Killing Pope off was a stupid idea, the guy had potential to be a top tier villain and they hyped him up so much only to kill him this early? Disappointing. And the cliffhanger was pointless as we know Maggie and Negan will survive.
Overall season 11 has been great so far, with episode 6 being the best one. It felt like a proper horror film.
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Judith will clearly survive, too. Although I honestly think we need to form a prayer circle for Gracie, they LOVE being sadistic with poor Aaron on TWD .
Pope had potential I guess but they made him too crazy too quickly for him to be a realistic villain for long… it was pretty obvious that his people were going to realise he had fully gone off the tracks sooner rather than later. They’d have had to write him a bit differently from the beginning. I think the elephant in the room is probably that they have a lot of content they want to get through and only one season (albeit nearly double the length of previous seasons) to do it… so they have to get villains like Pope of the way early. My suspicion is that Leah might be being introduced as a villain/antagonist for the Daryl/Carol spin off if that goes ahead.
A 4 month mid-season break is also ludicrous. There's always FTWD though I suppose.
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