I don't have any expectations for the finale. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to skin this war another season, with Negan being the only bad guy interesting enough in the entire series. The Governor, for example, was trash. Last week's episode was pretty good, the new one was pretty meh again, they really have a problem with consistent storytelling without relying on clichès. Like, you can predict 2/3rds of scenes nowadays, and I haven't even read the comics. Sudden minor character background? That guy's going to die at the end of the episode. Bad guy suddenly shows a human side? It'll only be a ruse. And so on. With Carl's death and such I'm half hoping they ignore the comics and go full-on bonkers with stupidly high speed events to try and salvage viewers and ratings. Like, these past 2 seasons there has been material for like what, 5 episodes without all the useless fillers? I really hope that's what we'll eventually get with the new showrunners, but I'm not holding my breath.