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The Walking Dead season 6

It was well done (I particularly liked the montage of them all slicing and dicing), but I think it kind of highlighted how bad the rest of the show is. When there's an actual engaging, well made episode, everyone loses their shit. But shows like GoT manage to do this every week, without just relying on action scenes.
 
I definitely prefered it to episodes where nothing happens, I just thought it was a bit silly how everyone developed super hero zombie killing skills at once. And I was really confused about who the girl with Glenn was before I remembered that whole story.
 
This is the first season I have had real problems with some of the story runners choices (aside from the horrendous, AMC-caused budget gutting of season two), starting with fake Glenn death. It immediately cheapened every other near death the show tries to do, and may be the point everyone looks back at as the fabled shark jump of the series.
 
And he got another fake death (or near death anyway) moment this week when he was completely surrounded by zombies but Abraham showed up to machine gun them right in time. Which really would have meant Glenn being machine gunned too.
 
That's what I mean, they are never gonna be able to get that genie back in the bottle with Glenn. It highlighted everything that doesn't work in the series in one big giant pile of horse poop. It made "Glenn always escapes death" into as big a series cliche as "Carl is never in the house." And once people start seeing the flaws, it yanks them right out of the story.
 
So this week...I was pleased they did a time jump so we didn't have to see them rebuild the town. Bit weird they skipped the fallout from Carl losing an eye but Carl isn't a very good actor and I wouldn't have wanted to see that anyway. I liked when Rick and Daryl were actually having fun?

Rick and Michonne...I've never thought they was going to be a thing. It was something internet fans obsessed over but I always thought "nah!" But I guess they were right.
 
I kinda wondered about Michonne since they really haven't established another actress to take up the parts in the comics that Andrea covered. Carol does a few, Sasha, and Michonne, but of the three only Michonne really can set up to be Rick's right hand. Especially if Darryl gets batted down by Negan like the rumor has it.
 
Killing Daryl would be guarenteed to piss the most people off...but would they really have the balls to get rid of the most popular character?
 
Yeah, especially if Jesus steps up. Norman Reedus is going off to film Boondock Saints, and he's said his time is drawing short on the show a couple different ways. And after all the fake Glenn deaths this season, his date with Negan wouldn't have the same impact as if it were Daryl.
 
Now that they have included Glenn and Maggie in the RV, I'm wondering if they might go ahead and kill Glenn after all...
 
Abraham seemed to be getting the really obvious set-up for a death, but I don't know if anyone actually cares about Abraham yet.
 
The writers will need to kill off Glenn like they did Lt. Natasha Yar - just boom. He's dead. No muss. No fuss. No warning.
All that can be done is deal with the aftermath. Maggie and the baby.
 
All the deep and meaningful shots of Abraham this week annoyed me. I don't find his character at all interesting and I wish they'd stop wasting time focussing on him.

Otherwise it was a really good episode. Jesus is a good laugh, albeit slightly out of place (reminds me a bit of the Johnson guy in the spinoff. Just a little too larger than life compared to the other characters) and it's always interesting seeing how another group have been getting by. Rick ending up covered in blood seems to be a weekly thing now.
 
I like how they always find other group that have been getting along fine the whole time, but as soon as Rick turns up everything goes to shit (like litereally the second Rick turned up this time.) Though I guess that guy stabbing Gregory would have happened whether Rick was there or not.
 
I liked the deal about the necklace made for Abraham, his being torn between the two women, and then leaving the necklace behind foreshadowing a decision he makes about that.

Liked how after Rick stabbed his attacker in the neck and killed the guy, he stands up, covered in blood, and asks the gathering crowd, "What?" just like he doesn't understand why they'd have a problem with what he just did. Killing folks is just as natural as breathing to Rick now. Although he says he is ready to branch out socially, reach out to others, and give other people a chance, his actions don't quite match up to his new ideology.
 
Yeah, the Carol-centric beginning worried me. Really good episode, though. I can't remember many more grim than this.
 
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