How does no one hear the walker falling down the stairs lol
Don’t know what to say anymore, I‘d like to love this show so much because it was one of my favorite tv shows until Negan came along. This storyline killed every thrill (and as I said before; he killed the soul of TWD with Glenns head bashed in). They firing insane amounts of bullets this whole season, killing one man after another and STILL they talking like „we won’t stand ANOTHER attack“ after that perfect set up ambush that STILL didn’t end this „war“?! What are they shooting? Blanks? How many Saviors are there? And STILL Negan running around with his stupid bat, that shit‘s just so annoying it is so sad, so fricking sad. Anyone remember Hershels demise? Man how I hated the Gov for this..now I don’t even know who is who anymore. That love interest from Carol fe? Man who gives a hoop, sry.
So, we have silent assassin zombies now? Sneaking behind people without a single sound and killing them? Lmao what a comedy.
WHY DOES THIS SHOW MAKE US HATE CHILDREN SO MUCH
They need to wrap it up. They need to just end the god damn series, maybe with a happy ending (showing them making new infrastructure, securing the land piece by piece, etc) or maybe with an ending where they all die and Rick ends up alone, or something. But just give us an ending, for crying out loud!
Man the zombies are stealthy like ninjas
You know what it is. You know what it is. You know what it is. You. Know. What. It. Is. YOU KNOOOOOW !
[7.6/10] I don’t always love the structure of the average Walking Dead episode. More often than not, a given episode of the show has the sense of a bunch of scenes somewhat stitched together. Every once in a while, there’s some nifty editing that gives you a sense of flow between one locale or one story or and another, but more often than not, the show will jump tones or settings in a way that may work for an individual storyline, but rarely makes the whole feel as fluid or unified as it needs to.
But in episode like “Do Not Send Us Astray”, where The Walking Dead is essentially telling one big story in one spot, albeit one with most of the casts implicated in one way or another, the show can do some pretty interesting things in terms of using the pace and progression of the episode to earn an emotional response.
To wit, the episode has a little bit of lead-in, just enough prep to ease the audience in and build some anticipation, but pretty early on breaks into an all-out battle between our heroes and the Saviors. The horns sending the warning signal, day turning to dusk, and the eerie calm as everyone at the Hilltop waits for the dam to break give the audience a chance to feel the electricity in the air before everything goes down.
And then the potential energy is unleashed, in a hail of bullets and brutality. It’s been a while since we’ve had a real fight on this scale in the show. The incursion on Alexandria last season was a bit one-sided, and most of the major skirmishes in this show emphasize a sense of chaos over order. This was one of the first that seemed to evoke that sense of cinematic warfare, where there two competing armies on opposite sides, advancing and retreating.
There’s plenty of spills, thrills, and surprises in it. From Daryl roaring up on his motorcycle with a machine gun, to the headfake with everyone at the Hilltop going dark to lure the Saviors in before blasting them back, to Rick showing up as the cavalry, there was a heightened pace and rhythm to this fight that made it one of the show’s most thrilling set pieces. There seemed to be a cleverness, a real strategy to Maggie and Rick and Ezekiel’s followers, that made this more than just the standard exchange of bullets in the show.
It was an exciting, well-done piece of cinematic combat, but I have to admit, it left me wondering what the hell else The Walking Dead was going to do for the rest of its runtime. Those sorts of major battles usually wrap up pretty close to the end of an episode, the blood-pumping highs giving way to just a little bit of denouement afterward.
And at first, it looked like “Do Not Send Us Astray” didn’t know what to do with all that girth in the middle. The episode embraced the quiet bit of recovery after running the Saviors off. There’s a sense of triumph there, that while some lives were lost, while Negan is still at large, the group was able to win the day and start patching their wounds.
It seemed like the episode gave over to the show’s worst impulses: long, clunky conversations about What It All Means, and expository reflections on how they got to this point. It’s a slack tide for the show, one where characters tell Maggie how great a leader she is (putting too fine a point on the idea), Rick is clearly still messed up from what happened with Carl while Michonne tries to comfort him, and Tara and Daryl debate Dwight’s loyalties.
The best of them comes from a sweet, sad reunion between Carol and her sort-of beau Tobin (whose name, I had completely forgotten). It’s not a scene that should work. Their “relationship,” such as it was, had barely been developed in the first place, certainly not enough to carry the emotion The Walking Dead tries to lay on their being reunited. But Tobin looks up at Carol with those kind eyes and understanding chuckles, and Carol looks back at him with that half-smile and those hard words of caring and of a broader acceptance, and the result is the most meaningful conversation in the episode.
I’ll admit, my first reaction when Carol says that there is no “after this”, that winning gives you a day or two, maybe a little more, but the fighting and dying just goes on, as the camera shows various people at the Hilltop settling in after the battle, of young Henry stealing a rifle, of the sound of a clock ticking, was that it was too much. You can’t just throw some poetic words over a montage with some fairly obvious imagery and then call it a day.
But “Do Not Send Us Astray” doesn't. It makes good on those ideas that Carol had -- somewhat stoically, somewhat woundedly -- resigned herself to. In another outstanding sequence, The Walking Dead shows the denizens of the Hilltop packed in like sardines in the main house. It shows the fruits of the Saviors’ walker blood-tipped weapons, as Tobin, the doctor who chastised Siddiq, and the man who complimented Maggie on her leadership all eventually turn and become the threat from within after the threat from without has been repelled.
It’s a great sequence because it punctuates that calm. The attack from the Saviors is something that Rick, Maggie, & Co. anticipated. They were prepared for it. They had a plan for it. This problem erupts when they’re at peace, when they feel safe and secure. There’s something more claustrophobic, more panic-inducing about this, about the friends and allies whom you’d just patched up turning around and becoming a mortal threat in the still of the night.
Again, the show builds the tension, showing how this minor outbreak starts small, with just a few people making the change, until the hunger rises, and people are packed in too tightly, and no one’s expecting to have to defend against a walker attack when they feeling du jour is that the threat has been neutralized. It’s paranoia-inducing, the kind of psy-ops Eugene spoke of a couple of episodes ago, where the Alexandrians and Hilltoppers can no longer trust that they’ll have a moment of serenity, that even the biggest of victories won’t be punctuated by more deaths, more pain, and more fear.
That’s the impact of Carol’s words. She’s reconciled herself to that idea, that this never really ends, that there’s always another fight. And then we see it, and what it does. We see Morgan haunted by the image of Gavin, of the ghosts of what he’s done and what he’s lost. We hear Maggie answer that phantom’s question -- that “what it is” is “the cost,” the toll this endless fight takes on the lives of the people trying to survive. And we see that closing image of the makeshift graveyard, of that seeming moment of victory spoiled by how many souls were plucked from their midst and deposited into the ground.
It is, god help me, poignant. The show’s darkness can often be static, to where deaths don’t necessarily have meaning because they fade into the din and day-to-day mortality that the show made its bones on. But here, The Walking Dead tears into the harrowing notion that going on is not bloodless or something that gets better. Much of this season has been about what the future looks like when Negan is vanquished, and far from promising a brighter tomorrow, “Do Not Send Us Astray” promises that things may become different, but they don’t become easier. The darkness here is a broader one, the lesson sinking in that all victories in this place are pyrrhic and temporary.
That’s the beauty of the structure in this episode. It gives us the tension-filled build to the battle, offers the triumph and release of our heroes showing their prowess on the battlefield and repelling the invaders. And then it spends the big middle of the episode conveying a sense of stability at the Hilltop, the notion that the latest threat has been neutralized and they have the time and space to recoup.
But then it turns that place of sanctuary into a nightmare. It reveals that sense of safety and security as a myth. And once the walker attack is over, and even more names have been added to the rolls of the dead, it closes the episode with an image that digs into the heart, of the heavily-signposted costs to all of this.
It is one story, a story of our heroes fighting, winning, and rejoicing, only to find their victory tainted and illusory and costly when the dust has settled and the sun sets again. Ratings decline or no, The Walking Dead may go on forever, and that means these types of fights, these types of problems, won’t be stopping anytime soon, and those seeming moments of peace will always end up interrupted by the enemy at the gates, or the infection within them.
It's nice to see zombies back in a show that's about zombies. However, i have one major injection. We saw back at the prison that a fever can turn people. The group had to go out and find antibiotics so their group wouldn't die from the fever, and thus turn. When we saw it at the prison, it was days before anyone fever symptoms died. However, in this episode they turn within 12 hours; and that's being generous. Not just the most injured of those, but everyone injured turned (besides rick, despite getting injuries)! One at a time, like a zombie assembly line, they wake up looking for food. It just felt rushed. Too rushed.
Is that another win for the Saviors?
This episode proves why this show has gone down the gutter...seriously I hope they fire the writers & get new staff.
Kids always doing bad shit here.
stupid use of the fever plot from the prison again, but it was a fairly decent episode.
I thought it was established EVERYONE is infected already and as soon as someone dies, they turn. Now they're surprised the dead turn to walkers?
Also, please end Morgan's story soon cause he's really annoying me now.
Please Lord, help me through the next 3 episodes. Please make me care about characters again. Please give me less eye rolls and questions about realism in this show. Why are The Saviours like Dothraki? No matter how many you kill they just magically appear in numbers as if nothing happened? Oh shoot, I did it again. Please Lord, I liked this show.
I loved this show for many seasons... but now when I watch this I sit here just wishing it was over...
Good to see the walkers attack back into the show, after all of those gunfire thing in the season.
Anyway, fk dat kid.
Why does this show kill good characters off?! All the time! Stop - there’s too many characters that I hate VS the good ones.
And some of the good characters like Maggie are acting out of character. Stop it.
I liked most of the episode but I still felt like the show was trying to preach to us - with ‘the cost’ being too high to Siddiq’s talk of not going astray. It still feels like the show is trying to tell the characters and viewers that they don’t want Negan and his group dead. They really need to die and the show needs to find other ways to focus their creativity. This storyline is boring.
Even with all the action scenes and interesting slumber party I kept wanting to skip to the end...considering skipping episodes just to watch the finale which I’m sure the show will use as Negan’s last episode. I hope...because if this goes into the season then I’m done.
I loved Daryl again in this episode though. He felt more like his old self.
Shout by gemmaVIP 3BlockedParent2022-03-08T11:57:20Z
throwback to the prison much