The Walking Dead 7.1 "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" Season Premiere (spoiler alert)

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18. New villain...different version of previous villains

I was kinda starting to feel that way about the show, although I still enjoyed it. But the arrival of Negan and his followers really feels like a game changer to me. My feeling is that Rick and his gang, after confronting various villains and doing battle with that vast zombie hoard in Alexandria, felt as though they had seen and could handle anything but the arrival of Negan is going to show them that for all the hardships and perils they've endured they've actually been kind of insulated. Someone like Negan has been out there all along, with more followers and, apparently, more resources than even the Governor and the folks at Terminus. And Rick, et al. had no idea. Last season that Jesus guy told them that their world was about to get a whole lot bigger. To me his words at first seemed optimistic but now that we've met Negan and some of his people Jesus's words have an ominous resonance. Rick and his people have no idea what the "bigger" world now contains. Anyway, that's just my take on it. Last season's finale really unsettled me, even more that the premiere of the previous season when they were almost slaughtered at Terminus.