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While searching for a missing Alexandrian, Rick and his group encounter a mysterious collective.
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Seth Gilliam and Chris D’Elia are on Talking Dead.
Pure filler. No plot advancement. I guess we will have to watch the saviors humiliate Ezekiel a few more times until Enough is Enough. And then Carol will overhear what happened to Glenn and then decide to join the fight.
I can already tell that the next six episodes will be the same crap and then the battle will begin in the season finale. The writers have become far to consumed by their own success. I am seriously considering giving up. I don’t care anymore.
It’s been fucking five years or so since the zombie apocalypse, it hasn’t been long enough for those people to get so weird. They looked and acted like they belonged in Mad Max.
If the show’s going to keep pumping out filler like this the least they can do is have Daryl get naked again.
Yep, I rolled my eyes so hard. They somehow stumbled upon a sci-fi group living in a dystopian future 200-300 years out. :dubious:
I felt like I was watching Cloud Atlas. That’s the true true.
That’s what I was thinking, as well. But just maybe they were all that weird before the apocalypse…
Not sure how this could be called a filler episode. They made an alliance with a never before seen group. That’s a big development. It feels like “filler” has come to mean “Episode I didn’t like”.
What I like best is this group is a TV original so I honestly have no idea what will come of this but what I liked least is they seem very much like the Kingdom which we already have on the show.
FWIW I could easily see groups get very weird very fast. It’s a cataclysm that creates a high stress situation that never lets up and isolates small groups of people from each other. That’s a recipe for weird societies to form.
I will also say a garbage dump in hindsight seems like a good place to hunker down near in a Zombie Apocalypse that I had not considered.
I definitely don’t trust her, she’s a Romulan sleeper agent for sure, the zombie apocalypse could have been a Tal-Shiar plot…
Yeah, the filler complaint and that the plot didn’t move forward seems odd to me.
We were introduced to a new group with their own pseudo-society. Their method of survival has developed into mostly a hide-and-scavenge tribe which is interesting. I did find their dialect very off-putting and ridiculous considering it has only been about 5 years since society fell. These are all 1st generation survivors, there is no reason their language would devolve so much. The use of hand signals though was interesting but logical for a group that hides and avoids being known/discovered.
We are seeing tensions rise between The Kingdom and The Saviors. Obviously the internal politics are becoming external, both in more confrontational interactions with the Saviors and Whats-His-Name trying to take actions to force conflict.
And the Darryl and Carol scene was interesting for the obvious reason that Darryl did not tell Carol the truth regarding the Saviors and her friends.
Yeah, I don’t get the filler comments either. Was there filler IN the episode? Sure. But overall, a few plot points moved forward, or in the case of the new tribe, began.
I can see how 5 years in, some groups have gotten weirder than others. If you start off with a few weirdos, especially if those are strong outspoken people who become leaders, you don’t have that far to go to get even weirder.
I’ve seen/read many post-apocalyptic stories that included cannibalism (The Road, Lucifer’s Hammer) within a few years of the apocalyptic event. Compared to that, an odd language/communications style seems mild.
I said to Mrs. L.A. something along the lines of, ‘[Jadis] sure lost her verbal ability quickly.’ I can understand people becoming a little weird. But not Mad Max weird.
I picked out the Smokey And The Bandit trailer immediately, and pointed it out to my wife. She didn’t pick up on it at all. She said that I never know who actors are, but I can recognise a trailer from Smokey And The Bandit :rolleyes: . Since that film was shot in Georgia, I wondered if that was the actual trailer, or if they found a trailer and painted it to look like the real one had been sitting for 40 years.
Cannibalism happens out of necessity, changes in language and behavior would require long periods of isolation.
I thought it was very well done and not even close to any kind of “filler.”
We learned of Richard’s plot to convince Ezekiel to fight the Saviors, we saw Father Gabriel really come into his own, we met an entirely new group and watched another alliance form in the war against the Saviors, and the scene between Carol & Daryl was really good - you could hear Daryl’s voice crack when he asked, “why did you go?”
I guess I’m not the majority here, but I enjoy episodes like this; where things are being set up for future events. It’s these episodes that usually provide answers to questions before they’re asked:
-When Carol does find out about Abe & Glenn, she will obviously join the fight, but will she go off the deep end?
-Will the new Daryl/Shiva bond come into play at some point? Is that what will finally convince Ezekiel to join the war?
-Even if Ezekiel does join, will Morgan come along or just head out on his own, staying away from the blood shed?
-Will Rosita’s anger be her downfall? She’s obviously not thinking clearly right now, she’s acting on emotions.
Looks like next week’s episode will have a bit more action, showing Negan and Dwight dealing with the death of Fat Joey and Daryl’s escape. Maybe that won’t be considered too much filler…
Larry Niven’s novel Lucifer’s Hammer features cannibalism as a plot point, but it is NOT by necessity. Basically one group begins using it a way to bind members to their group, rightly thinking that the taint of cannibalism would make members unable to leave and join other groups.
My point is that many sci-fi and post-apocalyptic fiction features behavior that, IRL, may take decades to occur. * The Walking Dead* is far from alone in moving the clock forward. You’re already watching a show about zombies. Don’t let facts get in the way now. 
We are always being introduced to new groups with their own quirks. There are too many groups which is a main reason the plot creeps forward. How slow is it? They have not been in Alexandria long enough for the seasons to change.
The problem is that we know the end result of this. The Kingdom will help out Rick and crew. Why do we need to waste several episodes to show Ezekiel and Morgan turning around? Isn’t Negan sufficiently evil to go to war against?
When Gabriel held the knife to her throat, it appeared that he had the dull edge of the blade to her neck.
I’ve thought it odd that they did not prepare caches of weapons for bad times.
The whole standoff was ridiculous. The new group is going to kill Rick et al., but Gabrielle saves the day by holding a knife to the girl’s throat causing them to back off.
Talks are had and tensions die down, and then Gabrielle drops the knife! If I’m the Trash Dump Group, I proceed to kill Rick et al. like I wanted to before. If Gabrielle is just going to give up any advantage he had, then great for us!
But they can test to see if Rick is cool with the Weaponized Walker!
The weird dialect/language is due to her Universal Translator being a bit wonky, either that or somebody’s been having fun making their own version of the Dirty Romulan Phrasebook…
“My cloaking device is full of Gaqh”= please get us some firearms?