So some people may hate this review, but this is how I felt about last night’s episode. Set-up episodes like #1 are great. Action episodes like #2-3 are great. Character episodes like last week can be great, and last week’s was. Filler episodes can be annoying, but can still be functional if we get tidbits of information that we can use later. All that said, last night’s episode was none of those. In my opinion, last night was just pure, outright trolling. The writers spent the entire episode trolling the smarks, for no other reason than they could, because there is no other explanation as to the utter ridiculosity on display last night for 60 atrocious minutes. It was not only everything I can hate about this show, but everything I hate about arrogant, lazy writers of any show who decide to insult their most devoted fans. Allow me to further explain.
First (and second) are two of the most obvious. We open with Rambo Rick Grimes approaching the gate, giant hoard of walkers in tow, perfectly spaced behind him for effect, but unable to catch him. Remember we left this man, battered, desperate, unable to contact his friends by radio, and losing blood out of his severely wounded hand while frantically trying to start the RV he had just been attacked in. The pan out shot showed hundreds of walkers usurping the RV as he tried to start it, with no image of Rick’s escape. Fast-forward and he apparently just Rick-rolled his way out of that entire predicament with no difficulty, complete with no apparent hunger or blood loss, no difficulty running at full speed after being attacked and beaten, and no problem navigating through a few thousand blood-thirsty cannibals to make his way back…by 6 feet.
Now, in their defense, we may see how he got out later, someone may have helped him, who knows…but the way it was done…trolling. Second, of course, is the whole issue of Glenn. It is patently obvious by now that he isn’t dead, and they are just outright trolling the audience by not revealing his fate for a month. Or more. I could see it if the fate of Michonne and her future boyfriend, and of Rick, and of Darryl/Sasha/Abraham were all also unknown, but as it is, the only character we won’t know anything about after next week (apparently) is Glenn.
But these weren’t the only displays of trolling. There were many others. Deanna goes Benjamin Martin/the Patriot on a walker, but after ALL this time has no idea that she has to, I don’t know, stab it in the head? Check. Aaron, who is out amongst the walkers all the time searching for people, and Maggie, who survived as part of the Prison Gang, all of a sudden have touch-and-go difficulty with 2, yes 2, walkers in the sewer? Check. Rick, who is as paranoid (in a good way) about people and as good at anticipating potential danger as anyone can be, apparently has no idea that the kid whose dad he killed and mom he is banging might be setting him up to cause harm to him or his family? Check. And where do all of these nameless Alexandrians (males especially) come from to raid the pantry? How did most of them not get killed by the Wolves? Why did they not try and defend the women and children from being butchered? Check. And…Carol suddenly disappeared? She wasn’t apparently concerned with talking to Rick? Or his return? Or the walker hoard? Or the pantry raid? Or anything?
As for anything we can use, there were only 2 things. One was something we all knew anyway, that Maggie was pregnant. The second is the leaking walls. Was that blood from the walkers, indicating they are starting to break through? Was it gas or oil from the truck? But that was it.
Sorry, this is a wall of text, but this was also a cunty fuckbat episode, with a dash of bitchtwinkie thrown in.
