Lockdown

I'll admit, my expectations were low. The final season had had some great episodes but has fell pretty flat sometimes too.

This episode was action-packed and fast-paced, and its great to see the Commonwealth story coming to an end soon. It leaves the door open for more fresh, new story not from the comics. Daryl and Negan teamed up, which is great to see but I wish we had gotten it sooner! There was also plenty of blood and gore, which is what we love.

That being said, there were still many eye-roll moments, as is typical of TWD.

The Commonwealth soldiers have pinpoint accuracy against walkers but not the main characters, of course. Daryl got shot at like 100 times this episode, and never even looked like he might get hit. HIs invincibility is getting out of hand. Not only is he bullet-proof but apparently head-on car crashes don't even phase him.

Also, for the love of God, stop baiting us with flashbacks of Rick. It seems pretty clear that he won't show up until the spin-off, so it bothers me that the main series is still baiting us with the hope that Rick will show up.

Also, Lance is not a great villain. He was useless in this episode, and all he does is get ambushed and shot up by the main characters without ever achieving anything. Its a bit of a waste of a great actor and an interesting character, he just seems like a cartoon villain now. So do the Commonwealth soldiers.

However, we got some more Negan scenes. I don't care what he does, but everytime that man is on screen I am excited. We really need to see more of him.

All that being said, it was a promising start and I really hope they keep it up, but I doubt it. TWD always starts strong and then loses steam in the middle.

Don't believe the bots rating this episode and 11x16 with 10 stars this commonwealth arc is very bad since 11x14 full of plots hole and Deus Ex Machina moments and not counting the preditalism we all know that Maggie,Daryl and Carol are not dying! Unlikechrisstone4 said i believe that season 9 was excellent and part of season 10 too even the Whisperers ending,season 11 started very well Reapers arc was good only the beginning and ending the rest was meh they felt like filler but unfortunaly Commonwealth arc is worse all the tension brought by 11x12 and 11x13 was watered down and went downhill in 11x14!

Daryl and Maggie are hiding from Hornby and his men, when they stumble upon Gabriel, Aaron, Negan and Annie. They are in doubt whether they should return to Commonwealth to protect the children and their friends, or fight Hornsby and his soldiers. Daryl proposes that Daryl, who is unknown in Commonwealth, goes alone and meet Carol to protect their people. Negan flees to Commonwealth to meet Mercer. The residents are protesting Pamela and Sebastian Milton demanding justice. Carol is taking care of the children, when she sees Shira and Calhoun coming towards her apartment. They hide and the Hornsby agents do not see them. Meanwhile, Mercer summons Rosita to help him and a few soldiers to fight a herd of walker that are coming to Commonwealth.

"Lockdown" is an episode full of action of "The Walking Dead". However, politics seems to prevail in this season where an organized society is formed with the same model of USA before the zombie apocalypse. The class struggle, Hornsby and Pamela Milton seem to be the greatest problem of Commonwealth. But it is bad with them and maybe worst without them, since they built the town in the middle of the chaos. The next episodes will say. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Lockdown"

Like most fans i was hoping we'd see a return to form like the early seasons, but there's very little sense of drama or fear or tension. Each scene just seems to slope along one after another without anything to really grab you. Whatever magic this show had in the first 5-6 seasons went byebye some time ago. We can only hope that the directors/producers rediscover some form before the end and wow us with a decent ending, but i'm not that hopeful on current form. It will be a strange feeling when this show ends. On the one hand it'll be a shrug of the shoulders, on the other hand it'll leave a big void (the show that it WAS back in the early days). I wonder what the TV gods have in store for us.

Since the start of season 9 this show has been a breath of fresh air. It's had its nitpicks but what show doesn't .

This episode was a brilliant start to 11c and after watching 18 which was fantastic I can only hope it stays at this level or even beyond

11x17 was no different to any other episode it has it's fair share of small raised questions due to lack of common sense from a few characters mostly from the commonwealth side but nothing major There were a few scenes I would've liked them to expand on for example the very opening of this episode.

GREAT action sequences GREAT dialogue 8/10.