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She wasn't dumped from the show, after not being happy with how her last contract negotiations played out she chose to leave and got a new show. It sounds like she is open to coming back, so whatever they do with her, they'll be leaving things open enough for a potential return.
I really hope we get at least one scene with Judith and Rick together before the show ends. It would be a shame for them to both be alive and never meet.
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Season 9 / episode 7 - "Stradivarius"
Michonne: Notice how Michonne was watching the newcomers' every reaction--and for good reason, as Magna is a complete asshole.
Then, there's the knowing look between them about what was lurking in the bushes....
"I don't know what she'll do if she sees me". That line was so loaded about some as yet unseen conflict between Michonne and Maggie, but it has to be something other than the Negan incident, since Maggie walked away from it.
Daryl: Sort of starving and now he has a dog. Unfortunately, I see the dog not being around much longer.
So, he believes being an idealist is more or less a problem that needs to be corrected. A bit of telegraphing about where this season might take Ezekiel and Henry, or perhaps Daryl himself in trying to convince Henry to embrace what he sees as the one reality.
Another confirmation: he believes Rick could be alive since no body was found. then again, he should have considered that he was destroyed in the explosion.
Daryl shares Michonne's "X" marking....
Hilltop: So, Jesus conforms Maggie is okay--and living at the Commonwealth (thanks to the letter delivered by the twins).
Aaron learning how to defend himself--its about time after the beating he took from the Saviors years ago. The sight of his fighting with his medieval-looking artificial arm could be something to look forward to.
So, according to Tara, she has not seen Aaron or Rosita in some time.
Dr. Enid having medicinal herbs grown on site--she's come a long way from the days of being a surly teenager believing the world belonged to the dead.
Carol: Leaning on Daryl (in an emotional sense)..and the haircut probably has some fans hoping that's a crack in the door to a future romance between the two in the event Ezekiel dies, but I'm hoping the showrunners do not give in to a near decade of fan desires.
NOTES: Next week--the Whisperers make their presence known in the mid season finale.
Season 9 / episode 7 - "Stradivarius"
Michonne: Notice how Michonne was watching the newcomers' every reaction--and for good reason, as Magna is a complete asshole.
Then, there's the knowing look between them about what was lurking in the bushes....
"I don't know what she'll do if she sees me". That line was so loaded about some as yet unseen conflict between Michonne and Maggie, but it has to be something other than the Negan incident, since Maggie walked away from it.
Daryl: Sort of starving and now he has a dog. Unfortunately, I see the dog not being around much longer.
So, he believes being an idealist is more or less a problem that needs to be corrected. A bit of telegraphing about where this season might take Ezekiel and Henry, or perhaps Daryl himself in trying to convince Henry to embrace what he sees as the one reality.
Another confirmation: he believes Rick could be alive since no body was found. then again, he should have considered that he was destroyed in the explosion.
Daryl shares Michonne's "X" marking....
Hilltop: So, Jesus conforms Maggie is okay--and living at the Commonwealth (thanks to the letter delivered by the twins).
Aaron learning how to defend himself--its about time after the beating he took from the Saviors years ago. The sight of his fighting with his medieval-looking artificial arm could be something to look forward to.
So, according to Tara, she has not seen Aaron or Rosita in some time.
Dr. Enid having medicinal herbs grown on site--she's come a long way from the days of being a surly teenager believing the world belonged to the dead.
Carol: Leaning on Daryl (in an emotional sense)..and the haircut probably has some fans hoping that's a crack in the door to a future romance between the two in the event Ezekiel dies, but I'm hoping the showrunners do not give in to a near decade of fan desires.
NOTES: Next week--the Whisperers make their presence known in the mid season finale.
Considering explosions don't utterly incinerate people or make them vanish, particularly when they're not *in* it but on the fringes of it, he probably expected to find some form of identifiable remains.
sure, but a lot of zombies blew up too, how would you know what is what in a big pile of burned bones? Biggest reason to believe you won't find him/he's not coming back is that it's been 6 years...
Entertaining to hear in the Talking Dead that the kid now playing Henry is the older brother of the one who played him last season. And their sister played Sophia (for the couple seconds she was on screen a million years ago, mostly missing in the woods).
Entertaining to hear in the Talking Dead that the kid now playing Henry is the older brother of the one who played him last season. And their sister played Sophia (for the couple seconds she was on screen a million years ago, mostly missing in the woods).
It's probably the most Daryl thing ever that he named his dog, "Dog."
I was wondering what the tension is between Maggie and Michonne and it occurred to me that Michonne may blame Maggie, and by extension Daryl, for Rick's "death" considering it was their plotting behind his back that led to series of events that ended in his "death."
I was wondering what the tension is between Maggie and Michonne and it occurred to me that Michonne may blame Maggie, and by extension Daryl, for Rick's "death" considering it was their plotting behind his back that led to series of events that ended in his "death."
Daryl and Dog is definitely an awesome team. Interesting the see the changes at Hilltop and how it's expanded.
Well, this was an interesting episode because we finally got to see what's going on at Hilltop-- and, fortunately, they appear to be doing well. I guess we can assume that both the Savior's compound and the Kingdom are completely abandoned at this point. But, despite Maggie's absence (which was discussed but not explained), Hilltop is turning into a little town, or at least a feudal village. Jesus is running the place-- well, maybe Tara is, but Jesus was elected to replace Maggie-- and Enid is running her own medical practice. The place is surrounded by farmland (there were some nice aerial views) and and forest, somehow being kept clear of Zombies.
And once again there have been no major deaths in the past six years-- I'd almost be tempted to think that things have been pretty boring, if it wasn't for the fact that both Micchone and Daryl have those X-shaped scars on their backs. I wonder who else has them and where they came from.
But this episode caught us up on some more characters. We know that Tara and Enid are alive and well, Jesus is alive and morose, although he seems to enjoy helping Aaron learn to fight-- and we learned that Aaron now has a cool Steampunk artificial hand. And Daryl is alive, but has gone back to the feral lifestyle he lived before joining up with the original band of survivors-- although he has acquired a friend and companion in the form of a dog named Dog (funny, since we were recently discussing how the survivors should have been cultivating canine companions all this time). Carol wants Daryl to return to the fold, just as Jesus and Aaron want to renew the relationship between Alexandria and the Hilltop, so we seem to have rejoined the narrative at a crucial juncture (wise move on the part of the writers).
Meanwhile we have some new characters who have yet to fit in-- I'm somewhat less suspicious of them after this week's episode, after seeing their reaction to their old friend getting Zombified. Also, I was most suspicious of the music teacher guy, but after the whole bit with the Stradivarius and his speech about how modern humans triumphed over Neanderthals because of the arts, I warmed up to him a bit (never mind that Neanderthals also likely had some artistic inclinations).
Poor Rosita was in pretty rough shape, which is an unusual sight to see, but the fact that she was saved by Jesus (I love saying that) and brought to the Hilltop will likely help to thaw the ice between the two communities. At this point, Eugene's fate is unknown, but that was kind of spoiled by the previews so I'm not worried.
And once again there have been no major deaths in the past six years-- I'd almost be tempted to think that things have been pretty boring, if it wasn't for the fact that both Micchone and Daryl have those X-shaped scars on their backs. I wonder who else has them and where they came from.
But this episode caught us up on some more characters. We know that Tara and Enid are alive and well, Jesus is alive and morose, although he seems to enjoy helping Aaron learn to fight-- and we learned that Aaron now has a cool Steampunk artificial hand. And Daryl is alive, but has gone back to the feral lifestyle he lived before joining up with the original band of survivors-- although he has acquired a friend and companion in the form of a dog named Dog (funny, since we were recently discussing how the survivors should have been cultivating canine companions all this time). Carol wants Daryl to return to the fold, just as Jesus and Aaron want to renew the relationship between Alexandria and the Hilltop, so we seem to have rejoined the narrative at a crucial juncture (wise move on the part of the writers).
Meanwhile we have some new characters who have yet to fit in-- I'm somewhat less suspicious of them after this week's episode, after seeing their reaction to their old friend getting Zombified. Also, I was most suspicious of the music teacher guy, but after the whole bit with the Stradivarius and his speech about how modern humans triumphed over Neanderthals because of the arts, I warmed up to him a bit (never mind that Neanderthals also likely had some artistic inclinations).
Poor Rosita was in pretty rough shape, which is an unusual sight to see, but the fact that she was saved by Jesus (I love saying that) and brought to the Hilltop will likely help to thaw the ice between the two communities. At this point, Eugene's fate is unknown, but that was kind of spoiled by the previews so I'm not worried.
That's a cool bit of trivia. I wonder how it came about. Are they related to someone on the show or something?
We saw The Kingdom in the previous episode. It's why Carol is taking Henry to Hilltop to apprentice with their blacksmith. The Kingdom is falling into disrepair with bursting pipes and Henry wants to learn how to repair things.
I was having a hard time having any sympathy for the new people that lost one of their group, just purely because there was so much other stuff going on that was more interesting.
Hilltop was a sight to behold.
As was Dog.
Hilltop was a sight to behold.
As was Dog.
Oh, okay. I thought they were at Alexandria. That makes sense.
I was thinking Darryl might have been out looking for Rick as a zombie so he could put him down almost as much as him thinking he was still alive. I enjoyed the episode. Still it does represent something I think people got tired off and that this episode fills like a filler episode. It's basically just people taking a trip from one settlement to another.
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Actually, they do at the close range Rick was standing next to stacks of dynamite sticks. At that range, no recognizable body part should be found, so Daryl should not expect to find either a injured Rick, or a recognizable corpse. I've heard personal accounts of combat veteran relatives and friends who witnessed fellow soldiers caught in close range explosions, and while I will not go into the gruesome details of what they explained, I can say that the victims were so utterly destroyed that it was only due to their being there to see the victim in the killing that they were able to be positively identified. Rick was that close to the dynamite sticks and its explosion.
Although I like the idea of Rick surviving--its the fact that he is Rick that the rules of reality were bent in that very specific incident in order to continue his story.
Well, this supports my theory that the Zombie Virus affects Rick differently from other people-- maybe the way it was intended to work by its designers. After all, how did he survive all those weeks in a coma without food or water and come out of it not only not dead but barely limping?
There's a webisode that addresses that. There was a nurse who continued to tend to him until she was killed about a day or so before he woke up.
Awww, my favorite theory, disproven. I'll have to track that down. Hopefully it's on YouTube.
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