The Walking Dead: Is Negan taunting Maggie in the final scene?
By Renee Hansen
The Walking Dead “Here’s Negan” gave us a lot to think about regarding Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). We saw the good sides and bad sides of this character. Who is the real Negan?
We see the man who truly loved his wife but only showed it after discovering she had cancer. He had been cheating on her with her best friend, even on the day she was diagnosed.
The tender moments between these two were genuine, mostly likely because Negan was trying to make up for the lost time. Time that he wasted on an affair when he should have been looking for a job.
That smirk he gives Maggie at the end of the episode has many viewers perplexed. We saw a whole episode building up to the scene at the end where he makes peace with the death of his wife and burns his weapon, Lucille. But, what was the meaning behind this?
Is Negan, the ruthless leader of the Saviors, the real personality of the man?
When Negan comes back to Alexandria and gives that smirk to Maggie, what is that about? Does he feel if Maggie does kill him, this will redeem him for everything he has done? Is this smirk a challenge? Or is it of a man who has made peace with his demons and will deal with any consequences that come his way?
He has forgiven himself for what he did to his wife. But, I don’t think he has one concern about everything else he has done. He did what he did because he felt it was for survival, and I think he came to enjoy it all. His wife’s death and then the killing of the biker gang pushed him to the point of no return.
Negan has changed since we first met him, and now we know some of the story of what made him become the villain. Does this make us feel sorry for him? Forgive him? I don’t know that it goes quite that far, but it does give us a look into what made him snap.
I don’t see him returning to his old ways, but Negan does things in a calculated way. He has some plan in mind, and we will have to wait until season eleven to find out what this plan is.
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The Walking Dead returns on August 22, 2021, with its final season on AMC.