The Walking Dead Season 8 Mid Season Finale Review
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Lance is tired of waiting.
The problem with The Walking Dead season 11's mid-season finale (2d mid-flavour finale? Part B finale? Whatever we're calling information technology) — and it's a lingering problem in general that, at this signal, can't be fixed — is that at that place are no stakes. This used to be a drama where anything could happen. Main characters could be killed off any time, any place. Cataclysmic events or formidable foes would emerge. Each shift would fundamentally alter the survivors in some way.
It's unclear how the Republic is doing that, if at all. They are kind of like Woodbury, just are more militarized and more privileged in their view of the world. Information technology's every bit if the Alexandrians are changing the Commonwealth instead of the other mode effectually. But so far it's all playing out rather predictably.
There was a moment in "Acts of God" when it looked like Leah, who was hired past Lance to impale Maggie, might really do the human action. But then you remember Lauren Cohan is getting her own Walking Dead series with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and the tension instantly dissolves.
Even if Cohan didn't have that spin-off, however, she wasn't going to be killed. There was a sense that this tussle was but for testify. Something happened earlier in The Walking Dead'south tenure when suddenly those main characters stopped being killed. Maybe some of the actors got too popular. Maybe afterwards Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, and Cohan (briefly) left, the powers that exist decided they couldn't afford to lose anyone else. Who knows what the real reason was? But it afflicted the storytelling where these moments meant to exist filled with tension are only deflated — considering, again, at that place are no stakes. It always ends how you look it.
Commonwealth soldiers on 'The Walking Dead'
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So, sure enough, Leah is shot and killed before she does Maggie in. By whom? By Daryl of all people. At present, hither was a moment that felt rather pivotal. Daryl comes across this scene where the woman he loved — and perhaps still does — whose life he helped ruin is at present wrestling with someone he considers to be his family. Does he cull his dear or does he choose his family?
He chose his family, clearly, simply was any of that conflict explored? Nope. He just plants a bullet in Leah's skull and so he hustles out of there with Maggie. In his defense, Commonwealth soldiers were swarming their location, but there was no endeavor to address Leah'due south death and what it meant for Daryl to be the one to take her life.
Which brings me to another quandary. Does any of this really matter? What is the end game hither? How does all of this alter the characters for the next stage of their stories? (I.e. the spin-offs.)
The just real graphic symbol shift nosotros get this episode is that Maggie is now warming up to Negan. She says he protected Herschel back at the apartment circuitous, and she'll never forget that. So, Maggie leaves her son again in his intendance while she goes off to settle things with Lance, paving the fashion for the relationship between Maggie and Negan in the spin-off.
Lance ends upward taking matters into his own hands when he finds Leah slain on a motel floor. He commands his forces to accept over Alexandria, Hilltop, and Oceanside. As he stands before the residents of Oceanside, who are all chained and being carted away by soldiers, he starts to mirror Two-Face from DC Comics for some reason. His left cheek is scarred from a bullet Daryl shot his way, and he's flipping a coin in the air. Possibly it's some commentary on the paradigm of a 2-faced politician, but it felt like something thrown in. We barely saw him flip a money as part of his schtick to begin with.
And even with these new moves, we can probably predict where this is all going. Outset of all, the show needs something that prompts Daryl and Carol to split up off from the group (to embark on their own spin-off), and the same goes for Maggie and Negan. Maybe the three communities will never be what they once were after this, but Connie is already working to expose the shady dealings of the Miltons at the Commonwealth with the help of Max, Eugene, Rosita, and Kelly. My gauge is that Lance and the Miltons volition exist unseated, Mercer will take the reins, and some folks will choose to live in peace at the Commonwealth while others need to move on.
At that place are eight more than episodes to become in the final season, and supposedly annihilation could happen. I simply don't necessarily believe it.
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The Walking Dead
AMC's zombie thriller, based on the classic comic book serial created by Robert Kirkman.
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