The Walking Dead Mid-Season Premiere: 2 Ups & 4 Downs From ‘Adaptation’

1. It's All About Negan... Again

Adaptation almost entirely centres around Negan, as he comes to a character-defining truth. It's important stuff, no doubt, but the fact that the showrunners opted to devote so much of Jesus' final hour to the character who is responsible for the series' nosedive really goes to show that they haven't learned from their mistakes at all.

Yes, the Negan character - and subsequent All out War storyline - is one of the comics' greatest arcs, but the fact of the matter is is that, as a result of sloppy execution, it simply didn't translate well to screen. If the show stands any hope of truly leaving that less than stellar period in the past, then the writers would be better off dropping Negan altogether, but for some reason, they're hellbent on turning him from antagonist into protagonist.

As great as it is having the brilliant Jeffrey Dean Morgan on the show, there's little chance that viewers will ever be able to accept Negan as the series' new protagonist after what he did to Glenn and Abraham.

Having said that, Negan's stuff in Adaptation wasn't all bad, and the new score that features when he's on screen is pretty cool. However, if it proved anything, it's that the character no longer belongs in this show, but rather in a separate spin-off all to himself.

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