And, sad to say, that appears to have continued. A promising start was undermined by everyone rocking up to Negan's camp. Yeah, they'd taken out the lookouts. Blah blah. But what about the numbers we saw in reserve at the end of last season's finale? Were they all on a lunch break? Why would you not take Michonne, who spent a lot of last season training herself to be a sharpshooter? (Just in time, too, since Sasha copped it; contrived, much?) And when your enemy and all his lieutenants are standing roughly 30ft away, why would you not hose them down instead of standing around listening to yet another dull monologue?
Had that been followed by a trap being sprung, in a 'You rebel scum' kind of moment, fair one. As it was...no, the enemy is right there. Kill the shepherd and the sheep are yours. Zap him and his gaggle of idiots and that's it, they've already won.
But no! Out comes Negan's Impenetrable Plot Armour to save the (well, his) day, because suddenly ol' Ricky-Boy can't shoot for ****e and everyone else decides to blow off all the ammo they spent last season trying to get in smashing the Sanctuary's windows! Zap! Kapow! Take that, Savio(u)rs! That'll teach 'em!
Dumb. Just dumb. I'm guessing that scene was supposed to be tense. Instead it just had me (and my gf) going 'FFS, just f***ing shoot him!' and waiting for the inevitable climbdown. Which was a shame, because up to that point it had been a pretty decent return to something like form. (And taking Negan out in Ep.1 would have been one hell of a rug-puller.)