Contains comic spoilers, spoilers for the final antagonists of S5 of FTWD (what group they belong to), speculation about Maggie & TWD S10.
The more we learn about the "keys to the future" group over on FTWD, the more dangerously b.s. they seem to be. All we know from TWD is that Maggie is apparently helping them to build settlements and start up new communities. Based on what we've seen of how Ginny rolls over on Fear, this is... quite the story for Maggie's eventual return and it sets up something kind of interesting when you consider how these two plots might cross over.
Maggie might be in a bit of an unhinged position and she might have been taken in by Georgie and led to believe something about this group before uncovering how dangerous they really are but one thing is for sure-- she's been straight up gone from Hilltop for ages and with Baby Hershel along with her, making it more difficult for her to rebel. For Maggie to leave her people like this-- even after she needed a break-- seems odd and it's now becoming more evident that she's been pulling a Victor Strand for awhile now and long gaming this group. Now, ask yourself: if Keys to the Future has Maggie as one of their community settlers... don't you think they would want Hilltop? Don't you think the first community they'd want her to establish for them would be her own? So, what if Maggie had a plan for that?
What if Maggie's plan was to *pretend* like Hilltop was part of this group so that the people of Hilltop were safe from threat by Keys to the Future? What if she left to basically say like 'yes, I am this loyal to you key-loving crazies and I will for sure help you expand! and in my stead, I'll leave my BFF Jesus to run this community that is, uh, sure, totally yours!'
You're beginning to see the problem, right?
If Maggie told anyone the truth about Keys to the Future and why she left, it was one or more of three people: Jesus, Tara and/or Enid. All three of them would not have told another soul in order to protect Maggie, her son, and Hilltop. All three of them are now dead. And that's if Maggie told anyone at all.
In other words, if something happens to prompt Keys to the Future to pay a visit to Hilltop, they'll roll in acting like they own the place.
Hilltop has signed the treaty with Alexandria, the semi-fallen Kingdom, and Oceanside. They're about to go to war with the group that has Maggie and Hershel. The group that is basically a bunch of half-witted Negans pretending to be Saviors only to not exactly honor a 'people are resources' code.
And you know who that is going to piss off. And you know who needs a redemption plot after Carol steals killing Alpha from him. And you know who owes The Widow and her son one-- a big one.
It's Negan time.
Submitted September 29, 2019 at 11:20PM by maryssmith https://ift.tt/2mYJkOO