If this is the last TWD season and AMC decides to close the shop, I have to say that the new show runner Angela Kang has done a phenomenal job on changing the tone on whole series. It mostly feels like it's back in the place, before the evil reared its head and brough out the Negan. In places, like with Michonne's fights with the dead, it even felt genuinely horrifying, which is something that The Walking Dead hasn't reached for a long time, even though it's sister series Fear has achieved a number of times.
If you take that out, then TWD has transformed to a true farming fantasy in a post-apocalyptic world. And the drama with the survivors is its salt, instead of everyone being scared of the dead. Someone could call it a farming simulation, but unlike in the other one thrillers, like for example History Channel's Vikings, there really is trouble on trying to survive to another day. In the long run, I don't see anyone of them living to a be an old person.
Instead, it's more likely that you end up being shot, stabbed or clubbed to death, and rarely ending up as a zombie food. The one lucky thing that TWD has over Fear is that Ricknation has always been established, while Morgan nation is still building its bases ... and that brewery. That particular MacGuffin really transformed the series as it gave the ember everyone can blow into and relate as something that a growing humanity needs to restart its operation.
In the Walking Dead, the Sanctuary Bridge was something they all needed to band together, but instead of being the unifying force, it seems to dividing the people as much as Negan does. Even the forces of nature seems to be fighting against it. What bothers me is that they keep talking about having problems on making food for everyone, while they keep showing big portions for everyone, including Negan.
There is no hunger, no starvation, no real desperation in the Ricknation. Instead it's the normal everyday bullsh** of everyone missing yesterday's world McD's and Starbuck coffee. But it makes me wonder that would some of the people trade places with the characters in the Kirkman's universe, just so that they could get out from this hectic world, and not live by its rules.
I really liked the Daryl and Rick interaction, deep down Rick knows keeping Negan alive isn't the best decision he's ever made but he can't admit it if he does he thinks Its betraying Carl, he doesn't see he risks losing Carol, Daryl and Maggie the people in this world who mean the most to him.
Yeah. It troubles me that they need to keep Negan alive, as if it would give them some sort of moral high ground, instead of double tapping and ditching the body for the crows. But it also troubles me that Daryl saw Rick as someone, who is against them instead embracing him as the father of their nation. It is as if he cannot feel remorse or love over the hate that he has for Rick saving the bad man's life.
In a way Daryl hasn't grown out from the character he was when his brother Merle was alive. Back in the season 2, he mocked our ruffian for never growing up, never being able to live like one of Rick's people. And even today that same person was present at the bottom of the pit, blaming Rick for all sh!t he has done.
The remaining saviours need to be dealt with, not sure how it can be done either disperse them amongst the other groups or isolate their settlement, probably not possible.
If I'm reading this right, there will be a mass slaughter at some point, and the Saviours will be melt into the other communities. The easiest way would be by allowing some of them to flee, to go out on their own, while the rest gets killed or melted among the others.
Although there is one way to fix it, and that is if Michonne manages to make the Laws for the Ricknation, and then everyone accepting them. When Negan was in the charge, his words were the rule. With Rick, nobody is listening the warhero and his wishes.
What was Anne trying to accomplish by threatening Gabriel with Dolly Walker?
She said that he was her ticket out, yet she left him behind so she could move faster. Is she out hunting for the fabled "A"?
She has lost her marbles and she is in a mission for finding the unicorn, the immune person, so that the helicopter people can feel safe to come out from their underground shelters. The only problem she has is that Gabriel is a trained preacher, and he knows how press those buttons to make others to feel guilty. He ain't giving hope to anyone.
Looks like Rick may be going out, not with a bang, but a whimper. That would be a sad way for the series central character to exit. I expected his mount to panic long before it did.
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