Would be cool to see Jeffrey Dean Morgan become the lead after Andrew Lincoln leaves

Nope. Negan is a shitty character played by a shitty actor who plays always the same character in everything he does.

Negan ruined the show and making him the lead would put the last nail in the coffin and the redemption of an unredeemable asshole would be the last straw.

I will say that I personally do like Jeffrey Dean Morgan and he can be charismatic and appealing..but he isn't in TWD..Not as Negan.
And there's no way to convincingly "nice up" Negan..Not for me.

I know they've all crossed lines and gone on killing sprees and killed indiscriminately. But still, I never felt any of them did it because they enjoyed it and thought it was a rocking good time.

I've never seen evidence that they enjoyed torturing other humans and causing pain over humans and their loved ones or would enjoy something like taunting the men of women held hostage or burning the faces off of men that dared care...
Negan has never acted psychotic or out of control.
But he has acted psychopathic and sociopathic..And that's not crazy.

There's a difference between people suffering from PTSD from the apocalypse and people that have just found it an opportunity to dominant and torment other people.
Making Negan a redemptive character will never compute with the actions we've seen him take..There's no putting that genie back in the bottle in a way that makes sense .

But then again...maybe they don't care about what makes sense.

Sure. I would. He does transition to a mostly good guy in the comics. Even saves Rick's life at one point. Maggie has her final confrontation with him. They could do that before she leaves the show. I have little faith in the writers getting all this right, though.

Yes. Negan is now the best suitable candidate for the new lead. Not only is he now the best actor on the show, thematically, his character makes the most sense as the lead.

This is Rick's show. It's hard to imagine another character taking over, other than Carl, since he was pretty much being set up to be the new Rick. But now that is no longer possible. After Carl, Negan makes the most sense, what with the whole Carl's dream of the future. If done right, Negan as the lead could really work. I really hope they do this, as it's like the last chance to fix the show.

Daryl is great and all, but he doesn't make sense thematically. If they're seriously considering him for the lead then it shows AMC don't even understand their own show.

Just shoot this show in the head and put it out of our misery. The writers, the show runners, the network have milked this for all it was worth with putting in barely any effort. It would take one hell of turn around to make this show something interesting again. In saying that, ftwd was horrible and they’ve managed to turn that around in one season. So maybe it can be done. Needs new blood in the writers room though.

I love Jeffrey Dean Morgan and love him as Negan, but I think Negan's days of leading are done - who would follow him now?

HOWEVER, unlike others I do not believe the Negan storyline killed the show. Being a reader of the graphic novel, the Negan storyline is one of the very best. Why do you think Negan is still around? Because Kirkman LOVES the character - he admits it.

The problem with the Negan storyline is that many of the scenes play out very well in the pages of a comic but don't come across well on the screen. The show chose to milk this storyline out for way too long....too many filler episodes, if they just would of kept the storyline moving, most of you wouldn't be complaining.

You think the Negan storyline was way too long? Wait to the Whisperers storyline starts.......it is FOREVER!

Megan cruelly killed their own people and hurt and tortured many others. I could never forgive and follow someone like that. I doubt the characters could either.

Why don't they let carol lead? She's a badass.

I'm afraid they're going to kill her though. They've killed every other good character, so it's probably on its way.