Insurgency in the Aftermath: 5 thoughts recapping 'The Walking Dead' mid- season finale. It is on! Oh, wait. Spoiler alert. If you don’t yet know what happened on Sunday’s mid- season finale of “The Walking Dead,” do not read beyond this paragraph. Deaths will be tallied. Schemes will be analyzed. World War I references will be invoked.

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1. The Walking Dead Season 7 premieres on AMC network in just over one month. Fans are excited to find out what will happen on the zombie apocalypse television show.
2. The Walking Dead Season 7, Episode 14 sees Sasha and Rosita take the fight to Negan (again).

Now, as I was saying: It is on! After spending the first seven episodes of the seventh season of AMC’s life- among- the- zombies epic essentially as servants to Negan, overlord of the Saviors and ruler of all they encounter, Rick and his posse have now decided it is time not to tithe but to fight. What changes things?

Rick and Aaron risk a lake of the undead to bring back some supplies for the Saviors and instead of gratitude get a beating. Negan takes out a couple of Rick’s people while Rick is away hunting and gathering — not that one of them, the treacherous- to- the- last- drop Spencer, didn’t have it coming. And Michonne, Rick’s special lady friend, gives him a stand- up- and- fight pep talk worthy of a sports movie. Watch Monster Online Full Movie.

So a battle with Negan is finally coming. Because I am so excited about this change in the momentum of the series, which had been doing kind of a slow burn for most of the season, I’ll get right to it. Here are 5 thoughts recapping “The Walking Dead” Season 7 Episode 8, the One in Which Archduke Ferdinand Was Killed, Metaphorically Speaking: 1. Credit to the producers for an honest end- point. It is a sort of a cliffhanger, yes, having the mood in the camps change from submission to insurrection. We really want to see what happens next. But it’s not at all like the Season 6 ending moment that left us knowing Negan had killed one of the show’s main group, but forcing us to tune in to this season’s first episode to find out who.

So I admire their insurgent spirit, but how are they going to pull this off, exactly? Everybody who encounters the Saviors, right up to Michonne in this very episode, comes away thinking they are too many and too powerful to be defied.

Also: They have almost all of the known munitions. Certainly there are potential Saviors weaknesses. Negan is a world- class jackass who has got to have multiple enemies inside his own camp just waiting for the opportunity to end his reign of blather. Combining Alexandria, the Hilltop and the Kingdom will at least add a little punch to this new resistance army, which we’ll be able to better size up when the series resumes in February. For even more fighting power, Daryl is back with the gang, having used the key that was slipped under his jail- cell door in the last episode. Negan doesn’t know about them so, perhaps, surprise! They could do for Rick and company what the knights of the Vale did in !

And then somebody can feed Negan to the hounds. MOST READ ENTERTAINMENT NEWS THIS HOURBut that’s getting ahead of the game. Before that, they’ll have to move quickly and wisely to keep the Saviors from snuffing out the rebellion before the candle even lights.

First order of business: Stop with all the hugging it out and the lingering looks at each other in the final group scene — I’m looking at you, Sasha and Rosita! I would like Michonne to step back in time and give the half- time speeches to my high- school hoops team.

We probably still would have lost in the end, but at least we would have had a little spark in the 3rd quarter. Her stemwinder to Rick is essentially the long version of her essential earlier- in- the- season quote, “Everything we have we got by fighting.” This time, though, Rick is more receptive, because Negan has killed Spencer and then Olivia, and because being in his thrall is clearly no kind of livable bargain.“We’re still standing, and we’re gonna keep standing,” she tells him. How do we make that mean something?

This is one united group. One poor, undermanned, barely weaponized, potentially Quixotic group. Fingers crossed. 4. Go ahead, ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls, this episode, for Spencer Monroe, stealer of community booze and would- be usurper of Rick’s command.

He goes to Negan to try to get himself installed as leader over Rick, and Negan, to his credit, takes out the weaker, sneakier man, disemboweling him on the street in front of the community. The bell tolls for Olivia. After the Spencer scene, Rosita fires a shot at Negan, but her lone bullet hits his pet baseball bat rather then his head. In a fury, Negan orders a flunky to kill someone, and the person shot at random is Olivia. Farewell, Olivia, we didn’t know much about you, but in keeping the community’s pantry and armory you seemed to be a fine supply sergeant. Nobody was as good with a clipboard.

The bell may toll for Eugene, the group's resident savant. He confesses to making the bullet Rosita uses, and the Saviors haul him off as a hostage.

Negan doesn’t know yet, that he is in essence swapping Eugene for Daryl, a big gain to the core group from a guerrilla fighting standpoint. The bell tolls for a bunch of lake- bound zombies. In a scene right out of a video game, Rick and Aaron have to cross said zombie lake to get to some supplies a mysterious person has stashed and booby trapped; he is likely the guy in the boots. The scene is sort of fun, but you also wonder why they don’t just walk around the lake to at least take a shorter route. I guess a “mid- season finale” is really a thing now.

I want to be mad at AMC for splitting its “TWD” seasons into two parts, forcing us, this time, to wait two months for the resumption of hostilities. But I kind of like that we’ll all have a break for the holidays. We can celebrate with our families. We can go back to work. We can, gulp, witness a new president being sworn in. And then we’ll return to our TV sets, fully in the mood for some post- apocalyptic escapism, some gratuitous mayhem and some vicarious rebellion.

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