H O L Y FUCK! I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO APPEASED IN MY WHOLE LIFE. Sasha got the ending she was made to have, BLESS THIS DAY SHE IS GONE! But she did make me cry with the Abraham flashbacks. Mainly because I wish I was her in those moments. Still not over his death. Dwight, way to go man. Proud of you, welcome to the family. THE KINGDOM WAS BADASS TODAY AMIRITE???? WELL DONE SHIVA, MY GIRL, TIMING WAS ON POINT! RICK MY BOY YOU TELL HIM Negan, you were very fucking lucky Shiva missed. fuck you too, Jadis MICHONNE TAKING ANDREA'S COMIC BALCONY SCENE AW SHITTTTTTTT Gabriel, pride is not the word I'm looking for. Rosita, you literally bombed, sweetie, well fucking done. Eugene, well done with the lies at the end, love, gg. (My second favorite after Abe, fight me) MAGGIE'S ENDING SPEECH CAN I GET AN AMEN?????? Overall, amazing episode, great way to end it, hyped for October and All Out War. Leggo, boys.
Why does TWD want me to think being white trash is like a struggle Daryl's skills have LITERALLY been the most helpful why is he acting like they all think he's below them
God dammit that was an intense episode, I screamed the entire time
(spoilers)
Well, I guess, there won’t be any more discussion about Rick x Jessie now aha ( IN 1 MINUTE, THEY KILLED THE WHOLE FAMILY I MEAN WTF AHAHA)
THEN THAT CARL THING HAPPENED, AND I WASN’T LAUGHING AT ALL, REALLY, REALLY NOT. Rick fucking killed me in this episode, too much emotions, way too much.
Then I almost got an heart attack for Glenn. For a minute, I thought they were gonna kill the whole cast. Thank god fucking Daryl saved the day multiple times.
Can’t wait to see what’s next ! (AND CAN’T WAIT TO GO TO LONDON WITH THE GIRLS TO ACTUALLY SEE THE CAST *insert heart attack*)
So like I said in the other post, this is the second post. The fangirl one.
So........... can we talk about the lack of RICKYL or DAARON ? I was so rooting for that. Actually, it’s weird because like I said in the other post, I really enjoyed those episodes but.... I miss my Rickyl okay. You can’t just take that away from me ? But I know that, it’s always the fact that there is so few scenes, that makes the Rickyl moments really awesome. But still, *sighs*.
And I’m still really REALLY ready for more Daaron scenes. Because let’s face it: Aaron is the best.
But on a second thought, It felt kinda releving to have a very few Daryl scenes, because, I don’t know, last season, I think they really messed up with him. Too much happened. Way too much. So this season, it made me really appreciate his presence. Also, Norman is too sexy to be true... but that’s not new.
Then RICK, god I love him so much okay. I know he is not perfect. But that dude, I could just give my life to him. I’m NEVER worried about him, I could follow his lead without a worry. I just trust him with everything, even when he goes insane. Because I know that at the end, he is going to do the right thing. I love him, I just love him too much. (Do we talk about ~ Jessie kiss..... myeah... I don’t really get that relationship... but the show is not making a huge thing around it, so I don’t really give attention to that. And I don’t know. I kinda like Jessie for now)
I loved the Carol/Morgan confrontation. PERFECT. They are both completely extremes in their opinions. That was the best confrontation. EVIL vs GOOD. (Yes, Carol is evil. I love her okay. But I love her because she is the perfect vilain to be.)
GLENN/MAGGIE, again, best couple ever. Again, Glenn, the true hero. BUT DAMMIT GUYS, USE CONDOMS. I’m already worried about Judith 90% of the time, I don’t want to worry about your future baby. But also......... I think it’s time to really think about Glenn’s future/or lack of .....
TARA IS GETTING LAID. GOOD.
SASHA FOUND HOPE AGAIN. GOOD.
CARL STAYED PUT AND DIDNT PUT EVERYBODY IN DANGER. GOOD.
JESSIE’S KIDS ARE WAY TOO STUPID. BAD.
NEGAN.BAD
and please give Michonne a reason to exist. Thank you.
So I’ve been away from Tumblr this summer, and then, it extended to right now. Several reasons I guess. But I don’t think i want to talk about that right now. Maybe another time.
I think I just want to talk about what brought me on this website in the first place: WALKING DEAD.
Pow pow pow season six right ? ... well ... I like it. Really like it so far.
I just want to say first, that I watched those episodes in another mindset than season 4 and 5. I watched them without Tumblr. And I think it made a difference (or maybe not. That’s what I’m trying to figure out actually.)
But yes, I watched them when It came out every week, without the worry of making gifs, without thinking about ships... (Hm..) Alright, I watched them without thinking about the consequences that ships have on Tumblr, I didn’t watch them at 3am in the morning while livechatting with all of you. I haven’t read any reviews, or comments, I haven’t heard anything about this half season (YES, it’s possible. Because, I know a very few people that watch the show with me in France). So this is my fresh opinion, maybe a bit more objective. Okay it’s impossible to be objective so maybe, ... with another perspective ?
SO, with that said, I watched those episodes and I liked it.
And I don’t know if it’s because of the way I watched them ~meaning without Tumblr (without ship wars, overeactions, aprehensions, expectations etc...) or just because it was good.
First of all, I really appreciated how they built the story this season. It’s one single mission, one single day (okay maybe two days), that goes to shit. Meaning, there was ACTION all the time. It felt like it was really intense ALL THE TIME ! I MEAN WOA ! A lot of Walking dead episodes, as we know, is a very few action, a lot of blabla, and when it starts to be interesting: BAM ! End of the episode.
Those episodes were intense all the time, and it made me feel that all the talking had direct consequences on what was happening. I found that it was a very smart way to keep you hooked all the way. Some people are gonna say, “ It’s easy, creating suspens etc” but it was more than that. This time, It was justified. Because it was SHIT all the TIME. So you were just the witness of all this shit going on everywhere, their plan faling apart pieces by pieces. (Ok maybe the Glenn suspens was too much, I give you that, but hey you can’t blame them to try to scare us from time to time)
... and in the background of this plan, the little subtle story. The story inside the story. I mean, it’s how walking dead should be about right ? The little story inside the BIG STORY ? The survival of this particular group INSIDE the survival of humanity itself. Well in the past seasons, I felt like there was A LOT, LOT talking, you could feel how they were trying to show you what the show was about, the BIG questions of mankind, but it was really forced. Because the stories that were suppose to made us understand what the show was about were completely swallowed (ex: Terminus).
I said it a thousand times, but for me, in television or cinema, you have to SHOW things if you want the viewer to understand. You have to make to viewer feel them, experience them. If it’s just words, a script line, it’s not as effective. ( The only example I have in mind, and sorry about that, but it’s all I can think of right now, is the Beth situation. I never understood, or felt concerned about the “change” in her, or just her in general, because they never show it to us. They tried to make us swallowed it. And It didn’t work.)
So this time, it was simple: BIG SHIT going on that you witness every minutes of every episodes, and direct consequences. And It made this whole little Alexandria story, way more interesting to me. It made me feel like I was in Rick’s boots, and trying to figure it all out.
There was no 100 000 speeches about “who we are, who I am, etc.. etc..”, you could just watch and understand it. You could feel how Rick was strugeling with who he was, who he was suppose to be to the eyes of Morgan, of his group, of his family.
You could understand, at the end of the mid season finale, when they were all walking out of the house, hands in hands, with walkers’ guts all over them that this was it: They were the walking dead. I literally said it out loud when I was watching the scene. I didn’t need Rick saying it, face towards camera with music intensifying. This moment was perfectly resonating with what the wolf villain said to them several time: you are already dead anyway.
Of course this is still walking dead, so anytime they can be symbolic, they can’t resist: All the Morgan dialogues in his episode (that I don’t even try to understand anymore). This is still the stuff that bothers me, they’re just trying too hard sometimes: Like I said above, too hard on the dialogues, and not enough on the images. The Morgan episode bothered me a bit with all of this metaphorical sense. BUT this is the only episode that bothered me.
So to sump up: everything was more subtle this time. And I think that it is interesting, because there was more action ? So ? Good balance. Harmony. Viewer happy. Me, happy.
(Now I’m gonna make another post just to fangirl about specific characters, and talk about little details)
