More Time Than You Know

The story is just terrible now. And the completely unrealistic overly precocious kid is way played out. No one wanted to watch "new world" for this reason. Would you listen to any 10 year old give orders and take charge in the apocalypse?? No. The story is just terrible now. And the completely unrealistic overly precocious kid is way played out. No one wanted to watch "new world" for this reason. Just end this show already. You are ruining a legacy with the trash. And what's her name should have never come back. She's the worst actor om the show. Cancel this version. It's done. Take it behind the barn.

Where do I start.

This show has become a burden to complete. It would be much more interesting to read the transcripts of this episode rather than watching it on the screen.

The supporting actors are once again, terrible.

Shrike trying to be stoic just doesn't work and she comes off as childish and annoying.

Wren, unfortunately, seems to have only 3 or 4 facial expressions in her repertoire.

The dialogue is... eugh... "It's too dangerous..."

Really? *roll eyes*

Thank goodness this is the last season.

And I would also like to thank to whomever invented the "increase playback speed" feature.

Thank you, sir/madam.

You deserve to be honored by all "Fear The Walking Dead" fans, or whatever's left of them.

This show should have ended a few seasons ago. I'm watching it at double speed now just to go through it for old time sake and the fact that this is, finally, the last season. It became unwatchable and plain bad, even stupid at times. The original TWD was also running far too long. Do you remember the recent "Beyond" disaster. And they are planning a few spin offs. Please don't! This cow is long dead. Be creative in some other direction and do not waste resources on this one. This was newer in the top two thirds of my favorite shows, but it was fun for some time and this last few seasons of all TWD universe just left a bitter taste.

I like this show, I like TWD world, But this was painfull, The whole PADRE thing is not a good move. Look, They are trying to rebuild the world, With everyone has a unique "Bird" name, God help Us, It's moronic in the extreme. None of the characters' in the new season are in any way interesting, The Interesting ones from the past have just gone stupid. I'm just guessing here, But I wouldn't be any way surprised to see the gang behind the God awful, World Beyond, Have moved over to FTWD and are now dragging this down. Its just Bad. It really is a shame, I was hoping for so much more, But the story's are just getting worse. Im not overly hopefully for the new shows if this is the best they can come up with. I'm a fan, I'll stick it out until the end, But I'm not expecting much.

Let's talk about the negatives and the countless inconsistencies of the episode. One issue that has been worsening and making the whole PADRE plot silly and comical is the characters' ease and lack of difficulty in either surrendering to or defeating the group members. This has become increasingly annoying and comedic, but in a bad way. The scene where Mo manages to throw herself to the side of a soldier's gun and then Dwight and Morgan easily subdue them is pathetic and seems like it was directed by a ten-year-old. The lack of care from the writers and directors in crafting action scenes and in building the villains' danger becomes really evident.

Apart from the poor handling of action scenes for much of the episode, it is also full of terrible, cringeworthy dialogues that border on secondhand embarrassment. The final scene's dialogues between Mo and Grace are genuinely good and emotional, as are the ones she has with Morgan before leaving him. However, the dialogues in the scene where Mo is trying to pass through PADRE's "Young Soldiers" are embarrassing. The character tries to deliver an emotional speech, but it is so poorly written that it evokes nothing but shame. Moreover, regarding this character, the episode manages to break any empathy the audience could feel for her, turning her into a truly annoying child. All the events that happen to her throughout the plot should serve as a point of growth for the character, but in the end, she simply regresses, making her whole journey pointless. All the dialogues and scenes she had with her mother before she died should serve as a stepping stone for the character to grow and evolve, but the script simply ignores all of this in an attempt to generate more conflicts, which is a very questionable decision that makes no sense within the character's arc that has been built in this final season.

Besides the various forced inconsistencies surrounding the character, throughout the season, the series works on Mo's lack of knowledge about some things and objects that were common in the normal world but are practically non-existent in a post-apocalyptic world, like the kiss in the previous episode and the phone in this one. The character not knowing about these seems acceptable for the script, but her ability to handle and recognize limited-access medical devices does not seem like a problem. In fact, the scene of her being able to use the medical equipment without any difficulty and apply the radiation to Grace, only with June's help, is ridiculously forced.

Since her introduction in the 5th season, Grace, despite being a good character with a good interpreter, has always been trapped in repetitive arcs and plots, and when they did not happen, she was sidelined, as was the case for much of the 7th season. Her plots really boiled down to her precarious health with the growing cancer in her body, and her trauma involving loss and motherhood. The character has been present in four of the eight seasons of the series, but her plots were only these, which is really a considerable waste. Grace's death was shocking and, at the same time, unpredictable, since a few episodes ago, a probable functional cure for zombie bite infection had been established. Just like Finch's fate, the episode builds tension around Grace's survival. Throughout the plot, the episode slowly bids farewell to the character until it reaches the fateful moment of her death, which, despite being sad, becomes fundamental to the story. The scenes where she says goodbye to Morgan are good and have a necessary dramatic weight for them to work. However, the most emotional one is certainly the montage of Grace and Mo's farewell, where scenes from the present and past are interspersed, telling the whole trajectory of the character through her perspective and narration, to the background of a melancholic soundtrack. This, certainly, is the most emotional scene of the character in the series, surpassing the ending of "In Dreams" in the 6th season.

Even more concerning are the narrative inconsistencies and the character arcs, as what irritates and disappoints the most is the dismissal of all the character arc construction around Mo, who even after everything she went through and experienced in this episode, ends up returning to PADRE in the end. Even though she was the character who, in the last two episodes, was willing to do anything to destroy it and defeat Shrike. In the end, it feels like the script is more concerned with creating cheap conflicts than with maintaining coherence with what has been established in each episode.

The whole PADRE arc, despite being recent and having few episodes, is already more than saturated. The series does not seem to take it as seriously as it should, and all the development around the group and its theme seems tired and repetitive. All that remains is to wait and see if this plot will conclude in the next episode or if it will be extended to the second part of the season. The season is still reasonable despite everything, not as bad as the previous one, but far from reaching the peak that this series has already delivered. Even being a med*ocre episode, it still gives a sense of progression with the story, besides preparing an interesting hook for the next one, and, despite everything, provides a dignified and surprising end for one of its main characters.