Eastman, "Everything in this world is about people. It couldn't be just me, it shoudn't be just you." Nothing worst then feeling lonely =/
This is what I want in writing, acting, and pacing in a Walking Dead episode. I inflated the rating to even out others' lower ratings.
Before I watched this episode, people told me it was "boring" -- obviously I didn't believe them! And I was right not to because this episode was one of my favourites. TWD doesn't have to be fast-paced or excessively gory to be good. This episode proved that. The acting from the two men in this episode was incredible, bravo TWD!
This episode would've worked so much better as 6.03 instead of 6.04!!
An amazing episode, with great character development, not only for Morgan, but also for Eastman (in only on episode). Kudos to the writers in getting Eastman as a Forensic Psychologist who had gone through trauma himself... and the perfect thing was that he did indeed get his revenge, and showed that it didn't fulfill him and gave him peace... showing that vengeance wasn't worth it, and getting him to actually relate to Morgan.
It was perfect to show how Morgan went from the nutty guy we saw in Clear and the zen guy we get now. But after such a fast paced episode and with such cliffhangers, this episode broke the rhythm and was sort of disappointing for us who were still high waiting for continuity of 6.03
9.5/10. This was a superb effort from The Walking Dead. I really appreciate them devoting whole episodes to developing characters rather than trying to do it through the various machinations of an often baffling series of storylines alone. This was practically a short story, and it helped us to develop a better understanding of who Morgan is, and he got from the screw-loose madmen we saw in "Clear" to the pacifist monk who appeared last season.
Some parts of the story were a little too convenient. I was reminded of "Broken" from House M.D. where you knew that the writers were going to have to hit certain beats in telling a story of recovery. But that aside, I really liked the character of Eastman, who was given quite a bit to do and was the glue that held this episode together. The actor who played him (an odd mix of J.K. Simmons and Paul Heyman) lent the appropriate zen but playful air to him that made the character work.
And I liked how the show offered a little bit of optimism here. There's a great deal on TWD about people being damaged, scarred, shaken, or changed by the fall of civilization. It is, in many ways, a pessimistic show, about what people become when the metes and bounds of society are removed and our impulses go unchecked. Sometimes the show has depicted people finding solace in this new world, but never has it devoted so much time to showing a person healing. Despite the episode's end, it was a very hopeful episode, something that's in short supply in this series, and I for one, was happy to have it.
It was also a wonderful episode in terms of atmosphere and mood. It was very patient, going over the show's usual runtime to develop the story as long as it needed to. There were slow, lingering shots of edenic meadows, quiet streams where Eastman and Morgan practiced forms, or the characters simply stayed in place and reacted to each other. Very artful and a nice break from some of the more action-y drama from the first few episodes of the season.
It's Glen. He's one of the characters who's been around since the beginning. He's had some legitimate character development over the years. So why don't I care about his death?
Maybe it's because this was an exhausting episode. Some of television is exhausting in a good way--conveying the sense that the viewer, like the character, has been through something--but this was a slog, full of heavy-handed dialogue and images about (yet again) what it takes to survive. And Glen is the latest casualty of this debate, leading the unexpectedly intriguing Nicholas into unexpected peril, and having it all become too much for this Alexandrian who is not as accustomed to having to earn survival the same way that Glen is. Glen's death is filmed and scored well enough, with images that are meant to convey the severity of what's happening, but which fell flat with me on an emotional level for some reason.
Again, maybe it's just because this episode was so blunt. Rick has gone off the deep end in terms of his self-assured cravenness again, and I'm sure we'll have some further tired exploration of that. Bitten husband guy is a walking symbol for Michonne learning to open herself up to human relationships again (probably with the survivor who cheesily eavesdrops on Rick's instructions). As always, the actress who plays Michonne gives a strong performance, but the material didn't give her much to work with. To boot, the scenes where they all escape from the hoard were not particularly well set up or explained, as I had a hard time figuring out what the various, jumbled plans are.
So by the time I got through the slog of all that and we reached Glen's death, it couldn't have the impact it should have because I was already numbed by all the on-the-nose dialogue and endless clunky meditations on what kind of person survives in this world. The Walking Dead is a show that has wild swings in quality, and after the high point of last week, this was an unfortunate nadir.
Carol's favorite game is Assassin's Creed
Wth is wrong with everyone else! Why is everyone bitching about this season. Such a good episode. These characters are humans. They deserve rest and peace. Screw you guys!
Pretty decent episode. Emphasizes a lot on the drama so it may disappoint those who expect action, but still good nonetheless. We get the bonding between Daryl and Aaron, Sasha's stress, Rick and the barber Jesse, and that "W" letter hint again. And Carol! From an "invisible" lady to a threatening killer in an instant. That scene is priceless.
A number of things are still going on here. Still a decent episode.
I do not understand the poor ratings for this season are for.
I mean yeah, TWD is changing its approach to their audience a bit by adding more drama and less action then usual, but if you cannot adapt to the very slight change to the show, then I feel bad for you.
The premise of this was a bit too stupid for me - I could go into a lot of detail about it but I'll just say, these "scientists" failed to define what morality even means, which is kind of the basic beginning of any real scientific research. Sometimes they defined it as selfishness vs. altruism, but then they also had a question about eating human flesh which is more a basic instinct regarding diseases and cultural conditioning, and then the Stutzer guy also claimed they were aiming for world peace, completely disregarding the fact that the vast majority of wars are waged by people who think they are the good guys, fighting for the good of their own in-group - all of which might also demonstrate that it's ludicrous to imagine a completely culturally constructed and context-dependent concept like morality could be regulated by a single part of the brain, and that even if one might be able to make a violent ape docile, so to speak, that would also entail turning them into a completely different ape - which I guess was the point, but still. That a supposed real researcher would actually believe any of that is mind-boggling.
Of course it was way slower than the last two episodes, but personally I liked this episode much more than the last one because it was more realistic.
And come on, guys! By now everyone should know that slow episodes with a lot of talking follow after dramatic episodes where people died. It's been like that for a while.
Unlike the rest of the season, I found this the best episode in a loooong time. The major change in cinematography was very refreshing and to experience the death throught the eyes of Tyreese was interesting. It felt like an episode that was thought through well, instead of others which form by boring, chronological storytelling. Sad to see that a lot of people don't see the beauty in this sort of filmmaking and are easily bored when the series cut down on action scenes.
I was sadly spoiled mere minutes before Beth’s death while watching this episode. Dad came in and asked “isn’t this the episode where Beth dies?” …thanks dad! :skull:
Mannn you could see that ending coming a mile away...
On the talking dead Andrew Lincoln (rick) said Norman (Daryl) was supposed to hand him a wet cloth but that it was the driest thing he’s ever used and felt like sandpaper on his face
Now that's how you end a Season!!! "They're fucking with the wrong people!"
I guess this season was most character development and a buildup into the next season.
Bottom line, it was great
At the beginning of the episode when Rick is showing Michonne and Carl how to build a snare, he explains that you do it in a way where there's a funnel so the animal has only one way to go until the end where the trap is hidden. This is the exact way the people at Terminus draw in survivors. They guide them down the train tracks until they get to Terminus where the trap has been laid.
That's so FIIIIRRREEEE
This is one of my favorite TWD episodes. Daryl is one of my favorite characters in the show, partly because he's an asshole but also partly because he doesn't try to pretend to be someone that he isn't.
In this episode we get to see Daryl and Beth starting to get into a groove of surviving together. Nothing is perfect and they're still just scraping by but they're making it. They start to form a bond through the uncomfortable silence and get to know each other better.
My favorite part of this episode is the yelling match between Daryl and Beth. They go at each other and say some pretty despicable things. Some pretty unforgivable things. But in a way this is what was necessary to get Daryl to open up and admit his weaknesses. To admit that he's afraid and in pain and he misses everyone from the group. That he's afraid of losing everyone and everything he cares about.
How tense were those scenes with Rick trying to escape that house.
It was a bit slow for me, so I watched it a bit high-speed, but I can see where the writers are going with it, and it's an interesting curve - now the governor has a family to protect, not only his status or stability of his camp in general. It might actually become his weakness, because previously he was willing to sacrifice anyone, but what about now? Can be an interesting confrontation with the "prison camp".
another Governor centric episode this time we see him become a member of a larger group then slowly take over that group then moving into the present day storyline
two episodes in a row with none of the major normal characters is a very ballsy idea
a lot of people hated it for that
I personally enjoy when we get to see different characters in shows as long as the episode is doing engaging I don't care
Despite negative reviews referring to this episode as 'boring' or 'unnecessary', I personally loved seeing one of my favourite TV villains 'The Governor' having an episode dedicated purely to his journey. Packed full of emotion and certainly makes you think.
I love Hershel's character so much, So sad that this actor passed in 2018 :pleading_face:
I really dislike the fact they started to put music in the background, It was really a special thing that this show rarely had music at the first seasons, only the main title and some intense instrumentals in crucial moments. Now it became Grey's anatomy with all this cheesy music bits.
Oh well, many series lose their edge around the 4-5-th seasons.
really like the idea of virus natural sickness threatening the survival of the character
the whole sequence where the kid turns in his sleep then starts killing people in the night turning them before they wake up is really cool
This was a bit of a creepy episode. The idea of an infectious outbreak in the middle of an existing infectious outbreak makes you wonder how bad it can really get.
We have someone feeding the walkers, which has ridiculous implications of its own, and we've lost some important side characters that I thought might become part of the main group.
This episode and the future of this season feels pretty ominous at this point.
"In this life now, you kill or you die... Or you die and you kill." - The Governor.
I'm nearly done with season 9, but decided to go back and watch one of my favorite episodes. Honestly, I'm pretty sure that this is my favorite episode of "The Walking Dead". It's so contained, not convoluted or messy in any way. I was thinking to myself while watching this - someone who has never watched The Walking Dead before in their life could watch this episode and not really scratch their head once (with exception to a few throwbacks to the pilot episode, but its laid out pretty well).
What's happening to Rick ):
