extremely difficult and I'm sure it will have its lasting impact on the show's entire run. And I'm so glad they really nailed both of their last lines. "Suck my nuts" for Abraham and "I will find you" for Glenn? That's both hilarious and heartbreaking. Brilliant television.

I'm not stunned at all, it's a completely different feeling. We've lost two main cast members who have made this show what it has been for 7 seasons. What happened tonight was as good as the show has ever been. Real feelings. Real heartbreak. And real horror. This was a monumental episode for this show.

+Real horror

+Nailed the send off for beloved characters

+Breaking Rick, BRING ME MY AXE

+Devastating ending breeds a brand new beginning

10/10

I've been binge watching "The Walking Dead" for 4 weeks now and it's an awesome TV show. Me being a horror fan since I can remember, I've held off the show because I wanted to truly savor every episode from the start. Well, now I've just watched "The Day Will Come" episode and it has to be one of the most brutal episodes ever in the series. While it's easy to get over the grisly zombie deaths, it's a whole other level when main characters get their turn because, obviously, we've grown to care for them as the story moved along. When a major character gets axed, it's done in a very moving, almost heroic way. This time around, it was done as gory and as relentless as possible, putting all those George A Romero movies to shame for sheer, over the top horror. Seeing a beloved character get beaten to a bloody pulp is not easy, not even for gore fans like me. If you thought the "governor" was tough, wait 'til you meet Degan. He's the living definition of "show no mercy" and the only villain so far in the series that has put Rick and his family on their knees. It's probably the first time we've seen Rick's face with such fright, instead of the anger and sadness of previous situations. This is the set up for what it will propbably be one of the most violent, gory and intense revenge retributions in the whole series. It also reminds the viewer that the real threat in this post apocalyptic world are, and will always be, living humans.

The acting, the make up effects, the drama is always top notch. If there's only one qualm I still have about the show is that an explanation for all this walker apocalypse hasn't been addressed yet. We've had little explanations here and there, apparently a chemical warfare occured, more so than an outbreak. There's no talk of finding a cure or finding someone that can come up with one and there's still no explanation as to why animals don't turn into walkers. Perhaps their immunity could be the cure the world needs. It would most certainly be disappointing if some of these questions were left hanging in the air (like many questions were left unsolved in "LOST", which angered quite a few). Still, I think the series has at least one more season to go (maybe 2), so hopefully some questions will be answered.

For me it's the best episode not only on twd but in all shows i never saw an episode that sad that made that broken the whole episode specially in glenn death because after negan picked abe we thought that he survived the night but in the end he died also the scene when negan ordered rick to cut his son's arm it was so intense specially the phenomenal acting from andrew lincoln

Abraham and Glenn were killed by Negan. I didn't see Glenn's death coming. I thought Rick was going to have to rip his son's arm off with the axe. It was such an infuriating episode. They took Daryl away because he wanted to put up a fight. Maggie wants a war against them already.

+++ Contains Spoilers! +++

The writers are just playing stupid games with the audience instead of writing good stories to dive into. The cliffhanger was very annoying, then the fake-previews of how everybody gets a bat on the head was another game and the whole trip with the van and the axe was just plain stupid. After the thing with Carl's arm I just stopped watching it.

Negan is so annoying that it crosses the "4th dimension". He is so annoying that I don't want to watch the show. The games that Negan plays are in reality the games the writers are playing with the viewers.

Not fun anymore.

One point for the amazing makeup artists.

P.s.: All the good reviews are probably from people who work for AMC.

This is undoubtedly the best episode of the whole show, from the first to the last minute the tension is palpable, Negan's ferocity is something extraordinary, I LOVE Negan, he is the best villain ever seen in a TV series. Every moment of this episode is pure ART. It is sad to see how TWD has become now, a sort of ridiculous and pathetic Soap Opera and the way in which Negan's character is treated today is obscene. I hope two things 1 - that Negan will come out of the way at the end of the tenth season so at least I can stop watching this pile of garbage (I still watch TWD only for Negan) 2 - that in the end Negan will return 100% evil as he was all beginning of this BEAUTIFUL episode.

After torturing Rick's group, Negan kills two members and takes the shocked Rick for a ride in the van. Negan tries to show power over Rick and subdues him. When they return, Negan feels that has not totally broken Rick and demands an extreme act from him; otherwise, the other survivors will die. What will Rick do?

"The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" is certainly the cruelest episode of "The Walking Dead". The Governor is a kid comparing to Negan and it will be hard to Rick and his group to recover from this day. All or at least most of the viewers will be thunderstruck after watching this episode. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be"

This show has had countless gruesome and disturbing moments that show the insanity of people in a total end of the world scenario. I didn't think it could get much worse than the unflinching cannibals at terminus who had a human slaughterhouse like it was no big deal.

But Negan is the evil villain to end all evil villains.

And the show nailed it perfectly. He's a power hungry maniac, driven to the most extreme loss of humanity and demonstration of power that is truly entirely realistic in such a world. And what I really appreciate about this episode is that they did not have a single moment where he wavered. That would've ruined it. Because you keep hoping for the spark of humanity or for someone to pop out the forest with a rifle and end it all the way it normally goes, but it never comes, and that makes it all the more terrifying and so exhausting and draining to watch.

The acting is phenomenal on all sides. It is the most helpless, scared, and powerless we have ever seen Rick. And JD Morgan nails Negan's aggressive, insane, hypermasculine, sadistic, power trip perfectly.

The only thing is that it really made me wonder how the women we met in the carol and Maggie hostage situation could be a part of this group. They seemed relatively normal and just trying to survive. If you're brainwashed by a maniac, you aren't going to be as normal and sympathetic as those women, although they were harsh, they were pretty chill and nice compared to their group.

***Maybe Negan is charming when he's not bashing in people's brains with a spiked bat, but when those girls said "you are not the good guys" to Maggie, and they showed some humanity and empathy, it presented a conflict that the show dropped immediately and instead just made them 100% the bad guys.***

It seems like any followers of negan would either be just as maniacal and power hungry as he is or too afraid of him to go against him but either way, someone who hasn't had all their humanity brainwashed and beaten out of them, wouldn't call him the good guys. "We are all negan".... no, they had humanity. The we are all Negan line should've meant they were brainwashed into being as evil as he, but they were far from it.

The "you all are not the good guys" line was one of the most powerful lines to me personally because it showed that everyone is trying to survive, and if we had been following the perspective of another group this whole time, then we'd want Ricks group dead too. But not negan. He's too far gone and a total power hungry sociopathic maniac. It ruined that powerful line. Maybe no one else found that powerful other than me, I guess.

I like the conflict the show plays on where it shows that our protagonists are killers too, that they aren't necessarily "the good guys" but compared to negans group they absolutely are. So that powerful line and conflict that the relatively normal, nice women presented was just completely dropped and forgotten about when negans group ends up being undoubtedly pure evil.

Me and I'm sure many fans of the Walking Dead, were disappointed by Season 6's "Cheap" and "Crazy" cliffhanger. The Day Will Come When You Won't Be, is by far the most psychologically, and memorizing Walking Dead episode ever. For along time my all time favorite episode of The Walking Dead was Too Far Gone from Season 4, which was an action packed mid-season finale. Season 7, episode 1, just might have topped that episode. Not only were the deaths in this season crazily done, but everything has so far improved from season 6. I was never a big fan of season 6, I found it to be a very boring drag, with a couple good episodes. This episode has taken improvement to a whole other level. The editing in this episode is so well done and haunting, and really added to the episode. Lets just get out of the way that the acting in this was unbelievably perfect. The way everyone acted was perfection, especially from Andrew Lincoln and of course Jeffrey Dean Morgan, plus Lauren Cohen was great. This is the first Walking Dead episode, where I truly feel like the group is actually powerless. The group until now was always at the top of their game but now they seem to be under control by a new level of power. Now of course I have to talk about the deaths, which were probably the best deaths of all time in Walking Dead history. Abraham's death was definitely gross and disturbing, but just when I though things couldn't get any more screwed up, Glenn is beaten to death and it was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen on The Walking Dead. Glenn's death definitely left a hole in my chest, and made me incredibly sad, but I think in honor of Glenn, that death was pretty incredibly badass. Now these deaths happen about mid-way through the episode, but the episode still progressively moves. There is a final act that was intense as hell and had me trembling for like 15 minutes, it was amazing. Guys, The Walking Dead season 7 not only is off to a perfect start, but it's also a new path for The Walking Dead. This show is going to change for the better and I cannot wait. Props to everyone involved in this episode it blew my mind! 10/10

Holy sh*t. This episode was too painful to watch. After almost 7 months of waiting, we finally got our answers that who is the one who died, but after that, everyone thinks that it would be better to not know. This was a start for a season, and a way to introduce Negan to the audience. He completely terrorized Rick and made him fear from him. That scene was intense as well, I was shaking all the time. God, I didn't expect this from TWD. I'm looking forward to see what will happen after this, everything will be much worse, that's for sure.

Now, with SPOILERS! I warned you!

I knew that Abraham would be the one who got Lucille, but I didn't expect that Glenn took it as well! I was surprised in shock when Negan hit him as well with Lucille, after Daryl confronted him. When he tried to speak to Maggie... Jesus, that was horrible to watch. Maggie went completely hearthbroken (of course, it's understandable), and everyone else as well. Then when Negan wanted to made Rick to cut Carl's arm... when you thought you were already saw the worst, there comes that scene. Rick was in shock and broken, we saw him like that the first time.

Like I said, this was an intense, shocking and very disturbing episode to watch. I feel sorry for the character(s) we lost, we'll see what happens next.

I still don't get the mixed reviews by critics. Watching a horror show and then complain about "torture porn" and feeling uncomfortable? Yes it probably was the most uncomfortable episode ever and we lost two main characters in the most gory way. But that was an absolute necessity and I will explain why:

This episode goes to the core of what The Walking Dead is about. It is not about the dead that turn, it is about the living that turn. It's about realising that civilisation is just an illusion, a concept invented to keep us from despairing. This episode reproduces the feeling of hopelessness and helplessness of a crushed down society for the viewer like no other episode before. The atmosphere is as thick as hardly anything I've seen on TV or cinema. Could this have been achieved without extreme uncomfortableness? No. Could Negan have been portrayed this unparalleled monument of a totalitarian, charismatic psychopath without this level of brutality? No.

I would call this poetic disturbance, completely devastating, but with so much psychological depth. Rick, a character who has been built up six long seasons to such a strong leader, gets broken in one single episode. And you totally believe it. And you know at once you were watching something monolithic.

I don't even care about the gore and violence, I just no longer care about the characters. I did once, for while. But they started to lose me around Season 3. Since then every now and then some new interesting character appears, then slowly becomes less and less interesting. Then they die. Repeat.

No one really develops. They are introduced, go through their one and only character development. Then either return to who they were or remain who they have become. It almost works if you binge watch straight through, but over 7 seasons it feels like they're going in circles. Which they are. Every now and then a new writer comes in and lo and behold, they give the characters some dialogue about dying or death or suffering. And after you've heard from everyone five or six times it gets very boring.

The show is going nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. There is no end game. There is no point. Originally they were making parallels about society, people, relationships. Now it's just long drawn out suffering. Find a safe haven, lose safe haven, find safe haven, lose safe haven.

In the back of my mind I started losing interest around Season 3, midway through Season 6 is when I completely gave up. I came back to watch the Season 6 finale and the Season 7 opener and I can see nothing's changed. This Negan character they have been building up is not half as interesting as they seem to think. He comes across as a comic book villain. That's not good on TV.

The target market for this show has shifted heavily toward teen/young-adult. That's fine. But if you're older like me and no longer full of rage, no longer looking for an outlet for life's frustrations, all you will find here is people being nasty to each other while they moan about their existence. Younger me would have loved all this nihilism but as I've gotten older I'm looking for something a little more than paper cardboard 'bad guys' who simply don't exist in real life. I'm looking for more substance. With a show that actually has something to say.

Where they started to lose me in Season 3 was a town full of people who lived happily without asking any questions, with no rumours, no escapes, no questioning of authority. Now we've got a similar situation but we've 'progressed' to hoards of psychopaths going around like bandits in a pulpy samurai film or video game asking for tributes. It's so one-dimensional. I don't dispute that such gangs would form and only such psychotic people could survive, but the in-fighting and power struggles, the rebellion and back-stabbing would be rampant amongst those people. As is the case in modern gangs. That would be far more fascinating to focus on. To see the shades of humanity, not just the extremes of it. But in The Walking Dead they just use them as puppets. As targets for Rick and the others to unite against. There are no grey areas. It's very black and white. Goodies and baddies. Apart from the R18 gore, it all seems very childish.

There's still some quality acting. Some excellent special effects. Some interesting zombie moments but it's really being let down in the writing both on the level of dialogue and more importantly character arcs and overall arching story lines.

Not sure if it really deserves a 1. But that's exactly how I felt after the episode. Like someone had just unloaded all their hatred with the world on me. It was unpleasant and annoying. It might have worked if I had cared about the characters, but as I said, I stopped caring about them some time ago.