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I liked this one better than the last 2 or 3. We got to see their plan to defend the hilltop, plus some old school horror movie vibes with the zombies.
There's really no difference between using walker guts and using animal guts or just sticking the weapons in the mud. If you cut someone with it and they get an infection, or a walker bites someone, they're gonna die and turn anyway because everyone already has the walker virus.
But there are people in the Hilltop who have spent a lot of time out there with other groups, they should know if you have a room full of wounded sick people, they need to be watched in case someone dies. Maggie knows this as well as anyone because it happened in the prison when the water got tainted.
Steven Ogg should have been cast for The Governor
Last I heard, he was trying not to be typecast into period/fantasy dramas. Richard Madden had the same issue, but he finally got a police show in the UK. It's harder for Kit because he's been in it 8 years, most of the main cast can pick maybe 1 movie to do between seasons and he just hasn't hit on anything yet.
The older actors have the opposite experience. A lot of them were already legends before Game of Thrones, but they seem to be popping up everywhere after they left the show.
I have a feeling she will reveal how she found him, but probably she was stalking Negan at The Sanctuary and followed them out when they all left. Remember the first time we saw one of them was at the houseboat, they followed Rick and Aaron back before going straight to the supply room and cleaning them out.
[spoiler]I think that's what he did in the comics. He didn't make them all duds, just a small percentage of them so if it comes back on him, he could plausibly claim there were manufacturing defects.[/spoiler]
Whatever he does, he is definitely planning something. He still cares about what happened in Alexandria, and when they brought Gabriel back to him, he said to Gabriel he is in the right place. Having someone in there he can trust should turn out to be a big deal for whatever his plan is.
Lucille
He was OK with the idea of letting it go and moving on with other groups, until he realized what Simon was really talking about. It just took a while for him to get it, because Dwight and Simon were feeling each other out and careful with their words. Dwight first thought he meant finding other groups to trade with, not the 50% or else deal and definitely not a massacre.
Dwight is not the killing type, he was forced into it to keep Negan from killing his wife. Dwight recognizes Simon is even worse then Negan, but Simon did say something to him that stuck- they need to stop trying to control Rick and instead, find other groups to deal with.
I think what's on Dwight's mind now is to take out Simon and run the Saviors on his own. This gives him some level of protection against Tara and Daryl going rogue on him, and with Negan out of power, it could end the war with Rick. They will all realize it gives them a better chance at rebuilding society if they can live in peace.
I'm not sure it's going to kill people the way they think it will. They could get sick with a curable infection like what happened to Gabriel, and would only die if they don't treat it fast enough or with the right antibiotic. They very well could change the rules, but up to now, a bite is the only thing we know will guarantee an incurable infection.
They made Siddiq a doctor because Maggie is a high-risk pregnancy. Without Dr. Carson, her life was in danger, so Carl saved Maggie's life.
There were different people running the show back then who had different ideas about what the zombies could do and how someone could turn. The zombies in the early seasons could almost run and climb fences. And the thing with Morgan's wife going back to her house, rattling the doorknob and moving her eyes, we don't see zombies like that anymore.
I was wondering about her too, and I think the reason she is still there is part of the subplot with Rosita and Daryl. In the next few episodes, Daryl is supposed to step up more and learn to be a leader. We saw a little bit of that in this episode, they both influenced his decisions. I doubt she will make it to season 9. A lot of characters are going to be killed of soon.
Don't know exactly, but it was when Simon blocked Maggie's group on the road and told them go back to the Hilltop. The extended part was the conversation they had when he walked up to her car, before someone shot one of the passengers.
First seasons are often standalone because they don't always know if they will get a second one. What they did with The Wire for the next 4 seasons was to add a different POV each season. It always has the cops and drug dealers at the street level and at the top, but then they do a season on the port with the dock workers, then Littlefinger running for mayor, the public school system, the newspaper business, etc. The later seasons do a pretty good job of tying them all together. But it's always the same story about the different ways people approach their role in a system or institution. Maybe they can compromise, exploit it to get a little something for themselves or do something good for someone else, maybe they get totally corrupted, maybe they just go along to get along. The one constant though, the system is impervious to change, and people who have their mind set to change it get crushed.
He handled it in the standard professional way. Once the filming is done, it's his job to help promote the show as it is airing. So in his appearances and interviews, he is there to talk about Rick Grimes season 8 and not Andrew Lincoln season 9.
I don't put a lot of stock in the turning 18 thing either. Most shows prefer actors who are 18+ playing 16 so they don't have to deal with the child labor laws.
Something they probably considered was having to deal with Carl's eye injury long term. I was really surprised when they did it on the show.
The bandages eventually come off, and to show it they have to do extensive prosthetic + CGI on it because they made it look like it does in the comics. This is similar to why they didn't have Rick's hand chopped off back at Woodbury. He gets the most screen time and does a lot of physical stuff that would be difficult for someone to do 1-handed. Plus what it would take to edit it out of every shot if they didn't give him a hook like Merle.
Well they have Dwight now. The Gov would have flipped on Rick's group at Terminus and become a cannibal. Then he would have told Gareth to kill them immediately and not to mess around by shooting at their feet trying to keep them captive. Then he would have pulled a power move to become the Gov of Terminus.
I read somewhere it was Angela Kang who structured the episode that way. She does some writing for the show and will be the new showrunner for season 9 while Gimple has gone to FTWD.
Lucille
Norman Reedus said Daryl will start to get more lines as his character changes a bit in the back half of this season.
I don't see them writing Maggie out of the show if Carl's already gone. As long as they have the Hilltop, they will do whatever they need to do to keep her on board.