The Walking Dead - TWD / Fear TWD / The World Beyond

[gmillerdrake]

Yeah…..it was alright. The painted themselves into a corner by not having Rick or Carl around. Show was just not the same. Anyway….I’m sure I’ll watch thw
Spin-offs….I like zombie crap so why not.

[DTwwbwMP]

Have to say, a good portion of this episode was better than anything in the last 3+ years, and it "ended" as good as possible after they ABSOLUTELY WRECKED the show! I even cried a bit at......'s death. That being said, hardly any of these people would have still been alive had I been writing the show! LOL As far as the whole Negan/Maggie thing (completely UNBELIEVABLE) and the Rick/Michonne thing (I NEVER bought into that AT ALL), I honestly could care less. I'll watch because, well, it's RICK F'N GRIMES MOFO, but NOT because thdey "find each other"

[Grappler]

I liked the Rick/Michonne ending - talking about how each character that has died has made them able to live, showing those characters and then having the surviving ones say "we're the ones who get to live."  That was really good and a nice way to honor everyone that had been in the show. 

Fear is pretty good and I'm really excited to see how Madison comes back.  I'll watch the spin off shows because I'm generally a sucker for these shows.

[gmillerdrake]

Have to say, a good portion of this episode was better than anything in the last 3+ years, and it "ended" as good as possible after they ABSOLUTELY WRECKED the show!

I think that Angela Kang did a good job of getting the show back on course.....and prior to the Common Wealth setting of the show I was on board with how she handled being handed a cluster  of a show with no Rick/Carl. Where they 'lost' me was the entire story once the crew got into the Common Wealth. It was SO horribly written.....just film school level scripts, scenes, acting.....it was freaking BAD.

I even cried a bit at......'s death.

While that was 'sad'.....should have never even gotten to that point. If the show had the balls it did when it first began her and that baby should/would have been walker food. End of story and character right there. That was such and eye rolling scene....

I liked the Rick/Michonne ending - talking about how each character that has died has made them able to live, showing those characters and then having the surviving ones say "we're the ones who get to live."  That was really good and a nice way to honor everyone that had been in the show. 

I just don't "get" what we saw with Rick....like, what is he going through there? Did he escape something and they just tracked him down? Was he intentionally being tested? It was weird. And Michonne galloping head strong into a herd of walkers? Really?  I'll watch the spin off...I'm a sucker like that

Fear is pretty good and I'm really excited to see how Madison comes back.  I'll watch the spin off shows because I'm generally a sucker for these shows.

'Fear' has had some REALLY good stretches of show and some utterly HORRIBLE stretches as well. I couldn't even finish the last stretch of episodes....it's just getting to that point TWD got where all the characters have plot armor and are 'protected' from dying. But, it has had some good things as well. I think they F'd up with the whole nuclear warhead storyline.....really weird choice there. I'm sure I'll catch up eventually on the episodes and watch the rest of that series as well.

[Grappler]

I liked the Rick/Michonne ending - talking about how each character that has died has made them able to live, showing those characters and then having the surviving ones say "we're the ones who get to live."  That was really good and a nice way to honor everyone that had been in the show. 

I just don't "get" what we saw with Rick....like, what is he going through there? Did he escape something and they just tracked him down? Was he intentionally being tested? It was weird. And Michonne galloping head strong into a herd of walkers? Really?  I'll watch the spin off...I'm a sucker like that

I didn't get it at first and had to read a summary of it - so I need to re-watch it.  From what I read, Rick was trying to escape or leave clues behind, but was caught.  He throws a bag up into a boat and smiles defiantly, as he's still the Rick that we know and isn't broken from being imprisoned.

Michonne had that same bag that Rick threw, so she's closely on his trail and found what he left in the boat.  Apparently their series will tell the story of how she gets that samurai-looking armor.

Fear is pretty good and I'm really excited to see how Madison comes back.  I'll watch the spin off shows because I'm generally a sucker for these shows.

'Fear' has had some REALLY good stretches of show and some utterly HORRIBLE stretches as well. I couldn't even finish the last stretch of episodes....it's just getting to that point TWD got where all the characters have plot armor and are 'protected' from dying. But, it has had some good things as well. I think they F'd up with the whole nuclear warhead storyline.....really weird choice there. I'm sure I'll catch up eventually on the episodes and watch the rest of that series as well.

The nuclear wasteland story bothered me too and I gave up on the last season, but left it in my DVR.  When they announced that Madison was coming back, I re-watched the season so I could be caught up.  It slogged on, but it is what it is.  I love Kim Dickens, so I'll keep watching.  It helped that I could just blast through the episodes and not have to wait from week to week.

[Grappler]

I just came across this - need to rewatch the episode, but it helps to understand the Rick/Michonne ending:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Become_(The_Walking_Dead)

Virgil shows Michonne a room full of scavenged gear, and she recognizes Rick's boots among the items. She demands to know where Virgil found them, and he takes her to a nearby beached military boat. The two of them board the vessel and, among other equipment, Michonne finds a cell phone etched with Rick's name and a drawing of her and Judith, along with a log book indicating Rick may be alive near New Jersey.

In the episode where Michonne leaves the series and sets off to find Rick in Season 10, she finds the bag that Rick threw up there during those final scenes in the finale. 

In the finale, the Michonne scenes would have then been in real time with the series, but the Rick scenes would have been a bit of a flashback to him throwing the bag up on the boat, taking us back to that moment.