Episode 3: Monsters
For an episode that felt like it had a lot in it, we didn't progress much in our story line this week. We wrap up Eric's story line (we all knew he'd not survive that sort of injury), see Morgan continue to battle his demons (and displace his aggression toward Jesus in an epic fight scene), watch Ezekiel and Carol overly enjoy what at first appears to be a great success for the Kingdom's regiment, see Maggie deal with Gregory awkwardly showing back up at Hilltop after selling them all out (followed shortly afterward by a small army of Saviors whom have been taken by Jesus as Prisoners of War), and watch Rick try to bargain with Morales before Daryl puts him down once and for all.
All of that and we're still in the same day (tv-time wise) we started the season in, and we're not done with "today" yet. We're basically past the initial offensive and back to where we started, less a LOT of Saviors and a handful of Team Family (mostly redshirts), ready to regroup before the next plan of attack... except for Carol, Ezekiel, and the Kingdom's group who are caught in an ambush at the end of the episode, and picking back up with how they get out of that scrape is where we start Episode 4.
It's fairly clear who the "Monsters" are in each scenario. The most surprising is that Tara, Morgan, and Daryl are turning out to be the ones who only see in black & white. It's the whole you're either with us or you're against us and will soon be dead type of thing. This time around Rick and Jesus are the ones trying to retain a shred of humanity by not automatically killing Saviors on sight. While they recognize the distinction between "worker bee" and "soldier boy", the others just want them all gone. As we're all becoming far too aware, the only way to ensure someone doesn't come back to bite you is ending it on the spot (twice if necessary).
Now that Eric is gone, Aaron may join Group No-Nonsense in what seems to be an all-too-familiar character arc... you lose someone you love, you go stone cold crazy for a while, then you come back to reality just in time to possibly be axed yourself. We leave him in a strange place, though, having volunteered to take Gracie, the baby Rick found at the Saviors' outpost, back to Hilltop with him as he visibly grieves the loss of Eric. So now we have two babies and a pregnant lady in the apocalypse. Well, we needed to start over somewhere, since we chomped right through the last group of kids we had (at the prison).
Next week's episode is the half-way point to the mid-season break and it appears to be more of the same, inching toward a climax of some sort that we hope will just knock our socks completely off and across the room once we get there. When this is all over we're going to need a "party" episode to take a breath with, where the group just enjoys a big feast, a hot shower, and gossip about Mrs. Niedermeyer.
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