Good luck going up against House of the Dragon. Maybe in seasons 2-4 it would have been close. But not now. I'll watch Monday.
Yes the end of this garbage of a show is upon us. Can’t wait.
Decided not to rewatch S11E16 prior to this one, which was a big mistake. That episode aired just under four months ago, but it still feels like a lifetime ago, so I barely remembered what plotlines were going on while watching. And I'll admit that I wasn't exactly invested in the episodes that aired prior to this one, I think that making the final season a 24 episode run was a bad idea. But I quickly remembered what was going on, and this was actually one of the better episodes in quite some time. It would have helped if they showed an actual recap before the episode, not just a montage of every character from the beginning to the end of the series.
Also, you've got to love the trolls on this show's trakt page. "Can't wait for this garbage show to end", as if you actually watch it. And if you do, you've got a pretty nice life. You do realize that there are people in the world worrying about where their next meal is going to come from, right? If you're worried about TV shows, you've got it easy, and you should probably go outside sometime.
The armored Stormtroopers are incredibly useless. The two at the beginning of the episode getting flanked by walkers while clearing them with machine guns. And at the end the Delta team managed to flip the vehicle driving in a completely flat field and one of them gets killed almost immediately? I'm questioning how have they managed to last this long xD
Another episode that can be played at 3x speed.
How did a vehicle manage to overturn on fairly flat ground, how did Daryl kill one guy very easily and only wing the other fella
[6.5/10] Here we are, I guess. “Lockdown” is a competent enough hour of television, one which picks up on enough developments from the last batch of episodes to qualify as meeting the usual standards. Still, I started this one a little unsure as to what the stakes were and why I should care about what’s happening in a given corner of the world.
The Walking Dead grew more and more diffuse over time, but typically, that meant that different people were off on different storylines that could be picked up or set down. Different story threads would still intersect, especially in the climaxes of stories, but they were at least comprehensible.
Here, with everything orbiting around the Commonwealth, it becomes unclear who’s doing what and why and how everything connects, especially with a six month gap between episodes, and the “Previously On” being more of a “Hey, remember all the characters we’ve had over the course of the show?” deal rather than something actually helpful in terms of getting the audience back up to speed.
But the basics are clear enough. Daryl and Maggie and their crew have to escape Lance and his crew. Negan needs to get into the Commonwealth to protect their families from being used as pawns by Lance. Carol needs to protect the kids from Lance’s Gestapo agents. Connie and her contingent are stoking the demand for change that came from their expose. And Governor Milton is working with her operatives to settle the citizens down, with Rosita and Yumiko feeling conflicted about how to walk the line between their responsibilities to the government and to the people.
That’s plenty for forty-five minutes of television to cover. Much of it turns into generic action material that has little hold over me after eleven seasons. Daryl and Negan orchestrate a shootout/car chase. Carol and Jerry sneak the kids away from those who mean them harm. Daryl and Maggie spring a zombified trap on Lance. A redshirt (white clamshell?) gets eaten in half by zombies with Mercer holding the other end. Yawn. None of it’s bad, but it’s all pretty rote at this stage.
The same goes for the character developments. I’m glad the show takes time to address that Daryl killed someone he loved to save Maggie, even if it’s glancing. Negan interacting with Mercer is a bit interesting, even if it seems like a cheap ploy on the part of the show to just deposit him in the Commonwealth despite the hoops others have had to jump through, despite the fig leaf they put on it. Rosita being conflicted about whether to participate in crowd-suppression versus zombie neutralization has some legs. And the general need to protect their friends inside and outside of the Commonwealth from Lance’s machinations does add some urgency, even if plot armor and timing suggests real danger is unlikely to arrive at this point.
The only part of this that really made me sit up and take notice is Carol’s plan. Her efforts to hunt down Sebastian as a bargaining chip is sharp, even if, again, Negan’s involvement seems fairly convenient. More than that, Carol’s implication to Governor Milton that she’s willing to pin the blame and drop the hammer on Lance to save Sebastian’s skin while eliminating a threat to the Alexandria/Hilltop survivors is savvy and mercenary as always from her.
Otherwise, this is the standard block and tackle from The Walking Dead at this stage in its run. The show seems to be making some muddled parallels to racial justice protests that occurred during the pandemic, but beyond borrowing some imagery and emotion from them, it’s not entirely clear what the show means to say. There’s some plotty scheming going on, with little in the way of character beats, which is never my favorite mode for the show.
All-in-all, this is a pretty typical leap back into the proceedings, which, I’m sad to say, makes me glad we’re embarking on the final batch of episodes for the series. I gotta admit, much of this felt tedious despite the theoretically monumental stakes and clever ploys from our heroes. The show’s outlived its usefulness, to where what thrills and novelty once persisted have fallen into the doldrums of standard patterns despite changing settings. I’m still invested in some of the familiar characters and intriguing newcomers (Mercer chief among them), but at this stage, TWD needs something big to make the final jaunt to the end worth it.
I will never understand how one manages to get killed by a walker... also, that one soldier got caugh, body torn apart but Mercer keeps pulling him to himself. Seriously???? How stupid can you be
Great episode! I hope they continue this throughout the final episodes because it feels like it's just one big movie now, picking up right where we left off, jumping right into the action and the tension!
One of the better episodes. With this bang of a start, I suspect next one is going to boring filler episode.
I’m so lost as to what happened. Don’t care for any of the new shows.
I can’t believe I’ve been watching this since 2010. I was hoping for a Lost type of ending where everyone wakes up in purgatory and resize last 12 years had been a bad dream. Oh well.
I’m still around for the finale at this point. The Commonwealth has been mind-numbing at best.
Glad this show is finally ending. Can’t wait
Complete cringefest. BLM rally participants are dumber than the zombies. You tear gassed my friends!!!! Then stop breaking the law.
Solid comeback... hopefully it can maintain stability until the end.
Right, so I've said it before but I'm doubling down now - Hornsby is either Pamela's douche nozzle little brother or her ass hat cousin. Either way, he's family and this whole power struggle is a stupid, jealousy fuelled family feud. It's the dumb real life shit (even in an apocalypse) that makes for entertaining television and I'm here for it.
Anyone know the release date/time for this on AMC+? Impossible to figure out.
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very disappointed with the return of this show when that mid season finale was one of their best episodes yet