Gimple Says Season 6 Finale Was ‘Never Intended to F— With People’ 

divisive season-six finale of “The Walking Dead,” showrunner Scott M. Gimple assured the audience they weren’t toying with people when it came to the ending of “Last Days on Earth.”

“We never intend to f— with people,” Gimple said when the moderator, director Paul Feig, asked him how beholden he feels to the comics. “You all just saw the episode and I want to go on record and say we were not trying to f— with you.”

The showrunner added that even though there may be tweaks, like certain characters out or under-living their comic book counterparts, at the end of the day they are telling the story of the comics.

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Scott Gimple Defends Controversial Cliffhanger

“We have 153 issues of story to draw from,” Gimple said. “I think it’s an amazing thing to have that as a basis. We may be remixing it, enhancing it, emphasizing parts of it, but I feel it only makes the tapestry richer. It is the story from the book but we are doing it in different ways.”

While most of the panel, which followed the screening, was filled with fun anecdotes about life on the set, Lauren Cohan said she felt they reached a peak with the season six finale.

“I feel like this finale has been the pinnacle of the emotional connection we have with the cast,” the actress, who plays Maggie Greene, said. “We all go to some crazy and vulnerable places on the show, but there was something about that final scene with us all lined up.”

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I love the first 5 seasons but this last season was really meh at best and the season ender was crap. I was holding out hope that the writing would get better but it seems to have hit a block. My wife and I joke that its the Walking Dead version of the Star Trek Ion Storm- we need to put the people in danger so lets get the characters to argue and get ambushed. It’s getting old and boring. The last episode could have been cut to 15 minutes there was so much crap in it. I hope season 7 is better.

It’s a tv show folks….calm down…I’m as disappointed as anyone with the way it ended but i’m not going to stop watching.

They can only go down from here. I feel that the comics should be abandoned. Go your own way.

LIES! Of course they’re messing with us! And I’ve lost all patience for it.

I’m so sick of watching Pimple on The Talking Dead.

Sitting there trying to be stone-faced,nodding now and then to something another “guest” says,typically Kirkman,when you know he’s just hoping that someone,somewhere,thinks his puffy little beard reminds people somehow of Hemingway. And I honestly believe that he sees himself as the modern day,TV equivalent.

This is the guy who dropped a corpse on Glenn a few weeks ago then dropped Yeun’s name from the credits but not to “f– with people”.

And to pull off Glenn’s latest Lazarus moment all he expected of the audience was to forget that “walkers” have never had a problem crawling under cars and trucks to get at a meal,but somehow they couldn’t manage to even reach under a dumpster that Glenn proved an adult male could fit under.Couldn’t even reach under there and grab him…………..But not to “f–with people”.

Then he had Glenn play backstop to Abe and his new girlfriend unleashing automatic weapons fire on “walkers” just a couple feet in front of him,and from an elevated point that would have carried ANY miss,and ANY through and through rounds right into Yeun’s face.And he came out unscratched.But not to “f– with people”.

Of course,all this comes after the Terminus episode where the batter steps into the box,sets his stance behind Glenn’s noggin and is in the act of swinging when there’s a balk called on Gareth and Glenn lives to die another day.But not to “f– with people”.

But none of the above could have happened had Glenn not managed to survive in the tunnel,the only snack food available to several hundred “walkers” who had him backed up against a wall with nowhere to go.But not to “f–with people”.

No,Pimple managed to make his claim,with that straight Hemingwayesque face,that he never intended to “f–with people”.

Something tells me that the first person he “didn’t f–with” was Frank Darabont during the first big disagreement with the network that resulted in Darabont and Glen Mazzara becoming unemployed and Pimple,against all logical progression,becoming “THE MAN”.

And that little non–event was exactly when TWD began to run around in the fog,killing major characters,not to advance the story,but to create the show’s reputation for cliffhangers.

Anyone not believing that needs to watch The Talking Dead episode right after Hershel was killed and listen to Scott Wilson,reading between the lines about his departure from the show.He HIGHLY disagreed with that decision,at that time in the show.

But of course,all that was Pimple,and AMC not intending to “f–with people”.

We should have had a POV from Rick’s eyes seeing Negan slam down on WHOMEVER for the first hit and then choose however angle they want to show the remaining hits, gore galore of course. No reason to candy coat a main character after all the ish we’ve seen. And center in on Rick’s face as he breathes in and out steady and heavy, tears running down his face, while we hear the others cry out… quick cut to silence and black screen. Something other than what we got.

When Frank got canned I feel is when the show started to get stupid. When Hershel and Beth died I was broken.

The episode had a pointless hour with The Saviors somehow cutting off Rick’s group at every turn, Negan getting ten minutes of screentime tops, and it all ends with a cheap cliffhanger. How is that NOT f***ing with the fans?

Speaking of f***ed, there’s gonna be way too many people dropping the show because of this cop out. This could easily be the beginning of the end for this show.

after what they did Iam done with the show. all they did was to end it like that so their ratings wood go up in Oct and as far as begin on edge it was a joke just driving around in circles most of the show and then cut the show off the way they did was a big disappointment in the show alone. and it will not matter to me if I found out who got killed or not after waiting all that time to know .and a lot of people feels the same way.so I wish them well as we say good bye to a show that was awesome but they took that away from us no more walking dead for us …………… it was getting kind of boring anyways in season 6 so they did this to us .. just dont care anymore.

Didn’t mean to f— with people? Ha! What did they think the finale was going to do? Face it, Gimple: You guys blew Negan’s debut AND managed to infuriate your devoted fans. You know, the ones keep this show alive.

I thought I was the only one who felt that this season let me down. I hated the amount of violence. That last scene has played over and over in my mind. The crunching of someone’s skull. It was sickening. I understand that “they” are living in an apocalyptic world and things are going to get difficult and hard but must we hear and see everything? Do you have to slowly take away all the characters we love one by one? I’m done. I can’t expend anymore emotional energy on TWD. I know it’s just a TV show but you start to care about these characters.

Of course they didn’t do it to F….. with people, they did for ratings and profits plain and simple.

And Lauren Cohen is right and wrong about the show peaking, from a quality standpoint this show pretty much peaked early in season 5 before horrible Beth/Grady Hospital arc and uneven introduction to Alexandria and it’s inhabitants.

But as far as ratings peaking I get the sense that has also happened, and even though the season 7 premiere will likely garner massive ratings for people to see who Negan killed (even though spoiler sites will find out within a few weeks after they start filming next month) I expect ratings to fall off a very steep cliff.

I used to love this show and it had the potential to be great, but as soon as they stopped taking chances and refused to kill characters people actually care about things have become very predictable and repetitive under Scott Gimple’s watch. Add in AMC’s notoriously cheap budget (they pretty much film this show within the same few mile radius of Senoia, GA every year and use the same locations over and over again) and you have a recipe for disaster.

The sooner this show is put out of it’s misery the better, same thing for the god awful spin off which should have never been made.

I totally agree, Barbara Carlsen-I cannot get the sounds of the violent skull crushing scene nor Negan’s words of “taking it like a champ”…it has haunted me ever since. I don’t feel it should be this violent-the zombie killings, I get it, but with humans…it’s just different. Especially, with the characters that we have followed and that we love-it is very difficult to watch to see them hurt, tortured and brutally killed.

And are they going to kill off all of our beloved characters, eventually? Shouldn’t some make it to the new world? This show just can’t be all doom and gloom all of the time…I hope that Gimple and the rest of the group start showing some progress with this group…some hope that there is something more than this and something to actually look forward to. Otherwise, it’s the same story line with different evil characters and it’s becoming mundane.

They still don’t get it. The ending did not “f” with viewers, it “f’d” the show. The show has gone from an honest look at people in a larger than life situation without the “jump the shark” gimmicks that often hurt lesser shows. You sold us a bill of goods that included but was not limited to; integrity, characters that were smart and that made smart choices, avoiding Hollywood horror tropes, and then in one season most of that went away (these smart characters all start doing very dumb things, the Saviors were easier to kill than storm troopers, the mid season cliffhanger and then the same end of season cliffhanger, etc) and we all saw it. It betrayed the things that made this show great. The last episode was a camper trip back and forth that should have been set to some Benny Hill comedy music and sped up… and it as 90 minutes long! I think the show runners are missing the point here.

I think they are showing just how bad HUMANS would be. The CDC doctor was right, this is our extinction event. Hope the animals left enjoy the humanless world.

Each and every one of you will be watching when Season 7 is on. You say you’re not just makes you a liar.

Oh yeah. Season 7 premiere ratings will be great, no doubt about it. But if you say it will do anything but decrease in the weeks after (at a rapid pace), you’re a liar, too.

You may not have intended to fuck with us, but you did end up fucking us. There’s a difference. The Glenn death bullshit earlier this season was fucking with us. The finale was a fuckup in its purest form. Everything you guys wanted to accomplish with that finale failed. All you did was piss us off. The only thing left for you to do is to admit you fucked up. Quit trying to defend that travesty you call “creative writing” and just admit it. No more rationalizations, no more cliché excuses. Just. Admit. It.

It was never intended to “F” with people? Really?

That’s EXACTLY what cliff-hangers are designed to do! Especially ones that show a dramatic event but leave the results of that event unanswered during the off-season.

Despite what Thomas Densmore says, I’m done.

I’m done with TWD. The writing this season has become lackluster and it seems all the effort goes into producing cliff hangers. Thanks TWD but you’ve outlived your entertainment value.

the saviors being everywhere at once? lame. jesus being a clown character? lame. jeffrey dean morgan not having time to prepare for his character? lame. carol having a change of heart about surviving suddenly? lame. Gimple and negrette best writing work remains Ghostrider: spirit of vengeance. 17% fresh at rottentomatoes. characters they developed over many episodes and dumped suddenly going against their nature: tyrese, beth, bob, noah, etc.. on and on tyrese was a warrior with a hammer who died randomly in a house to save noah, who died randomly in a doorway.

I think he is basically saying they are doing exactly what the comic book did so they aren’t showing it to us. Glenn dying is so necessary to telling the same story of the comic books. It was obviously Glenn, he is basically saying.

The very fact that Gimple appears honestly to believe that he wasn’t “f–ing” with the audience with that lame cliffhanger tells me how out of touch he’s become.

This season was an exercise in lame audience manipulation from a lazy writing staff that has clearly forgotten how to tell good stories. What we’re left with is a flimsy collection of cheap fake-outs, highly questionable plot points and astoundingly poor character decisions.

Not F-ing with the audience? Of course they were! The midseason Glenn fake out was structured to 100% F with the audience, why should the season finale be any different? That’s what gimmick artists do. This isn’t good storytelling. It’s trolling.

My faith in TWD and the people steering the ship has officially run out. There are better things to do with my Sunday nights than get jerked around by a bunch of lazy writers. If they don’t care enough about their own show to respect their story, I certainly don’t have to waste time tuning in for it.

They overhyped it knowing full-well that it would end up being a Geraldo “What’s in Al Capone’s Vault?” episode. A huge disappointment and manipulation. I’ve not watched the show regularly since it veered off-track in the second season. I only tuned in to see this episode because so much was made of it — and it was another Lucy pulling the football out from Charlie Brown. They’d better not kill Glenn, though. This show takes great pride in bringing in one Black male character at a time and then killing him off. Since Glenn is the only Asian one — and probably more popular than that boring buzzard-face Rick — they should think twice before deciding to get rid of him to be gimmicky. Again.

they killed a female asian savior a few episodes ago and i was so pissed, she was hella’ cute

It’s the male minorities who seem to be the endangered species.

Nah, wasn’t meant to mess with us. Was meant to be a cheap shot way of making us tune in for the season 7 premiere after ratings have been down this season….

I’d also like to just say, the cliffhanger was simply just something that made a lot of fans have had enough and be free enough to voice their annoyances with the writing this entire eason…..which has been uneven, full of loopholes, bad writing and multiple “cliffhanger” or fakeout issues. Not to mention OOC arcs which force characters a certain way to fit a plot….and ultimately some of those character actions didn’t serve the overall story, nor their own.

I can’t believe that there wasn’t a single person at AMC who didn’t go “wait……..won’t this limit us during the gap between seasons in promoting the show? Moreover, the victim is gonna get spoiled during hiatus and by S7 the suspense will be GONE!”.

This, imo, was intended to be a massive “Who Shot JR?” type media thing for AMC, and they thought this would be enough to sustain fans all year…..WRONG. IMO, most are already bored of guessing who it is.

The saddest thing for me is, this show DOES have potential, but it’s constantly being wasted by the writers room which is filled with too many writers and similarly, we have too many directors. Cutting things down to 2/3 for everything imo would allow for a more cohesive story which has continuity and gives proper attention to the characters. It’s a shame that the actors are clearly very talented, and all these characters have potential, but it is all being wasted in the name of cheap stunts and the unneceesary screentime for redshirt characters before their inevitable deaths (which btw, no matter how much screentime you waste….we still don’t care).

The ending was a cop out. My problem was I, the fan, was lied to. Andrew Lincoln stated the ending of this season was so troubling he dropped the script and was late to work that day because he was so bothered by what they were called on to film. Mind you, this is a guy that filmed cutting off his girlfriends hand to be eatten by walkers a few episodes before not to mention her son that was standing next to her. The show runners promised an introduction to Negan that was the greatest intro in the history of characters. They hyped up a 90 minute episode.

what we got was Rick and the team driving in circles for 55 mins then negan giving them a firm talking to, without conclusion of who exactly got killed.

This was a) not emotional b) not shocking enough to need that much hype and finally c) a cheap ploy to get your target audience to tune in for season 7. We all know amc loves bragging about breaking records with the walking dead’s premiers but to manipulate an audience to achieve that is cheap.

personally, i feel like i’ve had enough of the twists, turns and the ever so lovable ‘nothing happened this week but JUST WAIT ‘ nature the show has fallen into. If I ever watch again, it’ll be on dvd where i can just watch it all in one sitting. At this point I dont even care who got the bat, nor do I care if they have an extended episode.

ps. just wait until filming starts in a few weeks , it’ll leak who was killed then the big surprise will be ruined further

Ending the next-to-last last episode that way would be not f—ing with people. Pulling that kind of thing for just a week’s subsequent anticipation would be funny. Or even if the next season started in 2-3 months – there’s an argument to be made for ending it that way to give people time to puzzle it out or ruminate on the meaning of it all.

But with such universal negative reaction to such a cliffhanger, and a seven-month break before the resolution, it’s really hard to buy an explanation that they aren’t f—ing with people.

I knew it would end this way cause that’s how I would have ended it. Every one of you who say you’ll never watch again are lying your butts off. You’ll be in front of the TV for the season 7 premier just like me.

Hey Thomas, I hear that Scott Gimple needs his back scratched, feet rubbed and his ego massaged. You can get in line with the other apologists of this show and let Scott know how he can do no wrong and how you like to be spoon fed cheap season finales and lazy writing.

Oh and by the way, you won’t need to wait for October, because the moment that cast member is killed off, they will be leaving the set, and then about 99.9% of viewers will know.

Definitely not watching the premier live. Sure, I’ll record the series like a lot of other ones to watch later, but there’s no way I’m rewarding them for that crappy finale. And if Season 7 continues down the Season 6 path of more F-ing around and less storytelling, I will stop watching altogether.

They should know by now they don’t need to use these type of gimmicks. The viewers need more storytelling and character substance. Season 6 had way too many characters with flip flopping views or just plain idiocy after all they’ve experienced.

I’m just SICK to see my beloved warrior Rick so beaten down…..it REALLY spoiled my very favorite show! I don’t think I can face any more of this misery anymore! Rick was SO enjoyable & it was Rick I watched for, (and Daryl), but now I don’t think things will ever be the same!

How are people still upset about this after seeing the Shipwreck that is Fear The Walking Dead.

Just because I watched TWD doesn’t mean I have any interest at all in what is,at best,an afterthought.

Fear exists solely to milk as much as possible from the die hard fans of TWD who have supported the original without question for several years.

I couldn’t care less what happens on the ripoff series.

After years of not knowing we finally will see that it was Neegan who killed Jenny shector. It all makes sense now.

Terrible decision making – terrible. Messing around with such an ardent and loyal fan base over a cheap “Who shot JR?” cliffhanger moment?! You destroyed Negan’s introduction. It’s sad…

You want to go “on record” saying it wasn’t your intention to f___ with people? Well buddy-boy, you’re record is tarnished because to DID f___ with people – that loyal fan base I was talking about.

The “Is Glenn dead or not dead?” thing at the dumpster was ridiculous enough, but this?

Fair enough. Gimple says they weren’t effing with us…..so that begets the question of WHY didn’t they show who died?

I think the show will steer back and stay close to the comics, and continue with the death switches.. meaning Glenn won’t be the one to go.

If you have a few seconds – vote for who you think Negan killed! whogotlucilled.com

I appreciate all the votes. Hoping to get tons before the season 7 premiere, to see how good the fans can predict the show’s outcomes.

Good cliffhangers are fine but those used in season 6 of The Walking Dead were weak, excessive, and drawn out as a gimmick…waiting three episodes to find out if Glenn lived, waiting 80 minutes of a 90 minute episode to find out if Daryl or his shoulder survived the gunshot, and now waiting six months to find out who Negan struck. Glenn should have been answered in the next episode, and Daryl should have been answered at the top of the next episode with the cliffhanger surrounding his injury being will he bleed out before the end of the episode–not, is he even still alive. The cliffhanger regarding who Negan beat should have let us know who it i with the real cliffhanger being what will the aftermath look like, and maybe even will a second person who might have intervened survive an accidental blow or beating by another savior telling person to stand down.

Just like they weren’t messing with us during the fake Glenn death. In no other season have they taken a main character out of the title sequence even after their death because of contracts. Their name remained until the end of the season. So why was it different with Steven Yeun? The only explanation that makes sense is that they wanted us to think he was dead instead of just letting the story play out. It’s all these little “finger in the butter” moves that are irritating people, not the writing or how the story plays out. We were given a lot of hype over this episode as one the greatest and it simply did not deliver. Fans are deeply invested, emotionally, in these characters and when they feel jerked around, they get angry. Gimple needs to start paying attention to this before fans start demanding that he be replaced.

They fire all thier good writers season 5 so now because they have crap writers they do have to follow the comics and cant vary like past seasons . Now most episodes are fillers then they make the season finale a filler episode, real good writing oh and Enid is feeding Neegan all the info from Alexandria. A little birdie told me anyway. So they just corporationed the best show on tv to a joke. Ill just be reading the comics .

i wouldnt have minded so much if the cast hadnt spent weeks telling us how horrible and traumatic the filming was. how they just wanted to stay in bed because it was so terrible. i must have missed that part.

Right. I think the actors are starting to hate the story line or the direction it’s going. Maybe that’s what’s making them so sick!!! They are strong characters and making them do the stupidiest things to end up in bad situations. I hope the writers and producers actually read the backlash from all of this

Seeing these people defend that idiotic move is about as annoying as seeing lawyers defend someone that everyone knows is guilty.

They had a chance to take the show to an epic level by showing Negan killing a major character in this intense scene and they simply blew it.

The point of a cliffhanger is to create such a frenzy and buildup that people are invested and genuinely care/cannot wait to find out what happens. I watch it with several friends. The entire final episode was driving, road block, turn around, commercial, driving, road block, turn around, commercial, driving, road block, turn around, commercial etc. The last 10 minutes were exciting and then nothing happened. What did we all think about the episode? “Who cares” yes – we will certainly watch the return next season but as for this being a “frenzy and buildup” – nothing. It fell entirely flat in our opinion. Glenn under the dumpster was a WOW moment because it was a surprise and then it strung us along. This…blah. We aren’t talking about it. When I go to the bank for work the tellers who always chat with me about it are blah about it too. There was SO much potential but it was lost. So someone is going to die. We’ve known that for a long time now.

Of course they did! This is why I will no longer watch! I dislike the mind playing. I also do not like where the story is going – I loved it when it was the original group trying to survive out in the open – now it is just inhumane with a human vs. human story line rather than the living versus the dead. I am done with The Walking Dead.

It isn’t about emotional connection. It’s about terrible story-telling. You end on a cliffhanger when people don’t know what’s going to happen, you bring them to a point, them BAM end the episode. We all knew the entire season this moment was coming, we knew Negan would make an appearance, we knew from the comics when he first appears it’s epic and a character dies. But when you shoot the scene from a POV and never show who is getting killed…that is F***ing with your audience, not ending on a cliffhanger. It isn’t like, “what’s going to happen??!?!” It’s “Oh, we know what happened, but not who it happened to.” They really really messed up a near perfect season by doing this. This overshadows most, if not all the positives from the season. Just my opinion.

They did purposely “F” with us. Co-workers and I discuss Walking Dead incessantly, we all agree its getting old; same plot same result. Here’s a few stupid mistakes by the writers. The RV no armor plating or battering ram(after all they are surrounded by the enemy); Ricks group standing a Forrest, talking no less, not hiding just talking loudly waiting to be caught; Carol on the road, alone the enemy in front of her, common sense make a U-turn, nope not Carol, Darryl leaving the compound on his own, ridiculous. All these are rookie mistakes. Many of us here may not return to watch TWD. And lets not forget the Benny Hill routine.

Regardless of the previous posts, I love the show and cannot wait for next season to begin! I will continue to watch and so will the folks complaining about the cliffhanger.

I love the show, too, and will continue to watch. Unfortunately it will be with a heavy heart and a longing for days gone bye. Days when I could consistently count on this being the best show on television. Days when there were complex characters who evoked strong emotional responses. Days when the writers didn’t resort to contrivances and gimmicks to advance the plot. I’ll continue to watch because occasionally there will be a glimmer of what once was. I will watch until its last day.

I’m not buying it! There were MANY different ways they could have shot that scene other than POV and it would have been just as “devastating”. Then the off-season would have left the fans wondering “what’s next” instead this BS!! Deliberately screwing with us!

My biggest gripe with this cliffhanger was simply that it came at the end of a season that teased who gets killed the ENTIRE time. Seriously, basically this entire season was building up to the moment Negan showed up and who he choses to kill. We spent MONTHS speculating who it would be, then the moment of truth arrived and they still didn’t show it! Not we are going to spend even more time speculating, and I’ll bet my left arm that they spend at least half of the season 7 premiere dodging the question of who Negan killed. Its simply FRUSTRATING at this point.

BS. The whole season was “Negan is coming with lucille and someone is going to get it” and then…BS. This show along with is spin off the Floating Dead are garbage.

Why does the showrunner’s feel like they have to apologize? I’m old enough to remember the phrase “Who shot J.R.?” Not that I cared, but it’s NORMAL to end a season with a cliffhanger. Don’t apologize the whiners. They are going to be in front of their TV’s ramping up to watch the Season 7 Premiere right along with the non whiners.

Amanda, I remember the whole, “Who Shot J.R?” thing as well. There’s a big difference here, that was 1980 and now we’re in 2016. Do you understand how NOTHING stays under wraps anymore? In other words, everything gets spoiled. There already was a leaked extended audio, which came out before the finale. I actually think it’s a legit audio of who died, because AMC has been taking it down from every known site. Regardless, as soon as the cast member leaves the set (probably in May), there will be some sort of T.M.Z. outlet OR some under paid grip on the set, who will let everyone and their mother know about who died. What do folks not understand about the cat being let out of the bag WAY before October?

Let’s pretend that the death of a character won’t get spoiled (which there’s no way this will not happen), the emotional moment with Negan is gone! We’ll probably start off the finale with Negan’s appearance and a replay of his speech, which won’t have the same effect. The death will feel more like a relief than that of a release. This decision was so bad, it makes the marketing decision of getting rid of Classic Coke for New Coke brilliant in comparison. This is a blunder of immense proportions. Having said that, I would say that at least a quarter of TWD fan base are serial apologists, so seeing someone licking the boots of Scott Gimple in this situation, is not surprising.

Whether you see it as BS or not, the writer’s are evoking emotion in their audience. I translate that to good writing and isn’t that the point of good television? It’s a compelling series and I can only say that about a handful of shows in my television watching history. Complainers and non-complainers alike will be sitting their and chomping at the bit throughout season 7 regardless.

When those emotions are disappointment, betrayal, incredulity, hopelessness, indifference, etc., it’s not because of good writing. It’s because people who are accustomed to a show that was the best on television realized they served up a steaming pile of offal for Season 6.

No, it’s not. The response is that the episode was terrible. Why do you all think this is great television? It was panned, not praised. By your logic, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 was a thrilling masterpiece because of the negative reviews it got lol.

Who shot JR was completely different. This entire season was building to this point and then nothing. It makes the entire season a waste.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it were just your standard year end cliffhanger. Lots of shows use those. The problem is that they were cliffhanging fans all season with it. So, you wait until the last episode, on the edge of your seat to FINALLY find out who’s going to get it. We were promised it would be a “beloved character”, and the scene would be “shocking”. Well, the only thing that was shocking was the 10 + minute diatribe that lead to NOTHING. So, they’re actually cliffhanging a cliffhanger. I’ve had enough. It’s as bad as Lost.

It was a BAD finale. I can wait to see who gets killed, that’s not the problem, it’s just why it was done, which is for a chance at getting ratings. It’s like getting promised a $5 gift card to go to an employee meeting. I’m grown, I don’t need these crappy tricks to drag me along, I would’ve continued anyway. The Walking Dead has had many cliffhangers, along with other shows. Doesn’t make them all great television.

The difference is J.R. getting shot was unexpected. It wasn’t built up for an entire half season. Those kinds of cliffhangers are fine.

Just like a bunch of spoiled brats, wahhhh, we don’t know who gets killed when we want to find out. I guarantee EVERYONE on this page watches next season, and the season after that and so on. The build up was for the arrival of Negan, get over it. Did you whine at the end of Empire Strikes Back too?

No. We knew what happened at the end of the Empire Strikes Back, We knew who’s hand got cut off, who was frozen in carbonite, and who got choked by a wookie

The complaints aren’t that we have to wait. TWD has done cliffhangers before, it was just a stupid ploy to get ratings. But continue being a sheep believing everything you’re given is quality television.

Seriously agree with you. It’s not the character’s who are ‘peeing their pants and crying’

For me, it doesn’t have anything to do with the cliffhanger. It has everything to do with turning the characters into idiots to get them to the cliffhanger. So much so, that I’m so distanced from knowing who they are anymore that I don’t care who died.

Agreed 100% Sandy! The cliffhanger is NOT the problem, at all.

I’ve spent more time this season saying both to myself and my wife, “When did these people become so stupid?” Every episode has mistakes, some of which are ridiculous.

Yes, Darryl the great tracker and man of the woods allows some dude, that he KNOWS is out there, to sneak up on him in the woods. Everyone just flying off the handle and leaving Alexandria willy nilly and on and on.

I agree, The people going through forests with dead dry leaves and you never hear a zombie coming up on you until it’s starts an asthma attack. The Premise of the show is dying. The cast is becoming more and more dumb, Let’s take all our strong fighters in the slowest vehicle to a place far away. Or better yet let’s go raid this “compound” based off of information from some guy they just met. It’s really really stupid. I can guarantee I won’t be a chump like the zealots who are going to wait for 6 months to have Gimple pull more shenanigans.

Gimple needs to be replaced with someone who respects the fans.

I think some of the fans need replaced with dumbass comments like that!