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I don't sympathize with Negan but he is kind of fun.

I have yet to understand why Negan didn't just kill off Rick at the end of the season. He obviously understands that Rick and his crew know what it takes to survive but you would think he would also realize that he just isn't going to break them.

Since they are stretching out the final conflict with Negan to Season 8, I do hope and I do anticipate that we will get the Negan backstory. And it is probably a really good opportunity for TWD to redeem itself if the writing and acting are good and the story in intriguing. Count myself as someone that is very curious about his past. Was he always a bully and an ass, or what led to this?
 

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I don't sympathize with Negan but he is kind of fun.

I have yet to understand why Negan didn't just kill off Rick at the end of the season. He obviously understands that Rick and his crew know what it takes to survive but you would think he would also realize that he just isn't going to break them.

"Challenge accepted." - Negan
 

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Since they are stretching out the final conflict with Negan to Season 8, I do hope and I do anticipate that we will get the Negan backstory. And it is probably a really good opportunity for TWD to redeem itself if the writing and acting are good and the story in intriguing. Count myself as someone that is very curious about his past. Was he always a bully and an ass, or what led to this?
If I remember right, his backstory isn't all that interesting the little I remember but who knows if they show keeps it the same.
 

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I don't sympathize with Negan but he is kind of fun.

I have yet to understand why Negan didn't just kill off Rick at the end of the season. He obviously understands that Rick and his crew know what it takes to survive but you would think he would also realize that he just isn't going to break them.
I could deal with the Governor. IMO, Negan has no redeeming qualities. He's not trying to make things better for "his" people. He's just as sadistic to them as he is to everyone else.
 
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Negan has a charm and is entertaining. Take the Governor for example, even he had some intriguing traits, but ultimately the dark far outweighed the light which makes them villains. It's interesting when a show can take a villain, and eventually make the viewer favor them over time. Its makes for a more interesting show.
You and I have different definitions of "charm"!!!
 
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Since they are stretching out the final conflict with Negan to Season 8, I do hope and I do anticipate that we will get the Negan backstory. And it is probably a really good opportunity for TWD to redeem itself if the writing and acting are good and the story in intriguing. Count myself as someone that is very curious about his past. Was he always a bully and an ass, or what led to this?
The only thing I've heard is that he was a used car salesman. :D
 

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I don't sympathize with Negan but he is kind of fun.

I have yet to understand why Negan didn't just kill off Rick at the end of the season. He obviously understands that Rick and his crew know what it takes to survive but you would think he would also realize that he just isn't going to break them.
All supervillains need to monologue...without Rick, Negan can't do that.

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I don't sympathize with Negan but he is kind of fun.

I have yet to understand why Negan didn't just kill off Rick at the end of the season. He obviously understands that Rick and his crew know what it takes to survive but you would think he would also realize that he just isn't going to break them.

He respects him and the challenge of breaking him turns him on apparently. I mean really, what does Negan lose by continuing this? His followers are the ones who lose, and he just keeps replacing them.
 

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http://io9.gizmodo.com/frank-darabonts-furious-emails-to-his-walking-dead-cowo-1796879424

The Walking Dead’s original showrunner Frank Darabont continues to paint a bizarre (and vulgar) picture about the first two seasons of the show, as his $280-million legal fight against AMC has unveiled thousands of documents and emails from his time on set. In short, he was pissed.

A few years ago, Darabont and his agents filed a lawsuit against AMC saying he should’ve been paid, in full, for the second season of The Walking Dead—even though he was fired in the middle of it. He also claims he didn’t get his rightful percentage of licensing fees because the production studio licensed the show to the network at an obscenely low rate—on purpose, he adds—so people like him wouldn’t get the money they were owed.
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Here’s an email to executive producer Gale Anne Hurd and others from June 2011, one month before he was fired:

**** you all for giving me chest pains because of the staggering ******* incompetence, blindness to the important beats, and the beyond-arrogant lack of regard for what is written being exhibited on set every day. I deserve better than a heart attack because people are too stupid to read a script and understand the words. Does anybody disagree with me? Then join the C-cam operator and go find another job that doesn’t involve deliberately ******* up my show scene by scene.
 

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I have a really bad joke that I'm just going to keep to myself.

That's a bummer. Wonder what happened as usually they are all about safety With stuntmen
 

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I have a really bad joke that I'm just going to keep to myself.

That's a bummer. Wonder what happened as usually they are all about safety With stuntmen

Sadly I think I know the gist of your really bad joke. Probably along the lines of someone playing a zombie and the serious head injury.