THE WALKING DEAD DIED....

...in this episode.

I have to get this off my hirsute chest. The season six finale had more plot holes in it than a Marine in Afghanistan’s flak vest.

This Walking Dead blew brass monkey chunks. It besmirched the battle hardened image of the cast and crew to be mindless rats being led to bloody cheese.

PLOT HOLES:

If the show hadn’t worked extraordinarily hard to show how resourceful Rick, Daryl, and Abraham were as strong survivors, it wouldn’t have mattered much.

Only two things the writer’s could have done would have worked... 

  Someone – namely Eugene, had to be a traitor and the Saviors got to him when they first kidnapped 

him and he decided to gnaw on some man meat.

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      2) If the Saviors were going to use the RV as a Trojan horse to get into Alexandria.

It appears that neither of those were the case.

So how would the Saviors just happen to know that Rick and posse were going to set out that day with Maggie? With the guard posts around Alexandria – they would have noticed some spying and that would have left very little time for the Saviors to put together this elaborate “air tight” plan.

Since it’s revealed that Negan is just going to let most of them live for tribute – which makes no sense. Coming from a gang background, you kill that many of our men, we would have wiped just as many, or more, of the rivals have the heliocentric Earth.

Puke. Negan says if they don’t pay the extortion, he come through that front door. Well, why hadn’t they done that already?

Since the RV is not being used as a Trojan Horse, it’s nihilistic of why the Saviors would put their men in danger when they set up the zombie chain gang. Especially when they had to intention of shooting Rick's group. They fired at their feet.

Makes no sense to risk manpower in an ambush like that when they had a chance to take out Rick and his men at that very moment, and like narcissistic Negan said -- "Come through the front door."

Eugene could have been a double crosser and all this would work.

And after the fiery third obstacle the Savior’s put in Rick's way – dropping a guy off a bridge, Rick and them finally realized it’s a setup. Then why not go back to the first roadblock with mutton chops and his six guys? Jump out a mile or two back, and take them out and forge ahead?  They had the least foes to deal with and two sniper rifles.

And it’s certainly interesting to see that they seemed to walk right into the noose. And all the Saviors were there—right on cue, whistling while they hack. So that would mean they all abandoned the roadblocks to be right there at the time the noose was brought tight?

That’s shoddy writing and does not suspend any logical person’s disbelief. They tried too hard to make this look like an elaborate plan, and no one allegedly as smart as Rick’s group would have fallen into it.

Nor Darryl and his group.

They're supposed to be the slaughterers, not the lambs. 

They keep being snuck up on. The writers and producers must have smoked too much ganja to let something with this many plot holes pass through.

I’m an avid fan of the show – but it’s got to go up in creativity – not call the faithful audiences stupid for giving us this at the threat of death to just take it force fed style.

I’d rather see zombie superheroes jump out and save them than fall for this asinine bull again.  

I don't read the graphic novel because I want to be surprised where the show goes.  And before you throw some bitch and moan cake at me... yes, if I was writing for the series -- I would have made it better.  Tell the producers to hire me.