Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 8 Review: Iron Tiger

With a present as inconsistent as Fear the Walking Dead, you by no means know what you will get.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 8  was one other middle-of-the-road installment, however it did function reunions, callbacks, and a surprising demise that ought to usher in the last episodes of the sequence.

Since Charlie’s arrival on Fear the Walking Dead Season 4, she’s been considered one of the most polarizing figures in franchise historical past.

That’s what you get while you kill somebody as pure as Nick Clark and reside to inform the story.

There was a component of ambiguity surrounding Charlie’s destiny since the finish of Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 as a result of, with such a extreme case of radiation, she stood to die quickly after the occasions at Strand’s tower.

Many believed she was useless, together with Daniel, who stepped in to change into a father determine to her in her time of want.

I’d love somebody, largely the creatives, to clarify how she was match and wholesome when she rocked out of the truck close to the starting of “Iron Tiger.”

Madison: I do not get it. Why did not you need us to see her? Because of the stadium?
Luciana: You have not informed her?
Madison: Told me what?
Daniel: I believed Charlie was useless. I did not assume there was a cause to. Madison: Reason to what?
Luciana: Let me let you know on the boat.
Madison: What the hell is occurring?
Luciana: It’s difficult.
Madison: No. It’s not.
Charlie: I… I shot Nick. I killed your son.
Madison: What?
Charlie: I used to be scared, and Ennis was useless, and I… I pulled the set off. I’m so sorry, Madison. I actually am.
Daniel: Come on, Charlie. Go, go! Get her inside! Come on. Don’t do one thing you are gonna remorse.
Madison: Who mentioned I’ll remorse it?!
Luciana: Let us clarify.
Madison: No! Get off me! There’s nothing to clarify! Get the hell away from me! Both of you!

Then once more, Troy Otto and Madison Clark returned from the useless in current episodes, so we should always roll with the punches till that is over.

What’s making these storylines tougher to abdomen is that TWD: Daryl Dixon and TWD: Dead City have each reinvigorated this shared TV universe.

It virtually appears like we’re being punked with these wild storylines, however I am unable to deny that “Iron Tiger” was entertaining.

The tempo was off the charts, and its occasions can have some important ramifications in the future.

Fans have been clamoring for a reunion between Madison and Charlie since the latter took the former’s son away from her.

If you watch Fear the Walking Dead on-line, you recognize Madison would transfer mountains for her kids, so after all, she was going to really feel a way about assembly the one that ended her son’s life.

The excellent news? The writing for Madison was respectable, no less than initially, as she flew off the deal with and known as the teenager out for her actions.

Luciana: This could also be onerous to listen to, however we gave her the similar factor that everybody else needs… a second probability.
Madison: Even Alicia?
Luciana: Alicia was the first one to forgive.
Madison: I do not assume I can try this.
Strand: No one’s asking you to.
Charlie: Victor… can I speak to Madison?
Strand: I do not assume this can be a good time.
Madison: No. Let her. I wish to hear what she has to say.
Charlie: I do not blame you for feeling the approach you do. I hated myself for a very long time after what I did to Nick. And I do not anticipate you to forgive me or something, however I simply… I actually need to say this as a result of I actually do not know if I’m ever gonna see you once more, so…
Madison: No, this isn’t… this isn’t for me. This is for you, so to really feel higher about what you probably did to Nick.
Charlie: I used to be 11. I used to be 11 years outdated, and I used to be scared, and I used to be being utilized by individuals who had been older than me, and I simply… Look. I actually am sorry that I took Nick from you. I’m so sorry I… I took him from the world. I actually have tried to show all that harm and all the ache and… and switch it into one thing extra. That’s why I spend each single day doing what I’m doing. It’s… It’s what makes issues like this potential. As unhealthy as his demise was, one thing good did come out of it, okay? And if… if there’s something I can do that can assist you see that good, simply inform me. I’ll do it.

Charlie taking the explosive-filled truck straight in Troy’s route would by no means result in something good, however the present did a fantastic job of displaying this internal battle for Madison as she realized sending Charlie to a really possible demise did not make sense for both of them.

Deep down, Madison has been engaged on her internal demons and is attempting to wrestle along with her personal choices in the apocalypse, so listening to her choose up the walkie-talkie to attempt to avert the lethal chain of occasions she began was satisfying.

The solely flaw in her actions is that she ought to have been conscious there was an opportunity Troy was listening in. Seriously, this present and its freaking walkie-talkies are a catastrophe ready to occur.

Charlie’s wrestle after being captured was effectively performed by Alexa Nisenson. On the one hand, Madison and co. may hand over P.A.D.R.E.’s location, however on the different, it might be taking this location away from all of the individuals Madison was taking care of.

Strand: I informed you this wasn’t a superb time.
Madison: No. There is one thing she will do. You snuck into the stadium, you fooled me, you fooled my son, you fooled Alicia, Victor, everybody. I would like you to do the similar with Troy Otto.
Charlie: You need me to seek out out what he is planning?
Madison: Nope. I would like you to do one thing else. I would like you to kill him. Luciana: Madison, do not do that to her.
Madison: You took the stadium from me. You took my son from me. This is the least you are able to do.
Charlie: Madison? You’re proper. I’ll do it.

Troy’s desperation confirmed when he made these thinly veiled threats as a result of he ought to have killed Victor Strand in Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 7 if he needed us to consider he meant enterprise.

Charlie killing herself to protect the location of P.A.D.R.E. got here out of nowhere, however it was the solely approach she may safe the security of the kids.

She might have arrived on the present as a irritating character, however there have been many respectable Charlie moments over the years.

Now that she’s useless, it serves as a catalyst for Madison to change into extra cutthroat as a result of Daniel and Luciana are very possible completed along with her.

Madison had sturdy connections with Daniel and Luciana earlier than her storyline was minimize quick on Fear the Walking Dead Season 4, however it’s onerous to inform the place these writers will take her subsequent.

Charlie: Why are you chopping their arms off?
Troy: Well, you gotta cross the time someway.
Charlie: You need Madison to assume they’re Alicia. Why did you kill her?
Troy: I’m the one asking the questions. And seeing because it appears like I’m not the solely particular person to have killed a Clark, I gotta know… Is what Madison mentioned true? Did you kill Nick? He was a good friend of mine. More like a brother, truly. Yeah, we had been higher suited to this world than the final one. At least that is what I believed till I heard what occurred. So why is Madison attempting to guard you?
Charlie: She’s giving me a second probability.

Daniel’s anger was warranted as a result of, when you consider it, he all the time held on to the hope that he would reunite with Charlie in some unspecified time in the future.

Knowing she was alive, thrown into the firing line by Madison, after which killing herself to guard Madison’s individuals will not wash very effectively with him.

It’s a disgrace that this storyline has triggered this main deadlock in Daniel and Madison’s relationship as a result of they are a drive to be reckoned with once they work collectively.

Madison catching up with Troy and studying that he has a lacking daughter wasn’t totally unpredictable.

There needed to be a cause he was monitoring Madison, and in all chance, he’ll drop some bombshells on her the subsequent time they cross paths.

It’s a disgrace we do not have time to do that storyline justice as a result of we should always have a Troy Otto flashback storyline to fill in all the blanks.

Unfortunately, that will not be occurring as a result of we do not have sufficient time. Troy ought to have been the villain for the entirety of Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 to provide his return time to breathe.

What are your ideas on Charlie’s demise, TV Fanatics?

Do you assume it was justified, or do you assume she had redeemed herself?

Do you assume Daniel will return to take down Troy, or is he off the present for good?

What are your ideas on the reunions and callbacks?

Hit the feedback.

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