This is not at all how I thought this episode would go down. Last week the walkers were heading straight towards Alexandria and the previews neglected to mention that actual humans had got past the wall.
We knew these people were coming from the season five finale, but that was so long ago that I had forgotten about them.
I admire Morgan’s will not to kill, but it’s a very different world they are living in now and these people don’t deserve to live another day, especially when they are brutally killing people.
The Walking Dead can be very gruesome and very brutal, but never before have I seen an episode this gruesome or brutal. These people, the wolves, were just butchering the residents of Alexandria. There were a lot of the wolves too.
They get off on brutally murdering people. Carol was right to just kill them, what’s stopping them from coming back? It’s a kill or be killed world now.
Most of the trained fighters were off taking care of the walkers, so there wasn’t that many left behind to help protect the community. Morgan got back in time to retake the town, but the damage had already been done.
We got to see other characters rise to the occasion this week. Jessie rose to the occasion to save her family. Instead of staying hidden in the closet with her youngest son, she came out because she thought Ron was coming in, but it wasn’t Ron, it was one of the wolves.
She battled with the woman wolf till it seemed like she was going to lose this fight, but Jessie is resourceful. She grabbed the scissors and stabbed the wolf repeatedly. She kind of lost it. It was like all the emotions rose up and she took it out on the wolf.
The wolves weren’t the only ones that were killing brutally. Jessie’s killing was very brutal, but Carol was going on a rampage and she wasn’t even saving people. Maybe in the grand sense of the picture she was, but when Gabriel was being attacked, she said to just leave him.
Morgan was saving people and letting the wolves go, except for the last one. It was a kill or be killed situation and he had to act.
I quite like Morgan’s style of fighting. It’s nice to have a change from brutal killing and it’s a lot of fun to watch, especially when he’s facing a man with an ax.
It was nice to see Carol back to normal. I was getting tired of seeing her as a housewife. Her secret it not out though, she disguised herself as one of the wolves, so the town still doesn’t know what she’s capable of.
There was an overall theme to this episode. In the beginning we saw Enid surviving on her own and she kept writing JSS, but we had no idea what it stood for. Then at the end when she wrote Carl a note to say goodbye, the note said, “just survive somehow.”
That’s what everyone was doing in their own way during this episode and what Rick’s been doing for a long time now.
Another nice moment was when Spencer asked Rosita how they can live with what just happened all the time. She said: “Make sure you have something worth dying for.”
It goes a long with the whole theme of the episode, JSS, because that’s how you survive. You can’t get out there and risk your life if you don’t have something worth dying for.
I thought this episode was going to be about the walkers taking on Alexandria, but we don’t know just yet how badly that horn messed up the great plan. That whole grandiose plan is yet to be finished.
It doesn’t appear TWD is going to let us breath this season, it just keep the intensity going.
Next week will certainly make up for the lack of walkers this week:
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