It's interesting to see how brutal and "feral" The Wolves are, it's still fairly important to remember that we're only a little over 2-years into the ZA at this point and apparently these men and women went from ordinary, every-day, people going through life to being utter savages. Yeah, there's a segment of our population who're savages and are only held back by the confines of society and those who aren't usually find themselves in prison sooner or later, but The Wolves seem like a rather large group of people who went savage quickly. I'd think most people would be more like our group. More-or-less still compassionate humans but battle hardened into being jaded and cynical; brutal if need-be.
I may be a cynic but sod two years, I reckon some perfectly normal people could potentially go feral in just two months, maybe even two weeks. When people get scared or hungry enough they'll do things they'd have never countenanced before. Brutality can, sadly, become mundane very quickly, especially where there's a mob dynamic at work. How does the quote go "we're nine meals away from anarchy"
Brilliant. One of my all-time favourite episodes.
They just came out of nowhere. When Carol sees the guy with the machete just cut that Alexandria resident down all of a sudden, I genuinely was like... fuck!
Then bang, the Wolves have just taken over and it's an all-out assault. I'm then shouting at the screen...WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE!? Then the truck hits and the horn goes and only then did I realise... Oh' that's why none of the useful people are around.
Finally, the molly-coddled idiots of Alexandria find out what's out there and demonstrate epic incompetence. How these people survived this long is anyone's guess. Thank God for bad-ass Carol. She absolutely bossed this episode. I'm a big fan of Morgan but his cumbaya approach started to irritate me. For the first time, I felt Morgan was being a tit. Grow up mate. It's the zombie apocalypse. Part of me thougt he'd get the ultimate come-uppance when he met his old Wolves friend in the house.
The episode absolutely flew by. Season six has started with two beauties.
How did the Wolves know to attack when the Alexadria bad-asses were all away herding zombies. Or was that pure coincidence?
Poor Aaron.
Pretty much sums up my feelings. I'd completely blanked out the horn going off at the end of the previous episode. For a minute I thought this was going to be a dull domestic episode...then Carol's looking out of the window and suddenly I'm like Shiiiittttt!
It really is amazing that Alexandria hasn't fallen prey to some group before now, either of the living or the dead.
Carol to the rescue, yet again. I like Morgan but he's really starting to hack me off now. Yes Carol killing the downed Wolf was going to far (even if you just delay killing him till you get information, intel is important) but in self defence trying not to kill the attackers is only going to backfire sooner or later.
What was the whole thing about the A painted on the porch that Carl saw? If Enid was an inside man could this have been a signal? 'spare this house' something like that?
Chalk me up as someone else who thought Morgan was going to get shot by the woman in the closet!
Top notch episode.
One question, I got the impression that the wolves just didn't have guns, or bullets, and that this wasn't a conscious decision, a cult thing, they just didn't have them. This does seem odd, but the wolf Morgan saw off clearly stopped to pick up a gun. Guess things will become clearer soon enough.
