Hopefully there won't be so damn much slow-paced padding as with the last season. Despite some of the animosity the show's gotten in more recent times, still kinda looking forward to it.
so apparently the producers, including Kirkman, are filing an around $1 billion lawsuit, the largest in tv history, against AMC for screwing them out of Walking Dead profits. It says that not just The Walking Dead, but the entirety of AMC could be at stake
Honestly, with this potential firestorm, not to mention where the story is, I think it would be PERFECT for them to announce season 8 as the final season. They've already called Negan "the ultimate villain", and considering the war with him will last the entirety of Season 8 apparently, he will also have been the shows longest running villain with 2 and a half seasons. So it kind of makes sense to just make him the final villain of the show. End the show with his defeat, have the epilogue be the time skip, and then tease the Whisperers as further adventure to come for the heroes. That would be a great series finale, rather than going into the rather admittedly boring and repetitive Whisperers arc of the comics. So yeah, I think they should just end with season 8 and die with dignity rather than try to carry on with the show as both the storyline and budget become stagnant