![]() ![]() But it was a big, loud, all-swinging rumble, and it ended in a neck-crushing. ![]() Dwight ushering Gregory away halfway through also broke the momentum entirely. The fight itself was weirdly frictionless, with punches having little visible effect on their recipient’s noses and surrounding face-areas. It probably only happened to a) give viewers a bit of fisticuffs they’ve wanted to see for a good long while, and b) to remind us that Negan can throw down with the best of them when he needs to, ahead of he and Rick facing off next week. Negan offering Simon the opportunity to Queensberry Rules his way out of his bind did seem like an odd move. Sadly for Dwight, it looks like we’ll never get to see what that was. Shooting Negan in the head when he isn’t looking surely can’t be that hard, so Dwight clearly had a longer game in mind. Dwight’s motivations for betraying Simon, particularly after Dwight had been offered the killshot, were a little muddy – “he’d win” is all Simon, and we, got. It played out like high-stakes political drama, and quite an enjoyable one at that. The coup was still coming, and Negan intended to let it, to root out all the traitors in his ranks. Throughout, our knowledge of the undercurrents of Simon’s apology and Negan’s apparent acceptance of it gave it all an enjoyable sense of hanging-sword inevitability. When Negan announced that rumours of his death had been greatly exaggerated, Simon ostensibly played his role of contrition perfectly. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan and Steven Ogg as Simon. If that happens, I’m really going to miss his clammy little head. Gregory’s time is presumably up too, once the Hilltoppers accuse him of feeding them porky-pie pants-on-fire intelligence. Praise must also go to Xander Berkeley, who’s imbued Gregory with all the unctuous and self-preservatory punchability of Aliens’ Carter Burke, which isn’t a benchmark I use lightly. You have to assume that the Savior top brass are all probably going to meet violent ends next week anyway, but it’s still a huge shame to see the mustachioed madman go. It was a dialogue-heavy episode, but because there was so much going on it felt brisk, tense and urgent, and left behind the promise of a finale with all the extraneous gristle removed.įrom the off, Simon’s push for the Savior presidency was only ever going to end badly for him. And Rick regained some semblance of morality, as Carl reminded him from his cold dark grave that he was fighting for peace, rather than the Saviors’ total annihilation. The Woodland Clan were finally, finally given a purpose. Any possible redemption for Eugene’s supreme mullet was quashed. Negan’s ethos of “live-and-let-live” towards the Hilltop was abandoned in favour of the cull Simon had always pushed for. ![]() Simon’s mutiny happened, and then didn’t. In setting the stage for the climactic showdown between Negan and Rick, Worth had a lot to get through. ![]()
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