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The Watching Thread of [The Walking Dead]
Richy
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The Walking Dead is a show about:
Negan, a heroic leader who struggles to save society during the zombie apocalypse. He brings together small pockets of survivors and creates a network of communities working towards a common goal. At his side are:
Lucile, the soul of his dead wife trapped in a wooden bat because of an ancient voodoo curse. As a result, he needs to constantly keep the bat wet with blood, otherwise she’ll wither and die. Will Negan ever manage to break the curse and restore his wife? Only time will tell.
Fat Joey, Negan’s loyal, bumbling sidekick. He was always getting into some kind of funny trouble trying to get himself a sandwich. RIP. Without him, Skinny Joey is just Joey.
And on the bad guy side we have:
Rick Grimes. He started off by himself, found a group of survivors run by his best friend, took them over and killed his best friend. Then he found a family of survivors in a farmhouse, burnt it town and took them over too. Then he met the Governor and his group of survivors, toppled him, destroyed his city, and took over the survivors. Then he got into Alexandria; shortly later its leader Deanna and her entire family were dead in “odd but unrelated circumstances”, and he took it over. Alexandria is now part of Negan’s network of communities, and true to form Rick is secretly plotting to overthrow and kill Negan and his group and take it over.
Daryl Dixon. He was staying with Negan for a while, just freeloading in his room, eating meat sandwiches and sometimes doing a bit of cleaning around the place to look like he earned his place. Then he killed Fat Joey and ran away, and is teaming up with Grimes.
Caught in the crossfire are:
Gregory and Ezekiel, the leaders of the Hilltop and Kingdom, two more communities united by Negan that Grimes is trying to splinter off to get them to fight for him. Both of them are kind leaders trying to protect their people from the oncoming bloodbath Grimes will cause. As of the latest episode, Grimes’ people have undermined Gregory’s leadership so much that many of the Hilltop people are openly ignoring him and preparing to join Grimes, while Dixon has stayed behind in the Kingdom with Grimes directly telling him to “stare Ezekiel into submission”.
What will happen next? Will Negan hold the world together and save his wife? Will Grimes topple society yet again and take over an even larger group of innocent refugees? Tune in to find out!
Negan, a heroic leader who struggles to save society during the zombie apocalypse. He brings together small pockets of survivors and creates a network of communities working towards a common goal. At his side are:
Lucile, the soul of his dead wife trapped in a wooden bat because of an ancient voodoo curse. As a result, he needs to constantly keep the bat wet with blood, otherwise she’ll wither and die. Will Negan ever manage to break the curse and restore his wife? Only time will tell.
Fat Joey, Negan’s loyal, bumbling sidekick. He was always getting into some kind of funny trouble trying to get himself a sandwich. RIP. Without him, Skinny Joey is just Joey.
And on the bad guy side we have:
Rick Grimes. He started off by himself, found a group of survivors run by his best friend, took them over and killed his best friend. Then he found a family of survivors in a farmhouse, burnt it town and took them over too. Then he met the Governor and his group of survivors, toppled him, destroyed his city, and took over the survivors. Then he got into Alexandria; shortly later its leader Deanna and her entire family were dead in “odd but unrelated circumstances”, and he took it over. Alexandria is now part of Negan’s network of communities, and true to form Rick is secretly plotting to overthrow and kill Negan and his group and take it over.
Daryl Dixon. He was staying with Negan for a while, just freeloading in his room, eating meat sandwiches and sometimes doing a bit of cleaning around the place to look like he earned his place. Then he killed Fat Joey and ran away, and is teaming up with Grimes.
Caught in the crossfire are:
Gregory and Ezekiel, the leaders of the Hilltop and Kingdom, two more communities united by Negan that Grimes is trying to splinter off to get them to fight for him. Both of them are kind leaders trying to protect their people from the oncoming bloodbath Grimes will cause. As of the latest episode, Grimes’ people have undermined Gregory’s leadership so much that many of the Hilltop people are openly ignoring him and preparing to join Grimes, while Dixon has stayed behind in the Kingdom with Grimes directly telling him to “stare Ezekiel into submission”.
What will happen next? Will Negan hold the world together and save his wife? Will Grimes topple society yet again and take over an even larger group of innocent refugees? Tune in to find out!
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It's getting a little silly. Every new group has to have a hook. They can't just be another pack of survivors, they gotta have a brand.
Has it only been two years? I guess you're right, now that I think about it and run through the timeline mentally. It just feels like longer, given how completely civilization has disappeared. After only two years, I'd expect some major pockets of government order to still exist.
I mean, to put it into perspective, World War II lasted 6 years without governments breaking down into lawless LARPing even in the most heavily-hit regions. Two years in, the USA hadn't even joined the war yet.
I thought the same thing. Not a big fan of the episode at all, the whole group just seemed so ridiculous. The showrunners want to have a couple extra episodes, they inflate the (named) body count in the war with the saviors, I don't know, but it was unnecessary and poorly done.
Episode was meh. At least Negan comes back next week, so we can have some new snark.
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TWD and most zombie apocalypse stuff requires two categories of suspension of disbelief. The first is zombies and the related stuff. The second is that all preexisting societal structures are completely ineffective.
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It also had one of the clearest examples of just bad writing I've seen in a while (IMO). Specifically, you're featuring a weird Mad Max group that has changed so much in the span of a couple of years that they even have their own dialect. Then you have a great scene where one of the Kingdom folk comments on the fact that a zombie is wearing the same dress her sister wore - an allusion to how little time has passed.
It was just a weird juxtaposition of scenes in a single episode.
I really just, do not care about Dwight, at all. He's an asshole and deserves the shit he gets, so *shrug*. I'm also curious where his wife will show up, maybe she'll go to Alexandria or meet up with Daryl somewhere.
Little tid bit from Talking Dead which was funny, Dwight's actor gets trolled by the "Easy Street" song whenever he goes out. He mentioned going to a bowling alley with some friends and he got recognized, so the bowling alley played the song over the intercom. He hates it.
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I don't think Eugene
Although, the fact that he didn't turn the wives in does set it up that he possibly is not totally all in yet
Austin Amelio and Josh McDermitt both played absolute blinders this episode.
I imagine
Dwight I thought they were setting it up for him to turn on Negan and join with Alexandria when he found his wife's letter. I guess I underestimated how much of an asshole he is.
I'm still holding out for Dwight to pull a Grand Admiral Thrawn on Neegan.
The wives' plan will work, but it only kills Negan. Then what? The next asshole in line, most likely the most ruthlessly violent one, takes his place, and everyone is worse off for it.
Rick's plan seems to be a full-on assault. On a fortified position held by a well-supplied and heavily-armed group. Filled with trapped civilians. Worse, civilians who have nowhere else to go and who would likely not survive in the world outside, so they are much more likely to stand with Negan than against him when push comes to shove.
Richard's plan is the good one. The Saviours keep splintering off small groups for missions. Setup traps and kill them off one by one. At the same time, since you're providing them with food, poison their food supply.
That's not what he said. He said "I'm not good. Not lawful, neutral, or chaotic. None of the above." Which was even better. Like he was like no way dudettes, I'm not good by any of the standard alignments. =P
I love Eugene so I enjoyed this episode quite a bit. And I don't think there's any chance that:
There's no doubt he's enjoying some of the respect people are being forced to give him and all that, but when push comes to shove and Rick's army gets there, I don't think there's any chance he doesn't try to rejoin them. Honestly, I expect Dwight to help Eugene escape before it comes to that.
As is, the zed is still going to rot out from the metal. I thought he was going to say formaldehyde or something.
Am I thinking too hard?
Or maybe he will take a risk (like he did biting Dwight's crotch last season). But it'll presumably be a totally impulsive risk, and I don't expect him to actually act openly until the war starts.
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I don't see it as super effective either. I think he was mostly just bull shitting and improvising and came up with an "science-y" solution off the top of his head.
Or it could've just been bad writing.
This is TWD, either is very possible.
Eugene's idea was to use the molten metal to attach them to the fence, creating a body mold of sorts that would prevent them from deteriorating through it, "bonus points if you put it around their head"
Have a basket of those artisinal crisps sent to my room.
*I'm assuming they serve more as an alarm system than active defenses. If not, then window planter full of upper torsos. But how hard is it to poke a restrained walker in the eye?
Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure one of the walkers on the fence had a pole going through the back of its head.
Wouldn't that sever the brain stem?
What the fuck was up with the garbage dump people? What that for real?
One wierd ass dude taking on airs is one thing. Especially since they had Ezekiel himself tell Carol that it's essentially all bullshit and a show for his people.
Garbage dump gang was played straight, and that is just silly.
The pit zombie with all the blades sticking out of it was pretty damn cool though.
This is all I can think about when the garbage people are on screen.
I did enjoy all the call backs to other episodes:
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That might end up being important. Or it might not. We'll see.
THAT FUCKING DEER THOUGH?!??!?!
Like this would have been a better way to approximate a deer.
imo, storywise the only reason Rick's group
It seems a bit too formulaic at this point.
I'm curious if they're going to
If anything, it seems almost like a good cop, bad cop routine.