Become

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.

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.

It's the first time I am revewing not even a movie, but an episode.

So, you create a 6 episode series and one of them looks like a bottle episode? Why even create them? You had all these years and it looks like a parody or a b-movie.

You also make Rick look so weak and like a side character which is really frustrating. Apart from the hand scene, he does nothing at all and can't take a decision. So what are these series really about??

Nobody cared or cares about Jadis, but almost the whole episode is about her and recycling the same things.

Rick and Michonne dodging bullets, Rick with one arm under a heavy double bed being able to push it like Hulk. I rewinded this scene over 5 times because I couldnt believe what I was watching.

And then again you have stupid flashbacks and useless conversations looking like a soap opera

And Jadis simply found them like they had a GPS tracker on them.

I dont think I will even watch the last episode, the trailer was enough. Break into the fort stealthy to steal a file? What is this, a GTA side mission??

This is not what Rick deserved.

Now i'm 90% Sure that this script is written By AI and the problem is, i don't think an AI is actually that dumb, so what the hell is going on?, Dodging Bullets, and a crazy amount of plot convinces, the plot don't make any sense ,With a sprinkle of terrible Mid 90s CGI, The Story is so shallow and unfocused, I'm literally speechless How could This turd come from the same studio that made the main show ,that was also flawed at many times, but had it's Charm and magic, Now i wish rick died on the that bridge, that would have been a legendary death for once a great character, instead of this ...

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.