When it was announced The walking DeadThe eleventh season would also be is the lastI assumed the show would come together to end the zombie series with a blast, which would rekindle the interest of the millions of viewers who used to watch the show. Instead, I have no idea what it does and I don’t believe it The walking Dead neither.
First, there were last weekmoment out of nowhere, totally unusual, courtesy of Maggie’s (Lauren Cohan) road anecdote. The third episode of season 11, “Hunted,” is an improvement on the fact that it only confuses wall to wall with a rich vein of hypocrisy. Not bad, per se, but yes disconcerting. We ignore the two tiny scenes of the Walking Dead Kids Klub, where they play and get sad, their parents constantly leave them. We can make the brief mention of Carol (Melissa McBride), Magna (Nadia Hilker), Kelly (Angel Theory) and Rosita’s (Christian Serratos) attempt to catch some of the horses that escaped Alexandria during the Beta attack, because a fun majestic scene. of horses crossing a magnificent sunset is followed by a lone Carol cutting one of the horses’ throats. You know, in case you somehow forgot people The walking Dead they are not allowed to have nice things (for a long time, anyway).
The only story that matters is the Reapers’ attack on Maggie’s group, which began in the final seconds of last week’s episode. The Reapers seem to fight through the rules of Looney Tunes, where they can appear or go down from anywhere, even if spatially, Maggie, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) should have seen them. come from a mile away. . Gabriel and Alden (Callan McAuliffe) are injured, Negan runs away, some of the red T-shirts die, all the while Maggie is in a fight for her life that ends when everyone … disappears. Even the dead have disappeared. It’s so weird that I thought it was a dream sequence. But this is not the case! Maggie escapes to a department store / artist loft / garage / somewhere that seems to have been abandoned long before the zombie apocalypse began.
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This is where “Hunted” is best, as Maggie tries to sneak out of the dark building unnoticed while a reaper chases her, occasionally bursting out of the darkness for short but immensely satisfying fight scenes. At one point, Maggie pushes the reaper over a railing, down a stairwell, and just stares into the darkness. Then you hear faint footsteps that get louder, faster, and closer, and Maggie just screws up. It is one of the most frightening indeed Walking Dead moments in recent memory. Eventually, the Reaper gets better, but luckily Negan comes out of nowhere to save her. Together, they find Alden badly wounded and a couple of Maggie’s meridian companions quickly biting the dust. Since Alden can barely step on it and it gets dark, the trio take refuge in a small church where they make the tough and painful decision that Alden must be left behind so that Maggie and Negan can procure the much-needed food supply to the former colony of Maggie, Meridian by Alexandria. . Everything is fine, but when we examine the details of the episode they don’t add up. Absolutely not.
Example 1: Negan—After Maggie and Negan find Alden, Negan says they should return to Alexandria because Alden is extremely wounded and they are being chased by murderous assassins. Not surprisingly, Maggie is against this idea, as it is of all Negan’s ideas. Negan responds wearily and emotionally, “I’m on your side, Maggie.” That to a woman who literally left for dead at the season premiere. But “Hunted” saves her, and then the episode ends with Negan smiling menacingly at her while holding a blood-covered lever.
Example 2: Gabriel—Injured father Gabriel repeats a prayer as he painfully pulls out the knife that pierced his hand and leg. As he walks away, he encounters a wounded reaper who also makes a prayer. He asks if Gabriel, being a priest, would bless him before he dies. Gabriel’s response is, and I quote, “God is no longer here,” just before nailing the Reaper to his head. So, Gabe, who were you praying to exactly ten minutes ago?
Example 3: Maggie—While agonizing over the decision to leave Alden behind or not, Maggie yells at Negan that “she can no longer decide who lives or who dies.” She says this, as the idea of maintaining the power of life or death over people is a bad thing, as one would think … in any other program but The walking Dead. Rick Grimes was constantly deciding who to kill, and Carol sentenced Alpha to death. Devils, Gabriel not more decided that the Reaper should die at his hand, rather than by natural causes (most likely zombie chewing). It was certainly a practical decision on Gabriel’s part, but in last week’s episode, Maggie herself decided to watch her teammate Gage die instead of trying to save him.
And by the way, when his other meridian friend, Agatha, is bothered and surrounded by zombies in “Hunted,” Negan has to drag Maggie came across a deadly trap in vain to save an infected woman who would have at most one day to live if they rescued her. The only way it makes any sense is that when Maggie says, “You’re no longer allowed to decide who lives or who dies,” it means it’s because she now he decides, but if so, he is making very hypocritical decisions. I don’t know, guys! It feels like the writers of the Walking Dead either they have stopped worrying completely about following a plot or have somehow lost their short-term memory. As an advantage, I will take a confusing and contradictory episode over one that I loathe any day of the week. Tune in next week, when The walking Dead it becomes a romantic comedy or something, I guess.
Various reflections:
- I have no idea of the extremely burned zombie that was perched on a cross that had a sign with the label “JUDAS” on it, but it was a fantastic zombie effect. He expected his jaw to drop at any second.
- Li’l Herschel introduces Judith, CR, and Aaron’s daughter, Gracie, to the fun world of insect cooking. The other kids aren’t excited about it, but they’re clearly open to the idea, which makes me think they’ve been hungry enough often that they know they shouldn’t turn down any potential food source, which is extremely depressing. .
- Kelly is a horse whisperer. Don’t worry.
- Rosita believes that Abraham, who died in the seventh season, is trying to send her a message through her dreams. We should probably worry about that.
- Carol is supposed to work on the wall, but instead sleeps and decides to go grab horses, even when Aaron confronts them. Later, Magna asks Carol to please stop giving Kelly the hope that her sister Connie is alive. The next day (maybe even the same day?) Carol grabs Kelly for another Connie hunt in front of Magna. Carol, there’s a difference between being self-destructive and being a huge asshole, and you’re definitely on the nasty side.
- On that note, Carol cut her horse’s throat for a reason, right? What did I miss? … Right?
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