Intro:A lot happened this season, so we have a lot to get into. The season kicks off long after the War with Neagan. We see Rick, the hilltop and the Kingdom working together to gather necessary items to help them farm and continue to survive. We see that they must have finally run out of gas (only been more than nine years) as they have made makeshift horses and buggies out of cars. This is actually clever and well done, and believable. Frankly I would think things like this would happen much sooner as Gas would be scarce and going bad within the first four years or so of the apocalypse. All three communities seem to be thriving at this point, and the group has set off to gather key items at an old history museum in downtown DC. There's some action and drama as we see King Eziekle almost fall into a pit of zombies when the glass floor breaks. We also get to see that Carol and the King have a relationship and the King is interested in her hand in marriage.To be honest I don't have much feeling about the King and Carol hooking up. I personally would rather see a relationship further develop between Darol and Carol as I have always felt like there was some fire there and a deeper love and caring for each other. After all they have been together surviving from the first episode and Darol was the one who risked his life looking for Sophia and in that transformed into a mature and stronger character, who was loyal to the group but able to think for himself instead of living in his brother shadow. Carol played witness to all of this and in many ways Carol's new inner strength and being a badass in some part is because of Darol, and Darol becoming the reliable person he is now is Carols doing too. These two are very much connected and in that you would expect something romantic to form from it. Darol certainly cares for Carol probably more than anyone else, maybe Rick is a close second. Time will tell on this, I feel like there's still time for those two to walk off into the sunset together, live in the woods and start a family far away from the threats of the living and the dead. So that episode one in a nutshell really, it lays out the foundation for whats to come over the next couple of episodes and sets a the time table.We know it's months after the war because Maggie has had her baby, Herschell. Maggie is still dealing with the problems of the past though. Gregory decided at some point, arrogantly thinking that he would win, that the hilltop should hold an election for its leader. The Election was him against Maggie. He naturally lost, by a landslide. Gregory is a weasel and he only gets worse this season. Unfortunately the group ends up getting attacked while returning with supplies and one of the young men from the hilltop is bitten by a zombie trying to save horses. This naturally upsets the parents of this young man, they seem to air their grievances with Maggie and we get a little insight into how the locals are all feeling about the saviors hanging around and their people making what they perceive as unnecessary risks. Needless to say Gregory uses this moment to manipulate the father of the dead boy. Greggory knows that he had a drinking problem and offers him a glass of Tequila. They get drunk together and Gregory conspires with him to take out Maggie for the better of the community. Needless to say that plan fails, Maggie stops both of them. And now Maggie is left with a hard decision. Afterall she knows that this father was in mourning, drunk, and is otherwise a good man. He also happens to be the only blacksmith who is building plows for the fields. Remember kids, make yourself unfireable in whatever job you take… and in life. Be so important that people can't cancel or fire you. That's what this guy has going for him. If he wasn't the only blacksmith, he would be in the gallows right next to Gregory. And that leads me to the scene, dead of night, Gregory sits on horseback with a rope around his neck. Maggie has had enough of him. And with good reason. This man has tasted her and the others far too many times, and turned his back on them far too many times. With this last time being an attempt on her life. There's no better message to send to any group that if you break the rules you will die. Hmm, who does that sound a little bit like? (Negan)Maggie is 100% Negan in this scene, but it does not make her wrong. The community is far too young, and too fragile to deal with behavior like this in any manner that we would see in modern day society. For attempted murder, its to gallows. Negan showed us this when a man attempted to rape Sasha. It was an immediate death sentence. There's no time for that behavior right now, or ever really…. And they dont have the infrastructure for trials by jury. The show ends with Gregory dying. I was glad, that character was annoying and I was always worried he would try to hurt one of them, and he did...
