Go Getters

I don't get why this episode is getting so low score? Won't go in to spoiler territory that much for people who maybe hasn't it yet. For starters this episode is a build up episode for what will come. We get to see Carl with much needed screen time and for me Chandler Riggs did an amazing job this episode. So Carl and Enid goes to The Hilltop because Enid wanted to see Maggie and Carl wanted to look after Enid. Meanwhile we get too see Maggie and Sasha after the events from the first episode which I believe is 3 days after. Maggie, Sasha and Jesus gets in a dispute with Hilltop leader Gregory for what to do with the Alexandrians visiting The Hilltop. Trouble runs in to the colony when the Saviour Simon and his crew makes a visit and spills the beans too Gregory about what happened after they (the Alexandrians) took out the saviours outpost. Simon makes it clear in a tensfull way that he is now "Negan" over The Hilltop. They now "own" the colony and can do whatever they want) I liked this episode very much because we get too see both build up and action. Characters and actors who stand out this episode is: Carl (Chandler Riggs), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Gregory (Xandler Bekeley) and Simon (Steven Ogg). Don't be disappointed if you think that this is a slow season! Were only 5 episodes in and we will be rewarded!!!

Can't believe this episode has a rating of 7.4! It was amazing and thrilling as well. I loved the character moments, especially Maggie stepping up! Sasha was badass, too. And Enid has developed so well... She is very likable character! The walker-car-tractor-scene was badass and amazing! I loved the shots with Paul kicking walkers and Sasha stabbing the hell out of them. Maggie was the queen in this episode. She is a farmer's daughter - she knows how to handle things! :D This episode had everything you need: Nice dialogue, touching moments, action here and there, character development, a riveting fight against a herd of walkers... I enjoyed it.

To be honest, all the negative points are over exaggerated, this episode is fine and even fun at times, obviously not the best, but not terrible either. It gave us abit of context of what else was going on I think it was needed, but maybe abit of better execution. I would even say it is better than one or 2 previous S7 episodes before this.

Rick leaves Alexandria to scavenge for Negan and the Saviors. Meanwhile Maggie is recovered by Dr. Carson that asks her to stay with Sasha in Hilltop to rest and be monitored by him. However Gregory protests and asks them to leave the compound on the next morning despite the protests of Jesus. During the night, the Saviors open the gates of Hilltop and leave a locked car with a high volume music to attract the walkers and Sacha, Maggie and Jesus save the residents. Enid decides to leave Alexandria to visit Maggie and she is followed by Carl that has a secret agenda. When they arrive at Hilltop, the Saviors are looting the place. What will Carl do?

"Go Getters" is an episode that shows how Rick is not balanced again. This character changed a lot from the previous Seasons and it is hard to accept his numbness towards Negan and the Saviors inclusive delivering the arsenal that could protect the Alexandrians. Carl was submitted to the same experience of witnessing the death of Abraham and Glenn and has a totally different behavior. Maggie and Sacha are still the warriors from the previous Seasons. Gregory shows that he is an insidious man that can not be trusted while Jesus is brave and certainly will be an important character in this Season. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Go Getters"

Liked but not loved the first three episodes, with a lot of fine things but also some big problems that were pretty much similar in all three, so actually Season 7 did start off with good potential but quite quickly lost it. "Service" was a big disappointment and was the episode where Season 7 began to stumble and kept stumbling, found it a dull and bland episode with too much talk and far too much of a weakly written Negan.

"Go Getters" is for me a better faring episode than "Service", there is actually signs of characters and story progressing (even if not a massive amount) and didn't have the problem of having Negan and his overuse unbalancing everything like that episode did. It is not near as good as the first three Season 7 episodes though and would call it one of the middling, meaning not one of the best or worst of the season, ones. Not awful, less than brilliant and more uneven.

There are certainly good things. It's well made visually, made with a lot of style and atmosphere without being gimmicky or trying too hard. Some of the music fits nicely, but uncharacteristically for this point of 'The Walking Dead' it left a mixed impression on me. There are moments of tension, everything with the walkers and how they're defeated (especially the tractor one) were immensely satisfying and much more so than what should really have been the source of the episode's tension.

Absolutely loved the female character writing, particularly great was Maggie being the most interesting she was in a while. Really liked the chemistry between her and Sasha , especially when at the graves. Lauren Cohan and Sonequa Martin-Green do a great job here.

Did feel that the male character writing was less good, with only Gregory and Jesus, both nicely acted, being interesting. Didn't see much point to Rick, as great a character he is, being here as he has little to do and what there is does such a compelling character no favours, while Carl didn't have much presence and was annoying. Steven Ogg does not fare badly as Simon, but didn't think still that he was menacing enough.

Regarding the story there were tense moments and there is progression, but it is mostly fairly dull and feels very padded from being narratively quite thin. The dialogue is not as long-winded as in the previous Season 7 episodes (yes, did think this aspect was a weak link in the first three too), but it does lack tautness and has moments of unintentional laughter. Did like that there were attempts at glimmers of hope, after such heavy-going previous episodes to the season, but the more uplifting moments feel very forced and that is including the more hopeful-sounding music too. "Go Getters" does lose momentum in the second half, which lacks the necessary tension. The Simon encounter suffers from being very derivative and it was just odd having the feeling that the way Simon is written was like Negan had possessed his body at that point or that they had had body swaps or something.

Summarising, not bad but uneven. 5/10