Newscast Blog: The Walking Dead Premiere

     Yesterday, October 23rd, Sunday, possibly the biggest and most hyped season premiere in television history aired. The Walking Dead: Season 7, Episode 1. After waiting for over 6 months the fans are finally given the answer to one of the greatest mysteries in television history, who did Negan kill? But why did Negan want to kill someone? Well, in the episodes before that Rick and his group meet a man by the name of “Jesus” and his community the Hilltop. But the community was beginning controlled by Negan. So Rick made a deal, if Rick and his group killed Negan the Hilltop would help them out and give them some food. The Hilltop agreed and Rick went out to kill Negan. Instead he killed a ton of Negan’s men, which made his furious. So Negan got Rick and his group and trapped them. Then Negan killed someone but the community couldn’t see because the writers made it so you couldn’t find out until the season premiere.
     The community was in a uproar when the season finale of The Walking Dead aired over a 6 months ago. After the episode aired fans speculated for months about who did Negan kill and finding evidence to support their claim. People thought it was Glenn due to him being the one to die in the comics. Others thought that it was Abraham due to the popular “Orange Crush” theory. The “Orange Crush” theory explained that since Abraham didn’t die his comic death people thought that the Orange Crush that was shown in a multiple episodes said that Abraham because Abraham was red hair. Then if it wasn’t those two then people thought that it was the fan favorite Daryl because of the impact it would give. But yesterday the community finally got their wish. They found who Negan killed. But in the months leading up to the episode, things had been figured out and leaked. Leaked clips of the death were shown. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the actor who plays Negan accidentally said that there would be more than one death. Also the script for the episode was leaked. Which said who died in the premiere.
     But yesterday we got to saw who got Lucilled by Negan. It was Abraham and Glenn, they both meet their gruesome end in the premiere. Abraham was picked during the initial “Eney, Mene, Meny, Moe” sequence. He was picked and gave a peace sign to his lover Sasha. Then Negan hit him right on the top of the skull with his baseball bat. But Abraham got back up and told Negan something that I won’t repeat here and then Negan hit him again killing him. Then Negan went to town with his baseball bat on Abraham’s head. Then out of grief for his lost friend Daryl punched Negan. But instead of killing Daryl, Negan made a example out of Glenn. He hit on the head so hard that Glenn’s eye popped out. As Glenn was dying he said one last thing to Maggie his wife, he said “Maggie, I love you”. Then Negan hit him again, and again, and again. Then with his sick and twisted charm made a joke saying that “Lucille is a vampire bat”.
     After the episode the community was divided. Some were mourning the lose of two of their favorite characters. Others had pitchforks in hand waiting for Rick to get revenge on Negan. Other people loved Negan. But the community has to say that Jeffery Dean Morgan’s portrayal of Negan was great and the community will soon love him or love to hate him.