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Monday, December 4, 2017

The Walking Dead: Season 8 Episode 6 WDF Review

Episode 6:  The King, The Widow, and Rick

Another quick recap to catch us up before the Mid-Season:  we'll make it quick since we still have another episode to write up today.

Ezekiel is still grappling with the loss of Shiva and his army, but Carol convinces him he is still the right leader for this group.  Rick goes to negotiate (again) with the Garbage Pail kids but ends up imprisoned instead.  Michonne and Rosita have decided to "end the war" themselves but run into Daryl who was off on the same "mission" himself, so the three join up and head for The Sanctuary.  Carl finds Siddiq, the man Rick scared off when he asked Carl for help, and befriends him... so we have a new Alexandrian.  Lastly, Maggie and Jesus disagree on how to manage their POWs but in the end build a containment camp inside the walls of Hilltop where they can be kept... including their own wolf in sheep's clothing, Gregory.

So, basically, we're still inching ever so slowly toward some sort of climax, and that climax had better be good!

The big revelation this week came from The Talking Dead instead, where it was announced that Morgan, played by Lennie James, will be a crossover character into the world of Fear The Walking Dead.  Now, speculation has run rampant that it would be Abe (and that's what we were hoping for, since it would mean we'd get more time with the Character, and it just made logistical sense given that his journey toward Washington DC had started out toward that way).  The actors appeared to be eluding toward the Morgan character leaving the main show altogether (they stated they had said their tearful goodbyes at the end of filming), but Gimple insisted we didn't know yet where Morgan's story would go.  He wouldn't be able to stay too long in the world of FTWD, since to get there he would have needed to leave Georgia with his son when Rick left for Atlanta, and then come right back to King County (for the CLEAR episode) before the fall of the prison, which in show time was just a year or so after they parted ways the first time.

Again this was another odd "inch by inch" episode, which to be honest are starting to aggravate a lot of viewers.  When the cast/producers talked about "nonstop action" this season we didn't think they meant more fighting each other and walkers than The Saviors... but squabbles happen when you've been cooped up too long together.

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