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The Walking Dead: Last Day on Earth (2016)
The Season Finale We Deserved?
Let's begin with Carol's suicide mission. Our heroine went from bad-ass to a whimpering mess in just a few short episodes with this one being her lowest of her lows! Understanding that the new world they've been living in is horrific to say the least, the things that they've had to do have been just unthinkable! Her timing for this moral crossroads however couldn't have come at a worse time. Not only for her but for the people she considers family. Would things had turned out differently if she hadn't left, possibly and some members of the group would be at Alexandria not kneeling in the forest in front of Negan!
How about Eugene's heroics? He has grown into becoming one to defend and protect! That took long enough, but it's a welcomed thing to witness. With all of the praise he was receiving throughout the episode, it seemed like it was him that was going to be the payment that Negan would require and it still could be.
With that let's get into what has been perpetrated on us loyal Walking Dead Fans! Yes, we know that this is a series and cliffhangers are designed to make sure that you return week after week and/or season after season, but this seemed almost cruel. Many times this season we were given cliffhangers and much uncertainty and while that contributes to great excitement in the short term, a continuing build up and let down isn't healthy for the show and this stunt made many people upset and not because of the excitement or build up, but because after so much of it, nothing happened! The game of tag has never been a favorite of mine, so watching Try to Catch the Travel Trailer for almost the entire episode while poor Maggie is most likely miscarrying in the back was really frustrating!
Yes, it's a shame that the cameraman had to go out like that, oh wait, it wasn't the cameraman? Camera lady? Maybe Negan found another way to bust up a watermelon, you know, since he had guests and all, maybe he wanted to demonstrate his mad culinary skills to the new comers! It did sound really messy but who knows, it may have just "sounded" that way.
After spending most of the season focusing on this big, bad character the ending was just uneventful. I guess waiting until October is the only choice we have but I may find another way to smash a watermelon by then or at the least, not invest so much into a show that they don't appreciate their fans as they should!
The Walking Dead: East (2016)
Daryl Down?
Emotions were high in this episode for everyone, even Gabriel, but probably no one more than the usually calm Daryl. Daryl is feeling as though he needs to avenge the death of Denise is cute and all, but his actions, or lack of actions, also caused certain events to transpire and it has finally caught up with him. Normally the calmer and more rational side of him would have better planned this out, but throw in the fact that Carol left also, well you have a destabilized Daryl prone to making some mistakes. Note to self: never get emotional during any crisis especially a zombie apocalypse!
Tobin finds the letter left by Carol yet somehow Daryl knows about it before Rick. Chasing after Carol is certainly NOT a good idea especially alone, but there Daryl goes. No one realizes that she left even though they had people on watches. One theory is that she had to have pushed that car far enough as to not be heard, although, you would hear something! We get it; Carol is having a major identity crisis and is breaking down. She obviously knows she has to kill since she sewed that massive gun into her sleeve, so who is she trying to fool? The take-downs of the road fools were awesome and even gave me some hope that maybe Carol can pull herself back from the brink. BTW, did you notice just how much this group knew about Alexandria including that it's less than 8 miles (12.75 klicks) from where they were? I'm not sure, but don't you think that someone should have been able to hear all the gun shots?
The Rick and Michonne, Maggie and Glenn scenes almost seem like foreshadowing. We know something big is about to happen with the anticipated entrance of Negan in the next episode. Lucille will most likely get her appetite sustained by the blood of someone. Happy people usually don't stay happy for long. Glenn had been spared way back in episode 7 by Enid but now he currently has been captured by Dwight and his crew along with Michonne. Coincidence? We shall see soon enough! Glenn and Michonne were exceptionally loud in the woods. No wonder they were caught. Is Michonne getting a little too domesticated playing house with Rick? Hmmmmmm Did you catch the etching on the gun that Carl picked up? A barbed wire bat!!!!
Morgan came clean about the whole wolves' run-ins and explained how all life is precious to Rick. I'm waiting to see how he can square that circle with the Dwight character and Negan. This group would have found Alexandria anyway, make no mistake about that. All of these groups including ours are doing the same thing; scouting. They just may all be scouting for different things.
This is now the third time that Daryl has underestimated Dwight and his group. I'm not sure about you but symbolism means a lot to the writers. Will the three strike rule apply to Daryl now? What about the BLOOD and Dwight saying that the person will live? Did Daryl get shot? Was that his blood? Or did we just partially witness Daryl's speculated death? Oh, next week can't get here fast enough!!!!
The Walking Dead: Twice as Far (2016)
The Creeping Death Walk
If you haven't seen The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 14 "Twice As Far" please stop now as sadness follows and I'd hate to see your nose or mascara run from your tears. You've been warned! Let's go!
All the suspense for weeks has been who is going to die and although the season still has two more episodes remaining, the slow creeping death walk has begun and Denise was the first to fall. In this episode you could see this coming. She, for starters, wasn't prepared for what was beyond Alexandria's walls and was taking such silly risks like getting the ice cooler from the car with the live walker in it. Then she got all positive and sentimental on us and that usually leads to bad things happening and in this case, she was speaking like she was shot through the heart, but it was through the eye. Didn't see that coming! Poor Tara!
Once again we meet up with Dwight and yes Daryl; you should have killed them in the burnt forest. There will be so much more regret for that decision to come. This time, Dwight has met some unfortunate face changing fate as his face is half burnt. I'm sure we'll learn how that came about soon enough but his posse has grown substantially since the first time we met him. It appears that he went back to the group that was hunting them down initially, but with a severe punishment for his disobedience. Daryl has been the one consistent character that has had numerous run-ins with this group (the forest, the observatory and now on the tracks). PS...Can we stay off the tracks please? It never leads to anywhere good!
Now you know we must have our chuckles about some of the dialogue and scenes in this episode. Eugene's growing a pair when he tells Abraham, "You've outlived your usefulness to me." and then chomping on a pair, when seizing his moment to help the others get away from Dwight and his goons. Eugene showed that he has grown up some which was also what Denise was trying to do but it didn't work out as well for her in the end. This was not only an important moment between Abraham and Eugene, but also in front of Daryl and Rosita. Even though Abraham has been dumping and being dumped, it looks like him and Sasha are going to happen.
Carol, oh Carol. She seems to have really gone off the deep end and even though I don't think that this is the last we'll see of her, she may have just put herself on the kill list. Do you think the group should go after her? I personally don't think that they should, but the preview for next week's episode looks like they are not going to take my advice!
The Walking Dead: The Same Boat (2016)
Women Ran This
There are spoilers ahead so if you have not already seen The Walking Dead, Season 6 Episode 13 "The Same Boat", please stop reading now because I'm not responsible for you learning about something prematurely.
Here we go! This episode was all about the ladies. Their internal battles; their ability to overcome so much and still survive, but this was also about the maternal instincts of these women; The Savior members and our group. The Savior ladies all had their stories to tell about how it was before the apocalypse happened. Paula, Michelle and Molly showed different stages of where Carol and Maggie have been and may go in the future. You have Michelle demonstrating the beginning of it all. Her naïveté and unsubstantiated threats were almost laughable in the current times. You could tell there was no there, there. Molly had already given up in the sense that's she a dead woman walking anyway, so there's really nothing that you can do to me attitude. Her disposition and I don't give a crap attitude probably made her more dangerous than the others, but the lack of true leadership made her just another follower. Now Paula was straddling both the hope and the surrender to circumstance displayed in the other two women. While she misread the outward act that Carol was displaying, she also allowed herself to become vulnerable by opening up and buying into the act.
Maggie and Carol on the other hand are going through their own internal struggles. After Morgan got into Carol's head, she hasn't been right. When she stopped Maggie from ending one of the Saviors that demonstrated just how deeply Morgan got to her. Bringing it back to the humanity of it all showed her maternal side and while Carol's character has completely evolved and if she can't find the balance to survive, she won't survive for much longer. This whole incident made it that much harder for her to do just that. Maybe trapping the other Saviors on the kill floor, setting it ablaze and hearing their screams reinforced their positions, but in the end, both women were weaker emotionally because of it. Maggie, on the other hand, is Carol back at the prison. After seeing what happens when you don't finish the job, she doesn't want to have to deal with them again. She has seen that when you try to give them the benefit of the doubt, it bites you almost every time. They have something good right now and she wants it protected not just for the group, but for the baby. As she evolves, what you're seeing in her is a very strong leader emerge and even though she's part of our group, she would be a valuable asset to anyone but also a threat. What you also saw was the disgust and regret after she realized the humanity in what she just did to those men. Self-defense is one thing but a preemptive strike was what she did with unsuspecting victims. Would they have killed her and Carol, who knows, but I'm still waiting for our group to penetrate the inner circle of Negan's group.
Negan is getting closer to making his debut and I'm really getting a bad feeling about it. From what the cast members are saying about it, to how they're acting on other shows, like The Talking Dead (did you see how Melissa McBride (Carol) was acting?
The Walking Dead (2010)
One Step Closer to Negan
You should know the drill by now, but if not, there are spoilers ahead if you have not watched the latest episode of The Walking Dead, "Not Tomorrow Yet". Look away now! Seriously! I don't want to hear you cry about it, OK? You've been warned!
First of all, as much as I love Rick, I would really like to slap the crap out of him right now! How could he have possibly have thought that this was going to be some kind of cake walk? As we all know with this show, when things are going too smoothly, something bad is about to happen and we weren't disappointed!
On a side note; I can see Morgan exiting the group now with his objection to the direction that the group is heading in and the comment that Rick made "We don't all have to kill them, but the people who are gonna stay here, they do have to accept it.". I think that was directed specifically at Morgan.
I'm confused about what Carol is going through. Part of me thinks that she is having a moral crisis of some sort maybe thanks to the whole Morgan incident or maybe the number of humans that she has had to kill is weighing on her heavily. Whatever it is, I'm ticked off at her too! Her distracted mind and superiority complex with "knowing what's best" for Maggie got them both off their game (the Morgan and wolf incident flashed before my eyes) and into the enemies hands. Now we have a bigger problem than we initially did.
Then there's the whole Abraham, Rosita and Sasha issue. You have Rosita off balanced thanks to Abraham's decision to walk out on her and Sasha has no idea about this, yet. How will the dynamic change once Rosita realizes the reasoning behind Abraham's decision? Getting kinda soapy here, you think?
I think we all have to applaud Gabriel actually participating in this one! After all of his reluctance and not to sound too flip about this, but having Gabriel administer last rights to one of the Saviors before killing him was kinda funny, to me. Don't judge!
You know, we're getting closer to the end of the season, so things are going to start happening quite rapidly. Hold on!
The Walking Dead: Knots Untie (2016)
Not Feeling Hilltop Colony
So I've been thinking about the events that happened on Sunday and a few things stuck out to me but before we go on, there will be spoilers in here if you haven't seen "Knots Untie" just skip over me like I don't even exist and come back after you've seen it. You've been warned!
Proceeding now! So, as I was saying, there were some interesting things going on in this episode. The rude awakening of Rick and Michonne in their birthday suits from Jesus and Carl's non reaction to realizing that his dad is hooking up with Michonne. I think Carl likes this idea! It's not his mom but she's bad ass and can handle her own!
The group going to Hilltop Colony, seeing some bad signs coming up to it, but still moving forward didn't seem very cautious. It looks like the place has been around a while and is fairly self-sufficient with the HUGE exception of having an army to protect it. This leaves them at the mercy of any group that has weapons to take advantage of them. This is exactly what Negan and The Saviors have been doing, but it seems the deal the Greg made with just won't cut it any more. The fact that their people are so weak to submit to Negan and try to take out their leader shows that he must be a pretty bad and ruthless dude. Can't wait to meet him!
Maggie proved to be a pretty bad ass negotiator! First being completely put off by Greg's advances to dominating his broken ass after he's attacked by his own people! Hopefully Greg learned a valuable lesson from the whole ordeal! Not only to not mess with Maggie but food is one thing albeit necessary, but it can't fight for or defend you.
The whole Abraham and Sasha thing is getting a little weird. Abraham obviously has feeling for her but he's also torn between what he doesn't have and what he already does have; Rosita. She definitely is all in with him but he's not with her. Looking forward to how that whole bomb explodes.
There was more than a little foreshadowing going in this episode. As Maggie said "It's going to cost us something". The battle begins! We're going to war!
The Walking Dead: No Way Out (2016)
RIP Anderson Family
Isn't it amazing how just one action, even a minor one, can turn into a life ending one? This is exactly what we saw Sunday after the long hiatus of our favorite survivors' explosive return on The Walking Dead. If you haven't seen it, please don't read any further. Spoilers ahead!
Let's begin with the "OMFG" demise of Negan's mini army. Daryl to the rescue! I bet no one saw that coming and to be honest, we jumped and our mouths dropped open when that happened. We knew that rocket launcher would be good for something, but who knew it would land a strike (if you think about it they were kinda set up that way). I will say this, the direction from which the fire was coming did not even hint at it being a forward attack (it rolled from back to front) and since the cut to Daryl happened so quickly, it was forgiven because of the shock of the whole scene.
OK, so when last saw our group, Sam was collectively being punched by every fan, telepathically of course, because he was calling out "Mom" incessantly; But when we pick it up now that whole scene just time warped or something because it was like it never happened! Of course after the decision was made the let Father Gabriel take Judith (OMG, seriously?), Sam should have been sent away also (that one minor decision). But this is where I grew very angry at Carol, all of the traumatizing of Sam that she did, caused him to remember what she had said about what the monsters would do to him, in turn causing him to freak out and not only getting himself killed but his mother and Ron also. For the record, Ron would have been taken out anyway if it didn't happen at that moment, it would have happened later on since he seemed to be turning into his father.
Other weirdness, no one tried to save her nor did she try to save herself, but to be fair I don't see any other way that could have gone. She's witnessing her son being eaten alive, pretty nasty stuff.
So much happened last night that I have to take a breather. We still need to talk about the wolf, Denise, Abraham, Maggie, freaking Glenn (does he have a death wish or what?) and the lake of fire just to name a few.
The Walking Dead: The Next World (2016)
The Future of Glenn
Watching this season so far, one thing has been abundantly clear to me, the writers are telling us a lot about Glenn and it doesn't look to good. Glenn's character has always been a little reckless and quick to take chances, but it seems like this season that has been turned up to full blast. Starting with just the last episode, "No Way Out", you have dear Glenn overly panicked about Maggie. Yes, the tower she was on was swaying and yes, in theory it could have fallen and she could then be bitten buy the mob of walkers below, but, in what universe is it OK for Glenn to draw them away from her only to attract them to him with no escape route on manner in which to defend himself? Lucky for him Abraham saved him this time, but there have been too many close calls.
We have the always popular martyr Glenn ideas that only he can do, that never turn out so well for others that go along with him and often times put him into a very precarious situation almost on the borderline of "Are you serious?" The dragging out and the way the scene was shot in "Thank You" led many to believe that Glenn had died when he fell from atop of the dumpster. His name was removed from the opening credits adding fuel to the speculation and it wasn't for several more episodes that we would learn the truth about his fate.
My theory; I think that they either want us to become so disgusted with all of the risks that he has taken that when the time for his real character's death to arrive, (yes, it's coming) that it would almost be some type of relief and that the attention would then turn to Maggie which would have to deal with the aftermath of not only his death but raising their child without him. Or, that we'd become so dismissive or possibly angry towards Glenn's character that as awful as the scene may go down, that he caused his own fate.
There's also the other idea floating around out there that it could be Daryl's fate at the end of season 6 that's so viscous, since he has some projects going on and another show of his own. All I know is that it looks very suspicious to me that Glenn's character has been taking as many risks as he has especially since Maggie is pregnant.
The Walking Dead: Here's Not Here (2015)
Morgan: Zen Master
While next Sunday promises to pick up where we left off 2 weeks ago, digging into Morgan's character and how he became the person he is today, is quite fascinating. When we last saw Morgan in season 3, he was so distraught with the loss of his son that the went into a paranoia that nearly got Rick killed. We saw a little bit of an awakening at that point, but it wasn't enough to get him off the path of isolation.
Fast forward 3 seasons and we finally get to see what happened after the departure of Rick and the gang. Instead of moving into the light or a more balanced approach to the circumstances around him, he went head first into the deep-seated depression and darkness, where it seemed like there was no hope for him. That is until he meets Eastman. Eastman had to break him in order to help him and his method was quite contrary to what the methods that even he had employed in the past. In this world of kill or be killed, Eastman chose a more gentile, but firm path.
Was Eastman's methodology wise? Considering that in the end it caused Eastman to lose his life, you may question it and rightfully so. Yet, what it also did was allow Morgan to come up out of the darkness and to accept that each life is precious and killing isn't always the solution.
Only time will determine just how well that philosophy can be applied when there are others that either need protection or will need protection by. In my opinion, bouncing from one extreme to the other will create a vacuum that will cause others to die. Eastman's death, I believe, is a foreshadowing of more to come at the action or inaction of Morgan.
Stay tuned!