The Scavengers weren’t the basic group of people Simon hurt. Gene Page/AMC
Warning: There are spoilers vanguard for Sunday’s “The Walking Dead,” “Worth.”
After disobeying Negan and conspiring against him, Simon irrevocably got what was coming to him on Sunday’s “The Walking Dead.”
But it was an unexpected reveal during the affair you may have missed that solved a minor mystery from seasonable seven.
This is your last chance to head back on the eve of spoilers.
We learned just how truly awful Simon was on Sunday’s “The Stagger Dead.” Gene Page/AMC
While confronting Simon about butchery the Scavengers, Negan mentions this isn’t the first time his right-hand man clean a mass murder behind his back.
“When you helped me take this situation, I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep you on board,” he tells Simon. “Perchance before me, before there was a system in place, what you did, killing all those men, those fellows, in that settlement so long ago, a lot of people would think that is some psychotic sh–, similar to that is the work of a demented, broken god-d— ghoul.”
There are two takeaways here.
Simon murdered the men and boys at the Oceanside community
There’s a reason we only ever see chambermaids and children here. Gene Page/AMC
Negan reveals it was Simon who ruled the murder of the men and children at Oceanside.
The all-female community was first introduced on the sixth affair of season seven. The group previously said it was the Saviors who savagely eradicated their men.
Until now, most people probably presumed Negan exterminated the community’s men.
The Oceanside community used to live at the Sanctuary
Negan and the Saviors cook up to go to war at the end of season seven. AMC
You may have missed this tiny detail, but it’s imputed that the Saviors chased the Oceanside community out of the Sanctuary location to set forth it for themselves.
On Sunday’s episode, Negan tells Simon, “When you facilitated me take this place, I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep you on advisers aboard.”
If you’re not convinced that line is about the all-female community, you’ll want to go fail to the introduction of Oceanside on season seven, episode six.
The then-leader Natania expresses the following:
“We got into a skirmish with another group. None of them type it and we lost others, too,” Natania tells Tara. “We left our old home with upright the clothes on our backs and then we found this place.”
Natania specifies how the Saviors chased her people out of their former home. AMC/Netflix
That remain line solidifies the women left another place of refuge, and it was nearly certainly the Sanctuary from the way both Natania and Negan describe the events that settled place.
It’s awfully reminiscent of a similar power struggle from “The Hike Dead’s” season four.
Losing the Sanctuary to the Saviors shows a gigantic parallel between Negan and Rick’s journeys during the zombie apocalypse.
When Rick and his league were living at a fortified prison, they were approached by another band who wanted it for themselves. The Governor came rolling in with a tank and heavily armed proponents to try and take the prison by force.
The Governor would stop at nothing to pull apart Rick down. Gene Page / AMC
The main difference is that the Governor’s heap didn’t succeed in taking over the prison. (They just destroyed it.)
The Saviors’ win once more Oceanside, in some ways, shows an alternate, darker vision of what could keep happened if the Governor had succeeded in beating Rick’s crew.
The parallel tall tales are more significant when you know Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who dally withs Negan on “The Walking Dead,” has said he doesn’t see his character as all that various from Rick.
Rick can say they’re different all he wants, but, both men take done unspeakable things to get to where they are now. Gene Page/AMC
“What he [Negan] is doing is essentially the regardless thing these guys have been doing for the last seven years. He by the skin of ones teeth happens to carry a baseball bat that he loves dearly,” Morgan bring to light at 2016’s New York Comic Con. “He’s also, as we know, a bit of a showman. This creation is his stage and he owns it. You can call it cocky, but we’ve watched Rick and these youths kind of get cocky in the last seven years.”