Maggie’s motivation is more than understandable Negan murdered her husband right in front of her with a baseball bat, and waged a merciless war against their community. So we’re gonna bide our time, wait for our moment, and then we’re gonna show him.” “Rick was wrong to do what he did,” Maggie told Jesus. But as far as she and Daryl are concerned, letting Negan live was a mistake. The Saviors who Maggie held prisoner in the Hilltop Colony turned out to be good allies, as she admitted to Jesus toward the end of the episode. So, where does that leave Rick and the group? Still in pretty good shape-but with one major, ominous catch. “This end for the dead.” And then the smooth end: “This end for the living.” “Something to try.” He gestured toward the sharp end of Morgan’s aikido staff. We are.” But Jesus proposed a new approach, a happy medium of sorts: “I have a simple proposal,” he said. Morgan, who for a long time operated as an agent of nonviolence, has found himself in a conundrum: does he kill to protect those he loves, perpetuating the cycle of death, or does he do nothing, condemning those he loves to the same fate? “We are worse than we were,“ Morgan told Rick on the way to the final battle. Meanwhile, Morgan continued to face a struggle of his own: the perpetual feeling that he will never die, but will instead remain stuck, forced to watch everyone he loves die. Earlier this season, Carl’s plea to his father to show mercy to his enemies didn’t seem to sink in, but as Rick asked Siddiq to save Negan, it became clear those words actually did have an impact. The episode began with Siddiq letting Rick know exactly how Carl died: “paying respects to a woman he never knew,” Siddiq’s mother. As he makes his exit for Fear the Walking Dead, Morgan has simply withdrawn from the group, taking up residence instead in the Scavengers’ old junkyard. But as fans know, one original player will be leaving the series, at least for now-although, thankfully, he didn’t get killed off. All in all, it was a pretty flawless victory, and no major character died. “There has to be something after,” Rick told an inconsolable Maggie, echoing Carl’s dying words. Instead, following Carl’s admonition to establish peace, Rick instantly ordered Siddiq, a doctor, to save Negan. Rick chased down Negan and, just like he did in the comics ( comics spoiler), he slit his enemy’s throat-but not deeply enough to kill him. That allowed the allied communities an easy defeat over the Saviors, who quickly surrendered. The Saviors had Rick surrounded-but little did they know, Eugene had sabotaged all their bullets. But as the zombie drama heads into its ninth season, is there another threat lingering in the shadows-one Rick doesn’t see coming? It sure looks like Maggie could become the series’s best villain yet. On Sunday night, as promised, the war on the Saviors finally came to an end-and, thankfully for Rick and his allies, Negan’s attempt at deceit didn’t pan out. This post contains spoilers for the Walking Dead Season 8 finale, “Wrath.”
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