Episode 1: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be
Before we get started we'd just like to say our Senoia Video series is online. Go check it out!
Now on to the episode: Needless to say everyone knows this was a much anticipated, languished over episode following a cliff hanger that had a lot of fans grabbing for their torches and pitch forks. Our guess for victim #1 came to fruition quickly enough, and our hope that victim #2 was just a rumor was dashed before the half hour mark. It wasn't just who it was... in fact it was far more than that... it was how it played out and what it actually looked & sounded like on screen that took us through the emotional equivalent of a tumble dry full of rocks and shattered glass. To say it was brutal is a gross understatement.
This episode is more than intense. It is anxiety-attack inducing. It is crushing. It is devastating. And that was even with prior warning.
We won't do a play-by-play but our one criticism is that we could've done without the mini road trip for Rick and Negan. Aside from demonstrating that Rick had not yet been broken to Negan's satisfaction (which we already knew he wouldn't be), it really didn't serve a purpose and had an odd "what are we doing right now" feel. Other than that slight lapse, we didn't feel like it could've played out any other way in order to do what needed to be done... and what needed to be done was the establishment of a distinct demarcation line. There is now a "pre-Negan apocalypse" and a "post-Negan apocalypse" that would persist even if Negan were killed in the very next episode. The audience needed to be broken of any sense of security what-so-ever and reminded that there won't always be a way out presented just in the nick of time. You don't want this to be Indiana Jones. If you want a feel-good ending you're watching the wrong show.
"Team Family" as fans call them have now been taken to the brink of hell more so than ever before, presented with a series of heartbreaking ultimatums in a ruthless, humiliating, and demoralizing way that will affect them for the rest of their lives (or the series as the case may be). It doesn't transform the show into something new, but it transforms the characters into new people. Even the best of leaders must sometimes concede that someone else has gotten the better of them, and that's where the most compelling, human stories come from.
Inevitably there were immediately fans declaring that they would never watch the show again for one reason or another but we hazard against such rash judgments. There had to be a line drawn in the sand and that line had to come at the cost of one of our dearest emotional investments or else it wouldn't have worked. It had to be one of The Atlanta Five and there was no way around that. It needed to play out in that order as well. We needed to feel the sense that the worst was behind us only to suddenly, and with almost no warning, be confronted with something even worse... or two. And, if they got you to feel, they did their jobs.
Next week we are apparently catching back up with Carol and Morgan, which is a drastic change of pace... not something we normally appreciate but in this case the respite is much needed. With all this said we're going to go curl up in fetal position until then.
www.WalkingDeadFamily.com
Monday, October 24, 2016
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Exciting News
Hello everyone! We're back, fresh from another trip to Senoia, but this time we spent a week documenting everything we could find that we thought you might be interested in seeing. We spent five months planning our trip, gathering supplies and spending a ridiculous amount of money on camera equipment. All for you (that's a lie, we're tech geeks and really enjoyed all the toys :-P)!
The idea for our small video series evolved over time. At first we wanted to do guided tours of all the fan hot-spots and even booked appointments with a few owners/managers to appear on camera doing just that. But, what we ultimately decided was that in our videos, we wanted to focus on the first person experience of visiting Senoia for fans who may never get to visit. This way you can get as close as possible to the same feeling as you would have if you visited and saw the sights with your own eyes. Since most people don't get personal guided tours from business owners, we scrapped that idea and went with a more visceral, personal approach.
Although during our stay most of the filming was taking place at the studio, on the last couple of days we did get to see some activity at the Alexandria Safe Zone. There won't be much documentation of that, since fans are not allowed on the property and we weren't there to stalk the cast or burden production in any way. What we will show you is what the average fan can expect to see when they get to Senoia on any average week day. If you're planning a trip there, we hope we answer any questions you might have, even if you don't know you have them yet.
There are already a lot of videos available about the Senoia area, from individual fans to other fan groups and even AMC. Although since we're all excited about the same thing and we inevitably will duplicate something someone else has already done, we wanted to focus our videos in a specific way to hopefully provide something a little more that might be slightly lacking in an average fan video. We're really excited about what we came up with, and are working hard to edit everything together to post in the next couple of weeks... definitely before the Season 7 premiere!
Once we have everything ready to go we'll add a new page to the WalkingDeadFamily.com website that will contain all of the videos we've come up with. We hope you'll come back to check for them and celebrate the Season 7 kickoff in style with us!
The idea for our small video series evolved over time. At first we wanted to do guided tours of all the fan hot-spots and even booked appointments with a few owners/managers to appear on camera doing just that. But, what we ultimately decided was that in our videos, we wanted to focus on the first person experience of visiting Senoia for fans who may never get to visit. This way you can get as close as possible to the same feeling as you would have if you visited and saw the sights with your own eyes. Since most people don't get personal guided tours from business owners, we scrapped that idea and went with a more visceral, personal approach.
Although during our stay most of the filming was taking place at the studio, on the last couple of days we did get to see some activity at the Alexandria Safe Zone. There won't be much documentation of that, since fans are not allowed on the property and we weren't there to stalk the cast or burden production in any way. What we will show you is what the average fan can expect to see when they get to Senoia on any average week day. If you're planning a trip there, we hope we answer any questions you might have, even if you don't know you have them yet.
There are already a lot of videos available about the Senoia area, from individual fans to other fan groups and even AMC. Although since we're all excited about the same thing and we inevitably will duplicate something someone else has already done, we wanted to focus our videos in a specific way to hopefully provide something a little more that might be slightly lacking in an average fan video. We're really excited about what we came up with, and are working hard to edit everything together to post in the next couple of weeks... definitely before the Season 7 premiere!
Once we have everything ready to go we'll add a new page to the WalkingDeadFamily.com website that will contain all of the videos we've come up with. We hope you'll come back to check for them and celebrate the Season 7 kickoff in style with us!
Sunday, July 10, 2016
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Amazon
Most fans of The Walking Dead are well aware of The Woodbury Shoppe, the one and only official Walking Dead store. The quaint little shop sits at 48 Main Street, on the corner of Seavy and Main in Senoia, Georgia, smack dab in the middle of the area used as "Woodbury" in the show and within sight of the Gin Property (the Alexandria Safe Zone).
The walls of the basement are absolutely covered in writing. Every cast member has visited the shop and left messages and autographs there for all of the fans to enjoy. That's right, if you want to make sure you've followed in the same footsteps as your favorite cast member, all one needs to do is visit The Woodbury Shoppe to know you've had a shared experience with him/her. In fact, the shop itself is owned in part by names that should be familiar to all TWD fans: Robert Kirkman (TWD creator) and David Alpert (EP).
Sharing the basement space is a newer addition (opened late 2014), The Walking Dead Café (primarily a coffee shop serving TWD themed Starbucks, though they also sell sandwiches, soup, and desserts). Although this makes it the second Main street coffee house (see our earlier post about The Senoia Coffee & Café), we wholly recommend a visit to both. The Senoia Coffee & Café does have a larger lunch menu, so perhaps save TWD Café for dessert to avoid a caffeine high. Just be sure to work them both into your plans and you won't be disappointed.
The Woodbury Shoppe is of course Destination Zero for most fans visiting the area, and we would expect no less. Be sure to save all of your TWD merch purchases for your trip and take an empty belly so you can patronize as many businesses in the area as possible. Just be careful not to blow through your savings in this all-too-tempting TWD mega-store.
www.WalkingDeadFamily.com
The shop occupies two floors in one of the tallest buildings in little Senoia (four total stories, one of which is the basement). The street level is full of just about any piece of Walking Dead merchandise you could possibly find, including several items exclusive to this official store. Although Senoia might be quite a drive for most, the trip is by far more rewarding than ordering those trinkets online, though one can also order directly from the store's online portal which we suggest over ordering online elsewhere. We always recommend supporting the Main street businesses whenever possible to help keep the area thriving for fans and locals alike to enjoy.
Perhaps the most admired item on the main floor is a bust of "Bicycle Girl" from the pilot episode, displayed proudly in the middle of the store. Getting to see Greg Nicotero's work up close and personal is quite the opportunity no TWD fan should miss. As if that weren't reason enough to visit, the basement of the shop functions as a mini TWD museum showcasing several examples of unmistakable set pieces. There you can see a full size replica of the "Don't Open Dead Inside" doors, Merle's bike (used by Daryl), and sit inside one of the prison cells while admiring the amazing paint job done on it by TWD crew. If you didn't understand why Norman Reedus mentioned how incredible that paint job was in a Behind The Scenes video on AMC's website, you will certainly get the picture when you see those cells in person.
The walls of the basement are absolutely covered in writing. Every cast member has visited the shop and left messages and autographs there for all of the fans to enjoy. That's right, if you want to make sure you've followed in the same footsteps as your favorite cast member, all one needs to do is visit The Woodbury Shoppe to know you've had a shared experience with him/her. In fact, the shop itself is owned in part by names that should be familiar to all TWD fans: Robert Kirkman (TWD creator) and David Alpert (EP).
Sharing the basement space is a newer addition (opened late 2014), The Walking Dead Café (primarily a coffee shop serving TWD themed Starbucks, though they also sell sandwiches, soup, and desserts). Although this makes it the second Main street coffee house (see our earlier post about The Senoia Coffee & Café), we wholly recommend a visit to both. The Senoia Coffee & Café does have a larger lunch menu, so perhaps save TWD Café for dessert to avoid a caffeine high. Just be sure to work them both into your plans and you won't be disappointed.
The Woodbury Shoppe is of course Destination Zero for most fans visiting the area, and we would expect no less. Be sure to save all of your TWD merch purchases for your trip and take an empty belly so you can patronize as many businesses in the area as possible. Just be careful not to blow through your savings in this all-too-tempting TWD mega-store.
www.WalkingDeadFamily.com
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
A Must-See TWD Fan Favorite
If you're a newer or more casual fan of The Walking Dead, you might not know that filming takes place in and around Senoia, Georgia (pronounced by most locals as seh-noy). It's a tiny little town South of Atlanta where the summer's heat is just as soupy as it seems on the show, and it's not too hard to imagine that sweat dripping down Daryl's long locks to be real.
"Downtown" Senoia itself is a quaint little Southern town that you might recognize as the setting of Woodbury in the show. Although the real Woodbury isn't that far away, Senoia was used instead because, if you can believe it, Senoia is bigger and better suited to filming. Fans flock to the area from all over the world, but despite the fact that one might think it would take on the feel of something more like Disney World during the filming months, it still retains a quiet, slow paced, sparsely populated feel.
The post-apocalyptic "Woodbury Wall" that we are all so familiar with from Season Three is long gone now and aside from the presence of fans and (if you're lucky) cast and crew, Senoia proper is back to business as usual. The wall sat at the Southern end of the town, at the bottom of the hill Senoia occupies, though it's difficult to tell from the show that it's actually on a hill. Across the road from "Woodbury" (behind the gazebo you can see in several shots outside the Woodbury wall) lies a set of train tracks and Gin Street, where the now famous "Gin Property" lies. The Gin Property is a housing development partially built up by production that became the Alexandria Safe Zone (in fact a large part of the Senoia revitalization can be attributed to Raleigh Studios, who erects buildings and homes to look old both for TWD and other filming projects). The Gin Property has been described as a "living back lot" for Raleigh Studios... and people really get to live there.
Yes, you too can now sit in the fan-favorite stop, Senoia Coffee & Café (The Woodbury Coffee House in the show), sipping a wonderfully flavorful cup of java just outside where the Woodbury wall once stood while looking at the Alexandria Safe Zone wall. For any Walking Dead fanatic, it's a wonderful way to spend an afternoon and should be the first stop on your list if you make the trip to town. In addition to liquid refreshments, they also serve lunch (and on Friday/Saturdays dinner), as well as a selection of desserts.
If you're planning a trip to Senoia, be sure to show up between May and November, while filming is going on... and best get there before we find out the last season is upon us. Even if the ASZ is off limits and you may or may not get to see the cast prowling around, you might still get to see the crew buzzing in and around the Alexandria wall. While we were there in early November 2015, we got to see ASZ lit up for night filming and saw Daryl's new bike being carted around by the crew.
Senoia Coffee & Café is a wonderfully not-too-kitschy nook with exposed brick walls and thickly cased windows characteristic of old buildings in a small town. It's just about as hipster as you ever hope anything in Senoia could ever strive to be (which isn't much), and the staff is incredibly friendly. They are more than gracious and welcoming to TWD fans and will happily give you the day's insight on what they've seen going on or if anyone notable has been in the shop that day. Though at the time of this writing their site is offline for an unknown reason, their social media accounts are live and well: Twitter Facebook So be sure to check them out, throw them a favorite, and drop on by the next time you get a hankerin' for a road trip!
www.WalkingDeadFamily.com
"Downtown" Senoia itself is a quaint little Southern town that you might recognize as the setting of Woodbury in the show. Although the real Woodbury isn't that far away, Senoia was used instead because, if you can believe it, Senoia is bigger and better suited to filming. Fans flock to the area from all over the world, but despite the fact that one might think it would take on the feel of something more like Disney World during the filming months, it still retains a quiet, slow paced, sparsely populated feel.
The post-apocalyptic "Woodbury Wall" that we are all so familiar with from Season Three is long gone now and aside from the presence of fans and (if you're lucky) cast and crew, Senoia proper is back to business as usual. The wall sat at the Southern end of the town, at the bottom of the hill Senoia occupies, though it's difficult to tell from the show that it's actually on a hill. Across the road from "Woodbury" (behind the gazebo you can see in several shots outside the Woodbury wall) lies a set of train tracks and Gin Street, where the now famous "Gin Property" lies. The Gin Property is a housing development partially built up by production that became the Alexandria Safe Zone (in fact a large part of the Senoia revitalization can be attributed to Raleigh Studios, who erects buildings and homes to look old both for TWD and other filming projects). The Gin Property has been described as a "living back lot" for Raleigh Studios... and people really get to live there.
Yes, you too can now sit in the fan-favorite stop, Senoia Coffee & Café (The Woodbury Coffee House in the show), sipping a wonderfully flavorful cup of java just outside where the Woodbury wall once stood while looking at the Alexandria Safe Zone wall. For any Walking Dead fanatic, it's a wonderful way to spend an afternoon and should be the first stop on your list if you make the trip to town. In addition to liquid refreshments, they also serve lunch (and on Friday/Saturdays dinner), as well as a selection of desserts.
If you're planning a trip to Senoia, be sure to show up between May and November, while filming is going on... and best get there before we find out the last season is upon us. Even if the ASZ is off limits and you may or may not get to see the cast prowling around, you might still get to see the crew buzzing in and around the Alexandria wall. While we were there in early November 2015, we got to see ASZ lit up for night filming and saw Daryl's new bike being carted around by the crew.
Senoia Coffee & Café is a wonderfully not-too-kitschy nook with exposed brick walls and thickly cased windows characteristic of old buildings in a small town. It's just about as hipster as you ever hope anything in Senoia could ever strive to be (which isn't much), and the staff is incredibly friendly. They are more than gracious and welcoming to TWD fans and will happily give you the day's insight on what they've seen going on or if anyone notable has been in the shop that day. Though at the time of this writing their site is offline for an unknown reason, their social media accounts are live and well: Twitter Facebook So be sure to check them out, throw them a favorite, and drop on by the next time you get a hankerin' for a road trip!
www.WalkingDeadFamily.com
Friday, April 15, 2016
Our Apologies
Soooo... we dropped the ball in Season six. We admit it. Please forgive us. We'd say the reviews were far and few between, but it looks like there wasn't any in between. We suck. We have no other excuse than life got in the way.
We're planning a site redesign and something extra special that we know everyone will be excited about once we announce it... until then, we'll come back to post our summary of S6 and thoughts about what S7 might bring and might even update our poor trivia page, since it's been neglected since S4. Good grief! Are we all that old now?!
We'd like to thank everyone for their continued loyalty and patronage. It's for you we stay in business. We don't make a dime off this site; quite the opposite. We're here for you. So keep chiming in, keep visiting, and we'll be sure to give you more content to make it worth your while.
We're planning a site redesign and something extra special that we know everyone will be excited about once we announce it... until then, we'll come back to post our summary of S6 and thoughts about what S7 might bring and might even update our poor trivia page, since it's been neglected since S4. Good grief! Are we all that old now?!
We'd like to thank everyone for their continued loyalty and patronage. It's for you we stay in business. We don't make a dime off this site; quite the opposite. We're here for you. So keep chiming in, keep visiting, and we'll be sure to give you more content to make it worth your while.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
The Walking Dead: Season 6 Episode 1 WDF Review
Episode 1: First Time Again
Here we are back again for the Season 6 Premiere and we're loving the fact that AMC seems to have made 90 minutes the default length of premieres. That, and they have consistently used Greg Nicotero as director for premieres since Season Four, which he seems exceptionally skilled at. Yes, please, thank you!
Here we pick right back up where we left off. Sort of. We're flashing back and forth with the flashbacks all in black and white. We get a couple more than average moments of comedic relief (which is a hands down favorite to this mod), the most memorable being Morgan asking Michonne if she took a protein bar from his apartment when she, Rick, and Carl visited in Season Three. Though we only ever saw her eating his chips, we have the sense that she totally lied when she denied taking that bar.
Rick has discovered how Alexandria has been kept safe from walker hoards... there is a quarry nearby with trucks blocking the exits that has been acting as a giant walker trap. They have been sliding and falling into the stadium sized pit and now number in the thousands, just waiting to break free to cause their slothful, munchy havoc en masse. Though he is proving unpopular with some of the Alexandrites, Rick has come up with a preemptive plan to lure the hoard miles away from Alexandria where the massive hoard cannot destroy the town a la Hershel's Farm. Unfortunately TWD is a world in which Murphy's Law ultimately rules and not only does the plan have to be unexpectedly executed early when the hoard breaks through one of the exits while the team is there to do a dry run, but goes all kinds of wrong thanks to an unknown saboteur. Lizzie?! Are you back?
The whole ordeal is beyond epic and has become one of our favorite episodes to date. We were warned there were more walkers than ever seen before and it took them no time at all to hit us with them. It was an immensely satisfying premiere and warranted all the hoopla it received, such as the red carpet premiere taking place in Madison Square Garden, complete with a dramatic entrance by Reedus driving Daryl's new bike up on stage. We end the episode not wanting it to end... and that's how you know they've done their job. So what's next for our crew and the massive hoard the likes of which have never been seen before, on the loose and headed straight for home? We shall see. Yes, in time we will all see.
WalkingDeadFamily.com
Here we are back again for the Season 6 Premiere and we're loving the fact that AMC seems to have made 90 minutes the default length of premieres. That, and they have consistently used Greg Nicotero as director for premieres since Season Four, which he seems exceptionally skilled at. Yes, please, thank you!
Here we pick right back up where we left off. Sort of. We're flashing back and forth with the flashbacks all in black and white. We get a couple more than average moments of comedic relief (which is a hands down favorite to this mod), the most memorable being Morgan asking Michonne if she took a protein bar from his apartment when she, Rick, and Carl visited in Season Three. Though we only ever saw her eating his chips, we have the sense that she totally lied when she denied taking that bar.
Rick has discovered how Alexandria has been kept safe from walker hoards... there is a quarry nearby with trucks blocking the exits that has been acting as a giant walker trap. They have been sliding and falling into the stadium sized pit and now number in the thousands, just waiting to break free to cause their slothful, munchy havoc en masse. Though he is proving unpopular with some of the Alexandrites, Rick has come up with a preemptive plan to lure the hoard miles away from Alexandria where the massive hoard cannot destroy the town a la Hershel's Farm. Unfortunately TWD is a world in which Murphy's Law ultimately rules and not only does the plan have to be unexpectedly executed early when the hoard breaks through one of the exits while the team is there to do a dry run, but goes all kinds of wrong thanks to an unknown saboteur. Lizzie?! Are you back?
The whole ordeal is beyond epic and has become one of our favorite episodes to date. We were warned there were more walkers than ever seen before and it took them no time at all to hit us with them. It was an immensely satisfying premiere and warranted all the hoopla it received, such as the red carpet premiere taking place in Madison Square Garden, complete with a dramatic entrance by Reedus driving Daryl's new bike up on stage. We end the episode not wanting it to end... and that's how you know they've done their job. So what's next for our crew and the massive hoard the likes of which have never been seen before, on the loose and headed straight for home? We shall see. Yes, in time we will all see.
WalkingDeadFamily.com
Monday, March 30, 2015
The Walking Dead: Season 5 Episode 16 WDF Review
Episode 16: Conquer
Here we are, finally at the end of Season 5 and having seen the 90 minute finale, we're exhausted! It seems like just yesterday we were baited with a shot of the prison over Rick and Daryl's shoulders in preparation for Season 3, and now we're in pre-production on Season 6, nearly ready to begin filming back in good ol' Georgia.
Instead of giving a synopsis, we'll just say the internal conflict between the Alexandrites and Team Rick are coming to a head. The townsfolk are holding a tribunal of sorts to decide if they want to kick Rick out, Nicholas and Glenn are going at it, and even Father Whinesalot is paying his dues via an embittered Sasha who shows him just how bad of an idea it is to proclaim her and the group 'evil'. The big twist of the finale? Well you knew there'd be one, right? It's not that Pete gets the ax (though he does, it's just not a surprise- so long #PorchDick), but that Morgan finally finds the group by way of rescuing Aaron and Daryl from a sticky spot that would have otherwise been certain death. So we're going into Season 6 with the 'you must change your ways' line firmly drawn in the sand and Morgan fresh from the field on board to help bring Rick back from another brink.
At long last, Morgan has arrived, and is sane enough to finally join the group! He has, however, discovered some bizarre zen-state where he deems all life valuable... even the bad ones. It's his excuse for coming to Aaron and Daryl's aid, though in the beginning he seems to be leaving two of The Wolves to be chewed on (he loads their unconscious bodies into a car and then honks the horn... one would assume to draw walkers to them but as Lennie James explained on TTD afterward -the surprise cast guest-, it was to ensure the coast was clear for him to exit instead). This will for sure be an interesting contrast to Rick's 'trust no one' attitude and seems to introduce our new 'voice of reason' for Season 6, now that Tyreese is gone. That said, it cannot last forever since the very baddies Morgan let live have already struck again. Shucks, that always happens.
The mid-season finales tend to be more cliff-hangery than season finales, and this one follows suit (the only real cliffhanger in the bunch was Season 4's terminus lockup, the rest were mostly setting the scene for the following season). Now they can bounce forward past winter again as they've done in seasons past without causing much of a hiccup in the storytelling if they so choose. We might not be surprised, then, if when we get back from the break we find things at the ASZ much altered with Rick in power now that he has finally been proven right by Pete murdering Reg right in front of Deanna, though ZenMorgan is definitely not going to approve of the fact that he walked in for their much awaited reunion just in time to see Rick shoot the man in the face.
One of the most exciting things of this year's finale by far is the first release of the trailers for the spin-off, Fear The Walking Dead. Set in Los Angeles at the outbreak of the virus, we're going to be treated to the goings-on at the onset that we were largely left in the dark on before, thanks to Rick's coma. The idea of a fresh start in the same vein of the original but with an entirely new cast is oddly enthralling, despite how much loyalty we have toward our current crew. The fact that it comes mid-summer may be just what we've always needed. And yes, it is a new cast and highly unlikely to cross over at all, though some fans immediately assumed going back to the onset meant bringing back to life some of our dead cast members.
So, cheers on a great conclusion to Season Five! We'll be back atcha in July when the new gang hits the airwaves.
http://walkingdeadfamily.com
Here we are, finally at the end of Season 5 and having seen the 90 minute finale, we're exhausted! It seems like just yesterday we were baited with a shot of the prison over Rick and Daryl's shoulders in preparation for Season 3, and now we're in pre-production on Season 6, nearly ready to begin filming back in good ol' Georgia.
Instead of giving a synopsis, we'll just say the internal conflict between the Alexandrites and Team Rick are coming to a head. The townsfolk are holding a tribunal of sorts to decide if they want to kick Rick out, Nicholas and Glenn are going at it, and even Father Whinesalot is paying his dues via an embittered Sasha who shows him just how bad of an idea it is to proclaim her and the group 'evil'. The big twist of the finale? Well you knew there'd be one, right? It's not that Pete gets the ax (though he does, it's just not a surprise- so long #PorchDick), but that Morgan finally finds the group by way of rescuing Aaron and Daryl from a sticky spot that would have otherwise been certain death. So we're going into Season 6 with the 'you must change your ways' line firmly drawn in the sand and Morgan fresh from the field on board to help bring Rick back from another brink.
At long last, Morgan has arrived, and is sane enough to finally join the group! He has, however, discovered some bizarre zen-state where he deems all life valuable... even the bad ones. It's his excuse for coming to Aaron and Daryl's aid, though in the beginning he seems to be leaving two of The Wolves to be chewed on (he loads their unconscious bodies into a car and then honks the horn... one would assume to draw walkers to them but as Lennie James explained on TTD afterward -the surprise cast guest-, it was to ensure the coast was clear for him to exit instead). This will for sure be an interesting contrast to Rick's 'trust no one' attitude and seems to introduce our new 'voice of reason' for Season 6, now that Tyreese is gone. That said, it cannot last forever since the very baddies Morgan let live have already struck again. Shucks, that always happens.
The mid-season finales tend to be more cliff-hangery than season finales, and this one follows suit (the only real cliffhanger in the bunch was Season 4's terminus lockup, the rest were mostly setting the scene for the following season). Now they can bounce forward past winter again as they've done in seasons past without causing much of a hiccup in the storytelling if they so choose. We might not be surprised, then, if when we get back from the break we find things at the ASZ much altered with Rick in power now that he has finally been proven right by Pete murdering Reg right in front of Deanna, though ZenMorgan is definitely not going to approve of the fact that he walked in for their much awaited reunion just in time to see Rick shoot the man in the face.
One of the most exciting things of this year's finale by far is the first release of the trailers for the spin-off, Fear The Walking Dead. Set in Los Angeles at the outbreak of the virus, we're going to be treated to the goings-on at the onset that we were largely left in the dark on before, thanks to Rick's coma. The idea of a fresh start in the same vein of the original but with an entirely new cast is oddly enthralling, despite how much loyalty we have toward our current crew. The fact that it comes mid-summer may be just what we've always needed. And yes, it is a new cast and highly unlikely to cross over at all, though some fans immediately assumed going back to the onset meant bringing back to life some of our dead cast members.
So, cheers on a great conclusion to Season Five! We'll be back atcha in July when the new gang hits the airwaves.
http://walkingdeadfamily.com
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