Monsters

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"

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 used to say that this series doesn't deserve criticizing like ''too boring'' and ''it's not like used to be'' but now, yes it is and deserves it all. In these last 3 episodes, this series went too far. It's absurd. It's not rational. It's complicated more than it should be. Writing has never been more terrible than this. Edits sucks. Plot is inconsistent. And most importantly, action scenes make no sense, dull and it's boring. There is just bullets that coming out of a weapon, nothing else, zero sense. I could go all day but it's not worth it. I believe, you guys get the idea.

Mindless shooting, pointless and lazy dialogue, needless sacrifices and weak action are the theme of this episode.

The saviors are completely unorganized and useless, getting mowed down everywhere. Everyone keeps reminding us "they have the numbers" but it sure doesn't seem that way. They forgot how to even aim a gun as they have not killed anyone noteworthy in the "good guys'" ranks. And where is negan? Where are Simon and Dwight and Eugene etc? Why haven't they been featured in the "all-out war"? Seems just like the writers forgot about them. I was expecting seeing Negan running around and shooting someone but no, I guess he is still in the trailer with Gabriel. The "all-out war" had potential to be great, action-packed and exciting and the viewers seeing fearing for their favorite characters with casualties on both sides. Weak start to the war, maybe it will get better.

This show is on a downward spiral. Many people I know have stopped watching it already and I am very close too. Maybe getting new writers would change something. But the show as it is now, is pretty sub-par.

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