Let’s recap ever-so-briefly.īasically, a huge storm hits Alexandria (but not, it seems, just north of there or wherever the Reaper base is located). Again, I feel like we’re entering Fear The Walking Dead territory.
Other than one good Rosita scene, I really disliked the zombie hurricane subplot of this episode. The second cliffhanger takes place back in Alexandria during the. She aims the rocket arrow machine-it’s called a “hwacha”-down on our heroes and suddenly hundreds of sparkler rockets come swirling down from above. She’s not protecting her people-she’s getting some revenge on Daryl for lying to her. “Why are you doing this?” he asks, though the answer seems pretty simple. Pope dead, Reapers retreating, things are looking good-and then Leah radios her comrades and tells them that Daryl killed Pope. What Daryl doesn’t account for is that while Leah may not want her people to die-and kills Pope to stop that from happening-she’s more than okay letting Daryl’s people die to protect her own. His people are down there and he doesn’t want them to die.
When Daryl realizes what they’re about to unleash on the horde below he’s forced to fess up to Leah about his true goals. He gets what-one guy? Surely he could have taken a few out since they all just continued to fight completely exposed in the courtyard. She directs Gabriel to a high-up room where a sniper rifle is conveniently hidden, though Gabriel’s sniping skills are apparently pretty lousy. How she lost it to these chumps is beyond me. In any case, Daryl helps Maggie and Gabriel sneak into the outpost which was formerly Maggie’s. Yes, they have lots of land-mines and the arrow-rocket-barrage Supremo thingy, but other than that they’re just a boring group that talks about family a lot but mostly act like they hate each other’s guts. If I’m counting correctly there are maybe a dozen of them tops at this point, at least before the fighting started-hardly a terrifying force. The Reapers are these supposedly really scary, really tough bad guys who always wear intimidating masks but even the masks are gone by the final showdown for some reason. Really, the entire Reaper storyline is so bad it kind of detracts from everything else. That’s a pretty crucial moment as far as these things go, so it’s a shame it was built on such a flimsy pretext. Then she kills the guy who lit the fuse and Daryl cuts the fuse before it can go off. She stabs Pope in the throat with her knife and that’s the end of Pope. Pope’s bizarre stubbornness prompts Leah to apparently side with Daryl. Rather than preserve what small force he has remaining, Pope will just kill them for no reason other than “god speaks through me.” Oh cool, another crazy Walking Dead villain. Later in the episode that it would have been super easy to just walkie talkie a retreat. He’s also willing to fire a huge barrage of rocket arrows down on his own people to stop Maggie’s group and the zombies instead of calling them back. Here’s a “leader” willing to throw one of his precious few men into the fire for failing to protect one of his other men. There's a mask, there's a reason.But back to Pope. Michonne: You know, we may never find an answer to this.Īaron: They covered their tracks.
It's not about being nice or good or anything, but keeping our people alive and not having them die over nothing. Michonne: Good, because nice never got me anywhere. The good samaritan, but the thing is, Eric is dead, Jesus is dead, and I'm god damn sick of being nice. Michonne: We have to keep our cool or they win.Īaron: I've been keeping my cool my whole life, I've always been the nice guy. And it wasn't them, and you could have died, for what?Īaron: We've all been acting like this is normal. We agreed not to cross their borders and start anything without a reason.