… Really Negan?.
"So far, the second half of Season 7 of "The Walking Dead" has been about Rick recruiting other groups to join the coming fight against Negan and the Saviors. Sunday's episode, however, was about another kind of alliance, an unspoken one between two very different men.
At least that's what I suspect we saw at the end of this week's installment, a cleverly structured hour that shuttled between the parallel stories of Eugene and Dwight but didn't have them meet up until the final scene.
Although the hour was superficially about those two men committing strongly to the Saviors, each man spent it broadly deceiving the Sanctuary and actively betraying certain members. (For Eugene, it was the wives; for Dwight, the luckless Dr. Carson.) Kari Skogland, the episode director, emphasized the hidden, with plenty of shots of revealing expressions — Eugene's smirks, Dwight's looks of angst — that the Saviors couldn't see. All of it trained us to believe the opposite of what we saw in the final scene:
"We are Negan," Eugene said.
"Yeah," Dwight replied.
Could it have been a sort of audience double-cross, so strongly implying ulterior motives in order to trick us into buying them? Possibly, and part of me would prefer to believe what the men showed us and their fellow members of the Sanctuary: that Dwight had embraced his inner flunky and Eugene his inner turncoat coward. The more surprising move would be to turn our sympathies against Eugene, one of the most beloved characters on the show…"
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Imho… Eugene is a Troyan Horse…
What do you think?
Amicalement
Armand
