The events in the Scavenger's group is interesting. Particularly the armorized zombie, it's a nod to the zombie genre once again. Pollyanna McIntos's performance as Jadis (the Scavenger's leader) leave a strong impression for this new group: a distinctively group isolated from everything else that's been going on, with a peculiar, cautious approach to outsider.
Unfortunately Scavengers' introduction is as isolated as their aura in the film: it is a bit janky and deus ex machina-ish, with them being suddenly introduced with no prior foreshadowing that they existed. In a huge pile of rubble in the middle of the woods-laden zombiescape, even. The deal they made with Rick and co's is also unnervingly pragmatical. Why would they trust a group of strangers to bring loads of gun into their territory? More so with Rick's group. Why would Rick trust in giving such a large group with such a big loads of gun? What would not prevent them to scavenge Alexandria in return with that mass of power? Season 3 played this tense very well - distrust, cautiousness, distance. This season has been downplaying that human element in an attempt to sprint for the fateful showdown with Saviors, and it seems to show its worst part with this the Scavenger's plot.
Review by Pradipa PRBlockedParent2017-04-24T05:54:50Z
The events in the Scavenger's group is interesting. Particularly the armorized zombie, it's a nod to the zombie genre once again. Pollyanna McIntos's performance as Jadis (the Scavenger's leader) leave a strong impression for this new group: a distinctively group isolated from everything else that's been going on, with a peculiar, cautious approach to outsider.
Unfortunately Scavengers' introduction is as isolated as their aura in the film: it is a bit janky and deus ex machina-ish, with them being suddenly introduced with no prior foreshadowing that they existed. In a huge pile of rubble in the middle of the woods-laden zombiescape, even. The deal they made with Rick and co's is also unnervingly pragmatical. Why would they trust a group of strangers to bring loads of gun into their territory? More so with Rick's group. Why would Rick trust in giving such a large group with such a big loads of gun? What would not prevent them to scavenge Alexandria in return with that mass of power? Season 3 played this tense very well - distrust, cautiousness, distance. This season has been downplaying that human element in an attempt to sprint for the fateful showdown with Saviors, and it seems to show its worst part with this the Scavenger's plot.