Variant

It's not a new variant. It's just one that hasn't been explored since season 1.

In Season 1, walkers ran, they turned doorknobs and in episode 2, they even showed a walker picking up a brick and repeatedly smashing it against glass to break into the store that Rick, Andrea and the others were seeking refuge in.

I always chose to believe that it wasn't a continuity issue when they stopped including these walker characteristics, and that it was simply that walkers devolved as time went on and that's why they stopped.

Only because I find it almost painful to admit that it was likely that they just changed their minds and it didn't fit in with what they wanted at the time, which is fine I suppose.

I like the idea of re-exploring this aspect, as the world naturally evolves so why wouldn't they, but it's a bit daft bringing it up just before the end. As others have said, it's likely to be for one of the many other spin-off series they currently have or will have. But it's unlikely that I will watch any of these. Oh well, good try.

I can't get enough of Aaron and Jerry. The rest of this episode was crap. Who cares about all these new people we've known for five minutes? At least Jerry got his hero scene hacking walkers to bits! I'd watch a spin-off of him and his family and Aaron building a new Kingdom. Can we kill off the rest of these idiots now please? I'm so done with Lance and the stupid Commonwealth blah blah blah. The actors who play Eugene and Rosita are great but their stories suck hard. I like Mercer but give him something to do besides wander around scowling in a pumpkin suit. I'm so disappointed with this whole season. I'd really hoped we'd get back just a little of the Season One magic for the end. I guess all those writers/ directors are gone.

So TWD spins down the road to its ending. So what? Angela Yang should have been gone after season 9, the only season she did a good-though extended job on. OK, the pandemic had some effect on the show, but the pandemic didn't cause the silly, extended, unnecessary story lines. The pandemic didn't cause the mistakes such as: Letting Rick and Michonne walk (in one of the dumbest exits and episodes of the entire eleven years). Maggie returns and says nothing about yet another group of murderous morons who are there just to extend an unnecessary Darryl arc. They've obviously turned over the Carl arc to Judith, and I guarantee the final episode will have her as an adult, possibly as governor of the Commonwealth. They split Sebastian's character into him and Hornsby. But now, how, after eleven years of rotting (possibly longer in the timeline of the show) are zombies evolving? Oh, yes, we saw one or two in the first few episodes who were a bit more aware. But their brains are rotting. Rotting things don't evolve. This was a stupid idea in Land of the Dead and it's a stupid idea now. And why haven't they learned that all the spin-offs, including Fear have been trash? I'd like to say I'm going to miss this show, but it's passed it's due date and is time to go.

Another episode that smacks of filler despite being so close to the end now. This one begins with Eugene finding himself suspected (not without reason) in Sebastian's death and the consequences that follow. I was worried it was going to be the Eugene show again but thankfully he doesn't get an awful lot of screen time. We do get Darryl being badass in the woods which is a lot more satisfying, and I have to say that the Hornsby character has grown on me quite a bit over this season. The scene in his prison cell is relatively shocking but the rest is very much average, neither amazing nor particularly bad.

Let's face it, it's been a rotting corpse for a while.

Last season was terrible and it's not getting better is it?

Half of the time it's like some low rent daytime soap from the 80's but with much worse acting.

I'm only still watching so I don't feel like I've completely wasted the last decade and I get to see what will hopefully be the gruesome death of 95% of the cast.

We already know who survives due to the pointless and no doubt increasingly poor quality and ridiculous spin offs.

The whole concept only had a handful of seasons in it really and should have ended about 5 years ago.

Pap.