I am corrected. After that of last week Walking Dead the episode ended on a cliff, with Maggie hanging from the back of the subway subway car and Negan disappearing from view above her, as if abandoning her to a horrible fate, I assumed that the show was pulling out one of its usual fakes and that this installment would begin with the reappearance of Negan and the salvation of Maggie’s ass, thus draining the bad blood between them and forging an awkward alliance. No, no! Turns out, Negan took a look at Maggie’s situation and thought, “Oh, well ”and continued. He really let her die. It’s raw, it has cold blood like hell and it makes total sense. Congratulations, The walking Dead: you played exactly well.
Negan’s decision in two seconds started this episode in good style and while it was generally quite messy and chaotic, quite a few rhythms landed to make it feel exciting, despite an uneven sound mix and some from time to time. so muchkward edition. Obviously, the show had to get from one place to another — from Maggie’s desire to kill Negan with an awkward truce between them, lest her drama marginalize all the bigger issues that happened and become more vicious route, the narration felt more alive than expected. Everyone is ready to kill Negan for abandoning Maggie (including Maggie, for a moment), but she is actually the first to accept and acknowledge Negan’s justification, even if she still wants to kill him. “You tried to kill her!” Diu Alden. “No,” Negan replies in tone. “He had problems and I didn’t help him great with a brief but simple speech, Negan reminds them of their courage and while Maggie’s subordinates have recently arrived they are still ready to execute him, everyone else, including Maggie, recognizes that the old Savior has a point.
And in case anyone watching it wanted to fight the moral and gray areas here, “Acheron: Part 2” immediately leans back to prove that Maggie is far from some benevolent, good-hearted leader at this point. Runaway Gage reappears on the other side of a train car door, asking to be let in, but Maggie refuses, saying they don’t have the firepower to catch all the walkers Gage let into the train with him. . looking her straight in the face as he nails himself to his heart to avoid a much more painful death. So who is the cold-blooded one?what a long and horrible story about the brutal and the ruthless state of the world outside Alexandria. He has made hard, intense calls to survive, because he had to; and all it does is reinforce the rarity of its community situation. “Compared to everything out there …” he says, and Negan makes a song: “It means we were lucky.” Both, on the same page. Survival is not easy, and yesis for strange but necessary bedfellows.
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Daryl’s side trip adds to the general sense of chaos lying in the subway tunnels, which consists primarily of looking thoughtfully at the remains of missing survivors (and a walker in a sleeping bag) to drive home the point of this episode about how unusual the setting in Hilltop, the Kingdom and Alexandria really is. (Or it was, in the case of the first two locations.) ThHere was a community that was still fractured throughout the class and its valuethe decline in former social divisions is evident in the $ 100 notes Daryl finds, used as a note by a couple of kids waiting for their dad to find him. Finally, he returns to the main group, just in time to start a bad fight sequence, Old boy-style (whe, rather like a murder sequence, the walkers don’t fight much), ending with a real hero moment where he puts a grenade in a walker’s mouth and nails the train door just in time to blow them all up the undead. . It’s kinetic and fun, even if it’s far away the most artificial action sequence.
Meanwhile, the situation ended in the Commonwealth is finally resolved this week. After being endangered, although bureaucrats, limbo, Ezekiel and others are welcome in the community, or rather, they are granted “asylum in these united municipalities,” as Mercer calls it, a huge red storm . (Also, Ezekiel was wrong; Mercer wasn’t a former cop who stepped on power. “I went to West Point, asshole,” he says in a draft before leaving.) These sequences were played mostly for laughter, thank you as usual to the princess, but Eugene’s breakup felt a little too forced. Yes, it would be disconcerting to sit while your friends disappeared one by one, but he was already sinking at the beginning of this episode; when he delivered his long monologue to Mercer about Stephanie, the radio and the reason why he convinced his friends to accompany him on this journey into the dark, he felt terribly overwhelmed.. (This is a guy who lived the initiation that Negan made of the Saviors, after all, a few days in a train car doesn’t seem to cause anxiety.) Still, it’s good to have it resolved before he tired.
The great advance of “Acheron” comes to an end. Regrouping with Daryl and Roy is still alive somehow (the guy who ran away from the group with the latest episode of Gage), everyone heads to a supply store that Maggie says is nearby. Instead, they find a parade of corpses hanging up and down the stretch of road, and then an arrow hits Roy in the head. As everyone covers up, our new villains show up: I guess the Reapers? They are masked, but with almost the same degree of military clothing we saw in the last boy we found. I guess there is a possibility that it is elsewhere, but it seems very unlikely. We are at the end, here, it’s time to meet our nemesis.
Lost observations
- Princess, channeling her inner Karen into the Commonwealth: “We want to talk to the manager! ”
- The princess had several fun moments, as usual, but my favorite was probably her answer with her eyes open knowing that they had toilet paper in thesalons. “Oh shit, I’m excited!”
- Have we ever seen Yumiko bust her legal skills like this before? I don’t remember it, and while it was fun, at first I also found it a bit out of character.
- MaGgie’s story really was pretty awful. Women whose limbs were cut off, their tongues cut off and impregnated? Yes, we understand, we prove, the world is one terrible place.
- Walking Dead moment of small criticism: When the train door opens and the rush of walkers enters, they begin to fall one by one and quite quickly. So why the hell weren’t there a lot of bodies after the first minute? From what I could see, the endless parade of walkers kept moving, as if none of them had fallen to the ground before. It was dazzling enough that it pulled me out of the sequence
- Eugene’s tearful confession was really quite touching at some points. About Stephanie: “She … it was not rejected by my reflections. ”
- If I had a wish, it would be for The walking Dead spend this last season really investing on some TVs directors who have talent for great action scenes. Call Kevin Tancharoen or John Hyams, guys! Call Michelle McLaren again. Let’s go wild!