AMC's The Walking Dead

I need to pay better attention. I totally forgot about the person in the boots.

 

Have any of you become interested in the show after initially thinking that there was no way you would like it? I don't care for zombies (though I liked the World War Z movie) and have never bothered to watch, but have seen it on a streaming service recently. I guess I am wondering if there is something there for people not inclined to watch it.

 

It's really not about zombies. It's about how people react to the world falling apart.

 

How did that work? I thought we saw Gabriel leaving the wall, grabbing all the grub and packing it into a car.

 

For me, if it has zombies, it's about zombies. I normally cannot get over it.

 

The first couple of seasons, it really is mostly about the zombies. How to escape them. Where to hide. How to survive. Etc.

But as you go, the zombies become tertiary characters to the groups of people fighting each other. The zombies almost become props to these fights. "We don't like this other group so we will just drop a group of zombies in their front yard." That kind of thing. The most climatic and iconic scenes in the past few seasons have involved living people doing awful things to other living people.

There just happened to be zombies around sometime.

 

It's funny. The zombies and gore don't bother me at all, but I couldn't stand to watch Nip Tuck because of the graphic medical procedures.

 

The woman that Gabriel grabbed and held a knife to her throat is supposedly the one that was watching them and kidnapped him initially from what I have read in post-show stories.

 

That was all so very Eugene.

 

So did Eugene destroy the two poison capsules that Negan's wives wanted, or will they be in play soon?

Did not buy for a minute that Negan just up and believed Dwight about his "honey" running into a herd of walkers. Even with Dwight framing the doctor for "honey's" break-out (after freeing Darryl), Negan still would have reason to suspect Dwight bullshitting about his wife's demise.

From the Kingdom to the Trash People, it's silly that those people were moving among regular folks in Atlanta and other locales before the big zombie apocalypse. The King gave his back story, but all his folks falling in line with the royalty stuff? The weirdo speech of the Trashies? Come on.

 

Finally got caught up after missing the previous Sunday's episode.

The stuff with Darryl and Carol from last week was pretty awesome, though I kind of wish he had told her what happened to Glenn and Abraham.

Last night's was kind of slow, but I loved the stuff with Eugene. He's finally breaking out of his shell.

 

I still find it very hard to care at all about what is going on with Dwight. Maybe it's because I haven't known him for seven seasons, or maybe because he's technically a "bad guy," but all of the emotion of the stuff with his wife fell totally flat on me. I just have no interest in that character.

In the same vein, the Eugene schtick is wearing thin for me by the end of the last episode. I think he is better as an oddball sidekick, not the main focus of an entire episode. It seems like they are setting him up to be an integral part of the eventual showdown between Rick and Co. and the Saviors, but I still think less is more with him.

I did appreciate seeing how the economy of the Saviors' compound worked. A little more detail into that world is interesting. But that may just be me reaching to find a positive in an otherwise dull episode.