So over the past several episodes we’ve been told that a new villain named Negan would be showing up, and last night he finally did in the last ten minutes of the finale. He’s played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and was very captivating and charming, but also very scary because of how violent and cruel he is. IMO he was ten times scarier in those ten minutes than any villain ever seen before on the show, even The Governor. 

Anyway, Rick (the main character) and his group have killed quite a few of Negan’s crew members because they were a tremendous threat and just very bad people, and this displeased Negan greatly.(”You’ve killed a lot of my people. More than I’m comfortable with.”). Negan decided that an example needed to be made to show Rick’s crew that he was not to be trifled with, so he told the group that he was “going to beat the holy out of one of them” with his baseball bat covered in barbed wire (affectionately named Lucille) and made everyone line up and played eenie-meenie-minie-mo to decide who that person would be. Naturally the group was terrified, and some of them were crying--even Rick, who has acted so especially badass this season that it bordered on arrogance, looked like he was about to shit his pants. 

When Negan finally selected his victim it was through a first-person camera angle (making it look like Negan was talking to the viewer), and as he started beating them with Lucille blood slid down the camera lens before blacking out entirely as Negan could be heard saying “wow, look at that! Taking it like a champ!” and more sickening thumping sounds of the unseen character being beaten to death. 

The reason so many viewers are pissed is because The Walking Dead has been building up Negan’s arrival for weeks and we’ve known that a character was going to be killed off. The finale was an extremely tense episode (I almost never get scared by TV shows and even my heart started pounding the second Negan appeared) and just when we were about to find out who the doomed character was they pull an under-handed, sneaky move by not even telling us who died in a cheap ploy to get us to tune in next season.