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So...remember when I said I was boycotting Dead City? Welllll my dad bought the first season, so I watched it. And Boy oh Boy, Do I have Thoughts

Spoilers Ahead!!!

Note: I'm not going to address the Negan and Maggie of it all because I've long said everything I can about them.

One: What I liked, because believe it or not, I did actually like some things!

The setting! I loved seeing post-apocalyptic New York. It was really fun for me to pick out all the things I recognized.

Ginny. Was it a little annoying that she wouldn't listen to anybody? Sure, but a girl who shows up, clings to Negan like glue, and doesn't say shit? Literally, me. Character of the century.

Speaking of Ginny, I was LIVING for Negan's single dad era. Yes, king abandon your wife and son to take care of some random girl! He was living his best life.

The plot twist with Ginny was INCREDIBLE!! I was not expecting it at ALL. The fact that he killed her dad?? Bro my jaw was on the floor.

I actually liked the Croat and Negan's dynamic! I think it was funky and deliciously homerotic. However, I hate the Croat's character.

Two: What I DIDNT like.

Nothing made ANY sense, and NOTHING was explained. I get that Maggie was in New Babylon to find Negan but why was HE there? Last I checked nobody banished him from the Commonwealth. And where even IS this place? It seemed to be like Pennsylvania, New Jersey but still. Also, how did Maggie know he was there? Did she airtag him?? It made no sense.

The Croat was a TOTAL retcon. He made NO sense in the established canon. Let me explain:

3 a) I get NEGAN being upset that the Croat tortured a girl because his whole thing was no harming kids, but SIMON?? Bro you killed every boy over the age of ten at Oceanside and slaughtered all those garbage people, why are you on a high horse NOW??

3 b) If Negan could recognize that the Croat was too much of a wild card and needed to be dealt with, then why the HELL did he keep Simon around? Because Simon did MUCH worse.

3 c) The girl whom the Croat tortured was a scout from the Kingdom, but this makes NO sense with what we know about them? I believe the deal was as long as they paid proper tribute they'd leave each other alone, this feels like a major violation of this agreement? Like they were probably wondering what the hell happened to her, surely somebody had to address this at some point.

3 d) The Croat mentioned this story where Negan let him Lucille someone from the "river people." I feel like these people have to be Oceanside, but this is a total retcon either way.

I'll admit as a writer it's hard to keep up with details and I've had to change and retcon a couple of things myself in my stories, but surely they can go and make sure that everything in their spinoff that's a continuation of an already established story makes sense with it.

Anyway, I didn't hate it, but tbh my expectations weren't high. I got one (1) scene of evil jester Negan and a hinted promise that he'd come back in season two, and I'm disappointed. But if he DOES come back I'll have to watch I fear.

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I wanted to do a big post with all my headcanons that came from the Big Lore Friday (tm) but I think I'll do a few "shorter" ones.

Anyhow: The Ancient Elven Library, it's discovery and the implication for World building.

So, we all know that Gem was informed of the existence of the Library by the Ancient Wizards of the Crystal Cliffs. We also know that for Scott, the Library was more of a story, a tale he had been told as a kid. But Scott mentioned that the Overgrown might know if (and where) it exists, impling that it might even be as old as Aeor and Exor.

But what does that imply for the World and it's Gods, Deities? If the Overgrown (or is it Overgrowth??) is as old as the the Stag Gods, how old is the Empires world? How long have the societies existed? Is it the first world the Gods settled on or did they chose another one after the last fight between the Champions of the Stag Gods? Are the Overgrown and Rivendell connected or did the citizens of Rivendell settle in the original world occupied by the Overgrown?

How is the history of the empires connected? With the Big Lore Drop (tm) (I will continue calling it that, because, holy fork, there was a lot of information on Friday), we learned that the Crystal Cliffs are much older than they seem to be. I mean, ancient Wizards? in a land that doesn't even have a complete Village??? I don't think so. But we also learned that they knew about the ancient library, so they must have known about Rivendell. Or maybe, as Scholars, they worked with the Elven Scholars and that's why they know of it's existence? Gem also said at the end of her episode that she is but a young Wizard, who still has a lot to learn. She wants to build up her empire, create a magic school, prove her worth as a Wizard. I want to believe that a young Gem (or maybe a young Gem and her brother fWhip ????) were send to the Empires World from their Original World (wherever it might be) because the Ancient Wizards knew they would be needed to fight off one and fight with the other of the new champion of the Stag Gods. It would even be that far fetched to believe that there are other worlds out there, considering how Shrub joined the Empires World. Maybe the Wizards knew about the Overgrown. Maybe they sensed that it was a powerful force, a good one, a power of growth and prosperity, providing a good environment for Gem to become the best Wizard she could be.

I think, maybe, that the elves coming from Rivendell also came from their world to the world the Overgrown had settled in, but a long while before Gem was sent there. That's why it knows of the library. That's why Katherine was chosen as the new gardian, because the Overgrown sensed that a new protector was needed. (or maybe she woke up from a century long slumber, who knows how the guardian is chosen. Also the reason she had to rebuild her empire).

We now why the Crystal Cliffs have to be rebuild, we know that Katherine's empire needs to be rebuild, but what about the rest? Why does no one have an empire to live in, no place to stay? (we are just going to blatantly disregard the fact that this is a Minecraft world and that these are CCs creating mainly building content).

The ten original rulers woke up and gathered in the jungle, around a campfire. They then all went to seek out a place to settle and lay down their roots. A part of me wants to believe that they were all sent to the Empires World, where the Overgrown already existed, to help rid their world (or maybe even the universe ????) of all evil. Or maybe, apart from a few exceptions, they all already existed in this world and were hit by some kind of memory spell, making them forget their history, only leaving them with their identity and a wage memory of their history and customs? Regardless of how it went, I believe that all of them were called to build were they did.

All of them are connected somehow. Gem, Katherine and Scott, Lizzie and Jimmy, Gem, fWhip and Sausage, Pearl and Sausage, Sausage, Joey and Xornoth, Joey and Shrub, Scott and Xornoth, Pix and Death... The world is much older than we believe, and I don't think they are all native to that world. They might have all had the same staring point, but that was caused by something.

Now, the library itself was buried in the mountain. We also know that the Heart if the Sea thingy that Lizzie needed was buried in Scott's mountain. Have they risen to cover those things? is it more if a coincidence? Why always Rivendell? The fact that the book of Prophecies was inside the ancient library reinforces my belief that they (the rulers) are all there (the Empires world) for a reason.

Maybe the sea creature that birthed the Seablings is as old as the Overgrown, maybe even older. Maybe it's younger that the Overgrown but older than Rivendell. Maybe the prophecies are more ancient that any of them could ever be.

Who knows? I believe the world and it's inhabitants are all older than we believe and all interconnected somehow. But the rulers themselves are all just youngins (whatever is considered young in their culture) that try to build a better world than the one they left behind.