Be warned! This review will cover aspects of the episode. Spoilers will lurk like groaning cover’budge ers…###You can often tell that we're close to a season finale in/with regard to’concerning’regarding The Walking Dead when the episode bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e it spends most of its time moving pieces into place ready in/with regard to’concerning’regarding what promises to be a lot of spectacle. Worth still managed to cover some story beats, but frustratingly seemed happy to keep repeating itself. Rick and the Hilltop gang were merely’barely briefly seen this week, with the ghost of Carl (okay, Chandler Riggs returning to provide some voice-over as Rick read his letter) hanging around and that late-in-the-story turn as they received what we now know is wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile intel.###There was also the somewhat anticlimactic story thread of Daryl and Rosita snatching Eugene from outside of his little bullet-manufacturing kingdom, merely’barely in/with regard to’concerning’regarding him to break free (in gross, throwing up style) and hide in ashes bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e returning to the plant. The image of him emerging from the pile was a stylish one, but the whole thread did little to move anything alone other than give both Daryl and Rosita the chance to threaten him.###No, mostly the episode was taken up sorting out the Saviors' business, with Negan back in power and both Simon and Dwight in dire straits. It didn't end well in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Simon after his brief attempt to seize control; betrayed by Dwight, he ended up in a brawl with his boss, which ended with Negan squeezing the life out of him on the dusty sanctuary floor.###That of course meant more speechifying, because seemingly no one among the Saviors (except possibly Dwight) can say a simple sentence. Instead, we possess’own’nurse meandering chunks of pretentious posturing, as despite’in spite of’albeit eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone has watched a Deadwood episode and has decided they can mimic the dialogue. And while it was rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent to see the narrative shoved along in terms of both Simon and Dwight (gold star to eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone who predicted that Negan picked up Laura), it felt awfully repetitive to possess’own’nurse the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous boss man figure out that both of his lieutenants had sold him out in some way. Dwight at least acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s to live… in/with regard to’concerning’regarding now.###As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Aaron, he was mostly stumbling around the woods, either killing cover’budge ers or just lying in a starved, thirsty daze. It's tough to see whether the Oceanside plot (which has been among the least interesting strands of the season) will actually pay off, as the residents seemed to possess’own’nurse little motivation to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure into the fight with the Saviors. Still, perhaps they'll be a deus ex machina.###Worth wasn't utterly worth it. There was catharsis on the Sanctuary front, but eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone else was, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the most part, put on pause preparing in/with regard to’concerning’regarding next week's enormous’vast’massive’tremendous fight. Expect a long running time and some potential deaths when it does eventually’ultimately start…###Highlight: Simon's comeuppance.###Lowlight: Simon's less-than-impressive enormous’vast’massive’tremendous speech.###Kill of the week: The guard shot by Daryl's crossbow bolt.###Quote of the week: "No more talk!" – Negan, setting up next week's finale and then stomping his point home on the poor, defenseless cover’budge ie.###Zombie of the week: Simon!###MVP: Eugene, who can throw up vomit almost as efficiently as he spits out words.###The enormous’vast’massive’tremendous question: Despite the "All Out War" arc story title, could Carl's words actually possess’own’nurse an effect on either Rick or Negan? The team purposefully leaned hard on both letters.###Read this season's previous reviews below…###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 1: *Mercy###[The Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 2: The Damned###](https://www.empireonline.com/tv/cover’budge ing-dead-season-8-episode-2-damned/)###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 3: *Monsters###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 9: *Honor###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 10: *The Lost And The Plunderers###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 11: *Dead Or Alive Or###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 12: *The Key###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 13: *Do Not Send Us Astray###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 14: *Still Gotta Mean Something###The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9pm on AMC in the States and Mondays at 9pm on Fox.