OK, so last night’s episode sucked a big fat one to me, on numerous levels. As I said, I don’t think it was filmed badly, the arrow going through the head was one of those ECW crowd “Holy [Mark May]” moments, and the look on hot Latina’s (HL) face made it work (OK, any look at HL’s face makes anything work, but that’s beside the point). However, here’s what I hated:
I will admit post-haste that I don’t know anything about other filming commitments, contracts, or the like. So this particular comment could be mostly null and void. But that said…if it was the writers who decided to kill off the doctor, then it was a really, really dumbfuck idea. I mean an epically dumbfuck idea. I think she and Jesus are the most interesting new characters to be introduced since we got Maggie and Herschel on the farm, way, way before both characters jumped the shark. Why go to all the trouble to show her struggling with becoming the complex’s doctor? Why the entire thing with the FUTG? Why build up her relationship with Tara? If all they were going to do was knock her off as part of the undercard to bring back Dwight vs. Darryl, they could have used that screen time to develop one of the other characters that was going to stick around for a while. As an actress, I think she gets nuance way more than almost any of the others do, which is what made her interesting. Terrible person to lose on the show, in my IMO. Speaking of which…
The whole Carol thing is just not believable. I’m sorry, it just isn’t. I get it, killing is hard, and I can imagine that one’s conscience might play tricks on you. I know that combat soldiers say that what you have to do haunts you. I get all that, I really do. But this is the woman that everyone describes (including on TD) as the “Queen of the Apocalypse”. She put a bullet in a sociopathic kid’s head. Yet it didn’t seem to bother her all that much then. She tried to kill Morgan because he kept the FUTG. All the time she was in Alexandria, she was the duplicitous wife on a 50’s TV show, with Rambo underneath. It took 5 seasons for her to fully evolve to this point. 5. Entire. Seasons. And now we’re supposed to believe that she finds one crucifix on a dead woman, and all of a sudden she is a cross between Morgan and Mother Theresa? And that she would just bail? And let’s look at that, she just bailed…how does that make any sense? She knows the Saviors are out there, and she knows that all the other groups in the area are subjugated by them. Where in the exact fuck is she thinking she is going to go to avoid killing and confrontation? Speaking of which…
That brings me to the latest installment of “yeah right”. So Dwight is apparently being built as a useless twat that can’t get out of his own way, complete with a burnt face and one liners like Abraham. OK, fine. But, this is the group that we are supposed to believe has subjugated all of the other groups in the area with a combination of power and fear, right? Yet, we have 12-15 heavily armed people in their group, all of them with guns pointed at HL and Darryl. One guy goes to look for Abraham, he shoots, and everyone immediately…freezes and does nothing, allowing enough time for HL and Darryl to re-arm themselves and Eugene to execute the Bite of Doom (I am not even going to comment on that, the comments write themselves). Then, they all fall back when there are still twice as many of them as there were Alexandrians, and they all had guns. So basically, they were an overwhelming force that led to HL and Darryl surrendering, and all it took for them to turn into the French Army was a dick bite and 2 shots by one guy. I was afraid this was going to happen with the Saviors, and it is happening already. Yes, I’m sure Negan will be a badass. But so was the Governor, really…but the writers will not allow any other group to be stronger, or even as strong, as Rick’s group. So far they have easily outsmarted and either wiped out or driven back superior numbers of Saviors on 3 separate occasions. Savior victories? 1 doctor…on a sneak attack. This is the Hunters and Woodbury all over again. It will just last longer.
I won’t even comment on the one-liners right after they brought back the dead doctor’s body, or their attempt to transform Eugene, or Carol’s 30 second love life, or HL going sorority girl with what’s his nuts, or…
