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So Alicia and nick just stayed Idly in a car that works and let


The walkers surround them?🤣😂🤦🏻‍♂️Wtf

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The writing has not improved. Why let Charlie in again? Why bring the head vulture (I can't remember his name) inside the walls? At least let him heal up in the parking lot.

And using a horde of walkers as a weapon? Haven't we seen this already?

Dear writers. Time for some originality. This is supposed to be a show about surviving against a world full of zombies, not surviving against nasty humans.

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After last night's show I just don't know anymore. The back and forth for who gets Charlie was irritating mainly because she's yet another throwaway character that was never fleshed out enough to get invested in anyway. Put her in one camp or the other and get on with the show! Why drag it on and on like they're vying for her soul (we don't care!)? And Madison's "Warrior Mama Bear" schtick is getting old. I've said this before but why anyone would allow themselves to be lead around by her is baffling. The entire episode you kept hearing her say how she built the stadium refuge for her kids but all you see her do is hammer away on some lumber while everyone else is doing the building. That little showdown with a badly injured and unarmed Mel at the gate? Yeah, she was quite the warrior there.

They've got all these story lines going on simultaneously but none of them get resolved with any satisfaction. For example, the entire story arc for Mel can be summed up with; he showed up, he sat around grilling hot dogs, he got whacked at a horse track...end of story. And he was the main bad guy for the first half of the season? Procter John? Same thing. So what if the Vultures unleashed a horde on the stadium. The Clark's have a history that, given a little time, they burn to the ground any place they've ever been anyway.

I'll watch the remaining episode for this season and if there's no payoff moment then that's it for me. It took watching one episode of "The Terror" to remind me that good TV is still possible.

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Why did Madison not hold Charlie and Mel hostage? Tie them to stakes on the wall and tell Ennis - "If you attack, they die first".

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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It seemed like at the time they had left Mel and Charlie for dead and wouldn't care too much to get them back.

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Its ineffective storytelling. And the time period split is not working. Showing us who dies in the future before you finish up the backstory takes the guts out of it so to speak. First Nick, now Mel. You might as well just tell the story in chronological order

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/Its ineffective storytelling. And the time period split is not working. Showing us who dies in the future before you finish up the backstory takes the guts out of it so to speak. First Nick, now Mel. You might as well just tell the story in chronological order/

Yeah this is not really working, besides i think present day is much more interesting with Naomi's and John's relation ship plus Althea.

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everything gets a return

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The whole thing makes absolutely no sense other than the writers wanting a cool reveal of a load of chared zombies.

The Vulture's plan boils down to pure umbrage. Nothing to do with their namesake of 'Vultures'

I thought perhaps they really wanted the stadium for their own. Some type of secure outpost but that goes against their whole thing of scavenging. They're mobile. Strip an area of resources and move on.

And on to the attack. Just sitting there in the car waiting to be surrounded. I can understand taking a moment to try and work out wtf is going on. But after that, I'm flooring it to the gate. The guards/lookouts can light up that ice cream van if need be.

So their plan was to flood the stadium with flaming zombies? Er great but now what. All that effort and they can't fully loot it? Genius. Someone barricaded them in there. I guess we'll find out.

And when they go back to get medical supplies. 'Not even they would go in there' Err why. Not exactly difficult to get the zombies out. Open up a bit of the gate, funnel them in single file like cattle and bash their brain in one at a time. Then go and loot. And if they didn't care about looting the supplies, it was a massive effort to do all that just because they were pissed off they didn't want to give them stuff/join.

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There was a split between Ennis and Mel + Charlie. Mel was against the plan for that very reason- if they flood the place with burning zombies, nobody would be able to get stuff from inside. Ennis was angry about Madison + Naomi getting the extra supplies and didn't care about looting the stadium anymore, he just wanted to get them back. We still don't know everything about what happened that day because in the present, the Vultures were all back together and had most of the weapons from Madison's group. And Naomi with the Land Rover.

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Yeah, I suppose that makes sense.

It sounds funny to me they keep calling it a Land Rover. Yeah, it's made by Land Rover, but it's a Range Rover. If you have a Range Rover, you don't call it a Land Rover.

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