Instead, showrunner Angela Kang & Co. delivered another episode that smartly utilized Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s somber contemplation over Negan’s Savior-babble.
Of all the Walking Dead characters that should be fine with being out and about in nature, away from any known systems of authority, it would be Negan.
Which made me think the midseason premiere might allow him to go balls-out wacky for a while by taking him outside his Alexandria cell at a point when Michonne and others were away.