I liked that they tried to fool us into thinking it would be yet another "talking" episode but then surprised us with the attack. That was good. In fact, I was thinking that finally this was an episode that I wouldn't be able to criticize. But then Morgan kept going on and on and on and on and on with his insane "peace + luv for everyone" pacifist philosophy while everyone was getting hacked to pieces around him that I couldn't believe it. Such bad, bad writing. And so unbelievable. He actually thinks lecturing a group of feral maniacs will stop them from being feral maniacs.
Carol of course brought it, going ninja and kicking ass. Morgan isn't even worthy of being contrasted to her, that's how good she is (and that's how lame he is). One thing I had a hard time believing (other than Morgan's pacifist insanity) was that the residents of Alexandria don't know how to fire guns. The fact that Carol had to stop what she was doing (kicking ass) to tell that one chick how to shoot a gun was kinda hard to swallow. They are three years into the Zed apoc and yet this gal has lead such an idyllic life that she hasn't had the necessity to learn how to shoot? Seriously?
And sniper boy's cowardice is equally hard to believe this far into the zombie game. Just doesn't make sense. But, I can over look that stuff I guess. Morgan's ridiculous approach to dealing with homicidal maniacs during a massacre is not something I can overlook though. He gets voted off the island.
Remember that except for their 'rangers', no one in the place had gone outside the walls. they had lived inside since before the epidemic took full effect.
Most don't know how to shoot as they had a full effect gun control policy before the "Grimes' Gang" rode into town.
Ditto to all shaved and joe said
and, I saw other things as well:
Enid is in all likelihood, a Wolf. We could hear the attackers calling for her. The 'prologue' sequence showed how she may have encountered the Wolves in her wanderings after her parents got eaten.
and last season we saw 'dead' walkers near to the community with the "w" on their foreheads--Enid freq goes over the wall on her own seeking walkers, perhaps she is the one who was doing this?
At best she was somehow coerced to go into the community,at worst she was a full fledged member-saved from the "w" branding because someone had a plan for her.
Why she didn't help when they attacked? Well she is a teen aged girl who saw in the community a means to be just a teenager again. And she has the attn of several teenaged boys as well.
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Morgan--even though I really like the actor-Lenny James, and his character thus far, his actions during the attack and the actions of the wolves when they saw him, leads me to believe he has some connection with them
Their words to him on two occasions tell us that they definitely know him, and since he has neither a brand and he is still alive, leads me to believe he is important to them.
He used to use guns, but then we see him only using a staff-a melee weapon just like the wolves use.
Why didn't he join in on the attack? Maybe he once had a plan to use the wolves to his advantage, but once he got into the community he may have chosen to write them off for another plan.
So I think we are going to see yet another "fooled ya'" good guy -one more capable then Rick, get killed by Rick. And this time I am guessing that it won't even be for any overt action by Morgan but a "just because you were thinking it" execution.
Then we will still be left with Rick the incapable, Rick the sometimes sociopath, Rick the sometimes violently paranoid and always prone to high anxiety and bad decision making "he is all we got" leader.
Hence, the Walking Dead meme...