With 4 episodes left, The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 21 ought to have had way more motion within the plot.
Introducing a functioning prepare line ought to have landed with extra of a thud as a result of it is one thing not one of the survivors thought they’d ever see once more.
However, the tempo was far and wide on “Outpost 22,” an hour that felt like a little bit of a waste of time within the grand scheme of issues.
We wanted to examine in with characters as a result of a lot of them have been lacking for many of the ultimate season.
Maggie having to kill the younger walker and her subsequent speech about taking all the pieces again from Pamela felt like two callouts to the incomparable fearless chief, Rick Grimes.
The ache on Maggie’s face as she realized she needed to kill the undead little one was harrowing as a result of she did not wish to do it, not whereas she was unaware of whether or not her son was alive.
The psychological and emotional toll this mission for survival placed on Maggie has given her a ruthless edge that the Commonwealth will remorse beginning when this warfare will get underway.
One factor that irks me to no finish is the believability issue of the prepare storyline and the way Pamela hasn’t had all of our favourite characters killed.
You want to consider this strategically as a result of letting folks she is aware of have beat the chances all through the previous 11 seasons reside runs a excessive danger that they’re going to break away and struggle again.
I envision Maggie, Carol, and Daryl main separate groups into this battle as a result of they every have a confirmed potential to make choices that maintain their folks protected.
Connie being designated as somebody they will by no means see once more wasn’t stunning, both. Deep down, Pamela knew Connie was liable for the article that catalyzed the downfall of the Miltons.
But it is laborious to consider Pamela needed to ship her someplace in the course of nowhere to kill her. You would assume there can be a extra particular finish for these survivors in Pamela’s thoughts.
It’s laborious to know how it will play out, however there are a grand complete of zero stakes within the narratives as a result of we all know most characters will survive to look within the extra expansive TWD universe.
While the present wants stakes, I’m glad the group managed to meet up with Connie as a result of she’s been such a badass, and a few off-screen dying would not sit proper with the fanbase.
Connie’s dying can be stunning and would have an effect on everybody, however there are nonetheless so many sides of Connie we have not seen that make it unhappy the collection solely has three episodes left.
Ezekiel and Negan making a short-term deal to work collectively was a pleasant approach of reiterating that Negan’s actions because the chief of the Saviors nonetheless have ripple results all these years later.
There was a really apparent struggle for survival because the folks labored on the prepare, and the Commonwealth troopers have been ruthless.
Killing three folks we have by no means met earlier than for operating away did not resonate with me as a result of I’m not invested in random characters. I’m invested within the arcs I’ve adopted for the reason that survivors first appeared on-screen.
Rather a lot was occurring all through “Outpost 22,” however none of it was important with out stakes.
I preferred checking again in with Rosita as a result of the collection appears to love not giving Christian Serratos little to do.
Rosita hasn’t had a lot of a plot for years, and it is all the way down to the writers treating her as a recurring participant as a substitute of a full-fledged common.
Another subject for me is that we realized on the Inside the Episode on AMC+ that Rosita and Gabriel have damaged up.
There have been indicators that they’d parted methods on the present, nevertheless it’s simply horrible writing to not inform the viewers ON the present we have been invested in.
Hopefully, Rosita’s damage to her shoulder would not hinder her potential down the road on this inevitable battle for survival.
Rosita is clever and resourceful, and calling the Outpost posing as a Commonwealth soldier was sheer genius, however the revelation about Alexandria is a bitter capsule to swallow.
Taking everybody again to the place they known as house — as prisoners — is fairly sick, nevertheless it’s par for the course with a ruthless chief like Pamela.
I hope that the Alexandrians regain management of their house by the top of The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 22, permitting them to shore up allies and struggle again within the ultimate two episodes of the collection.
It’s laborious to consider that we now have three episodes left as a result of it is changing into more and more evident by the episode that the collection is not going to have the ability to wrap each character arc by the point the ultimate scene comes round.
I do know that having so many characters have to be difficult, nevertheless it’s laborious to be excited concerning the ending when there are nonetheless so many free ends.
Hopefully, the collection will get a jolt in the best course, and I additionally wish to discover out what turns into of Annie.
She might have been a late-in-the-game character, however she’s a survivor who’s carrying a toddler.
Okay, The Walking Dead Fanatics. That’s all I bought.
What are your ideas on the trajectory of those ultimate episodes?
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