Ah, yes. The Daryl show. :)
This week’s episode (6), of The Walking Dead brought us the conclusion of Rick’s master plan. I’ll say now, most of this was pretty predictable, though that isn’t talking down on the writing. It is paced properly, and given the time-line of the season, it’s about time we found the wolves den so to speak.
After Abraham (I love this dude and his new rocket launcher) gets ambushed, we get a bit of a peak into his character. He’s not entirely insane, but he is spiteful and vindictive. When asked why he’s smiling, he says “we won”. His reckless abandon might have gotten him killed if Sasha hadn’t been there to talk him down. I suspect very soon we’ll see him go off the deep-end in a similar situation, and it will probably be his death (or the death of someone else through his negligence). Actually, twice this episode he will be talked down by Sasha. Ironic, since he was originally there to watch out for her.
Daryl is really the star of this episode, and I’m sure the ladies are happy to tune in. He’s such a cliche bad-boy heart throb, but it works. After stumbling across two women, Daryl is knocked out by some guy. I think the video effect used to show distortion was pretty well done, albeit cliche. The introduction for these characters leaves us in exactly the same situation as our POV Daryl: bewildered. Who are these people? They’re not wolves, or at least don’t wear the forehead marking. They call the zombies “dead ones”. We already know (I mean it’s season 6) how Daryl will react, but he is again faced with a moral dilemma (do I save the diabetic girl by giving her the medicine, or do I save myself?). Obviously, we know he’s going to give it back. The question becomes, what will the result of “finishing this quest” be?
The makeup in this season is seriously astounding. I’m not going to lie, if I saw these people dressed up like taht in real life and I wasn’t sure it was a zombie show being filmed, I might actually scream. This episode is pretty middle of the road. I mean, some stuff happens at the end as per usual—you know Abraham trying to put moves on Sasha and all that (is she a solider or do they just portray her in that light, I can’t recall). You know, the people robbing Daryl (we needed more antagonists anyway. None of it this season felt personal). I had originally suspected that as a result of this, we’d get an inside man (Daryl) traveling with the wolves. We’ve not had much exposure to them yet, and Daryl would be the perfect guy (like when he was traveling towards Terminus). But instead, the entire episode just looped back on itself :/ Overall, I wasn’t very impressed.
(It should be noted that I watched this episode online via Time Warner Cable. The GMC service advisor advertisement LITERALLY played 3 times in a row. Then a random one played. Then the GMC one played 3 more times in a row. . .I started keeping a tally after the 2nd commercial break and by the end of the episode, I shit you not, it had played over 17 times. No hyperbole. I’m serious. 18. Not 5. Not 6. 18. Eight-Fucking-Teen… Thanks a lot guys. You know what I’m never going to buy? Your fucking trucks. Fuck the fuck off GMC! YOU FUCKING SUCK!!!! And fuck you Time Warner Cable, your quality for streaming is a god damn joke. I even tried muting tabs so when I clicked away during the mirad of bullshit it wouldn’t freeze, but it just locked the browser and said “this content isn’t available”. I should have just torrent’d it and save the 480p quality garbage.)
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