The Walking Dead: The Other Side
The Other Side was a bit of a slow episode. I imagine this will be the calm before the storm of the last two episodes of the season, which I would imagine will have some more explosiveness. I’m willing to sit through an episode like this one, but there had better be a pay off.
Gregory
What a loser. I had mentioned in my last blog post about how utterly weak some of the leaders of the various communities were in the zombie apocalypse, but holy crap, Gregory is by far the weakest. How the hell did this guy get in charge of the Hilltop? Don’t they have elections? It’s hard to imagine that any community, even one of second graders would accept this jabroni as their leader. He let the Saviors take their doctor and didn’t even try to negotiate, like hey, how about the Saviors have him five days a week, and we get him on the weekend.
Maggie
Maggie, by contrast, seems to have gotten over her grief for the most part and is busy preparing the Hilltoppers for battle, providing them weapons training and fabricating new weapons. She even managed to make peace with Daryl, who for obvious reasons blames himself for Glenn’s death. I think they’ve been a little heavy handed with the whole Maggie is going to be the leader, she’s our future. I would rather that happen organically, without the show having to overtly say this over and over again.
Sasha and Rosita plotting and then going to assassinate Negan was the focus of the episode as well as its weakest aspect. They had a lot of slow moving, somewhat dull dialogue scenes with a lot of crying and hugging it out, leading up to their encounter with Eugene. Speaking of Eugene, his actions in this episode would suggest that he actually wants to be part of Negan’s camp, but I’m not ready to buy into that yet. I really didn’t get Rosita wanting to be the one who was suicidal about killing Negan and Sasha being reluctant and cautious, only to see Sasha locking Rosita out so that she could take on this suicide mission. I don’t think it was a well-setup swerve and it didn’t make much sense to me.
Yeah, this episode was a little on the dull side, but I’m confident the action will pick up in the next two episodes.
Gregory
What a loser. I had mentioned in my last blog post about how utterly weak some of the leaders of the various communities were in the zombie apocalypse, but holy crap, Gregory is by far the weakest. How the hell did this guy get in charge of the Hilltop? Don’t they have elections? It’s hard to imagine that any community, even one of second graders would accept this jabroni as their leader. He let the Saviors take their doctor and didn’t even try to negotiate, like hey, how about the Saviors have him five days a week, and we get him on the weekend.
Maggie
Maggie, by contrast, seems to have gotten over her grief for the most part and is busy preparing the Hilltoppers for battle, providing them weapons training and fabricating new weapons. She even managed to make peace with Daryl, who for obvious reasons blames himself for Glenn’s death. I think they’ve been a little heavy handed with the whole Maggie is going to be the leader, she’s our future. I would rather that happen organically, without the show having to overtly say this over and over again.
Sasha and Rosita plotting and then going to assassinate Negan was the focus of the episode as well as its weakest aspect. They had a lot of slow moving, somewhat dull dialogue scenes with a lot of crying and hugging it out, leading up to their encounter with Eugene. Speaking of Eugene, his actions in this episode would suggest that he actually wants to be part of Negan’s camp, but I’m not ready to buy into that yet. I really didn’t get Rosita wanting to be the one who was suicidal about killing Negan and Sasha being reluctant and cautious, only to see Sasha locking Rosita out so that she could take on this suicide mission. I don’t think it was a well-setup swerve and it didn’t make much sense to me.
Yeah, this episode was a little on the dull side, but I’m confident the action will pick up in the next two episodes.
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