Spoilers for the last episode of Walking Dead follow
Last night’s Walking Dead was yet another capsule episode, as we’ve come to expect, and it was frustrating in that we still didn’t learn what ultimately happened to Glenn. It’s been three weeks and they’re still holding it over our heads like we’ll keep watching as they go off on these tangent storylines. They did the same thing last Sunday, except that episode took place in Alexandria and we didn’t know what happened to Daryl, Sasha and Abraham. Well now we know that those three are ok after a scary encounter with a new group but we don’t know what happened in Alexandria. Rinse and repeat. It’s frustrating and I’m at the point where I’m questioning whether I need to keep watching this show. It just feels so formulaic and manipulative.
We did get somewhat of a hint that Glenn might still be alive. Someone came on Daryl’s walkie talkie during the final scene asking for help. E! Online has a good recap, along with the clever insight that all the weapons in Abraham’s haul will definitely come in handy if they need to rescue Glenn.
After luring his would-be assailants into a group of walkers, Daryl (Norman Reedus) finds himself caught up with a trio who are on the run after having stolen something of value from the Wolves. Turns out one of the girls needs insulin and, after realizing he’d taken off with it, Daryl decides to help them evade capture from the sadistic hunters. Of course, once insulin girl is quickly killed off by some burned-up walkers, the other two turn on our hero, pulling the gun he returned to them on him and taking his bow and his bike. Again The Walking Dead begs us to wonder: Is this world worth saving?
While Daryl was dealing with that, Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) holed up in an office to wait for Daryl to track them using the trail they leave for him. We learned that Abe’s apparently got a thing for Sasha and she might reciprocate which left us scratching our heads. Aren’t Abe and Rosita (Christian Serratos) still a thing? And boy, Sasha got over the loss of Bob (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) quickly, huh?
Anyway, Abe also conveniently finds a truck full of rockets, cigars, and a walker wearing a rocket launcher, just in time for Daryl to find them while behind the wheel of a fuel truck. You know, all the tools necessary to go out and rescue a certain someone.
And it looks like that’s just what will happen, as in the final moments, Daryl finally reaches someone on the walkie talkie. Someone who calls for help. Someone whose name probably rhymes with Blenn. Just how Glenn (Steven Yeun) survived over a day in the dire circumstances we last saw him in, we’re not so sure. But we can’t wait to find out.
As an aside, I don’t understand how Sasha could fall for Abraham, especially since he’s still coupled up with Rosita. Does she assume they’re not going to make it back to the others? Abraham just seems like such a reckless a-hole and Sasha has been calling him on it.
EW has a great interview with Norman Reedus (Daryl) about this last episode. He talked about the people Daryl met and saved in the woods, saying that they’re good people who have to do bad things to survive. Reedus also revealed that he did all his own motorcycle stunts this episode, apart from where he had to lay down on the bike.
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EW specifically asked Reedus about the call for help on the walkie talkie, and he revealed that it wasn’t Glenn as many people assumed. “I will say that voice is not Glenn… It’s not Glenn. But it’s probably somebody at Alexandria with all we know that’s happening there.” That’s the impression I got too, I thought it was Rick on the line. If there’s anything we know about this season so far, it’s that we’re not going to find out what happened to Glenn anytime soon. I bet they won’t even tell us before the mid-Winter break.
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My husband vowed not to watch anymore…but he will. This season is full of teasers…..questions that don’t get answered. WTH Glenn. I don’t know if its jumping the shark because the show is so popular now, but wrap up some of these storylines. Please
Teehee. Your post is hilarious. Hubs must be driving you nuts. 🙂
LMAOOOOOOO! They still ain’t revealed what happened to Glenn??? Glad I peaced out. I can’t lol.
Seriously, they would have confirmed it if he really died. What a cliffhanger. Never ever is he dead for good.
But if he died, wouldn’t he then be re-alive again?
Mild spoilers..we will know what happens to him in episode 7! I follow the spoiling dead on facebook and they are never wrong with their information. Actually they somehow give you a rundown of each episode a couple days before it airs
Ooooooooo!
It was another superfluous episode that didn’t go anywhere.
This episode was kind of ridiculous. As if Daryl is able to hide behind trees like that and the group doesn’t see them. Also isn’t the group supposed to be the saviors and not the wolves?
Its like they’re trolling people with the Glenn thing at this stage, and it ain’t cute.
They are trolling. We won’t know what happened to Glenn any time soon. Because that is exactly what people want to know, so the keep teasing us.
I think this is unfair to other characters, because people are dissapointed in episodes like the one centered around Morgan. I thought it was an amazing episode, but a lot of people were annoyed by it – not because it was bad, but because it aired after Glenn’s uncertain future.
My guess is it was Rick calling for help – sitting in the RV. We still don’t know gow he got out of it.
I thought the exact same thing!
People had been begging for some Morgan backstory and then because of where they situated it a lot of people were hating on the episode.
“My guess is it was Rick calling for help – sitting in the RV. We still don’t know how he got out of it.”
Oh! Right! They have been jumping around time-wise so much that I forgot that it is shown slightly out of order. Last week’s episode showed Rick back at Alexandria, and I forgot that we didn’t see HOW he got back and that we will probably see that next week? (I didn’t see scenes for next week because they held them hostage, you had to watch the first act of the show following WD last night to see them)
Honestly, on my way to work today I was thinking about Glenn and started to worry that maybe the reason he hasn’t been shown yet– 3 eps later is because he really IS dead and we are all supposed to know that. Glad to see that is probably not a concern.
I don’t think Glenn is dead for the simple reason that we haven’t heard anything about him in three weeks… and it would have been a very crappy death scene for someone who has many fans. They wat us on to sit on the edges of our seats, biting finger nails.
When I saw last weeks episode with Rick running towards Alexandria, I thought “Whaaaat?” It feels like in last season when Daryl came out of the woods with someone behind him and the next episode showed Beth waking up in the hospital – telling us the story what happened to her and how she met Tyler (??? the guy who played Chris on Everybody hates Chris. I loved that show) and how he ended up following Daryl through the woods. We don’t really know what is happening when.
Am totes loving the photo’s of Norman but am one of those ladies that like my men looking like they need a good Dettol bath and a haircut. Strange I know.
I’m with you. 😉
This show is so much more satisfying (to me), if I can binge watch. I was really late to TWD so I saw the first 4 seasons on netflix. If I wanted an answer I could get it without waiting weeks. My interest has wained since thats all over *chokes back sob*, but I will continue to watch. I will say, out of loyalty to the show, that while things draaaaag on, in real life it probably actually would too. (Because the zombie thing is so realistic, I know lol). Also, I agree/believe people really would be this scary and shitty if in this constant state of survival and stress. If they made the characters too sappy or 100% percent heroic I would never watch it.
How has Daryl not run out of arrows?
Agree with the poster above who enjoyed binging the show more than actually watching it week to week. The Walking Dead is capable of great individual episodes (not this week’s!) but overall, it feels like the same thing happens over and over again from season to season. It is very frustrating. I just want to know *what* caused the zombie outbreak. I don’t read the comics but I have a general idea of what caused it…but wish they’d get around to talking about that in the show, and I don’t know, maybe trying to find a solution?
PS: Don’t care about either Abraham or Sasha, kind of wished that office zombie would have broken out and got one or both of them
“PS: Don’t care about either Abraham or Sasha, kind of wished that office zombie would have broken out and got one or both of them”
They are not my faves, but I wouldn’t wish that on them! LOL. I thought the romantic spark between them was odd, since he has someone and she just LOST someone else. But the writers kind of have made them get to know and understand each other lately. So I suppose it wasn’t that random and out of place.
I was convinced the office zombie WOULD get out and eat one of them, it just seemed like the stupidest gamble to take. The office was a perfectly safe spot–save for the zombie, why wouldn’t you just take it out?
TWD was lame on Sun! On top of a lame episode, they moved Talking Dead back an hour. Execs are clearly trying to force a new show on me. I’m not up for being manipulated. Once it’s no longer entertaining/engaging, I’m out. I’ll give them another week or two, then I will do as I usually do. Wait a few years for the slow demise of the show due to poor management decisions and binge watch all the episodes once they’re out on Dvd. Why do ‘execs’ feel the need to mess up a good thing?
I’ve missed the last three weeks (altho I pretty much know what’s happened because of the internet lol) but I’m really at the point where I think I would rather binge watch the episodes later than wait week to week. I kinda don’t miss it.
We will find out about Glenn before the mid-season break. Scott Gimple (producer) said so on Talking Dead after the Glenn episode.
I kind of don’t want to know what happened to Glenn! Very edgy tv writing if they leave such an inconclusive lack of resolution…:-P
The group that attacked Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham isn’t the Wolves. The wolves don’t have guns. I suspect it might be an introduction to the Saviors, especially with the casting of Negan announced!
I thought that too. The 3 that Daryl was helping didn’t have “W”s on their heads. Don’t all the wolves wear the “W”s?
My biggest concern with this episode is how the hell Tina kept her pixie so well coiffed. I go 4 weeks and mine is out of control, but this gal is surviving the apocalypse better hair than me.
I thought the walkie talkie said “Don’t” not “Help”, but I guess I’m wrong.
Sascha has been through a LOT mentally. She did not get over Bob quickly and easily, she fell into a shitty void that she’s finally crawled out of. Just because she didn’t wave Abraham away and shut him down right away doesn’t mean she’s fallen for him.
The show does annoy me a lot more lately, like all this dumb manufactures drama and stupid fights between people. I guess they’re trying to keep it interesting, but most of the time I’m like, oh come on you know better than this. And everything delivered like it’s a huge motivational speech wears down the impact of when things actually should have that tense authoritative tone.
I want to know how you get sweet $200 pixie haircuts in the apocalypse. What salon is that and how do I get there.
I thought the help call came from the idiot that stole the motorcycle. I didn’t think of Glen – but that would be cool. Not ready to see him gone yet but they’d better make his escape plausible … because it wasn’t looking that easy.
She must have been a salon artiste in the days before.. And she obsessively trims in the post-apocolypse era. That’s what I’d do.