And The Walking Dead did not disappoint.Episode Discussion Archive Issue #193 Discussion Official Discord Server Info User RulesĪll content that is unrelated to The Walking Dead will be removed ( this includes generic image macros and reaction images). A world where people can come together regardless of race, gender, sexuality or background and build families where they can rise up against a foe that seems to have every odd stacked in their favor and actually win. There are times when art should reflect the horrors of the real world, absolutely-but there are times when it should show us what it could be, even in the face of unspeakable evil and terrible loss.
You can't watch the struggles of Rick and his people, the losses Maggie took season after season, the comically evil villain who seemed to win without merit again and again, and not identify with the good guys even a little bit. In the hours after "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life," Walking Dead Twitter filled with people declaring it "predictable" or "rushed." What they're forgetting, though, is that viewers needed a win. Plus, Hypeman Jerry and Shiva live to fight another day, and that's all I was really hoping for. (I think this might count as King Ezekiel and Carol's first date, but don't tell them I said that.) The Saviors retreat, middle fingers high as the united forces of Alexandria, the Kingdom, and the Hilltop tend to their wounded, it really seems as though the day is saved. The Kingdom has arrived, followed closely by seventh-trimester Maggie and the Hilltop Colony. Ultimately, though, it's not enough to overcome the combined forces of the Saviors and the "Filthy Garbage People" (Negan's words), so it seems that Carl might actually meet the business end of Lucille-at least until a tiger disrupts Negan's festivities. While she misses the man in charge, Sasha is still able to take out a Savior and save her friends. Luckily, the debut of Sasha's brand-new Walker status provides enough of a distraction for Carl to lead the charge and start a good-old-fashioned firefight. (This is why the first rule of film school is "trust no bowl cut.") have been able to fortify Alexandria with guns, people, and explosives-only to get hosed when the trash-can kids sell Rick out to Eugene and the Saviors. Now, someone is about to catch those hands. Gregory has been missing for some unclear amount of time, which leaves Hilltop Colony in Maggie's capable hands. The episode taps into that uncertainty, fuzzing the sequencing and hopping from place to place: after a season of crescendo, the drums of war are downright disorienting. Have you ever gotten bad news? Or felt anxious about something unavoidable? Time loses its constancy, stretching seconds into eternity or distilling a week into the blink of an eye-and sometimes both. Now, he's just trying to do right by his lost love only time will tell if his actions will bring Sherry back, or if she's too far gone. Dwight lost Sherry, though, through his own choices-which is a different kind of pain, one suffused with futility and guilt and all manner of terribleness. Nearly everyone who lost someone in The Walking Dead universe lost them to death as awful as that is, there's comfort in its inevitability. In offering to turn double agent and delay Negan, he takes a healthy step toward redemption. Hope you paid attention in AP Lit the day they taught foreshadowing, Negan!īack in Alexandria, Dwight pleads his case to Rick's very armed, very angry posse. "Only one person has to die," she tell him. (Always one for a subtle metaphor, that Negan.) Much of that plan involves placing Sasha into a casket, monologuing, and then killing three of Rick's people-which doesn't sit well with the supposedly Savior-ized Sasha. No time for reminiscing, though: Negan, a man who certainly owns multiple pairs of Truck Nuts, wants roll up on Alexandria and once again rub Lucille in Rick's face. Between shots of Negan bringing Sasha smiley-face pancakes and the Saviors gearing up for their showdown with the Alexandrians, the episode tosses in a heart-wrenching flashback of Sasha and Abraham's last conversation before his untimely date with Lucille, finally giving viewers some insight that was sorely missing all season. The Walking Dead Recap Season 7, Episode 13: The Return of Hurricane Carol Is More Like a Tropical Depression, Really Arrowīut first there's subterfuge-and closure.