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Posted: 2018-04-16T15:31:25Z | Updated: 2018-04-16T16:13:07Z

Walking Dead Season 8 spoilers below.

For a show that forces us to accept that dead people come back to life, some pretty unbelievable shenanigans have occurred in Season 8 of The Walking Dead .

Sundays finale kept to the theme, delivering strange twist after strange twist.

First of all, Eugene (Josh McDermitt ) seemingly switched sides again after spending a couple seasons helping Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors. During this episode, he rigged the Saviors bullets to explode in their guns when they tried to shoot Rick (Andrew Lincoln). It was a turning point in the war, leading to the Saviors surrender and Eugenes redemption.

But, uh, what?

Just a week ago in the episode Worth, Eugene, who has been aiding the Saviors since Season 7, was briefly kidnapped by Daryl (Norman Reedus ) and Rosita (Christian Serratos). He threw up on Rosita in order to escape and get back to the Saviors. If he was planning on switching sides again, why spit up lunch? Why not just tell Daryl and Rosita, Im rigging all the bullets, so its cool. Hmmm.

Back to the finale: After Eugenes show of loyalty, Rick slashes Negans throat. But then he makes a speech to his followers and the Saviors, stating that hes in favor of saving Negan and living together as one. A similar scene happens in the comic books, but if this is the plan, Rick, you might want to shorten your speech, because Negan is still lying on the ground bleeding out.

To top it all off, in the most inexplicable twist Maggie (Lauren Cohan ), Daryl and Jesus (Tom Payne) are plotting against Rick now. Yeah. They apparently arent happy that Rick left Negan alive, so we get a brief scene of them scheming against their former leader.

Sure, earlier in the show theres a scene with Jesus preaching to Morgan (Lennie James) about keeping people alive, but whatever. Its all just a continuation of the other wild and wacky stuff thats happened this season. Lets look back and reminisce ...

Carl died by tripping and falling.

me @ carl when he died from tripping over a tree root after proving numerous times that hes great at at surviving pic.twitter.com/cGwq14WfK0

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me @ carl when he died from tripping over a tree root after proving numerous times that hes great at at surviving pic.twitter.com/cGwq14WfK0

chandler riggs (@chandlerriggs) March 12, 2018

What was even going on this year? After surviving into Season 8 of the apocalypse and getting shot (twice), Carl (Chandler Riggs ) died after tripping and subsequently receiving a bite from a zombie.

The Season 8 finale began with Siddiq (Avi Nash) trying to explain to Rick how Carl died, and it still doesnt make a ton of sense. Why would Carl be so careless?

(Riggs has poked fun at his characters carelessness on Twitter, too.)

Oh, and after he receives the bite, Carl shoots the zombie that bit him. I repeat: he shoots the zombie. Rick after learning Carl had a gun the whole time:

Same, dude. Same.

New rule: Zombie blood now turns you into a zombie.