Only a couple hours to go. Just finishing up the last episode, Start to Finish, as I re-watched the first half of the season today to re-familiarize myself with what all happened.

While the first half was definitely not on the level of Walking Dead's Greatest Episodes, they still progressed the story fairly well. While opinion here seemed to hate the Morgan episode, I actually liked that episode. You finally find out what happened to Morgan after Rick last crossed paths with him and how he eventually found his way to Alexandria. As well as how Morgan became such a "no killing" pussy.

My biggest wonder right now, is what will happen in tonight's episode to pick the story back up. And then how long they wait before introducing Negan and company. I seriously hope they aren't thinking of playing out the Negan story arc in just the second half of the season or something like that.

They completely chopped out the best parts of the prison and Woodbury/Governor story arcs. So much dark shit happens in those arcs, that set the tone for the entire group further down the line, and it's all completely ignored.

There is so much shit that happens in the Negan story arc to last at least a full season, possibly even two seasons depending on amount of filler episodes and any areas where the writers choose to stretch things out over multiple episodes. The whole Negan arc stretches 35 comics in the series, of which there were only 126 comics at the time of the end of the Negan arc, so the Negan arc is a massive and long arc in terms of the The Walking Dead story as a whole.

And really, Negan is only the first act of a massive overall story arc. As long as the writers don't fuck things up too bad, we're on the threshold of a massive story arc that has enough happen in it to easily last another 2-4 seasons, especially since in the comics, they're only part way through the the "second act" of said massive overall story arc.