re: Official Walking Dead S07E04"Service" Thread (NO SPOILERS)

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Pretty sure you're not allowed to say "I just slipped my dick down your throat and you thanked me for it" before 9 pm. It happened like 5 or 10 minutes after the hour.

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Can you show me the rules on this since it's cable? What about California?

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They can say whatever they want on cable. Cable isn't regulated by the FCC.

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Absolutely, 100% Wrong.

"Do the FCC's rules apply to cable and satellite programming? In the past, the FCC has enforced the indecency and profanity prohibitions only against conventional broadcast services, not against subscription programming services such as cable and satellite. However, the prohibition against obscene programming applies to subscription programming services at all times."

https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/guides/obscenity-indecency-profanity-faq

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meanwhile the kingdom is happy making cobbler and singing dylan songs. it doesnt make any sense

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You can infer what happened based off of what we know pretty easily. Rick and co. fought back against Negan. He attacked and killed their people. He got the Lucille treatment because he needed to be punished. One can infer from this that Hill Top also rebelled from and fought against Negan. They both got put in their place.

The conclusion that you can then draw from this is that Ezekiel and the Kingdom did not fight with Negan and the Saviors. He peacefully acquiesced and met the demands of Negan. He recognized that he would be just putting his people in danger by trying to directly oppose Negan, and he just went along with the demands. Therefore Negan did not need to terrorize them, and Ezekiel successfully protected his people from even the knowledge of Negan. This may have even been part of their agreement.

It makes perfect, simple sense. You just have to think about it a little.

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Kind of curious why they didn't do this. They knew the dude was coming. Seems like this should have been the first thing they did...

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I get what you're saying but Rick did say negan was early... maybe they planned on doing something

I believe Negan is only a character for this season, fwiw

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frick no, he's awesome I hope he sticks around somehow... he's one of those bad guys that you have to like. I think he's a great character

Not sure they can build negan's backstory and destroy his 'kingdom' all in one season


I wouldn't mind his storyline carrying on for a season or three

It really made no sense for Rick not to take Negan out when he found the hidden guns. Dude was just sitting out there with the one chick. He could have easily done it. His group would fall into chaos without him to control them and sure, some of the might try to attack Alexandria, but mostly they would fight amongst themselves.


Also have to wonder why nobody seems to have any real military equipment. The governor has a tank but that was it. Can nobody fly an Apache helicopter in this world? One Apache could take all of Negans people out. Hell even a couple tanks could and driving a tank isn't much different than driving a bulldozer.

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that would be extremely lazy writing which i alluded to in my original post. we are shown that negan genuinely enjoys fricking with people and exerting his will in the crudest and most barbaric way possible.

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We have seen that he pragmatically has forced Rick to his will because Rick provoked him. Your assertion that Negan is too much of an a-hole to act in his own self interest is what doesn't make any sense.

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we are shown that negan genuinely enjoys fricking with people and exerting his will in the crudest and most barbaric way possible.

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Yes, but remember this is only after Rick killed a bunch of his guys. We may find out differently, but I think Negan is evil and smart. Why go start a war even if you can win when you can sit in the cut, collect taxes, and rule by fear with your minions doing all of the work. Remember in this world fighting isn't actually that hard, the hard part is the day-to-day living and feeding and supplying your people.

Also we see the Kingdom has at least some weapons. Speculating here but you go start a war with the kingdom and win but lose some of your guys and maybe kill half of their group. Now you need more of your men to police/rule the half of the Kingdom still left (who hates you and would maybe rather die than work for you), and you want them to now give you half of what they produce with only half the original population?

We know war is probably coming, but it makes no sense for Negan to initiate it. In fact I wouldn't even call it war, its going to be more like a colonial uprising/rebellion when it happens.