Right, but rarely do dedicated viewers of the show watch it in complete and total isolation. The culture around TWD, and any late-stage cable drama at this point really, is about soaking in an episode with others on the internet, directly after on Twitter and through recaps and comment sections and subreddits and so forth. The writers/showrunner knows this, or they would have never pulled off the whole "Is Glenn really dead?" schtick in the first half-season.

So the fact that we all know Negan is going to show up and will all but certainly murder somebody is communicated as much outside the show as it is within it. The baseball bat is just a comic detail that’s cemented itself through online discussions.

It’s a pretty fascinating experiment in how fans react to a plot twist they not only know will happen from the source material, but also because it’s been heavily choreographed out in the open by the show runners in the lead up. Yes, TWD could pull a switcheroo and substitute in Michonne or Daryl for Glenn (Michonne would make more sense, so as to enrage Rick even further) but it really shows how barebones the narrative has become. You’re totally right in that we’re just waiting for one of a few options to happen so we can pull out the requisite complaints.

It would be easier to kick back and watch TWD as a popcorn action TV show if the writing, acting, and tone didn’t scream "we want to be taken seriously." This show never cracks jokes and rarely if ever has it broken the fourth wall or had its character make any kind of meta-reference. Hell, they won’t even say the z- word!

I find it very unlikely they’ll withhold that information from the finale. That’s too shameless for even The Walking Dead.

^ good analogy!

I didn’t say Netflix was violating net neutrality. I understand that under the FCC’s guidelines, only an ISP can be found guilty of that. But I did say that this complicates Netflix’s stance on net neutrality, which is different. The company has proven time and again that open internet arguments can be used to score points with consumers, and Netflix has been a habitual user of those arguments to its own advantage. It’s not entirely clear the company cares at all about net neutrality unless the issue at hand directly improves its business.

Nobody cares about optimizing video. Everyone obviously understands a 4K video streamed to your smartphone is not a good idea. That’s not what this is about though. This is about Netflix taking a stance and then, without telling anyone including apparently Verizon and AT&T, undermining that stance while cutting customers out of the equation. If Netflix told customers it was doing this, or gave them the option to opt in or out, this would be a non-issue. But that’s not what happened.

You are both correct! Slight mixup. It’s been fixed.

You’re right! We’ll update the post. Thanks.

I really like the shirt idea actually.

Our initial assumption was that claims of its performance matching the iPhone 6S meant it was on par in both processor and memory. However, that may not be true, and Apple’s unwillingness to disclose the RAM points more toward 1GB than 2GB. We’ve updated the chart to reflect that it’s unknown at this time.