The thing with The Walking Dead is that you gotta realise that sometimes it sucks. I’m saying this as someone who loves The Walking Dead, someone who will try to defend it and will always keep watching. Though I completely understand that around half the time it’s very flawed and highly frustrating, I’ve come to completely find myself enthralled by the shows twists and turns.
I wasn’t someone annoyed by the whole Glenn death fake-out and with this weeks half season premiere, I was completely gripped and chose to move past the glaring problems and get swept up in the sheer breathlessness of it. Because this episode was truly exciting despite its issues and it seems to me that the fans are loving it more than the critics.
In terms of character and consistency, it was all over the place. The day turned to night, character motivations bordered on ridiculous and Chekhov’s rocket launcher proved to be the best Deux ex Machina of the series to date. Yet, when the residents of Alexandria and our heroes all came together, in a ‘The Avengers’-style team-up, I couldn’t help but feel genuinely thrilled.
The final scenes as they all gathered around, hacking and chopping, taking down the horde one by one, was just awesome. Sometimes you do what you gotta do and I believed that they just needed to become a team to complete the job. Glenn went to save Maggie and it looked like he was about to get killed, again, with Maggie watching, but then Abraham and Sasha intervened followed by Daryl and his fire pond.
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