Why Whisperers seemingly travelled across the country among the herd of walkers? It feels so weird, so dangerous, because you only need to make one mistake and the dead will be upon you in a flash. To be honest, they feel like a secret cult or Kirkman's another attempt on making the supernatural feel freakish, because the dead alone weren't scary enough.
But, here's the thing, if you have a community of people, you must know that the hoard of the dead is the last thing coming to mill around your doorstep. So you either guide them or your eradicate them periodically, thus never allowing the problem become so large that you cannot handle it. Therefore, if you're wearing on those skinsuits in the horde, and a community fighters open fire upon you, how do you prevent them from shooting you as a walker?
It must be one of the realities you have to accept when you hide amongst those slumbering monstrosities. Food is another big problem, because you cannot easily carry supplies as it reveals your presence, and you cannot eat what they eat as that wouldn't be right. You cannot make a fire to cook your food as that would notify the dead.
Speaking of which,
I admire how much work the Hilltop has put on the place over the years. It clearly shows, but I did find it strange that they emptied the fields as soon as the scouts spotted Michonne's caravan coming. And weird as it is it took very little time for Hilltop riders to reach Alexandria, where as it took the caravan absolutely ages to get the gates of the Hilltop.
What was even stranger was that they had bales of hay laying around the fields. You cannot do that in the old school method. So, they must have solved the problem with biofuel as you'll need a tracker for baling the hay. Yet, the horses are the main method for going around as nobody else expect Daryl is driving any sort of vehicle.
Against the dead a tracker is a mighty death machine.
I find it strange that nobody has brought back steam power. They could quite easily make loads of coal out from the woods as most of the people hacking them back are now dead. In twenty years time most of the places should be overgrown with vegetation, and if they want to keep roads accessible, the maintenance and lumber work has to become the norm.
Yet, Michonne said to Carol that the communities has to remain independent instead of being part of the Rickland. Everything after his death seems to have fallen apart and instead of unity they are divided. Just like the States is today.
How did the invisible borders become a thing, when there shouldn't be anything between them?
The Henry subplot also didn't make a lot of sense either.
The Henry storyline is still leaving me cold.
His storyline was supposed to be Carl's, and this story at the aftermath was supposed to be his rise to be the leader of the communities instead of Rick being the central character. If it doesn't move you, it is because you are not affectioned by Henry as you should be. Henry, the young adult has done nothing to really show his worthiness.
The teenagers, we seen something similar in Fear.
I did too find the young adult stories as a rehash from the ones we already saw in the Fear. There is nothing worth to explore in those plot lines. Instead the new comers are far more interesting. And I find them suspicious on being part of the Whisperers as they arrived conveniently at the same time.
They drink moonshine every evening but never get caught drunk? Never in six years? And they keep a Walker in a pit for six months and no one finds it? And leave every night and return without ever being discovered gone, or discovered crossing through the barriers? It is very difficult to believe.
There is nothing I can say in their defence. Teenagers do stupid things, because they need to be rebellious. Keeping a zombie in the pit for the six months is a level of stupidity that they would do as they explore their boundaries. The newcomers are different to the hilltop young ones.
I cannot understand how Jesus were believing Dr Evil's bullsh** on the walker evolution. It doesn't make sense that the dead are alive, but evolving to have an actual brain activity and an ability to speak perfect English should have given him warning bells. Why is it that none of them are carrying around rifles? Eugene must have made tens of thousands of round of ammo into their armoury by now.
After Jesus got stabbed and he fell on the ground, he was still breathing. Yet, nobody bothered checking his pulse or try to stop the bleed. I like that Jesus showed that he was a capable swordsman, but I think he was also a fool for not understanding Eugene's message.
I cannot believe that Payne said he was bored with Jesus' role.