In its place we're left with contrivance. Instead, it extends the drama to the point where real tension evaporates. I can understand why the show would do this, but too often The Walking Dead thinks that it's clever to make us wait to find out what happens next by telling one group's story at a time. I don't particularly like dividing episodes up so much into separate partitions, either.
That the way the story is being told is less about storytelling and more about dragging things out. While new players have been introduced to the story and a new potential group of bad guys has emerged, I still can't help but feel like this is filler. Could it be Glenn? Could it be the man who just stole Daryl's bike? Could it be someone else entirely? It's hard to say, and even with a second listen I couldn't tell. I don't get captions in the screeners I'm sent from AMC each week, so I can only hazard guesses. A couple episodes back, I wondered who it was that said "Open the gate!" A reader who had his captions on was able to confirm it was Rick. Who are these people and what is it about their former group that forced them to flee? The ambush was obviously set up to trap them, but why is it that Wade and his people want them back to begin with? And who is it on the radio that tells Daryl "Help!" at the end of the episode, just before credits roll?Īctually, perhaps readers can help me with that last question. He follows some clues to a fuel truck and goes back and picks up Sasha and Abraham. "I"m sorry," the woman tells him as they ride off. So much for being a good guy and trying to help. He's not necessarily wrong, but they don't trust him and he ends up getting his crossbow and bike stolen. He's just doing his job, and he reads the man and woman as decent folk who could probably help. Later, a prone walker kills one of the women and Daryl offers the other two a spot at Alexandria. There's bad blood between him and Daryl's former captors, who apparently took something from their former group and broke some rules.ĭaryl, being the fine gentleman that he is, ends up helping the three of them escape. Somebody named Wade seems to be in charge. Daryl escapes and almost makes it out and back to safety when other members of this new group show up. We also learn they've burned a bunch of the undead during a time when they were "fighting back." It's all pretty vague, and nothing goes according to plan. They're at once on the run from their previous group and searching out people they've left behind in the area. In the second story-line, Daryl finds himself a captive of these new, mysterious people. His arrangement with Rosita seems to be pretty good, and I'm not sure how this new romantic interest has blossomed for him, other than-as Sasha puts it-he has some stuff to work out. I'm having a hard time tracking Abraham's motives here. One thing leads to another, and we discover that Abraham has a thing for Sasha, though she doesn't reciprocate. Abraham goes out and finds some rocket-propelled grenades and Cuban cigars while Sasha rests up in the company of a trapped walker. The best way to find a tracker, Sasha says, is to stay put. In one, Sasha and Abraham go and wait for Daryl to come find them.
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