When you’re young, it’s easier to give up sleep for
something you really want to do. When you’re older, you have to make choices.
When Steve and I saw The Walking Dead
was 90 minutes, we made the choice to go to bed and watch it the next night, so
this recap is late.
“Service” really didn’t need to be more than an hour. It was
basically Negan and the gang preening and being dicks to the people of
Alexandria. They took the guns, some of the mattresses, and a deer Michonne
killed. There’s a logic to some of this, like you can’t take the food from
people you expect to work for you because they’re no good if they’re dead. But
then why not leave them with some weapons to defend themselves from zombies?
Rick is now completely subservient to Negan and the Saviors,
although there were a few flashes of the old Rick in the way he gripped Lucille
for a moment before deciding against using it. I didn’t understand the whole
speech about Rick knowing Judith is not his biological daughter. That whole era
of the show was so long ago that I’ve forgotten about Shane.
I liked the flashes of anger coming from Carl and Michonne.
I like her shooting practice, as I somehow never realized that as good as she
is with that sword, she’s used to fighting in close proximity so of course she
wouldn’t be great with a gun. I had to read another review to realize that the
burnt pile of stuff she saw was the plundered goods that the Saviors burned
just because they could. Dicks.
The idea of pretending Maggie is dead is clever and even
gave Father Gabriel something useful to do. I’m intrigued to see how she’ll
work as a wild card.
The subplot with the cute Alexandrian and Laverne/Mary Jo/Barbara
was sort of interesting and at least she got in a good line about taking
weapons off Dwight’s dead friends. The guy (Spencer?) is right about Rick kind
of ruining things at Alexandria but of course, he criticized Rick so he’s
probably dead soon.
This just didn’t need to be 90 minutes long.
No comments:
Post a Comment