“Love doesn’t die. LOVE… DOESN’T… DIE!”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
Well, that’s over. A plotline that’s been six years in the making, stretching across no fewer than four TV series, with details eked out crumb by crumb, has finally come to an end. Was it a satisfying one?
Continue reading “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 6 – The Last Time”“Protect the people from the people.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
After last week’s (admittedly well-written) two-hander saw Rick and Michonne solving all their relationship difficulties in the most effective day of couples counselling the world has ever seen, this week saw them going on honeymoon.
Continue reading “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 5 – Become”“I don’t like who you are with them. What they make you. It isn’t you.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
Well, contrary to my expectations after last week’s Big Cliffhanger, Rick and Michonne didn’t have parachutes after all. Luckily for them, they were over water when Michonne dragged them both out of the helicopter. Even more luckily, there was a handy luxury condominium nearby, which still had power, supplies, and a nice clean bed for our heroes to, er, reconnect.
Continue reading “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 4 – What We”“You didn’t threaten me, or the people I loved, when I was trying to get away before.”
“That’s because I knew you couldn’t.”
“So what’s changed?”
“You two together? You can do anything.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
Well, all the pieces are finally in place, and now the true plot of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live can finally get going. Yes, it’s been fun and all catching up with how Rick and Michonne got back together, and we’ve had the setup of the Civic Republic and its totalitarian military. But what we really want to know is: how are Rick and Michonne going to win?
Continue reading “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 3 – Bye”“My name is Michonne. I lost someone. Years ago. But I just found out that he might… I just found out that he’s alive.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
As expected, after last week’s focus on Rick, this second instalment of The Ones Who Live was a Michonne-centric episode, catching us up on how the other half of TWD’s power couple found herself confronting her long lost beloved in the aftermath of shooting down his CRM helicopter.
Continue reading “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 2 – Gone”“We don’t die. We’re the ones who live.” – Michonne, The Walking Dead season 8
(SPOILER WARNING!)
I used to love The Walking Dead.
Sure, it had a shaky start. A fairly assured first season of an economic six episodes was followed by a draggy second of thirteen, in which the characters stood around arguing on a farm and occasionally a zombie showed up. But by the third and fourth seasons, with the group ensconced in the prison and at war with David Morrissey’s charismatic Governor, the show had truly found its feet and was compulsive viewing.
Continue reading “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 1 – Years”“You need to wake up.”
“What’s your wound?”
“I need to find my family”.
(SPOILER WARNING!)
Well that was a bit of a game changer. I’m still not all that sure it was a great episode, but The Walking Dead is not going to be the same after this one. Continue reading “The Walking Dead: Season 9, Episode 5 – What Comes After”
“We’re the same. All or nothing. You’re trapped, same as me, you’re connected to the dead, same as me. We are the same, and you can’t stand that we’re the same.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
This felt very much like a continuation of the previous episode – it probably didn’t help that I watched them back to back, but the tone and the content was so nearly identical I had to check to see if it was the same writer – no, this ep was down to Rosemary Rodriguez after Corey Reed’s stint last week. Continue reading “The Walking Dead: Season 9, Episode 4 – The Obliged”
“We gave Rick’s way a chance. It’s time to see Negan.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
After the previous, quite focused episode, The Bridge, this week’s Walking Dead felt more like filler, enlarging on the already-established tensions between the now uneasily-at-peace communities but not resolving anything. On the face of it, it was a fairly uneventful episode (albeit with a bit of Walker action shoehorned in to give it a bit of pace). Continue reading “The Walking Dead: Season 9, Episode 3 – Warning Signs”
“We deserve to live in peace. Negan and the Saviors tried to take that away from us. Alexandria, the Hilltop, the Kingdom and Oceanside came together. To fight for a better future.
“We won.
“Not without painful losses. Today, we try to heal. We try to forgive. Now, the work begins. The new world begins.”
(SPOILER WARNING!)
Fine words, Rick Grimes. This is indeed a new world for The Walking Dead. A world where showrunner Scott Gimple has been replaced by veteran scriptwriter Angela Kang. A world with a plot other than about Negan. A world where Carl Grimes, alive in the comics, is dead – and his father is about to join him. Continue reading “The Walking Dead: Season 9, Episode 1 – A New Beginning”
Simon’s Incoherent Blog 