Be kind to each other, on this glorious day of Thanks. Be kind to each other as if it was your last day on earth.

 

If he really was a High School Gym Teacher and Coach then that is enough for me?
All of his followers are just parents basement dwelling nerds and easily intimidated/manipulated.

That and he makes a very good strong Kool-Aid which he stirs with Lucille!

There are Rules:hatchet:

 

The most important lesson to remember on Thanksgiving Day:

 

Didn't Carol handle the Terminus pretty much by herself? The Saviors would have wiped them clean before lunch.

 

The Governors actual fighting unit was about the size of just one of Negan's outposts if they were lucky. The rest of the Woodbury residents were just a flock of sheep who had no clue how psycho he was until the very end. The Governors residents were willing residents who lived pretty well. where the residents at the Saviors compound are basically forced labourers working for points with Saviors keeping gem in line. Terminious was basically the Texas Chainsaw Massacers family all living in one large warehouse facility.

The Saviors are much more powerful then both of those groups as far as sheer numbers of fighters, weapons and have a better military style structer and leadership. As long as Negan surrounds himself with people at the top that he can trust his entire unit will grow and be a success.

Negan's downfall is going to be his ego and greed. He should have killed Rick's Group off when he had the chance. Instead he let them live so he could 'break' Rick then make them scavange around for supplies for him.

The Saviors have probably not met much resistance yet due to their overwhelming shows of force. But they are thugs and thugs only engage weaker targets. Once the odds become equal they will most likely crumble and fall apart. But it's going to take EVERYONE from ASZ, Hilltop, The Kingdom and whatever groups come in the picture to fight the Saviors. Right now the groups haven't even met and become allies it's a mutual interest to over throw the Saviors ........yet..........

 

^ A post of mine from another thread about this topic. It's not hard to imagine how he'd keep his own in line. Tyrants like Joseph Stalin ruled for 3 decades while being surrounded by high ranking elite's in his own society that "should" have taken him out at various points.

As for getting resistance from the other communities -- did you not see Rick's group take out one of his outposts and likely a 3rd of his men? Did you not see the resentment there in the HillTop to where Gregory OKAY'd the deal for Rick to go take them out? Did you not see the resentment from Kingdom sending them tarnished pork? Did you not see Jesus jumping on the truck to ride along and find out where the main base of operation is?

The resentment is there to challenge him and will boil over, they just lack the coordinated numbers and resources to do so at this very moment. There was no doubt resistance in the past and The Saviors have a consistent way of going about business that would have happened over trial and error. None of this is plot armor or a hole or outlandish. Look at human history if you've got doubts about brutal charisma ruling over large swaths of powerful people.

Additional: The retirement home Latin Gang weren't "villains" at all. They were shown as good people pretending to be rough in the same episode.

 

I know, Negan's such a puny bitch ass punk it's not even remotely funny but you're right the whole story line makes no sense.

Why didn't someone just snipe him right outside Alexandria when he came for his first visit?
Plink, would've been done and over right then and there.
All those tough lieutenants and other big biker men of his wouldn't know what to do without the big man there.
Once the fear of Lucille and repercussion is gone?

But...
He does have a sick and perverted rewards system in place, we saw evidence of that last week.
That does suit the kind of people who would follow him and he seems to pick just them kind.
He leaves the rest to 'govern' the villages from whom he collects reward.

But patience, my friend, we all know it takes more than three episodes to resolve such a tricky bitch situation.

 

Negan is a Displacer Beast when it comes to taking him down (Google it if not sure what that is). I can recall several instances in the comics where Negan was pretty much done for, but walked away without a scratch (Lucille is another matter). It is like when Merle tried to shoot the Governor and Ben walked right in front of the bullet, but Negan owns that side of luck and has a stack of "Get out of Jail Free" cards in his pocket. He has had so many near-misses I still think he has a prototype military force field secreted away somewhere on his person.

I get it--Plot Armor--But it does create a sense of invincibility and mystery about Negan, as every time you think someone is going to put him down he walks away smiling and looking tougher than ever. There is probably more panels showing Negan barely avoiding an attack than panels showing people getting bit by walkers (Hyperbole ahoy!!), and I can only hope they keep that to a minimum in the show.

 

The saviors must sit around and draw straws to see who gets to change oil in the vehicles. A bunch of greasy mechanics for sure.

 

He really was.

 

I imagine in the early days Negan grew his empire by recruiting smaller groups of less than ten who wanted protection from larger numbers. They probably grew to their first one hundred this way. As they became bigger and were lacking enough resources to feed this large group, they started the tactic of, when they ran into new groups, they likely killed them and stole all their stuff. Realizing this was not sustainable, they started what they have eventually evolved into, an intimidation group that keeps other groups alive so that they Negan's group have a continuous source of supplies.

 

Reminds me of true story involving my Jr high school gym teacher. One time he divided class into 4 groups and we ran relay race obstacle course. Members of the group that came in last had to crawl through all the other kids legs over hardwood gym floor and the other kids could spank them (with hands) as they went though. At the end of line ,the gym teacher stood with his wooden paddle (I dont know if he had name for it) for a last lick at the hapless losers. Luckily the group I was in didnt come in last. There were some sadistic kids that got kicks out of swinging hard as they could. He couldnt get away with that today, would be fired and lawsuits. That guy would have made a perfect Negan.

 

When and where did you go to junior high school? 1938 Berlin?

 

Actually, past life as gym teacher breathes life into the believability for me too.

Those people were usually strict and demanding with set rules. A good portion were also intimidating and mean. However, I was never spanked in any school setting and I find it fascinating that it used to be a punishment.

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Uhh... what the....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yc7NskErmE&ab_channel=Mcmunchly