The Walking Dead: Time For After

Well, at least this episode wasn’t as bad as the last episode. Having said that, it was filled with flaws with only a couple of bright spots. After all of that constant fighting in the first couple of episodes, it seems as if there has been little movement in the story line. It’s hard to believe that the next episode is the mid-season finale that will allegedly have a shocking moment.

Rick and Jadis
This is without question my least favorite story line currently going on in The Walking Dead. I hate everything about it. Why the hell is Jadis and every member of her group incapable of talking in complete sentences? Then they walk in those stupid circular patterns all the time. Whenever they are on the screen, I can’t even watch it. It’s some of the worst television I have ever seen. Then when you add the utter idiocy of Rick approaching them even though they have already turned on him once, it’s more than I can take. Please, The Walking Dead showrunners, kill off Jadis and all of her followers and end this misery.

The Truck
In the interest of moving things along—I guess Daryl and company have the same consternation in the lack of plot progression in this season that I have—they decided to go against Rick’s plan of waiting out the Saviors. It’s a sound plan, because they will eventually run out of food and water as long as they prevent them from escaping. Regardless, the new plan was to plow into the Saviors building and allow the zombies to flood in there. I’m not sure why Michonne and Rosita were so up in arms. It was a very logical thing to do to inflict maximum damage on the Saviors and end this conflict quicker. They seemed to achieve their objective as zombies entered the opened building and began having breakfast with the Saviors.

Eugene
Coming from the corporate world, for the life of me I couldn’t understand why Negan didn’t create task forces to come up with plans on getting out of their predicament. His entire plan was to motivate Eugene by shaking his hand and hoping he’ll come up with a brilliant plan. This once again shows how lousy of a leader Negan is. I don’t understand how he became the leader of this group. His leadership skills rival that of Kim Jong Un.

This was a very Eugene centric episode. I like Eugene. He’s a quirky and different type of character than you typically see on a television show. He went through all sorts of internal strife in this episode, having his soul examined by Father Gabriel, being propped up by Negan, and having a gun put to his head by Dwight. The Eugene scenes were the highlight of this episode. I liked the dynamic between Eugene and Dwight, and never thought he was actually going to shoot him

Hopefully, the mid season finale will give a glimpse of hope in what has thus far been a really dreadful season.
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Published on December 04, 2017 17:52
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