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Why spend time on The Walking Dead? Because I feel that the level of the series has sufficiently recovered (for the moment) to deserve to be talked about. Quite simply.
Attention, spoilers on this beginning of season!
The first three episodes continue to emphasize how urgent (and almost easy) it was to improve script writing as much as dialogue in the series.
Wait, but dialogues make sense?
For three weeks, we have the impression to find consistency in the choices and questioning of characters and even a touch of subtlety in the way they are brought to the screen.
For example, Maggie's hesitations convinced me, between the question of the blacksmith's punishment and the need to give priority to the life of the community.
Anyway happily moved away from this final messed up season 8 with the idea of a conspiracy at two francs six sous, in the dim light of Maggie's office.
The dialogues between Maggie and Michonne allow to put in perspective the points of view of each one and to recognize oneself in the one as much as the other, a novelty compared to season 8 where one was often found with a stupid opinion vis-a-vis reasonable notice.
A realization dusted, I dream?
We can add a more dynamic realization also, which comes by moment the level of visual effects on walkers who have always been a great highlight of the series.
Better still, it seems that The Walking Dead has decided to resume a correct progression for the plot, which changes the three lines of events we were spread over several episodes in season 8.
Last positive point that fits perfectly with the previous improvements, we finally have most of the important characters together and when there is division into small groups, it is not to make us lose a quarter of an hour on secondary characters that everyone does not care.
To go back in more detail on the episode 2, in addition to the fluidity of the camera and the story, we had a good balance between small moments of happiness and the daily life of the people of the camp and the dynamic action as we had been missing since long time.
Because yes, even in a camp in the middle of the forest in a zombie apocalypse, the human being is so that necessarily there is also room for smiles and warm moments.
At the arrival of the horde on the site, we finally found a real tension and stakes, the evidence with the accident of Aaron and a realistic management of the damage to his left arm.
Nevertheless, the staging manages to offer a little fun and ingenuity when the trunks released by Rick degenerate many walkers in strike mode that splashes.
Perhaps the craziest thing about this is that the show even manages to find utility for the character of Enid for the first time since …
We understand the motivations of the characters
Everything is done by putting in place, without too much force, the differences in point of view that will be deepened in episode 3, especially between Daryl who can not bring himself to forget the past and Rick who seeks to give substance to a vision of world that sometimes seems utopian.
The relationship that is emerging between Anne, or formerly before, and Father Gabriel is particularly surprising, but precisely, this ambiguity seems voluntarily present and exploited with episode 3.
The series revives the ability to play with the spectators with the disappearances of the ancient saviors. Some badume that the whisperers are at fault, but episode 3 knows how to surprise with a perfectly rational explanation.
Finally, when Rick comes to tell Negan that his project of renewal is taking shape, the prisoner's response is as much aimed at his nemesis as at the spectators and he seems to be warning us that, from one moment to another, the fragile building of Rick may collapse.
Utopia or revenge?
Episode 3 highlights Rick's efforts to shape reality and gradually shape his vision for a new, shared way of life. He does so, of course, to honor his promise to Carl, but beyond that, he seems to be deeply convinced that this is the right way to build a future.
Michonne is fully committed to this and apparently the couple seems ready to try to conceive a child when Rick offers Michonne another activity that helps to build their future.
It must be said that the images of the couple who deals with Judith work well and gives a kind of foretaste of this better world they are aiming for. Unfortunately, reality comes to remember their good memories.
Indeed, this episode shows us that resentment is too strong. He remains among the saviors some of the worst killers, including Arat and Justin who do not escape the revenge of the women of Oceanside, finally decided to act following the example of the hanging of Gregory by Maggie.
Rick is probably sinking with naivety and Negan's prediction seems to be materializing. However, I do not think that the series will leave the last word to Negan, who thinks that it is only fear that keeps a polish of organization on the chaos of a moribund world.
When the survivors get organized in pairs, it clearly reflects the inclinations of one and the other: Maggie and Daryl on one side, Rick and Carol on the other.
Carol's choice is not surprising, since she has returned from her very dark vision of things, her relationship with Ezekiel certainly helping to bring her back to the light.
The result is a growing tension between the Utopian group and the vengeance group before any construction. These are two extremes. The only intermediary path seems to be Michonne's work in seeking to establish rules that should be accepted by all.
A past that does not want to pbad (yes I do rich rhymes)
The revelation of the Savior's disappearance sounds especially accurate, after all, it has long been known that the women of Oceanside were the ones who had been the hardest hit by the bloodthirsty violence of the Saviors.
When Maggie makes Arat repeat what she said when coldly slaughtering Cindy's brother, she responds "No exceptions", which directly sends Maggie back to Glenn's death since those words were Negan's words after the blow. of fist given by Daryl.
Hard to blame Daryl and Maggie for turning their backs on this child killer.
On the other hand, the most surprising part of these episodes comes from Anne who seems to have preserved more than formerly that one believed it. Returning to the dump to find out if her mysterious contacts on the helicopter were behind the disappearances of the saviors, we discover then the type of agreement she had with them.
Formerly provided prisoners, clbadified in categories "A" or "B", in exchange for provisions.
The letter A can be observed many times in the series, without necessarily having the same meaning.
Who are the "A" and "B" for helicopter people?
In episode 6 of season 8, Jadis had chalked a "A" on Rick's container. Clearly, it was the same "A" as in his walkie-talkie discussion.
However, be careful not to confuse it with the "A" of Daryl's prisoner's habit with the Saviors, since the letter then simply corresponded to the "badhole" insult in the line of Negan's pygmy imbeciles.
We also remember the "A" that the cannibals of the Terminus had painted on the church of Father Gabriel. In this difficult case to guess the meaning. As for a possible link with those of the helicopter, for the moment, I do not see a priori.
Above all, the helicopter already sighted clearly bore an "A" as well as a symbol formed of three intertwined circles in a pyramidal shape. A symbol found on a box of applesauce opened by Jadis.
When once said to Gabriel that she took him for a B, we have here the best clue to determine the meaning of this clbadification.
A priori, individuals A would be the most loyal and mentally strong, perhaps possible leaders while the B would be followers or those more likely to betray their groups.
Incidentally, this ranking of human beings in groups designated by letters also made me think of the Best of Aldous Huxley Worlds, while the population is then ranked according to its level of genetic quality.
Attentions, spoilers on some starts and episode 4 excerpt
Between these kidnappings by this powerful and unknown community on the one hand and the possibility evoked by Jesus for Maggie to join the community of Georgia on the other hand, we find ourselves with two possible ways to explain the departures of Rick and Maggie.
However, for the moment, there is no reason to rule out the risk of death for Rick, even if the idea of seeing him taken to an unknown destination by the helicopter would have its charm, while probably recalling a little too much the case of Heath and the three "P" card, which remains totally ignored since.
Last remark on the winks, with the car and its charred driver who refer to a scene of Night of the living Dead by Georges A Romero 1968. We also have the fingers of the walkers through the boards of the abandoned house, which they refer to the first episode of the series and its former credits.
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