{"id":700,"date":"2017-04-11T02:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T02:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:34:21","slug":"the-walking-dead-season-7-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/11\/the-walking-dead-season-7-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead – Season 7 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

What an exciting start we had for season 7!<\/p>\n

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Expecting only one character\u2019s death at the hands of Negan, we actually had two!\u00a0 First Abraham dies brutally beaten by Lucille and then Glenn!\u00a0 It was in the interview after the season 7 premiere that it was Steven Yeun himself that had asked producers to stay true to the comic book\u2019s continuity with Glenn dying with the introduction of Negan and his weapon Lucille (The Walking Dead #100).<\/p>\n

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However memorable that episode was, the rest of the season was not as exciting.\u00a0 Especially for fans of the Walking dead comics.<\/p>\n

Why you might ask?\u00a0 That is because although Season 7 was filled with a lot of small snipets of rebellion, an introduction of three new communities (the Kingdom, Scavengers and Oceanside), and bunch of new characters (King Ezekiel, Jadis, Gary, etc); it fell short on originality.<\/p>\n

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Most, if not all of the plots used in the various episodes came out of the comics.\u00a0 As readers of the comic books noticed this season, a lot of the scenes were extracted from the \u201cAll out war\u201d storyline. In fact, producers mimicked a lot of the storyline as they could.\u00a0 Examples such as the scene wherein Negan and Carl were together and Carl was singing.<\/p>\n

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Episode \u201cSing me a Song\u201d \u00a0was clearly a rendition of the comic.<\/p>\n

Oh don\u2019t get me wrong, the season finale wherein they had an all-out confrontation against the saviors thanks to the sacrifice of Sasha was quite thrilling.<\/p>\n

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But to be honest, every episode prior to that was slowly building toward that confrontation.\u00a0 And we also knew the Sasha character was going to be lost somehow since we knew Sonequa Martin-Green was moving over to Star Trek Discovery\u2026.<\/p>\n

Was this an attempt by the writers to stay in line with the comic book continuity?\u00a0 Or was it simply poor writing that season.\u00a0 One cannot be sure.\u00a0 For this fan, there were not a lot of surprises for me this past season\u2026.here\u2019s hoping for a better Season 8.<\/p>\n

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