00:01So much has happened, so much that we shouldn't have lived through, and in spite of it, or maybe because
00:08of it, we did.
00:11We're still standing, and we're going to keep standing, so what do we do with that?
00:17The first half of season 7 was very much about these characters and the audience finding their way forward from
00:25an incredible trauma.
00:26It was really about adjustment to who you are in the wake of it, and how you piece yourself together,
00:32and can you?
00:33It was something that will take so much time to recover from.
00:37Everybody is broken.
00:40We have to grieve, we're in mourning, but at the same time we have to pick up the pieces and
00:46figure out how we move forward.
00:48Let me put this to all of you as clearly as I can.
00:53I'm not in charge anymore.
00:58Negan is.
00:59The worst was seeing Rick just so defeated.
01:02All of this.
01:03It makes Rick believe that the only way forward is compliance.
01:07It's not how the group is built to actually cater to this type of oppressive tyranny.
01:13It begins with a man being obedient and going out of his way and risking his life for Negan in
01:20order to preserve life in Alexandria.
01:23But throughout, there are successions of moments that change his mind, and makes him realize that this is an untenable
01:33situation.
01:39By the end, we see that all of these characters that have been in different places have wound up on
01:44the same page.
01:45The promise of the future is that, okay, they weren't ready.
01:49They weren't in a place to fight.
01:51They are now.
01:52There is this moment of optimism, one of the rare, rare moments in this front aid that, you know, we're
01:59rebuilding and we're together again, or at least it's the beginning of the resistance.
02:05Do you see that hope that we just maybe might can?
02:11It's been an interesting journey the first half of Zevin, and it's only going to get more crazy.
02:18You're seeing people now in a whole new place of really strategizing, but really against magnificent odds.
02:25There are some very practical obstacles in front of them.
02:28They still don't have the weapons, they don't have the manpower, but they've got the will.
02:34Now it's up to us to go out and find other communities who are willing to fight and take them
02:39down.
02:40We came to ask the kingdom to ask you to join us in fighting the saviors, fighting for freedom for
02:47all of us.
02:48In the second half of season seven, there's a storm coming.
02:52And it is a very different fight.
02:54It can't be one with just physical force.
02:57What we're building toward the end of seven is Rick trying to reemerge and find himself again, and Negan is
03:05still there with a big smile on his face waiting.
03:08So, you know, we're getting to the breaking point.
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