He even dumped a bunch of their stuff outside the fence in the process. Meanwhile, Logan pulls a fast one on Morgan by tricking them into going to a distant truck stop (we still don't know where, but I guess it was far enough that they had to fly in a plane they found somewhere but didn't know how to actually pilot, oh my god who writes this stuff?) and then peacefully taking back what was his to begin with. Like everyone else on this show, and for reasons known only to the writers and producers, Al is a total idiot. In any case, Al is knocked out and captured by one of the mysteriously armored people because I guess she thought it was a good idea to go back to the crash site in the dark and rain by herself to investigate for some reason. And I'm not really feeling much chemistry between her and Dorie, though that may be a symptom of the writing. The whole "nobody can help me" character always running away suddenly transforming into another of Morgan's Avengers just didn't land for me. I don't know exactly what it is that rubs me so wrong about June, but I guess maybe it's both Elfman's performance to some degree, as well as her character arc and how she's been written. Just make her a doctor in the first place if this is how you're going to use her character. I could believe that she'd make an attempt in a pinch like this, but the whole notion that she's some seasoned surgeon at this point is just silly. They don't perform major life-saving operations like this at trauma centers or anywhere else. Why did they make her a nurse when she's basically a doctor? Nurses don't operate on people. June (Jenna Elfman) is another character I just have no feelings for whatsoever. I'm also having a hard time buying his and June's relationship. Speaking of John Dorie, I really do like his character but they're just not using him for anything interesting at this point. And everybody just magically shows up in the same vicinity as one another for some reason. The fact that Al has also interviewed him is just too convenient, too much of a coincidence, on top of her having also interviewed Madison before meeting up with Morgan and John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt). Maybe (hopefully) the season improves after this episode, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Rather than mercy kill her, the character assassination will continue apace.Īlso, while I'm happy to see Daniel return (he's by far the most interesting character other than Alicia at this point) I'm not sure why Blades would want to return to this sinking ship. This would have been a good time to kill of Luciana who hasn't been an interesting or useful character since she became Nick's girlfriend shortly after being introduced as a badass leader, but no. In any case, they crash land and Luciana (Danay Garcia) is impaled in the crash. Not the imbeciles they've been written as. It would be funny if that was the actual premise (seriously, I'd watch the Idiocracy version of The Walking Dead) but alas, these are supposed to be tough, smart survivors. My goodness, it's like watching a show about the stupidest people alive somehow managing to survive a zombie apocalypse. I'm not sure how they were going to fit everyone in such a small plane after this theoretical rescue, but considering that they didn't even know how to land the thing and could have all died in the process, this just strikes me as enormously stupid.Īlmost as stupid as not drinking the damn ethanol when the tanker got shot up last season. I mean, they somehow managed to get a plane which none of them knew how to fly, and then flew somewhere in order to help Logan (who was tricking them) with no real gameplan. I guess now our heroes are literally heroes, out trying to help people no matter the risk. I think part of it is the premise now that the show has adopted Morgan (Lennie James) and his do-gooder philosophy. He got them out of there without firing a shot, also, which is pretty nice for a villain, especially compared to basically every other villain in either Walking Dead show.īut other than that, and some cool Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) zombie killing moments, the episode just fell enormously flat for me. If he owned it before the apocalypse, I see no reason why he shouldn't own it now. Just because Morgan and his group moved into the Mill doesn't make it theirs necessarily. I say "sort-of-bad-guy" because the dude has a point. I don't think I've seen Frewer in anything since that 1989 film, but I recognized him instantly. I even liked the ragtag group of kids that the survivors run into, as well as the new sort-of-bad-guy Logan played by Honey I Shrunk The Kids alum Matt Frewer.
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