Remember how you wanted to be a babysitter? Now’s your big chance, buddy!) She senses what we know: Sam is a ticking time bomb. ( Hey Sam, you’d be so much safer staying here. (Remember how Sam was listening to “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” in the last episode? Clever foreshadowing.) The look on baby Judy’s face seems to say, “Uh, dad? You’re leaving me with this guy?” Even funnier is when Jessie tries to pawn Sam off on the priest. We even get a moment of unintentional comedy when Gabe steps up to protect Judith, so Rick can lead the Hands Across Alexandria crew out of town.
Moments before we see the mouthy henchman’s charred severed head, the Sarge gets the last laugh: “Nibble on that.”įrom there, we’re back inside Alexandria, where the odds of survival seem Powerball-slim: Zombies are everywhere, the survivors are scattered, Maggie’s alone on a lookout tower, Denise is in the clutches of a Wolf, and Sam is freaking out.
It goes quicker.” Just when it looks like Sasha and the Sarge are about to eat lead, Daryl makes use of that RPG, blowing the bikers to pieces. The Negan of the comics is so villainous, he makes the Governor look like a concerned dad who got carried away with swords and gunplay.) Sarge hesitates to hand over his gun, and the gang spokesperson gives him a colorful lecture that sounds like something he’d say himself: “If you have to eat shit, best not to nibble. (For fans of the comic, this is a huge moment. Daryl, Sarge, and Sasha have been tanker-jacked by some bikers who answer to a dude named Negan. The opening scene sets the tone for what’s to come: Life-threatening peril, unexpected death, and a big-ass explosion. If humanity somehow survives and society is somehow rebuilt, you can imagine tales from the Battle of Alexandria being taught in future history classes - that grim day in which all seemed lost, until two groups of survivors united to reclaim their overrun town with some old-fashioned butt-whooping and military-grade weaponry. In a sense, the zombie apocalypse is a second civil war. “And hell, this is a story people are going to tell.” There’s a real-world parallel here, given that Alexandria was the site of the Civil War’s first casualties. “No one gets to clock out today,” he says. “No Way Out” isn’t just a much-needed shot of adrenaline - it’s one of the most exciting episodes of the entire series.īefore we dig into the gory details, consider a keen observation by Eugene: Rosita calls him out for being a useless fleshbag, but the mullet man insists he’s finally ready to fight. How far would Rick’s gore-suited gang make it before Sam had a meltdown? Would Daryl’s tanker get past the poor man’s Sons of Anarchy? Where will they all go after Alexandria falls? My level of suspense, in a word: eh. The mid-season finale left us with a few tantalizing loose ends to ponder, but nothing that had me white-knuckling my couch since November. We don’t need every story line tied up neatly - that ain’t the kind of world these folks inhabit - but you reveled a little too much in that “Is Glenn dead?” debate that dragged on for weeks.
You knew you had something to prove after Glenngate stalled the first half of this season.
0 kommentar(er)
