TWD 10x07 first impressions
Bullets and overall impressions under the break.
Why the fuck is Daryl so terrible with Lydia? Just... doesn’t even talk to her, doesn’t look at her. She goes to stay with Carol like... idk, maybe I’d just built their bond up more in my head than was really there but I don’t think so. s9 really set him up to be looking after her and for them to be a sort of family and I don’t get this total disinterest at all.
That Daryl with Dog scene though is something I will happily rewatch for years to come.
Siddiq babe stop saying you’re fine and get therapy.
Aaron where have you been honestly. You’ve been back to town have you not seen the sick people? Ok I think I’m just gonna have to ignore the whole “Aaron not realizing he should mention the whole polluting the water thing” issue.
Dude that Whisperer guy eating the bread got me emotional and then he spit it out, damn. Acting.
I want a gifset paralleling Carol calling Daryl out for torturing Randall in s2 next to Carol beating the shit out of this guy.
Ooh Daryl paraphrasing the Princess Bride speech threatening that prisoner XD
Ahh there’s some Daryl caring.
Ok I love that Aaron just straight up calls out that she’s digging for intel.
Godddd guys do I trust Dante or not? Is Siddiq just losing it or is he using Siddiq’s instability to infiltrate and fuck things up? That made me really suspicious tbh I’m curious if later in the season Siddiq’s gonna have some memory flashes remembering Dante there on the day of the pikes.
“I’ll help. Because it’s not your mess to clean.” Ahh Gabriel, i just love the matter of fact way he said that idk.
I can’t give a quick bullet reaction to the Siddiq scene but I loved it. I love how they’re exploring this with him.
And y’know what ok pausing for a second ‘cause I also gotta say that Siddiq’s PTSD, the way he’s flashing back to the pike beheadings and the guilt and grief and general trauma he’s feeling? That’s the same thing the survivors of Negan’s introduction would feel. We didn’t get to see that much, but they would legitimately be traumatized the same way and I’m sad that we barely got to explore it, and I wish people (Negan fans, and it’s fine to be a Negan fan I’m not saying it’s not) would understand that what he did was legitimately traumatizing, and that probably the only reason it didn’t get explored as much is because the writers wanted us to like Negan in a way they don’t want us to like Alpha. Ok I might come back to this later, back to the episode.
Ok whyyy the fuck would they design the lever that way? That could’ve blown down in a breeze.
Honestly Carol no. I mean she was fine with using Daryl last week so of course she’d be fine with using Lydia this week, but just... god it’s not ok that she’s doing this and Daryl’s BETTER be pissed as fuck when he finds out.
Oh. OH. D A M N i called that!!
WAITWHATTHEFUCK.
Ok. So. Overall reaction.
Fuck, that was not ok. Fuck. I had a creepy crawly suspicious feeling about Dante that wouldn’t go away but I legitimately did not think they would do that to Siddiq. And..... you know, I’m not one to say that they should never kill characters. But. I fucking hate that. God, ok, the problem with the way TWD kills off characters sometimes is that they kill them off when they’re getting good, when they’re just coming into their own, when they’re on their way to becoming really amazing interesting characters and then that potential is just crushed. It was the same with Jesus, and sort of the same but obviously more complicated with Carl. Siddiq just had... god he had so much potential. He was one of the most interesting characters this season. And having him survive the pikes just to.... fuck I’m upset about this.
I can’t really react to anything else right now. Come flail at me, guys.
