Weird!įrom here, they reconvene and come up with a Very Smart Plan. This is, ironically, exactly what Carlson and his soldiers are doing (jinx!) but somehow the two groups not only never cross paths, but never find a single other survivor to rescue or throw off the roof. They all decide they should somehow escape Crazy Carlson and the Commonwealth Crew, but before they can do that, Annie insists they go floor to floor to find other survivors.
They get into a tense encounter with Annie which Negan diffuses. The long and short of this plot, other than the interesting Negan vs Hershel stuff, is that Maggie, Aaron, Elijah and Lydia show up to Save The Day. Jason Butler Harner as Carlson © 2022 AMC Film Holdings LLC. I’m also utterly confused why she would try to, ahem, rekindle a community at Hilltop, which we all know burned to ash when the Whisperers burned it down.
I am still a little shocked that bow-and-arrow Brienne of Hilltop and a handful of others ditched her given how much of a pedestal this show puts her on. She’s so myopic that she gets almost her entire community killed by the Reapers, but people still follow her blindly. The Oceansiders, despite not having seen Maggie for years, won’t sign on with Hornsby out of some bizarre, misplaced loyalty to her. Maggie who ditched everyone and started a new community far, far away (aka within the 10 mile radius that apparently encompasses not just Alexandria, Hilltop, the Kingdom, Oceanside and the Sanctuary, but also the Commonwealth, Maggie’s old digs and this apartment building). She could literally ruin your entire community, kill your best friend and forget to put the leftovers in the fridge and the next scene you’d have two other characters remarking on just how tough and amazing and strong she is. Madison, from Fear The Walking Dead, is always treated like this very special Strong Woman no matter what she does. They’re doing the Madison thing to her character right now. Maggie is another source of endless frustration for me. I mean, good for you, dude, maybe you should have left all the jerks in Alexandria years ago. to get setup in Alexandria, and Maggie to discover new deposits of gasoline for her truck, Negan has made new friends and bagged a new wife. Apparently in the time it’s taken Daryl and co. Last week’s episode jumped all over the place, which made it even harder to follow, and this week we have to sort of put together how much time has passed on our own. It’s just too hard to follow the timelines here. It’s deeply silly that one week we see Negan leaving Maggie and the rest of that group and the next time we see him he’s not only set up with an entirely new crew-that’/s both religious fundamentalist crazy with huge scythe weapons and skulls on the wall, and basically an NPR public radio station’s workforce at the same time, somehow-he’s also tied the proverbial knot with a brand new character. Oh, and maybe “What about Hershel?” Is he going to be in this little zombie RomCom event, too? What about Annie, the new Mrs. All that we have left to guess is “Will they screw?” They won’t kill each other in Season 11 of The Walking Dead, that’s for sure. I mean, the very fact that we already know about a Maggie/Negan spinoff (set in Manhattan) tells us 100% of what we need to know, and like 85% of what we want to know, about these two.