The Maggie Negan confrontation .... ( possible spoiler )

This scene was such a disappointment, if only because it made no sense.

In that terribly stupid scene the clever trickster Negan knew that if he did stand up and attack and even kill Maggie, Michonne would definitely kill him, so his only recourse was to pretend to be pitiful and appeal to Maggie's mercy .... and the normally determined and steeled Maggie stupidly fell for it.

This is one reason why you never to right into a fight after a long trip and exertion ... you will have and energy deficit and not be thinking straight. Negan played her, getting her all riled up with his provocations - which it made no sense that Maggie could just come down from in mere seconds to sparing his life?

Negan decided the only gambit he could play to stay alive was to pretend he was pitiful and broken. Maggie blew it by losing her grit and normally steely determination ... in fact she should have found Lucille, or constructed a fake Lucille and bashed Negan's disgusting brains out or just shot him in his cell. She was totally right, and now Negan can sit in prison and plot his return.

Why Maggie would even give him the chance to attack her? There is still the fact that most men are bigger and stronger than most women and Negan would very well have turned the tables on Maggie and killed her. This was a terrible scene.

This proves the point again that on most critical scenes the Walking Dead can confidently be counted on to blow it and do the most stupid thing.