![]() ![]() Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee - The Walking Dead: Dead City _ Season 1, Episode 1 - Photo Credit. ![]() Why are we on this new journey with these old characters? Didn’t we just say farewell to them, and didn’t they just say farewell to one another? Maybe not in their world’s timeline, but in ours the Negan/Maggie arc was nicely resolved at the end of The Walking Dead, and here it is dug up again, bloated and corpselike-though also stylish and groomed-a few months later. We get a lot of Maggie and Negan dialogue that feels rehashed from the main show, as though their relationship is determined to spin forever like a wheel.Īnyone new to this universe, just hopping in now, must be terribly confused without the relevant context. Negan agrees to help her if she helps a young girl he’s been protecting. ![]() Why she didn’t ask the New Babylon Marshals to help her in this task instead is not explained. She realizes he must have known Negan because when he took her son, he whistled the Negan whistle. In Dead City, Maggie has inexplicably tracked down Negan to get his help in rescuing her child, Hershel, from a mysterious villain known as The Croat. After all, we’ve spent years with these characters. But even the grim reaper feels absent here. And abundance should only be used to describe one thing in a zombie apocalypse show: Death. Now, here we are in Dead City where all these things are in abundance. In the first of many spinoffs, Fear The Walking Dead has spent years ignoring the realities of the apocalypse. The Walking Dead flirted with the idea of resource scarcity at one point, but that was quickly abandoned. ![]()
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