So after the Horn that just
wouldn’t die what horrible fate would ensue for our heroes? We’ll have to wait
until next week for that because JSS was the other half of the first episode.
While Rick and the boys were leading the Zombie herd around Alexandria was
attacked by the Wolves.
The opening of the episode was a
reveal of the events leading Enid (Carl's Girlfriend) to Alexandria doing anything under the sun
to survive, even eating a turtle. Could she be related to Shredder?
She keeps writing the three
letters “JSS” anywhere she can before she winds up at the gates of Alexandria.
After a few minutes of
conversations between the citizens of Alexandria and Father Gabriel admitting
he was wrong about Rick. A look out gets hit with a Molotov cocktail and the
attack begins. All the poor defenseless citizens get cut to bits by the savage
wolves who repeatedly attack their victims even after they are dead. A few of
them do try and capture citizens which is kinda inconsistent. Carol reverts to
Snake Pliskin mode and starts shooting everyone in her path and dons a disguise
to further infiltrate and ultimately keep the wolves from the Armory.
Morgan returns and engages the
wolves in combat, trying to scare them off rather than kill them. He runs into
Carol and the two have a conflict of interest while they try and push back the
assailants. Morgan doesn’t believe in killing anyone and Carol does without
hesitation, even when one of the subdue wolves is trying to convey info to
Father Gabriel and Morgan. The two separate and during a skirmish with Morgan
and the wolves, he convinces them to leave, but not before one of them sneaks
off with a gun from a fallen Alexandrian.
The whole horn was kinda of an
accidental occurrence. Spencer, the sniper in the bell tower sees a tractor-trailer
truck (presumably coming with a payload of Walkers in the back) and unloads a
bevy of shots and causes it to crash into the wall. The driver in the truck is
killed in the crash and the horn goes off. Spencer goes to tend to it where
he meets up with Deanna and Maggie. They are able to shut off the horn. It’s
unclear whether this had any effect on the zombie herd.
Carl and Enid spend the episode
together until she disappears leaving a note with the words “just survive
somehow,” on it. After the battle, Carl hears an alarm going off indicating
that his lasagna is done. I’ll call Garfield over.
Morgan heads back to a house and
has an encounter with the wolf he met at the end of the last season who
realizes that he won’t kill him, instead Morgan knocks him out. Carol and the other survivors efforts
eventually send the remaining wolves running but not without much causality
Unaware of the new danger approaching.
This was another solid effort
although I preferred last week’s episode, with the strategy planning. It was
kinda of a live or die test for most of the Alexandrian and like the plague bit
from season 4, most of the extras were killed off. No one really important
died, just a few of the cannon-fodder characters whose names I didn’t bother to
learn for that reason. Other minor characters such as the doctor lady had a
step up moment (after Eugene telling that you don’t want to be a coward,
echoing his own experiences) when she tried to save the life of and Rick’s
Girlfriend savagely killing an invader to protect her son.
It also left things up in the air
with the whole Zombie herd thing and that builds suspense towards next week,
although I think now that the horn is out, they’ll be able to fix things quickly.
I really enjoy the tension
between Carol (Rick as well, but Carol in this episode) and Morgan who have
conflicting viewpoints about what to do with the attackers. Morgan doesn’t want
to see any more human life be extinguished and Carol who will kill anyone that
threatens her or comrades. I’m curious to see the direction this story arc. Morgan’s
line about Carol not liking to kill was interesting.
The wolves are amateur hour villains.
These guys are pathetic compared to the earlier rivals Rick’s company have
faced off and a large part of that is because they don’t have guns! The only
reason they caused as much damage as they did is because of the expendable
nature of Alexandia’s citizens. Gareth’s group were cunning enough to trap a
bunch of Rick’s group in a train car and the Governor at one point had a bloody
Tank! Those were far more effective antagonists and the wolves would have been completely
annihilated had more of Rick’s group been there. Attacking while they were separated
may have been the plan but you wouldn’t know it by the way these guys behave. Many
will continue to bash the brains of someone they’ve killed until Carol walks up
behind them and shoots them point blank. I thought the one Morgan encountered
last season was a blockhead, but he’s a genius compared to the rest of them.
“Who I’d Like to See Die List!” Wait, they killed off half of Alexandria which was awesome but nobody who was on the list last week even appeared this week's episode so we'll postpone an until next week when everyone is back.
Those are my thoughts, feel free to comment below
C.J. Foxx
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