The Walking Dead-Season 9, Episodes 1-8

Can tell by the lack of comments folks weren't big on this episode.

I know I wasn't. Maybe the worst this season.

MichaelWinicki said:

Can tell by the lack of comments folks weren't big on this episode.

I know I wasn't. Maybe the worst this season.

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A whole lot of nothing happening in my book. And this "tension" over this new group and the woman with the perpetual scowl? Nobody cares!

This was a wasted episode, and they'd better have something better for the midseason finale or numbers will really drop off.

stasheroo said:

A whole lot of nothing happening in my book. And this "tension" over this new group and the woman with the perpetual scowl? Nobody cares!

This was a wasted episode, and they'd better have something better for the midseason finale or numbers will really drop off.

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Yep, you nailed it.

Even the story-advancement parts of the episode were predictable and drawn out.

MichaelWinicki said:

Yep, you nailed it.

Even the story-advancement parts of the episode were predictable and drawn out.

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And somebody thought the Stradivarius moment was a lot more important than it actually was. This is when they get in trouble, when they become their own biggest fans.

They could have developed Rositas encounter in the woods with the whisperers rather than the dumb violin importance in the zombie apocalypse

Yeah just a filler episode. Not digging the new group.

While I like the reboot of the show, one downside is that lack of characters I care about or even find interesting... They're just few and far between at this point. The way they've brought in new characters by the busload over the past 3 seasons– killing off many and not developing the ones that are left...

It's not like the early seasons and losing characters like Dale, Andrea and Laurie. Even if you were meh about the characters they were developed enough that losing them at least caused a ripple. But lately there hasn't even been that.

Rick Grimes is deathproof.

This last episode was very slow and honestly pretty uneventful.

We did get a few things that I found of interest.

1) They finally explained that Maggie is gone and shes with Georgia, and that other community, (as expected by most I believe) and that Jesus is now reluctantly running the Hilltop. I am interested if they ever flesh this out a bit more as to why she went and everything. I also found it interesting that Jesus is holding onto the idea that his leadership is temporary even tho it seems like Maggie has been gone for a long time at this point.

2) Michionne not wanting to go to Hilltop because she's not sure how Maggie will react. I want to know more about this. This obviously is not about Negan anymore, as Maggie had already gotten that out of her system. So I want to know what it was that happened during the time skip that would have put them on the kind of terms that would make Michionne wonder how Maggie might react. This is very interesting to me and I hope they eventually explain this as well.

3) Daryl have the same X scar that Michionne has. This confirms to me, without them saying it yet, that obviously they had issues with some very bad people that we're not aware of at this point. That would account for the scars and it would account for Michionne no longer accepting people, the divide between the communities that is obviously there, and why the communities, as a whole, with Michionne in particular, do not seem to be moving toward the world that Rick and Carl had envisioned and worked for. I am VERY interested in the back story on this.

4) Daryl living out on his own because he's refused to give up, maybe only in actions at this point, that Rick is dead. The fact that he's been hopelessly looking for a body, which even he knows after 6 years he'd never even know if he found now anyway, is both amazing and sad at the same time. I figured Daryl would be the one person who wouldn't believe fully that Rick was dead without a body to prove it. I like that about his character. He's holding onto some sort of hope, no matter how fleeting, that his best friend, brother, and leader is still alive some how.

That to me sets up for a very emotional scene if they ever do in fact get Rick back to his people, or in one of the movies they have Daryl find him, or whatever. It will make for a very emotional and highly impact-full reunion scene.

There are some other small things, here and there in the episode, but nothing really super big at this point and really not worth mentioning or discussing for now. I am looking forward to the mid-season finale here and seeing how they wrap up this first half. This was definitely a slower, filler, type episode to lead into it but I have a feeling the mid-season is going to be big.

Watched the talking dead.

Abraham directed that episode. His directoral debut.

The kid Henry is being played in the flash forward by the original kids older brother. And their older sister played Sophia.

Yeah, that Sophia sure has grown up.lol

Episode 9-8... 11/25-18

Mid-season finale.

Best episode in a long time.

It was a good episode.

Lost another main character, but the plot was moved forward and the escapades of the escapee should prove interesting if short lived.

SPOILERS - i suppose i should say.

ok, not sure who left the jail door unlocked, but someone appears to have let negan go. the priest talked from the outside and never touched the door. so the question is, who set negan free?

eugene sat in that "pit" for a full day at least and didn't have to "relieve" himself? i take it rosita put the hay and stuff on top of him and he simply never let himself out. i also don't know what happened in that 6 year gap that made the villages so "tense" when they visit each other. michonne and company having to lay down weapons was pretty odd considering they're all supposed to be friends.

jesus is dead. well it would appear so anyway but they never really said. i believe they covered it on talking dead so if someone can confirm that would be cool. i know he got a knife up the back and they discovered the whisperers now so that should setup feb. pretty nicely.

so far digging the new direction but they have gaps in here that don't make a lot of sense such as the animosity between communities; or at least hilltop and alexandria.

I thought Gabriel slammed the cell door when he left mad at Negan..maybe it didn't lock? Yeah, Jesus is dead..thought his character was kind of played out anyway.
I can't imagine why there's so much tension between the hilltop and Michonne. Thought it was a good episode, a lot of storylines for the 2nd half.
Not sure what to think about the new group and showing up right before the whisperers..apparently they're bad in the comic

rynochop said:

I thought Gabriel slammed the cell door when he left mad at Negan..maybe it didn't lock? Yeah, Jesus is dead..thought his character was kind of played out anyway.
I can't imagine why there's so much tension between the hilltop and Michonne. Thought it was a good episode, a lot of storylines for the 2nd half.
Not sure what to think about the new group and showing up right before the whisperers..apparently they're bad in the comic

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i may have missed that part - i was multi-tasking. will rewatch it again tonight.

the tension has something to do with the X on her back as well as now an X or XI (roman numerals) on Daryl. that will be something that gets played out in Feb I imagine.

iceberg said:

SPOILERS - i suppose i should say.

ok, not sure who left the jail door unlocked, but someone appears to have let negan go. the priest talked from the outside and never touched the door. so the question is, who set negan free?

eugene sat in that "pit" for a full day at least and didn't have to "relieve" himself? i take it rosita put the hay and stuff on top of him and he simply never let himself out. i also don't know what happened in that 6 year gap that made the villages so "tense" when they visit each other. michonne and company having to lay down weapons was pretty odd considering they're all supposed to be friends.

jesus is dead. well it would appear so anyway but they never really said. i believe they covered it on talking dead so if someone can confirm that would be cool. i know he got a knife up the back and they discovered the whisperers now so that should setup feb. pretty nicely.

so far digging the new direction but they have gaps in here that don't make a lot of sense such as the animosity between communities; or at least hilltop and alexandria.

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Yeah, the show has given us a some questions (like the ones you've pointed out) that will linger for a while longer.

It was a decent episode. Not like the old mid-season finales but decent.

And yes the Jesus character is dead.

rynochop said:

I thought Gabriel slammed the cell door when he left mad at Negan..maybe it didn't lock? Yeah, Jesus is dead..thought his character was kind of played out anyway.
I can't imagine why there's so much tension between the hilltop and Michonne. Thought it was a good episode, a lot of storylines for the 2nd half.
Not sure what to think about the new group and showing up right before the whisperers..apparently they're bad in the comic

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Gabriel didn't lock the door.

The trouble with the character of Jesus is that they (the writers) never gave his character much depth. That's been a problem with the show since they arrived in Alexandria... So many new cast members brought on board and their characters are never developed to the point that you care anything about them. Certainly not like the deaths of Dale, Herschel, Andrea and Laurie.

MichaelWinicki said:

Gabriel didn't lock the door.

The trouble with the character of Jesus is that they (the writers) never gave his character much depth. That's been a problem with the show since they arrived in Alexandria... So many new cast members brought on board and their characters are never developed to the point that you care anything about them. Certainly not like the deaths of Dale, Herschel, Andrea and Laurie.

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cool.

i'm ready for february. we have a lot of new dynamics to play with and hopefully they can regain some of their following going this route.