What I would really hope for is that we see Rick go thru all this crap to get back to the Hospital dying every inch of the way. Get back to the room where it all started. He collapses on to the bed...and then wakes up and we find out the whole show....WAS ONLY A DREAM!!!!!
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!! Ohhh could you IMAGINE the SHIT Storm if THAT happened!!!!!!!
Oh if Only To Dream!!!!!!!
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At the very least I expect this is when he'll see some vision of Shane before dying who was mentioned to make a cameo in this season... Definitely playing off the beginning of the show nostalgia in addition to the hospital.
I don't think it's the same people in the first season.
Last season when the Saviors killed the junk people their leader(name escapes me) asked Jadis was what the deal with the helicopter landing pad in the back was for. Jadis knows something but what is the question.
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The death of Rick only magnifies how MORONIC it was to kill Carl off last season. The natural progression of Carl having to pick up the mantle after the loss of his father could have propelled the show for seasons to come.
A fitting end for Rick's time on the show; an entire episode consisting of nothing but gay motivational speeches and dramatic background music. After 9 seasons of someone being somehow ambushed by a shambling corpse in broad daylight and never seeing it coming, I've just now realized it's because the background music drowns everything out. Can't have a formulaic episode without the music beating us over the head about what to feel.
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I stopped being able to subject myself to this show after the painstakingly large amount of nothing that was most of last season. Just based on reading the comments on this page, I take it things haven't improved this season.
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So I saw. Bait and switch thanks to deus ex helicopter.
Really enjoyed the dream sequences he had though. The Shane one was better than I thought it'd be, and Hershel having one last cameo was magical given when Scott Wilson recently passed away.
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: His foster daughter and another time jump in the next few episodes
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Both seasons are better than season 7, to be fair. After the Abraham and Glenn death episode, the pacing and writing mostly all went to shit. Season 8 was passable in comparison with the exception of Carl. The current one has been perhaps the most decent, but without Rick now, will be hard to remain as invested for me, though will at least give the last few episodes of the year a chance.