20 Big Questions About 2017's Most Hotly Anticipated TV Shows

6. Can They Beat Negan? - The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead Negan
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After half a season of getting physically, mentally, and emotionally beat down, battered, and broken by Negan, Rick and co are ready to fight back against him and the Saviours.

It's about time, and should inject some much needed sense of purpose and direction into the series after a wearying start to Season 7.

It remains to be seen exactly how they'll fight back, given Negan's dominance thus far, but it's presumably going to require Rick assembling an army formed of every other community to feature this year. That building, with perhaps a couple of small victories, should form the basis of a chunk of Season 7B, building momentum to a major showdown, which could well play out into Season 8.

Can Rick and co win? Well, yeah, because they're the heroes and the show needs to last beyond this battle with Negan. How they win, and whether they can do it without any major casualties, are different matters.

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