![]() ![]() After rescuing him – and his barbed bat Lucille, of course – she takes him back to the junkyard, where she springs some of her bizarrely elaborate torture-traps on him while he earnestly pleads for his life. The most potentially meaningful moments in this episode involved Negan and Jadis, and even those were frustrating in their own way. And Daryl leads a small expedition to Eugene‘s munitions factory, setting up what could be a bloody battle next week. Carol and Ezekiel share a quiet moment together, where she talks about how finding the right support system can help anyone get over the worst grief – for a while anyway. Most of the rest of “Still Gotta Mean Something” is equally wheel-spinning. Time to move on, yes? Please? Pretty please? The show’s former resident Zen master went feral in part out of guilt over what happened to the kid’s brother, and he doesn’t even get a thank you for it. The best that can be said about the Morgan scenes in this episode is that at the end of the hour, when he walks up to Henry and says he assassinated Jared, the boy looks on him with pity and responds, “I’m sorry.” Maybe that’ll put an end to this phase. But it’s hard to care much about whether or not these two still share a bond, given that we just saw them kill a bunch of folks, mostly out of meanness. Do they learn about each other? Well, after they escape they do have a heart-to-heart, looking back at all they’ve gone through – together and apart – since that very first episode. Do we find out anything new about who they are right now? Not really. Nobody has this much dumb luck.Īs for why we needed to see both Morgan and Rick be merciless … again, that’s unclear. But justifying a lame story-choice aloud doesn’t automatically make it more plausible. So the reasons Rick and Morgan are kept alive are explained, sure. Jared says that he wants to deliver the sheriff to Negan and when the zombies attack, the Saviors cut their prisoners loose to help with the fight. First off, it’s getting increasingly silly that Rick keeps getting captured, and not killed. Honestly, pretty much this entire subplot feels like a waste of time. But when the walkers swarm in, both men take advantage of the melee to slaughter everyone. Rick makes an offer to protect those who come back to the Hilltop with him in peace. Soon, both men get captured, held by the fugitive bad guys in a broken-down old bar, with a herd of zombies encroaching. It’s never been entirely clear why it was so vital to the narrative for him to lose his grip again – especially not when pretty much every third person on this show is now a homicidal nutjob. He came back into the story as an enlightened alternative to Rick and Carol‘s cynical swagger. He slipped into madness, and then found a stranger who taught him inner peace, deep compassion and martial arts. But they also seem determined to drag him through the muck a little longer before they get there, for reasons that are frankly getting harder and harder to fathom. Judging by this week’s episode – “Still Gotta Mean Something” – the TWD writers have some sort of redemption in mind for Mr. More importantly: Can this character be saved? So now’s as good a time as any to ask: What the hell happened to Morgan? Why did one of this franchise’s most engaging heroes have to become such a drag? Press PLAY on the video above to preview Sunday’s episode and check out new images from the subsequent episode in the photo gallery above.Anyone who keeps up with all the news about The Walking Dead franchise probably already knows that the character Morgan Jones will be moving over to Fear the Walking Dead when the spinoff series’ fourth season debuts in two weeks. The Walking Dead’s series finale is set to bow on AMC on Sunday, Nov. “All of that,” she added, “fits very thematically with the particular group that we’re up against, but it also gives us some nostalgia.” (Read everything that she had to say about the series’ swan song here.) Who were we? Who are we now? Who do we want to be now? Our protagonists, if you look back to who they were before, there’s so much growth. “There’s a concept that we used for these episodes that was fitting for the of the show,” she said, “but also has to do with being at the Commonwealth, which is a community which has you stuck in your past. Showrunner Angela Kang previously hinted at the flashbacks to TVLine. Glenn! Michonne! Beth! Carl! And yes, as Judith voiceovers about how she and her fellow survivors keep those that they have lost alive in their hearts, we get a peek at Rick, too (ahead of the limited series that will reunite Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira to wrap up their characters’ love story). Also included in those first few moments from the episode are glimpses of a whole host of former favorites. ![]()
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