The new reboot
continues and we have to remember Jesus is still dead, after being already only
blink-and-you-miss-it gay and having his storyline vastly cut from what it was.
No, I’m not amused. Oh yet Negan is alive and free. Of course he fecking is
And we have the
introduction of a new enemies, a group of people in a post technology world
that exist by hanging around with lots of rotting bodies. They call themselves
the Whispers. I call them the Sufferers of Septicaemia. And, of course, all the
settlements have turned against each other for not apparent reason, perhaps
only because without The Supreme Lord Rick everything must collapse because all
hail Rick.
Which means we open
with Jesus’s corpse (not over this) and Michonne and Darryl doing a fighting
retreat while everyone withdraws. And having to learn that fighting human led
Walkers is awkward - after all a closed gate is no longer an impassable barrier
Alas we do have to
catch up with Negan and he isn’t just eaten. He is lurking around being sinister
and trying to escape and is found by Judith holding a gun. He tries to talk her
out of shooting him - but wisely realises she is Not Bluffing. Judith is a
child of the apocalypse and ruthlessness will be baked into her.
At least I would have
thought so -but she still lets him go. Aaaargh really? WHY IS HE NOT DEAD?!
Everyone has to agree that “You won’t shoot” “yes I will - bang” would have
been awesome.
In Alexandria a whole
lot of people whose names I don’t remember are being organised by Tara and
Enid. And Luke, one of the new guys I guess whose name I better remember,
volunteers to help to get in with the group, teaming up with Enid’s boyfriend
Alden
Alden is so going to die. He’s such angst fodder. They talk music but I’m not going to pay much attention to them until I know one or more of them is going to actually live
Either way it’s all
pointless because Michonne and co make it back fine anyway. On the way they run
into some Walkers and Daryl has found a convenient way to tell who is actually
a Walker and who is a Whisperer… shoot them in the leg and when they scream
they’re a human. And about to get eaten by all their fellows
Which kind of puts a
big question on how effective the Whisperers are since they have to stumble
around one trip or sneeze from being eaten, they’re incapable of running or
seeking cover when faced with range attacking and have to go into battle while
method acting. This has flaws as a battle strategy
Exploiting this, they
manage to grab a captive to drag back to Alexandria. There everyone is sad
about Jesus being dead. They quickly remind us as well that they want like ALL
THE VENGEANCE because they totally care about Jesus. Honest. Unlike the writers
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| My bitterness rises |
Michonne, after
bonding with Daryl over the whole dead Rick thing, decides it’s time for her to
head back to Alexandria, with Aaron declaring how he’s totally agreeing with
Michonne on how they should hunker down and never co-operate with their
faithful friends to launch a co-ordinated response to the army threatening them
Because… reasons?
Yeah that made no sense at all.
She leaves Daryl
behind to question the fragile little remaining Whisperer - he intimidates her
a lot in which she talks about how grim everything is, they need the dead to
survive and, oh, all settlements like this fail eventually. She mentions her
mother but her estimate of the numbers of Whispers are clearly lies. Also they
don’t have names.
While Daryl is all
meaaaaaaaaaan to the woman, Henry who has been locked up for being drunk is
looking on and wringing his poor poor hands over how mean Daryl is. And the
woman bonds with him telling her name Lydia.
With Daryl listening
outside
I don’t know if Henry
is in on this or whether Daryl is using him. But I’m not… sold on this sudden
crafty insight from Daryl. I mean, yeah Michonne said that he’s the utter best
judge of character ever but… since when? I mean he’s a hermit loner who grew up
with a violent racist. At what point did he gain all this insight into
humanity? Because it wasn’t at any point during the show
And after Jesus’s
death we now have to devote lots and lots of time to Negan
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| Bitterness still rising |
So he wanders back to the Saviour’s ruin and is all dad and he isn’t eaten by zombies or dogs or zombie dogs which is just deeply depressing.
Eventually he is
found by Judith who…. Just wanders the woods alone? I mean, really? This is
something that happens. She shoots him which doesn’t actually do much damage
and they agree that there’s nothing out there for him and he agrees to return
to Alexandria.
Yay….
