“This Is My Yard!” – A “The Walking Dead” Finale Recap

So around about the time Brock Lesnar was putting down Goldberg at Wrestlemania (“SUPLEX CITY, BABY!” – Tom Cable), the war was starting on “The Walking Dead”. About 90 minutes later, I wish I’d actually been watching it, a feeling I hadn’t had all year. It took a predictable Wrestlemania for me to realize that I was actually missing the better show.

Well, everything started like it should. Alexandria was prepping; securing alliances; setting traps.

The Saviors were having pancakes, and Negan was prepping Sasha to be his emissary to convince Rick to take the least bloody way out. She even offered to ride in the coffin because “she needed the rest” and Negan obliged because he’s got a soft spot for the ladies.

Dwight was helpful in his role as double-agent, by working to slow down the Saviors as they advanced on Alexandria. When it looked like the war was about to start,

it turned out the Junkyard Gang had turned on Rick & made their own deal with Negan.

  

So that was unexpected.

Then Negan opened the coffin, and out popped Sasha, now turned into a walker after taking the suicide pill Eugene gave her last episode.

  

While she had a snack, chaos broke out.

In the end, Rick & Carl end up captured and handed over to Negan for execution. Negan says he’s going to use Lucille kill Carl and then take Rick’s hands.

Rick gives him the old Razor Ramon – “don’t sing it; bring it” – and just as Negan starts his backswing, the Saviors are attacked by The Blue Man Group…

err, Shiva the Tiger, who has arrived with the Kingdom & Hilltop forces.

As the rest of the forces open fire on the Saviors,

the Junkyard Gang takes off with their weapons – and I’m sure an episode next year will be devoted to Rick hunting them down –

and Negan beat a hasty retreat, giving a defiant finger while proclaiming “We’re going to war!”.

The episode ends with Maggie & Jesus putting down walker Sasha, and the united alliance addressing their people.

A pretty solid episode. Even though some things were quite predictable – Sasha’s death; Rick & Carl not dying – they provided enough surprise that it made for an engaging watch, something that really hadn’t happened at all for an entire episode this year.

It sets the stage for Season 8, which should be all about the war. That honestly should be where the series ends – the redemption of Rick Grimes, and his establishing a community that goes on into the future. So next year, when the 2 in 23-2 meet in the Wrestlemania 34 main event, hopefully “The Walking Dead” main event will be a much more interesting finale to a years-long feud.

Unlike the Undertaker,

no one will get as good a send-off.

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jjfozz

Best part is the wacky leader of the Garbage Gang – I call her The Dame of Dementia – saying, “I will lay with you.” And Rick was kinda thinking, “In the post apocalypse world, where I’ve already bedded a samurai sword swinging warrior, boning a chick this fucking crazy would be the icing on the cake.”

Also, what the fuck kind of gun was the Redneck Redeemer using? Did they fucking steal that from the Cylons? I want one.

Good episode, and fuck Mr. Burn Face, Redneck Redeemer should have skewered that motherfucker like a shrimp on a kabob stick.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Agreed about Daryl’s new gun. That fucking thing was sweet.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I only finally got to watch today so I’ve been avoiding this thread.
I enjoyed the episode, but the happiest part was the end, seeing Shiva intact.
All those guns, and fortunately no one thought to shoot the fucking tiger and get on with things.

That cat deserves a big ol’ box of Meow Mix, if only for having great timing. Here Kitty, kitty.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Great nudity in this episode!!

*May have been watching something else.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Props to AMC for making me feel so apathetic about this show, that as entertaining at this episode finally was, it doesn’t make up for the slog that the last season has been. I watch this show now only because it feels like an obligation, and the last time I remember doing that was LOST, which is really what you want to be compared to. If next season sin’t the last, it will probably be the last one I watch.

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/Dick joke

LemonJello

“Drag a war out for two years? Amateurs.”

-Bush Administration, 2003

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[is triggered]

– Jason Pierre-Paul