1) Rosita, sweetheart...that bullet you want making? It'll be the
wrong sodding calibre for the weapon you have.
2) Negan's monologues. Yeah, mate, keep talking. I could do with a kip.
3) Logic, logic, logic. a) It makes not one shred of sense to disarm a group you expect to go out into a world still full(?) of walkers to find you 'stuff'. b) It makes not one shred of sense to stay in a place and simply await your turn 'at bat', as Rick and co. have done. c) It makes not one shred of sense to have all those weapons and be behind walls, but not fortify the place ahead of Negan turning up if you
do decide to stay put. You would i) assume that he will be early (possibly even showing up the next day, ii) still maintain your watches, iii) prepare extra defensive layers, telling Negan's followers - should they show up without him - that you need extra earthworks, etc, because you've been having a lot of walker problems lately. iv) If Negan does show up with his henchmen, your people on the walls would hose them down while you, as leader/Rick, put a nice .44 round in Negan's chest and a second through his brain. (secret v) then you go a bit Riddick and keep what you kill; go find Negan's compound then give it the "Hello, b!tches!" routine while holding Negan's head aloft.) d) What did I say before about not simply making Negan a one-note bada$s? On the evidence so far,
no one would follow him for long if that's all he was. At a certain point, members of his group would have taken him and his core team down already.
4) I'm starting to think sociopaths run this show. They seem to be in love with the idea of making characters suffer pointlessly and pettily - at a cost to internal logic as in point 3) - as well as drooling endlessly and equally pointlessly over the 'bad' guy (and while I like JDM as an actor, some of the 'badness' just comes across as camp). Some of his comments carry menace. Others are intended to be amusing. But then there are the other ones, the ones not intended to be funny, and aren't, but nor are they menacing. The reaction they get is
"Oh, puh-
leeze".
5) The worst thing of all? It's not even Negan that winds me up the most. It's Dwight. And now we have another couple of happy ar$eholes doing to schoolyard bully routine. Naturally enough, I suppose, as weak people would feel emboldened by their orbit around someone like Negan, but... *sigh*.
Another thing with Dwight, though...I said last week that they might have taken the character too far down the road of just being a git to make me care about redemption. However, the door was still open. So why, then, take him back to being just another 2D rick with a P at the front in this ep? If the running order saw the last two eps get flipped, why? And did no one look back and go 'Ah, sh!t, that ends up undercutting what went on the week before'? Or if the eps were flipped to prevent Dwight from being taken that extra mile or so down the road of unredeemable asshat, why did they not snip the water bottle scene?