![]() The same went for Carl’s sympathy for Siddiq. She’s morally wrong but I appreciated her reasoning completely. Maggie’s second fake-out, in which she informed Jesus the prisoners were expendable bargaining chips, was handled much better and was the most interesting character development in the episode. (And wouldn’t she just shoot the trouble-causing prisoner? Um. You’d think the worst person to throw in captivity with a load of baddies would be the man with the most intimate, inside-out knowledge both of the compound and the people living within it. Nevertheless, Maggie’s first double bluff – tossing Gregory in the pen – was fun, if also deeply illogical. Literally Any Hilltopper: “No, it’s just a holding pen.” Jesus: “Hey, are you building gallows in there?” Any ambiguity could also have been dealt with by the following exchange: So logic creaked and twisted and then it was so. Still, you see, we needed to believe they might conceivably be building gallows inside the Hilltop’s walls, in order to whip up some tension. ![]() But it’s fair to say ammunition hasn’t exactly been an issue up until now. Now, I don’t know exactly how many bullets have been wasted over the previous five episodes, because I lost count at 8bn. And Gregory tried to squirm and squelch his way back to the top-table of command, which by now is practically called “doing a Gregory”.Ĭommonsense alarm bells didn’t begin to chime until Gregory laughably suggested the prisoners be hanged to save bullets. Maggie wrestled with the moral implications of mass murder, which also made sense. This was fine, and in keeping with his character. Jesus’s determination to keep the prisoners alive through the frankly barbaric application of turnips held firm. The most successful scenes of the episode played out at the hilltop, yet even these were rife with whopping WTF-bombs. Smell that? It’s the familiar aroma of plot armour, and it stinks. Because it’s Rick, and he can’t die, so captivity it’s bound to be. He knew the raccoons would take him to Negan over, you know, doing the logical thing and simply shooting him in the beard. Presumably, and one hopes, getting captured was all part of Rick’s plan. Hardly cribbed from the teachings of Sun Tzu, was it? 4) Be captured and thrown into a container by aforementioned Pandas. This was because Rick’s Polaroid masterplan consisted of: 1) Take Polaroids. Mercifully, they didn’t take up much screen time. Scenes involving the trash-folk lose any narrative impetus, because you’re sitting there screaming “Oh, come on!” too loudly to concentrate on what’s actually going on. But Jadis (played by the generally excellent Pollyanna McIntosh) and her band of refuse-niks yank disbelief so far it snaps, twanging like underpant elastic in an over-ambitious logical wedgie. In a show about zombies, it can even be stretched. ![]() Yet we’re meant to believe that an entire group of humans – who probably once had jobs – have forgotten the English language in the eight short years since the first zombie said “aaarrg”.ĭisbelief can be suspended. ![]() And Negan’s rootin’-tootin’ mugging was addressed in part last week: it is also, he says, an act. We know Jesus isn’t actually called Jesus as well, nor is he the actual Jesus. Because at least Ezekiel’s Far, Far Away Land-speak is an act. The show was always backing a three-legged donkey when it chose to reintroduce the Trash Pandas Tribe, or whatever it is they’re called.
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