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The Walking Dead: No Other Way (2022)
This episode was good for this flop last season but not as good as episodes on season 9 or 10
First of all, i'm glad they're done with Reapers. But what was a point? Whole 11a came off as waste of screentime. If not Reapers' empty senseless story we could to move on to main storyarc which is CW more quickly or to get more episodes about routine in Alexandria which for my taste would be 100x more interesting than Reapers/Pope/Leah silly plot.
We didn't learn any backstory of conflict between Maggie and Pope and all that mercenary thing felt fake during 11a.
Only believable Reaper is formidable Brandon Carver and this episode proved it. He supposed to survive in the end instead of Leah. Actor is awesome and he portrayed sociopathic merc brilliantly.
I enjoyed action on this episode, particularly fight scenes with Carver, including one with Negan and "ding ding" - i snorted. Also Daryl/Austin fight scene was worthy, choreography set is awesome, kudos to director and filming crew. However continuity sucked for it as we don't see Daryl struggling with wound in his shoulder, he probably instantly recovered as Wolverine.
Daryl and Maggie. I have strong issue with Daryl telling others how and what to do. I understand writers want to show his character got wise in years but sometimes it hits wrong and doesn't feel true to character how he moralizes others - in this episode it's Maggie but he did it with Carol. Magna,Aaron and others last season.
I'm sorry writers but Daryl isn't comic Rick. Don't force him to act like hypocrite.
However i can understand Daryl being upset for what Maggie did - he's man of the word and he promised Leah can leave with her family.
But from info we know about Maggie/Reapers conflict- i'm on her side for wanting to kill them all. Again because of lack of backstory i think Maggie is right to kill those who killed her people without mercy and left her group to die.
Now going to ASZ. Pace where characters in eye of storm but how they got from it being glossed over is frustrating and what i dislike about show.
Why to not show us how they deal wtith windmill and breach in wall? Anyway whatever.
Aaron saving kids was too corny and sketchy in my taste. But i'm glad they all alive and i loved scene where Lydia saves him saying "he would do same to her". Showing how her character improved.
The tension between Maggie vs Negan (and therefore their hardcore fans) has become redundant over the seasons and overly tense to the point it's unbearable and unenjoyable. I will praise them of the framing of them throughout this episode. The way you can just tell and feel Negan's realization that the only way everyone is happy is if he leaves.
My only question is why 8 episodes were wasted on their duo to bring Negan to same point in story he already reached in his episode.
Like again...what was a point of 8 episodes on 11a fro these characters?
Reunions and characters going back to ASZ.
All the ways they could have had this tension in the air about Daryl and Carol over the cave and Connie. That was the most anticlimactic way to deal with it. Because now I'm curious if Daryl and Carol still going to be at odds and fighting or are they cool now that Connie's back and we're just gonna gloss over that? We only wasted (yes, I'm using the right word) 2 episodes about Caryl arguing and?? The payoff??? Where is it???
Daryl and Carol were standing close in the Commonwealth debrief so they're better, I guess??
They're two main og characters and conflict they had for half of last season has no resolution.
Like what was a point?
Daryl's reaction to see Connie is corny giddy like it was It was straight up Reedus and Ridloff playing themselves and not their characters?
I'm not sure about Carol watching them tho.
Writers just been so wishy-washy about Daryl and Connie's bond and so afraid to classify what Daryl and Carol are to each other other than best friends, I hate it. Because I can't tell anymore if this is just bad executive choices, bad writing, bad framing. This show hates to give labels to literally anything anymore because they fear they'll lose fans, especially when it comes to Daryl. Why else does this man not have a canon background and not open about his true feelings like anyone else after 11 seasons? We know more about newer characters' backgrounds and psyches than we know about Daryl's.
I'm disappointed from a narrative viewing. Good action is what was good to me here. Writing is to drive plot.
The Walking Dead: Out of the Ashes (2021)
Best episode of season so far. Still don't feel it's last season.
First of all, finally something interesting happens and story moves forward in some aspects.
This season is dissapointing in it's slow pace and tiptoeing around nothing but this episode was good.
Most appealing parts in my opinion are Commonwealth shady story and dillema Aaron&Carol&co have at Hilltop.
I appreciate all of the funny scenes with Eugene, Princess and ice-cream. Princess and Mercer gonna be adorable couple.
Princess is just best additional to show
Yumiko and her brother didn't impress me. Boring characters and i don't care about their relationship.
Eugene seeing woman who looks like Rosita and thinking about her and community is such heartwarming thing but also mark of how far character developed from his coward and irresponsible previous presonality.
Judith's stand against teenager felt forced and cringe kinda but following scene with heartbroken Judith and Rosita were worth it. We need to have more such moments resembling around characters that not present anymore but affected Judith's life.
It was interesting to see characters inner and outter verbal battle towards whisperer fate at Hilltop.
Although i understand motivations of all characters im glad to see Lydia and Carol healing from their traumas and choose not to go dark path and trying to save Aaron (and Jerry) from it.
What i wished for is to have more Carol and more Lydia. I seriously miss their characters on my screen.
Least favorite for me were unnecessary Negan/Maggie scenes which only show tension between them without adding anything else but these couple precios minutes of screentime were taken away from characters like Aaron, Rosita, Carol or Princess.
JDM is awesome and LC is good too but this Negan/Maggie thing became unbearable to watch how badly it rinsed and repeated.
The Walking Dead: Rendition (2021)
Daryl is only good thing in it and only because i'm his fan i gave it 2
This whole episode felt weird to me. If not for Daryl being there, I don't think i would have guessed it was an episode of TWD. He felt like prop used to sell story of these new villians but idea of these Reapers is pretty dissapointing and thing feels like vinegret of this and that put together to see what sticks.
I didn't understand some things about Leah and their reltionship with Daryl. And some things i thought i understood very clearly but then Angela Kang came with her "explanation" after episode (if you what i mean) telling us what Leah felt and did. Why to not write it this way it wouldn't need offscreen explanation? Why to not have actress showing us what was meant to be shown onscreen?
Here my biggest issue with Reapers is that how easily Pope "trusted" Daryl. I can understand about Leah (although i think she doesn't look like mercenary by how she's easy to be convinced too) but their formidable leader? If they really wanted us to see Reapers better they needed to do other testing for Daryl something that would show how seriously they're attached to get truth out of him and that Pope is not only ran out of brains fanatic but that he still plays on many levels how real leader or mercenary gang would using dirtiest things but not to be just caricature. But it's subtle mind games, psychology tactics or something i don't know...
But my biggest struggle with this season so far is that doesn't look like something happens. We're on 4th episode and things are still staging instead of developing, moving forward.
We sit for whole 4 episodes and watch how good characters like Carol, Negan, Daryl, Maggie stuck in isolated storylines. Carol is underutillized and sidelined, Negan and Maggie are in overused conflict and Daryl is used as prop to sell something i don't understand what exactly. Dissapointing. I expected better for twd's last season and my fave characters.
How these Reapers supposed to be seen formidable and so scary if they're so easy to be fooled?
The Walking Dead: Origins: Carol's Story (2021)
Melissa McBride loves and cares about her character like no one else!
This episode of specials was most insightful and felt true to character.
The Walking Dead: Find Me (2021)
I'm sorry but certain scenes ruined whole episode for me
First of all.
Episode is very beautiful from cinematography point.
Writing? It's very bad.
Actors tried their best and it worked...in Daryl/Carol scenes although scenes were mostly sad (in flashbacks) and tense (in present time)
Their fight was needed but it was kinda tame.
But Daryl/Carol scenes really dis something to me, chemistry between actors is unmatched
and i'd love episode if we didn't have..
Daryl/Leah scenes. They are worst.
Only good scene was scene where he throws fish, it was just very funny.
But all of others? Chemistry is so off and Leah's character feels like flat love interest and whole romance between them is like bad written fanfic about teenagers. Daryl felt like out of character with Leah. And actors seemed to play themselves in those scenes. I see they tried hard to sell that relationship but it didn't do anything to me. That was just bad.