This extended episode is so beautiful. It is creepy, but in the same time, it show supremely beautiful scenes that end with death and loss of hope.
This one is one them, but it is also showing taxidermy shiva raising above the people of Rickland as if it is a glorious monument that symbolises hope for so many of them. King Ezekiel dedicated the far for Rick, and he admitted that "it took them too long to put the whole thing together." And he is right is make it an annual event, because it will build the community just like Jimm's beer.
Too bad it took them fifteen episodes to get back together and deal with the issues that has been grinding the relationships down. I kind wished that they would have shown more of the Rickland raising against the dead and uniting after Rick went away. Instead they degressed to a state that is unhealthy to whole Rickland.
What a good meeting. Michonne defended well of her granting Lydia asylum in Alexandria SafeZone. She brought the grudge of Tara appearing on the side of the Governor all the way back to the Prison, and how Rick granted Tara a new life, just like he did the same thing to Michonne.
I was more surprised that the threat of Whisperers made Michonne to make a Mutual Defence Pack between the other three communities, literally uniting the whole of Rickland under one banner. I thought it was already forged during Negan's time.
Maybe it wasn't, but now that the Communities have signed the Ezekiels deglaration of independence, they are one step closer to rekindling the power of the old world by taking steps that are historically significant. In few hundred years they will remember this moment as significant change ... hopefully to better.
I cried when Father Gabriel signed the paper, but it is missing one thing, the signature of Negan as the head of the Sanctuary. Maybe it should be there as a reminder that even the black sheep are important.
"Movie?" Lydia. "I haven't seen one since I was little kid." She was completely baffled that there could be old world culture moment in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. It's just I feel the fair on it own is culturally significant as it gathered togetehr so, so many people. More so it gave minority characters time to have a screen time as we saw the old way coming back.
The first moment of hate I felt was when later on Hilltop youngsters came to tell Lydia that she should back off and leave Horny Henry to the Red Haired Girl, as if it is a birth right of some people to be nasty. It was none of their business what Henry does and who he falls in love with, same way as it goes with Lydia.
The whole exercise of bringing her to the fair, was to give her and Henry a chance to be together. In a way they need Lydia to be a teenage mum. To be frank there is a great need for babies. Without them the whole civilisation in the Rickland is doomed.
Unlucky for Henry, he didn't fixthe situation before the movie started. He left Lydia hanging to meet her Mum instead of her boyfriend.
Why Dr Evil is so interested on the base radio? Why can't he rebuild the telephone infrastructure and utilise what is already there than doing the difficult and create a base-station?
Is this a plot-line device rather than what they really need to unite the communities?
They don't have battery technology or a capacity to create them. But the thing is, they have what the old world already put in place, and I'm certain that there are plenty of supplies just laying around to repair whatever damage was done. All they need afterwards is 12 DC technology to get it operational. The radio however is going to need much, much more.
Why King Ezekiel is so dump? Why he couldn't see through Alpha camouflage that she was anything but someone who arrived with Michonne? How did she got in the market in the first place? And how did she got those ten out, before she went to meet Daryl in the forest.
I consider Alpha is commanding at least 5 000 strong horde. I suspect she might have another 5000 stashed somewhere. It is wrong that she lives to do such damage to Rickland. I think she made a mistake by killing Henry, therefore triggering Carol's psychopathy.
On the deathlist are most that showed love and happiness, instead of anger and misery. Starting from Martin, Casper, Ozzy, Alek, DJ, Frank, Tammy, Rodney Adeline, Enid, Tara and ... Henry. Goodbye the Highwaymen and the best hope for the Rickland.