The Walking Dead: Start to Finish
The midseason finale of The Walking Dead was hardly what I expected. By this point, I have come to expect crazy bloodbaths with major casualties. The show has kind of painted itself into a corner by producing these battle-to-the-death finale. Start to Finish was entirely different the vast majority of the show dedicated to characters talking to each other with very little killing of zombies.
RIP Deanna
The only character of significance (and only non-zombie) to die in this episode was Deanna. I guess she’ll never get to see her Alexandria rebuilding plans come to fruition. The woman has had a rough go of it on the show, losing her husband and son. Her death was a bit anti-climactic. The only real hold your breath moment was when Rick thought she had already turned into a zombie when she was hovering over Judith’s crib and nearly killed her when he thought she was attacking his daughter.
Ron—That Little Bastard Part 2
Ron is a complete idiot, and as Carl so eloquently reminded him, his dead was an asshole. I can understand him wanting to get revenge on Carl and try to take him out, but to do it when he did was entirely inexplicable. So, I’m supposed to believe that he so loved his dad so much that he wants revenge for him—his dad being the aforementioned asshole—but he has so little regard for his mom and brother that he was willing to let all of the zombies in to potentially kill them in his attempt to gain vengeance upon Carl. Why Carl, anyway? The one he should be trying to take out is Rick. This whole scene was weak.
Morgan vs. Carol
I think Morgan has officially replaced Carl as my least favorite character on the show. His pacifism wouldn’t work in the real world and sure as hell doesn’t work in the zombie apocalypse. Morgan is a complete idiot. Carol was right in trying to kill the Wolf, who, by the way, announced his intentions to kill the citizens of Alexandria. Morgan is a danger to Alexandria and needs to be banished. Shockingly, as soon as the captive Wolf found an opening, he took out Morgan and kidnapped the wannabe doctor. Morgan, like the Wolf, is incapable of being rehabilitated. You’re dead to me, Morgan.
Zombie Guts Anyone?
The finale ends with the characters bathing themselves in zombie guts then walking amidst a sea of zombies. The tactic was sound and has been successfully done before. My major thought here is that if I was Rick, I wouldn’t want to get involved with Jessie. Her kids are just absolutely awful. Ron is a tool, and the younger one is soon to be zombie chow. Pretend that you’re brave. Yeah right.
How did I do with my Mid-Season Finale Predictions
With the tower falling, all hell’s going to break loose in the next episode, which is what usually happens in the finale episodes. There will be many people dying, and this will probably mean the end of Alexandria, but I’m pretty sure most of the folks dying will be the native Alexandrians—I’ll call this prediction mostly incorrect. There wasn’t a large bodycount, but none of Rick’s band died, so I wasn’t entirely wrong.
Ron is going to take the opportunity to try to kill Carl, but won’t succeed. This doesn’t even make sense since Enid at this point hasn’t even been in Alexandria lately. Not to mention, Rick would kill him for sure if he did that.—called this one. Two points for me.
Morgan’s going to snap out of it and kill him some zombies. At least he doesn’t have a problem with killing zombies.—wrong on this score. He was more concerned about saving his Wolf captive then killing zombies. Morgan just needs to go away.
Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham will make it back to save the day.—wrong on this one too. They will make their way back, but we’ll have to wait until the second half of the season for it.
Most likely this will scatter Rick’s group to various corners as they try to survive and they will be separated once again.—To be determined, although based on what I saw from the episode, I’m going to say that they will stay to ensure the survival of Alexandria.
RIP Deanna
The only character of significance (and only non-zombie) to die in this episode was Deanna. I guess she’ll never get to see her Alexandria rebuilding plans come to fruition. The woman has had a rough go of it on the show, losing her husband and son. Her death was a bit anti-climactic. The only real hold your breath moment was when Rick thought she had already turned into a zombie when she was hovering over Judith’s crib and nearly killed her when he thought she was attacking his daughter.
Ron—That Little Bastard Part 2
Ron is a complete idiot, and as Carl so eloquently reminded him, his dead was an asshole. I can understand him wanting to get revenge on Carl and try to take him out, but to do it when he did was entirely inexplicable. So, I’m supposed to believe that he so loved his dad so much that he wants revenge for him—his dad being the aforementioned asshole—but he has so little regard for his mom and brother that he was willing to let all of the zombies in to potentially kill them in his attempt to gain vengeance upon Carl. Why Carl, anyway? The one he should be trying to take out is Rick. This whole scene was weak.
Morgan vs. Carol
I think Morgan has officially replaced Carl as my least favorite character on the show. His pacifism wouldn’t work in the real world and sure as hell doesn’t work in the zombie apocalypse. Morgan is a complete idiot. Carol was right in trying to kill the Wolf, who, by the way, announced his intentions to kill the citizens of Alexandria. Morgan is a danger to Alexandria and needs to be banished. Shockingly, as soon as the captive Wolf found an opening, he took out Morgan and kidnapped the wannabe doctor. Morgan, like the Wolf, is incapable of being rehabilitated. You’re dead to me, Morgan.
Zombie Guts Anyone?
The finale ends with the characters bathing themselves in zombie guts then walking amidst a sea of zombies. The tactic was sound and has been successfully done before. My major thought here is that if I was Rick, I wouldn’t want to get involved with Jessie. Her kids are just absolutely awful. Ron is a tool, and the younger one is soon to be zombie chow. Pretend that you’re brave. Yeah right.
How did I do with my Mid-Season Finale Predictions
With the tower falling, all hell’s going to break loose in the next episode, which is what usually happens in the finale episodes. There will be many people dying, and this will probably mean the end of Alexandria, but I’m pretty sure most of the folks dying will be the native Alexandrians—I’ll call this prediction mostly incorrect. There wasn’t a large bodycount, but none of Rick’s band died, so I wasn’t entirely wrong.
Ron is going to take the opportunity to try to kill Carl, but won’t succeed. This doesn’t even make sense since Enid at this point hasn’t even been in Alexandria lately. Not to mention, Rick would kill him for sure if he did that.—called this one. Two points for me.
Morgan’s going to snap out of it and kill him some zombies. At least he doesn’t have a problem with killing zombies.—wrong on this score. He was more concerned about saving his Wolf captive then killing zombies. Morgan just needs to go away.
Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham will make it back to save the day.—wrong on this one too. They will make their way back, but we’ll have to wait until the second half of the season for it.
Most likely this will scatter Rick’s group to various corners as they try to survive and they will be separated once again.—To be determined, although based on what I saw from the episode, I’m going to say that they will stay to ensure the survival of Alexandria.
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