Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and there are just so many WTF moments in this week’s
Walking Dead, we need to get right in it.
A whole bunch of plots were tied up and there was a major homage to a comic book moment.
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We have some major stuff to work out here, so I’m going to do my Top 5 WTF moments,
then my review.
Careful for spoilers if you haven’t seen the episode yet.
Here we go,
Number 5 - Lizzie’s New Friend Grizelda.
There was so much wrong about this, did anyone else scream at their tv?
Her performance, the actress was a little too much, but we got the message.
Lizzie is batshit crazy.
The best part was seeing Carol get that look on her face like, I’m so going to end up
having to put Lizzie down.
And then the camera pans over to Tyreese looking through the window and he’s got the ‘what
the fuuuu’ face.
It’s pretty clear even at this point that Lizzie is going to be the biggest problem
in this episode.
Not Walkers, not finding food, not Mika toughening up and not finding the others.
Number 4 - Lizzie feeds the Walker.
What the eff.
At least we finally got a definitive answer about who was feeding the Walkers.
This was so disturbing.
Lizzie shall make you understand.
Based on the scenes in the teaser I knew that she wasn’t going to get bitten this soon
in the episode, but the minute her hand reached out I just wanted to slap her.
It seems like in her mind she’s seeing all of them as they were and just can’t move
forward in her mind.
Developmentally she’s just stuck at the point of the outbreak before everything went
to hell.
I did love how Mika just walked up to Lizzie and the walker like it was no big deal.
You’d think if there was a walker nearby you’d do everything you
Number 3 - Tyreese remembers Karen.
The irony of the scene was just beautiful with Carol in the foreground and Tyreese just
going on and on about his Karen Nightmares.
Remember earlier in the episode where he’s asleep on the chair jerking around.
He was probably having a Karen Nightmare right then.
I really did expect Carol to come clean when she goes to speak, but I’m glad she saved
it for later in the episode.
Did anyone else laugh a little bit when Tyreese went to hug her and had the gun in his hand
as he wrapped it around Carol.
It’s like they were saying, murder is right around the corner.
Which is why the next moment was so appropriate.
Number 2 - Lizzie kills Mika.
She’s full on Ben.
I was just about to change Judith too.
Everyone had been wondering if they girls were going to take the place of Ben and Billy.
And it went down exactly the way it did in the comics.
Here’s a shot of Ben right after killing his brother.
The only difference is that Carl was involved in the resolution and in the episode it’s
Carol.
After seeing Lizzie’s character progression this season, and this episode, I don’t think
there’s any other way this could have gone down.
Even if they had made it to Terminus together, Lizzie still would have continued doing the
same things and because Mika was so attached to her, she would have either been killed
by a Walker because of Lizzie or by Lizzie herself.
So unless Lizzie turned first, Mika would have died eventually no matter what.
Number 1 - Carol kills Lizzie.
Just look at the flowers and count 1.2.3.
Because I’d read the comic story I kept expecting this to happen since the Mika killing
was exactly like the twin killing in the comics.
I think they made it a little more emotional since Carol was like they’re surrogate Mother.
I had actually expected her to shoot Lizzie on the spot when she got the gun out of her
hand.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the transition from Mika to the house to Carol shooting Lizzie.
The pace just felt a little stop and go.
And I had hoped that Lizzie’s death would have been a little more intense.
There was a lot they chose not to show us in the episode.
They didn’t show Lizzie stabbing Mika and they didn’t show the bullet hitting Lizzie’s
head.
Personally I think they shot it that way and AMC made them take it out.
But you can comment on whether or not you think they intended to show us the actual
deaths.
In the end, I’m glad she’s dead.
If you didn’t hate Lizzie before this episode, then this was the last straw.
I have no idea where they would have gone with her character had she lived and made
it to terminus.
Clearly she was going to kill Baby Judith, after she confessed as much I wanted Carol
to shoot her so bad.
And my bonus WTF moment - Carol Confesses To Tyreese.
I love how you can see murder on his face as he’s just shaking the table with his
grip.
But he’s wrapping his brain around it and forgives her.
Not to say that he’ll ever forget.
I love his quote though.
“It’s a part of you now.
Me too.”
It’s a big callback to Tyreese’s earlier talk with Carol about the talking to them.
And Carol’s answer that they’re not haunting them, just reminding them of what they have
to do.
And so they continue on to terminus.
I think we’re meant to take away that Tyreese isn’t going to harm Carol, but they’re
never going to be pals they way they might have been, had awful things not happened.
Tyreese wanted to stay at the cottage so bad.
How ironic that he said he wasn’t ready to be around people when Carol then said Lizzie
can’t be around other people.
Let it not go unsaid though, the thing I was most excited about in this episode was Baby
Judith NOT dying.
As awful as everything was, that made me happy.
But now it’s your turn, what was your biggest WTF moment?
The deaths, or some of the craziness that preceded them.
Each Lizzie moment throughout the episode felt like it successively increase my stress
levels.
Overall I give the episode an A for having the guts, so to speak, to kill of two major
characters in a way completely faithful to the comics.
As an asterisk though, I give Lizzie’s performance a C for acting.
I knew what the actress was trying to convey, she’s like the Joffrey of the episode.
And the problem with that is that they’re supposed to make you hate them, which they
do beautifully.
But when you hate a character, sometimes they’re unbearable to watch.
Mika’s performance was a fresh breath of sanity.
Mika get your gun.
I would have liked to see the deleted scene that preceded her stabbing, maybe it will
be on the DVD.
But I don’t think even HBO would show a child stabbing another child.
Even on Game of Thrones when Arya killed that boy in season 1, they kind of cut away really
quickly.
I’ll say the child acting I did love in the episode was when Mika was comforting Lizzie
the first time and they chant in unison.
It reminded me of the creepy twin girls from The Shining.
Did anyone else get that vibe?
I loved Tyree’s performance in the episode.
I almost felt like he had the hardest job.
He had to convey all these emotions without really doing anything.
His character is not a good communicator, so a lot of his performance has to be physical.
And that last scene with Carol was beautifully intense.
Let me know what you thought of the episode, and are you happy Lizzie is dead.
Even if it meant Mika had to die too.
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