The Walking Dead: It Doesn’t Matter WHY You’re Negan

[dropcap1]I[/dropcap1] had an odd feeling after watching this week’s The Walking Dead. I wasn’t angry or sad or even disappointed. The absence of those emotions–a new sensation in the last season or so–gave me pause. Was this a good episode? [clutches pearls; looks around in disbelief] Even though I’m confused and a bit scared I’m going to proceed as though this was a good episode because I think… I think it might have been. Eugene. No, I’m not faulting him for using the one skill that he had, his intelligence, to survive. But he did not need to put other people’s lives in danger over and over and over again to do it. This was a chess piece episode, one of my favorite kinds of episodes. We got to focus on who–on a fundamental level–theses character are. We’ve known Eugene was a lying coward since he first appeared on the show. Are you a government scientist with all of the answers to shitshow engulfing the world? Will you save us if we protect you? I fault Abraham’s gullible ass for that one as well.[divider type=”space_thin”]Eugene putting other people’s lives in danger over and over and over again to do it. To survive. Yet that’s what he chose to do when he told Abraham and Rosie to and ultimately Rick that if they would just deliver him untouched pristine and protected to the CDC that he could help us solve this problem. He knew it was a lie. He had no in the game in mind. That brings us to this week’s episode.

He’s been captured by the saviors. Negan knows that Eugen…