The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

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“Becoming”

Lookee there… it’s Father Gabriel.

Did not expect to see this former character again. Did not expect to see him interacting with Jadis. I really thought he was going to buy it at her hands in this episode. I am glad how it worked out for him.

Jadis, however, met her fate at the hands of Rick, via a walker. She caught up with Rick and Michonne and their showdown was very intense. It was unclear what was going to happen. Yet, when the walker took a bite out of Jadis’s neck, the end of the major feud came.

Jadis showed her inner humanity after the walker bite by telling Rick and Michonne the truth about the dossier that she had on Alexandria.

The whole wedding proposal reaction between Rick and Michonne was a beautiful moment before they return to the C.R.M. in the finale next week.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live S1 E4

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“What We”

Michonne found Rick in the season premiere, but she did not actually find him until this episode.

What an episode.

“What We” was written by Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne, and this is one of the most emotional episodes of the entire The Walking Dead series. It was beautifully written and had so much between these two, amazing characters, inside this building that is collapsing around them.

I would compare Rick to an abused and beaten dog who can’t see any other path than taking it, retreating inside himself to hope for the best. Michonne can see that this is a shell of the man she knew all those years ago, but she held out hope that that man was still inside him somewhere.

Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira give Emmy-winning worthy performances basically on their own. Their passionate arguments to their ass-kicking of the Walkers just filled this episode with power.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live S1 E3

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“Bye”

The third episode of the new Walking Dead spinoff arrived Sunday night, but I could not watch it then because of the Academy Awards. So I watched it on Monday.

Rick and Michonne are really great together. I honestly did not see that much of the couple since they were not together as much during the time in which I was watching The Walking Dead. However, they really do have that chemistry where you believe that they could do anything.

Janus’s comment about how she was more concerned with them together because they could maybe do anything was very appropriate.

The potential escape attempt that Rick backed out of shows how far down he has fallen. This was the guy who was unafraid to take on the Governor or Negan, but he has been so beaten down that he can not see a way out of his current situation without losing everything.

Michonne has not lost that focus and I have to say that I gasped loudly when Michonne grabbed Rick and threw them both out of the helicopter during the terrible rain. What a shock. It was something that Michonne would do. Past Rick too.

I do think that next episode is going to really set the stage for what’s to come.

Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live S1 E2

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“Gone”

It has been a few years since I watched any Walking Dead, but I remember a cardinal rule about the show. Never get attached to characters, particularly new ones.

I broke that rule tonight as I was watching the second episode of the Rick/Michonne spin off The Ones Who Live. And did I pay for it.

Episode one focused on where Rick was and what he had been doing all this time and this week, we got the same thing with Michonne. With Michonne, she came across some people whom she saved and then bonded with. So did I as an audience member.

So of course they were doomed.

I think some of these characters at the beginning of this episode were from the end of The Walking Dead, but I have not watched that show for several years so I have no idea what was happening at first.

I did love Nat though. I was sad when he died.

Rick and Michonne are now in the middle of the belly of the beast.