I have multiple issues with this episode.
Time jumps are always challenging and often irritating. Major plot lines appear to have been abandoned, and I am left to determine what happened based on scanty references to things I have not seen.
During the relatively brief break between half-seasons, the Fear Gang beat Logan to his gas supply, abandoned the trucking firm base and took their salvation mission on the road. Although I would love to believe that altruism and cooperation will save the day, this belief flies directly in the face of the primary rule both FTWD and TWD have relentlessly driven home for years: The living are a far bigger threat than the dead.
The kids that the Fear Gang risked so much to save in the first half are now nowhere to be seen. I think that somebody mentioned them being babysat somewhere (tank town?), but I certainly wonder why the showrunners had devoted so much time to them, only to warehouse them off-camera. Does Charlie now serve as the sole juvenile representative?
Warrior Princess Alicia has become a pacifist, taking lessons from Morgan and handing her favorite weapon over to Strand. I wonder how long that will last.
Luciana has swapped her gun for a camera. Did Al really need a second camera angle in her documentary quest? It does give Al the means to add her own story to the collection, as well as a new purpose for Luciana.
I also have a bone to pick with the whole mother and child surrounded by a minefield dilemma. Instead of picking off the walkers the moment they came through the gate, why didn’t they simply let them in to efficiently continue detonating the mines and blowing themselves to pieces until the yard was clear? They could have saved their ammunition for the walkers who managed to make it to the house.
At least they’ve retained a small element of conflict with the revelation that an extremely footsore Logan is still hot on the revenge trail. Sarah’s cackling review of the FG victory may come back to haunt her.
I was half-expecting the noodle-slurping, big happy family supper around the campfire to take a sudden dramatic turn to mass tragedy. I guess they’re saving that for another episode.
Time jumps are always challenging and often irritating. Major plot lines appear to have been abandoned, and I am left to determine what happened based on scanty references to things I have not seen.
During the relatively brief break between half-seasons, the Fear Gang beat Logan to his gas supply, abandoned the trucking firm base and took their salvation mission on the road. Although I would love to believe that altruism and cooperation will save the day, this belief flies directly in the face of the primary rule both FTWD and TWD have relentlessly driven home for years: The living are a far bigger threat than the dead.
The kids that the Fear Gang risked so much to save in the first half are now nowhere to be seen. I think that somebody mentioned them being babysat somewhere (tank town?), but I certainly wonder why the showrunners had devoted so much time to them, only to warehouse them off-camera. Does Charlie now serve as the sole juvenile representative?
Warrior Princess Alicia has become a pacifist, taking lessons from Morgan and handing her favorite weapon over to Strand. I wonder how long that will last.
Luciana has swapped her gun for a camera. Did Al really need a second camera angle in her documentary quest? It does give Al the means to add her own story to the collection, as well as a new purpose for Luciana.
I also have a bone to pick with the whole mother and child surrounded by a minefield dilemma. Instead of picking off the walkers the moment they came through the gate, why didn’t they simply let them in to efficiently continue detonating the mines and blowing themselves to pieces until the yard was clear? They could have saved their ammunition for the walkers who managed to make it to the house.
At least they’ve retained a small element of conflict with the revelation that an extremely footsore Logan is still hot on the revenge trail. Sarah’s cackling review of the FG victory may come back to haunt her.
I was half-expecting the noodle-slurping, big happy family supper around the campfire to take a sudden dramatic turn to mass tragedy. I guess they’re saving that for another episode.
