Lets add a bunch of shitty new chars to the last season of the show....
And wtf, 3 seasons ago the priest was a the biggest coward ever on this show, almost on Eugene level, yet know he is like this evil vindictive priest.... Makes sense....
I can't stand Maggie or should i say "Lauren Cohan's" acting ability... I hate that I know she lives through the season, simply because of the show "Dead City"
So, continued lazy writing: the most obvious for me being the WTF Eugene group escape... Next time these two guards have sex and take off their uniforms, when all the other guards are gone, and they've left our cage open, let's take their uniforms and walk out. And I'd just like to reiterate what others have already noticed "sleeping zombies". Actually, watching all those zombies sleeping thru this insanity made me a little jealous.
Walkers having a little nap ?
negan is still the only bearable character on this show and he did the right thing at the end tbh
Like usual lol Maggie is a terrible leader and gets people killed with every decision she makes
Why didn’t everyone just climb on top of the roof and crawl to the next train car lol
I wish writers would challenge themselves and would write about situations where everybody is behaving in the most cautious way possible. Also Negan can go fuck himself.
And I'm really hoping that people that were hold up with Eugene's group were actors.
I'm mean, is there a reason why you would feed people for months in exchange for... nothing? They don't kill them, they don't use their skills or turn them into manual workers, and they wasting time to guard them. Why?
Maggie is one of the worst and least interesting characters in this series portrayed by one of the weakest actors on the show. Her accent is so awful it takes me right out of any scene she speaks in. I wish she had stayed gone.
So they couldn't just go around and stick a knife in all their heads before they started to loot. Then could come back anytime. Walking Dead logic is terrible.
Not bad at all. I liked this season opener.
wow not bad if they keep that up :)
Strong season premiere, there was a lot of tension and a nice set-up for the new arc. Curious about Yumiko, a character we don't know enough about yet I really warmed up to her last season. Also I hope Maggie is a goner. Sorry. Maggie has never been a favorite of mine, I liked her with Glen and her character grew understandably bitter after he died but in all those episodes that she wasn't there while Negan was I really grew to like him. I haven't forgotten about Glen and if I were Maggie I would hold a grudge too but as a viewer we saw Negan prove his worth for the communities, we saw him in that cell and we saw his backstory. Plus, it's the final season and it better not end without losing a couple of our beloved regular characters. It's TWD after all.
At last, a justification for conveniently silent zombies that almost made sense.
[7.2/10] I don’t want to belabor the point, but I feel like I’ve seen everything The Walking Dead can do at this point. The show isn’t bad. If anything, it’s floor is higher now than it was during the series’s cultural peak. But it’s just played out. We’ve seen its conflicts before, in pretty much every flavor on the menu, so they just don’t have the impact they might have if all this were fresh.
To the point, the opening scene where our heroes retrieve a bunch of MREs from a zombie-infested military bunker is superb. Like a lot of the best stretches of The Walking Dead, it’s near-wordless, with the action and acting telling the stories. It’s the kind of big setpiece, filled with most of the major characters, some well-staged action, and a little gore and combat to remind the casuals what they signed up for with this show.
And yet, we’ve seen variations on this same sort of thing from the beginning. There’s only so many ways you can kill a group of zombies. Sure, there’s tension in having to repel in and out, but it’s a new coat of paint on a standard routine as TWD begins its eleventh season.
(Also, not for nothing, we’ve pretty much given up the ghost on realism. Everyone on the show is a badass now. To be generous, maybe to survive for eleven seasons’ worth of stories, you’d have to be a badass, and all the more timid or clumsy folks have perished by now. But it’s amusing how quickly a capable but ragtag group of survivors are all basically Rambo when the walkers started stirring.)
And yet, once it’s done we’re back to another interminable scene where characters sit around in a room debating competing needs without the dialogue or performances able to make this theoretically momentous decision seem interesting.
Thankfully, the two major missions here are. Maggie, Daryl, Negan, and some redshirts (or at least some newbies) go off to find Meridian, the camp near Washington D.C. where Maggie had been staying all this time. Beyond the rain, which forces them to travel underground via a subway tunnel, there’s the continuous tension between Maggie and Negan for obvious reasons that hangs in the air.
Even that runs over a lot of familiar ground and familiar sorts of set pieces. There’s an interesting dynamic with Negan’s treatment throughout all of this. He wants to hunker down till the storm passes, worries about the obstacles that might lie ahead in this tunnel, and generally questions the wisdom of how they’re going about things. It’s compelling in a “Terrible News: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” sort of way. It does seem foolhardy, and for that matter, Negan’s probably right about Maggie just waiting for the right opportunity to off him.
Likewise, we feel for Maggie, because she has a fair claim on wanting righteous justice against Negan for what he did to Glen. She makes a good point of the necessity of their trip and the process that put her in charge. But she seems pretty unreasonable here, to where even though you want to root for her, you feel for Negan’s shabby treatment as the mangy mutt brought along only to sniff out the way, and you can comprehend why he doesn’t rush to hoist her onto the subway car and save her, even if you don’t agree.
But it is, like so much here, the sort of debate over Negan and situation with an untrustworthy party member we’ve seen a dozen times now. So even if there’s still power in Maggie wanting to avenge Glen that should theoretically electrify the situation, it’s all still a bit rote.
The scenario with Eugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko, and Princess in the Commonwealth is a little better on that front. The bureaucratic mumbo jumbo and mini-fascist state the leader has going gives their captivity a slightly different flavor. The interrogation montage is smartly written and edited, and I particularly like how, despite her eccentricities, Princess continues to prove herself useful in what she observes and internalizes from the people she meets.
But this is still just another “meet another group of survivors with their own weird rules/society” story, and you can only go to that well so many times. Maybe these Commonwealth guys are totally different from anything we’ve seen before, but after the clash of civilizations that climaxed with the Saviors arc, all the business with the Governor and Terminus and scads of other groups before that, and god help me, the Whisperers too, it’s all just a little too familiar.
Is there juice in our heroes almost making a grand escape only to see an indicator that Yumiko’s sister might be in there? Absolutely. It’s a reason for Yumiko in particular to stay, and the complicated motivations of each member of the foursome bodes well. It’s just hard to generate too much excitement when we’ve done the “get to know a new group and navigate their mysterious, possibly dangerous method of organizing things” dance so many times at this point.
I’m glad that this is the last season of The Walking Dead. When a show is doing things well enough but failing to engage you from overfamiliarity, it’s a sign that the series is out of gas. Maybe that’s naive to say, with spinoffs and T.V. movies galore in the offing, but it remains true. Hopefully with an end, if not the end, on the horizon, the show can dust off a few more surprises it’s otherwise been saving for a rainy day and provoke some genuine enthusiasm.
Lauren Cohan is THE worst actress of the show… other than that, decent episode
hmm, so zombies sleep now?
What the fuck are your done negan?
plz anyone help Maggie
You know the first episode is always good, so not surprising. The rest will probably be shit again. Time to finish this series
Alright, it's not as awful as those "covid" episodes were they fed us a few months ago, but it also lacks a certain umph that season openers have historically had, while still including a lot of the cheeseball "here's how we're re-writing the story this season" themes. At this point you kind of know what to expect from this show, however that being said given that it's the final season I'm not sure a food run is the strongest way to open things up. I find it amazing that a decade into this Apocalypse these people still haven't found ways to be self sufficient and the theme has really grown tired.
Much as the last scene should've been tense, you also know Maggie is going to be fine because they've run out of characters you give a damn about. This episode was not awful, it just repeated themes of years past and really felt like watching someone ride a bicycle up a giant hill that you knew was going to take them hours to ascend.
Please tell me they didn't bring Maggie back, just to kill her off in the season opener - THAT would really suck!
This episode wasn't mind blowingly amazing or anything, but it was a MAJOR improvement over the later episodes from season 10 (with exception to the Negan origin episode, that one was great). I understand that those additional episodes were filmed under strict COVID restrictions in the summer of 2020, but they felt so unnecessary. Anyway, season 11 is off to a good start. As someone who read through the entire comic book run of "The Walking Dead", I know what to expect when it comes to the Commonwealth. But I also know that TWD TV series doesn't follow the books to a T, so they'll undoubtedly mix things up a bit (which is fine).
A good start to the final season part 2 next week will be interesting, you can tell it's the final season as avid fans we agree it's time to bring The best thing on TV hopefully to a dramatic ending. Neegan watch your back!
Looks like some relationship issues and events are finally coming full circle.
Surprisingly enjoyable season opener ! Some really tense scenes.
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I have to say it... Seriously what was the point to showing that poster other than being just a big flag of virtue signalling. The show itself has been a beacon of multi culturalism. That should be all of what we need from a show and entertainment. I have to agree with others this episode was a big step up from the last season and to see some old faces.