I'm usually a big fan of reality-altering episodes, like what they did with Tyreese's death or Michonne tripping in TWD, but this one just felt off to me. Wasn't my least favorite episode my any means though. Most frustrating part to me honestly was Riley and his goons; they've clearly been searching for Morgan, so why would they not come with guns from the start? Plot convenience is the answer, and it's also the answer to why Riley didn't just shoot them both upon his return even though Morgan had just killed all of his goons AND stabbed Riley himself in the arm/shoulder. This guy was literally just about to kill four of this group in the previous episode, and his group has clearly killed a lot more from their other attacks, so it's just incredibly not believable that he'd leave them to survive. Only reason I'd maybe give it a pass for is if we find out that they struck some deal with Alicia and they promised they'd try not to kill any of her people, but I don't really have faith in these writers to think that far ahead/that in depth about something that most fans will just forget about the next episode anyway.
This whole episode jumped the shark for me and just left me with more questions than answers, with one episode left. We also didn’t need half the episode showing the great grandparents. Why was Kamala literally time traveling and returning with physical objects? How did the great grandfather get that separated from the daughter he was literally holding? How did Kamran just absorb whatever powers he got after his mom died across the world? How did Kamala’s mom and grandma get to her location all within like one minute of realizing she could track her location? Why is Kamran so set on the idea that his mom wouldn’t just abandon him when she literally left him to rot in the DODC building after he helped them escape? How and why did the DODC detect Kamran with his new powers and immediately try to kill him despite not trying to kill Kamala (maybe answered in the next episode?)? So much of this is confusing, jumped all over the place, wasted time and rushed plot points for I assume a final battle in the last episode but so much of it doesn’t make sense and they could’ve spent much more time building towards this if this is how they wanted to end it
