'Daryl' & Co. Are Under Fire In This New Clip From The Next THE WALKING DEAD

I think like RorMachine, Glenn will be back just in the season finale. Maybe with Jesus by his side.

goddamn, they lit that car up.

Doubt it's the wolves, unless they've gotten their hands on guns.. Which wouldn't make sense, because why not use those on Alexandria. My guess is that it's Negan's crew. Or maybe a group that they won't explain.

I kind of hope Glenn is dead, what with all the crying about the show runners deceiving their poor fans, and all that nonsense.

@TheBad TRUTH to all the above.

Well, Sophia's storyline in season 2 at least served a purpose as additional fuel for the growing conflict between Rick and Shane. Rick wanted to keep looking because it was the right thing to do; Shane wanted to abandon the search and not risk anyone else from the group because it was logical thing to do. Her absence added drama to the stoyrline.

Glenn's undecided fate doesn't. It was a cliffhanger episode and had it occurred at the mid-season or season finale, it would have been acceptable. But so early in the season, and leaving it just hanging there unresolved while Gimple surrounds it with empty filler episodes? Not so much. The only thing it adds to the storyline is frustration, and the episodes we've gotten since are clearly and inarguably designed to drag the "mystery" out without contributing anything of note on their own (except for Maggie's revelation -- which was actually treated like a throwaway line and I had to skip back and watch that scene again to make sure I heard it right).

Gimple's priorities are completely out of order. Starting with season 4, it stopped being about characters dictating plot and is now the other way around; now it's the plot which drives the characters, with Gimple making them conform to a pre-determined storyline. The characters are nothing more now than marionettes. This is why for the last few seasons we've got a lot of characters doing things we know they'd never do or act in a manner we know they never would. Before Gimple took over, Beth would never have risked the lives of everyone present just to take a cheap shot at that lady cop. Tyreese, who on more than one occasion took down entire groups of Walkers with nothing more than a hammer, would never have been so stupid as to die at the hands of a SINGLE, GROANING ZOMBIE IN AN OTHERWISE EMPTY, QUIET ROOM coming at him from behind. And Glenn -- always so resourceful -- would never have let himself get cornered in [frick]ing alley, even when draggin dead weight like whats-his-name.

Gimple comes up with scenes and events he wants to see, then makes the writers get the characters there by any means necessary. It's the scriptwriting version of putting the cart before the horse. And I like that other people have finally started to catch on to that fact. Fingers crossed that Gimple's out after this season, though I'm not going to get my hopes up.

glenn is listed as appearing in every other episode this season on imdb, except the next one and the previous 2

@LoudLon. Fair enough. I personally still enjoy it, just think they should cut the series down to fewer episodes to avoid some of the more duller eps.