Become

Ugh, really. The full force of the authoritarian organisation that can track and bother to kill anyone who knows where they are cos apparently no one can see helicopters and follow their flight path to a massive city operating a bigger and better military than existed before the zombie apocalypse. It's hard to know where to start with that concept. It's just ridiculous.

But anyway, good old one-person-army-Jadis, who I actually forgot who she was till one flash back showing her to be garbage patch lady, but anyway, one-person-force of nature 'Jadis', a character who has time to sculpt stupid hair cuts, and even Rick has to note it in character, who totally believes in the CRM, decides to go off on her own (do they allow that in the CRM? Didn't seem like they did for Rick) without telling anyone...., for reasons that simply don't add up. But wait she's left a note in her bedroom, back at the fort, cos the CRM are going to bother reading through her diary and collection of recipes when she doesn't come back, instead of biffing the lot into the skip so someone else can have her nice room with a corner window. Doesn't-add-up!!!

Nice to see Gabriel again suffering with his milky eye contact lens.

Nothing really came of it but, familiar face and all that.

So setting up the finishing arc for the show, break into the fort and steal the hand written note, and return home to their kids who could quite possibly be dead cos it's a mad zombie world out there but hey, you can leave them with strangers for 5 years, cos its not like most people don't survive that long......

Really there should be heads hung in shame for this show. This is the best they could write in the 5 year break?? Preposterous.

Another pointless episode.

The story went absolutely nowhere. Once again, MASSIVE plot holes. An endless number of contradictions. I really don't understand where this series is going.

Episodes 4 & 5 were needless at this point save for the death of 1 character, which in true & typical TWD form, was stretched out to an entire episodes worth of pointless storytelling and unnecessary (and confusing) backstory.

I'm so sick and tired of this formula..here we are building up to the big reveal, the big finale at the end, wherein no questions will be fully answered and likely even more confusion afoot.

While this episode was shot like an atypical Walking Dead episode, the entire time in the forefront of my mind is the absolute knowledge that this is another sham episode, which it absolutely was.

In true fashion, I wont give any spoilers. But this is getting beyond ridiculous at this point. I'll save the real critique for the series review.

Entertainment Value 6.5/10 Overall Rating 6/10

Its the same thing we have seen literally a dozen times over. Probably a lot more. I'd fire half the production team, srarting with Bert & Bertie.

Everything to this point is some feminist agenda. Anyone who can't see this, watching every episode so far, you are either too deaf, dumb & blind or too jaded to all the BS in hollywood today.

I don't 'fear the walking dead', i fear the team responsible for that abomination is going to be responsible for the final episode here.

That should be enough to terrify anyone.

For what started off strong and promising, devolved into contrived clumsly written and executed plan to write off the shows main personal antagonist.

Just being left with a sour taste in my mouth, that reminiscent of how I felt after Watching the recent seasons of Fear The Walking Dead.

How did we go from one of the top 10 walking dead episodes of all time, to this...?

Not even mad, just disappointed we had such a great premise go down the drain on what feels like a first rough draft ideas.

Characters are just glorified and the only thing holding the Episode up is people's love for Rick and Michonne.

Simply hailing something since it has 2 fan favorite characters isn't how you should look ay it.

Again, just disappointed.

My main issue is the fact that the main characters can quite literally dodge every bullet. I wish the writers would make it a little more realistic and have the audience actually worry about our favourite characters dying but I'm not even on the edge of my seat because I know they'll be fine. It's not bad and the acting is good, the walking dead is and will always be my favourite tv show of all time and I think TOWL is good but I just wish it was slightly more realistic. Also I feel like the walkers are the least threatening things in the show now. I am super excited to see how the producers are going to conclude this series.

First of all, the melodrama and the romance in this show are becoming way too goofy and bordering on being a soap opera. The last episode was the best episode, and I assume the finale won't top that either. But that episode knew how to do romance without it being goofy and cringey. This episode however, I don't know, I feel like it's too much.

Now the main focus of this episode is Jadis and the writers try their hardest to make us care about her and have sympathy for her. My question is, does anyone actually care though? As far as I remember, Jadis has been an obnoxious character with a bad haircut, and no amount of flashbacks, exposition, and sad music can make me feel sad for this character. Now some people might actually care now that they did some flashbacks in this episode, and with her speeches. But I would be shocked if anyone even thought her arc would go like this and even cared about her before this episode.

Not that focusing the episode on her was bad or wrong or anything that I gave a lower rating, I'll get into that later. I'm just not sure why the writers decided to do this. Though I understand that it's nice to have a villain with good motivation who thinks is doing the right thing. But the thing is, that she knew every step of the way that she wasn't really on the righteous side or doing a moral thing.

Nevertheless, I don't really have a problem with the writers trying to humanize her and give her some time to shine since she's one of the really old characters from the main show. I just think they went overboard with all the "And then she tells a sad story and we play sad music over it". The flashbacks with the you know who character (trying not to spoil) also did nothing for me. My opinion about Jadis is the same after watching this episode as it was before it, the only that changed was "Oh, I guess now we know why she did what she did."

I understand what they tried to do with this episode. Some shows do this where they dedicate an episode to someone you (most of the time) hated, and show you the other side of that character and show how tragic their past was and you change your mind about them, and it's kind of a nice twist where a hated character becomes tragic and beloved. This was not it. The last episode was phenomenally written. Everything worked perfectly and you actually cared about everything that happened there and the romance worked. This episode? Not so much.

Apart from that, like I said, the last episode did a good job of the romance stuff. But this episode just made the romance so goofy and over the top and unrealistic. It's like I'm not even watching a zombie show anymore.

All that aside, my biggest problem is that we're basically 80% or something in, and we still don't know about the CRM, and Beale hasn't had a proper characterization other than a cliché one-dimensional military general character. They're supposed to be the big baddie of this show, and we're already gonna wrap their story up in just one episode when we haven't even seen anything of them yet? Thorne's character is also underdeveloped and I'm actually not sure how they're gonna pull off this story if not by rushing everything in the last episode just like every other 6-episode mini-series we've had in the past couple of years from Disney Plus for example.

It doesn't feel like there's only one episode left. With the way the story moves, it feels like it's at least an 8-episode show and we still have 3 more episodes left. The pacing of the story in the first 3 episodes felt like your regular 16-episode season of The Walking Dead. So I'm not really sure how they're gonna wrap up a story that's only begun in just one episode with no other seasons.

Also, this episode felt like it had a lesser budget because of the tight locations they had, not much CGI, and not too many characters. I guess they blew all the budget on those helicopter shots and CGI stuff from the first 3 episodes. Not that I'm complaining though or that the episode looked bad, it's just an observation.

So overall this episode is not bad in any way, but still not on par with the writing of the previous episode, and I'm not sure how this story is gonna be wrapped. Hopefully not rushed and disappointing.