Monsters

This is embarrassing. Did everyone forget how guns work? In the last 3 episodes no one reloaded a gun, not a single time, apparently there's at least a thousand bullets in every magazine now. It's utterly embarrassing how badly written these last 3 episodes were, now I finally remember why I stopped watching this show four years ago, they turned a show about harsh survival into a show about street gangs. I guess I'll watch this season for the sake of story hoping next seasons are better.

I admit that this wasn't one of the best episodes, but it's weird how the rating is so low. This episode mostly suffers from how it doesn't make many new revelations and can come off as filler. It's still a good episode because the atmosphere and characters are great. Here we have Maggie allowing Gregory to go back into their community as well as a fight between Jesus and Morgan. If you're thinking that I'm only saying know most of these plot points because the episode of "The Talking Dead" discusses them...well you'd be right. It's hard to keep up with all the characters okay?

While it was pretty brief, this really did have some graphic violence in it. Daryl is as cool as ever and I want to tell you something about him. He was created just for the show and wasn't in the comics. The funny thing is that he's portrayed so well in the show that the actual creators have said they don't want him introduced as the character is so well established in his own continuity. Luckily, we get some fights with the walkers as well as the saviors. This season is moving kind of slow, but it's still good. ***

The Walking Dead has rapidly become repetitive in recent seasons, and this episode is no exception. The scenes lack substance and suspense, and Daryl Dixon continues to exert his cruel, reckless and tasteless personality.

A redeeming quality of the episode is the interaction between Aaron and his boyfriend, Eric - which is arguably the only emotional aspect of the episode.

Not terrible, just nothing new.

5/10

For many years, "The Walking Dead" has been part of the lives of many fans. The characters developed by Frank Darabont were like family members of each fan and the loss of any of them was grieved and discussed Monday mornings by the fans.

This Season the writers succeeded in destroying not one or two lead characters but the whole series.They should know that "if it's not broken, don't fix it". But they did exactly the opposite changing the successful style. "Monsters" shows, for example, the ridiculous Jesus preserving the lives of the cruel Saviors. The long-haired Savior mocks of Morgan for a long time and then a group of prisoners and the guy flee from the people from Hilltop. And Jesus prefers to fight Morgan instead of killing the escapees. Ammunition is no longer problem but there is no explanation how they got it if they did not find the arsenal. Maggie lets Gregory return to Hilltop after all this scum did. The uninteresting gay love of Eric and Aaron is time consuming of the episode. Rick's attitude towards Daryl is unbelievable for a friend along seven seasons. Daryl seems to be the last character not destroyed yet by these incompetent writers. The obvious conclusion is that it is time to finish "The Walking Dead", with the destruction of Negan and the Saviors and the survivors from Alexandria, Hilltop and Kingdom living in peace since walkers are no longer the main issue for them. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Monsters"

One of the things that I think this show has struggled to over the last season and a half is decide how to deal with sending characters off when the time is right. When the info for the episode states "unintended consequences", I naturally thought that there would be at least 1 major death. Eric was of some importance, considering he's Aaron's boyfriend, but I guess I just didn't feel a serious emotional connection to him. So in a way, I guess the episode was a letdown in terms of consequences (with deaths). Other than that, this was another fast paced episode that moved the Savior conflict along a little bit more. But why are we waiting 3 episodes to see what happened to Father Gabriel?

So I guess bringing Morales back didn't turn out to be anything more than a brief but important cameo. He did seem to get inside Rick's head by claiming that he's a changed and violent man since they left Atlanta. I have a feeling, especially seeing the reactions to Daryl's kills tonight, the idea of killing vs letting the Saviors live is going to be the main theme of the season. To me, it sure seems like we are gearing up for a Rick and Daryl fight. And perhaps that's not a physical fight but more of a yelling match featuring the two, but it's still something that could be a pivotal point in the season.

Speaking of pivotal, it looks like Carol, Ezekiel, and crew got ambushed at the end of tonight's episode. Now see that could lead to some actual consequences next week. But it is about time the Saviors take back one of these wins that the Alexandrians keeps on getting. And to be honest, the whole idea of trying to keep all of these Saviors alive is not exactly the smartest idea. So I definitely don't blame Morgan and Co. for not agreeing with the rest of the crew. And actually Morgan did a little more than not agree, he full blown fought Jesus. Who knows if that was even Morgan under there, considering he seemed to be under a sort of trance.

Overall, it wasn't the emotional breakthrough episode that I thought persay, but there were some nice moments, especially with Rick's continuing internal conflict about the group's ultimate plan going forward. Maybe next week will be that big week.

7.2/10