This was the season 10 premiere and it featured a USSR satellite crashing and causing a big forest fire. Not much else happening. My name is Kent, and I ask 5 weekly questions and then people answer them. Any comments in BOLD are written by me. I hope you enjoy and if you or someone you know may want to do this blog, contact me, leave a comment, whatever.
1. Should the group have crossed the border to put out the fire or for any other reasons? Also, give me your thoughts on the satellite.
Bob: If they wanted to avoid war, let it burn. And for goodness sake, leave the super zombies alone on the bridge. Oh, they were normal zombies, Aaron was just having an adolescent moment… If they were afraid of food supplies, fire causes regrowth in plants and new places for animals, sooo. They built a trench and did a control burn. Why give your people respiratory problems when you do not have to.
The satellite makes sense. They will all eventually fall to the Earth. (Thank you for bringing up the respiratory problems. I mean, that was going to be the crux of my comment, but I’ll say something else. This whole thing seemed dangerous and incredibly foolish. And yes, satellites do have to come down at some point.)
Raylene: I would say yes because their community was in jeopardy even if it was awful Oceanside. Perhaps it was sent by Trump. (So you, of all people, are okay with saving Oceanside? Listen, without Twitter, Trump wouldn’t be around. The moment Twitter went down, he would have turned to ash like Maya did in Borderlands 3. Fact. Now let’s never bring up politics ever again.)
Chris: The fire could have spread and endangered the communities. Smokey Bear would have been proud! A Russian satellite randomly crashing in Virginia seems kind of crazy, but we are talking about a show where people wear zombie skin. (So I was going to correct you and say that his name is Smokey THE Bear, but thankfully I did research and found out that both ways are correct and I have spared myself any foolishness. Mankind has been wearing some form of skin since the dawn of man. This just seems like evolution, doesn’t it?)
Kent: Let me start off with a video.
Back in season 3 of Fear the Walking Dead, Victor Strand had contact with a Russian Cosmonaut. As soon as I saw a USSR satellite, I immediately made the connection. I liked that aspect. I won’t be surprised to see this mentioned in a foreign version of TWD, like when they are in Europe or Australia. Now, let’s talk about the other big revelation here that wasn’t so obvious until it was obvious. If you think about it, Oceanside has to be VERY close to Alexandria. I base this on how fast residents of Alexandria made it to the fire. Once again, I just wish that we had a map to base things off of. We all know that Eugene has to have a very detailed map. Show it to us!!! Also, I get that you can’t let Oceanside die. They also had all of that water at their disposal. That was very convenient for something so inconvenient. I say you listen to Nickelback’s “Burn It To The Ground” and realize that the ZA wasn’t all terrible. Nickelback finally stopped making music in the ZA.
2. Aaron and Michonne seemed to be on opposite pages at times. Whose side do you take? Yes, pick one side.
Bob: I can’t pick a side between these two. I see it this way…If Michonne is being a bonehead, then Aaron will be doing the right thing. Vice versa too.
Raylene: I say Michonne she seems to be level headed most of the time. Aaron likes to react and then think.
Chris: Michonne. While anger is justified, it makes more sense to have a methodical approach. Think before acting.
Kent: I trust in the character who is going to remain on the show, no matter how shortsighted and foolish it is. Plus, I am so sick of Michonne. She’s become my Daenerys Stormborn of this show. She started off as this cool badass character, but midway through her run, I started seeing cracks in her character long before others were willing to admit to it. I should have never trusted her when she helped Andrea. Then I stopped trusting her when she started to get a little bit of Rick in her. Then came that stupid scars episode. So while I approve of the Sloth Life, slow and methodical approach, I’m siding with Aaron here. I also really ran out of questions, so I apologize for this one.
3. Did you like how the show was divided with titles for each segment, such as Skin, Bird Wisdom, Sea Dogs, New Mexico, and Embers?
Bob: I didn’t know if I was in a commercial or not. Like the show is trying to make you think about the title and connect it to the scene. (I think at least 3 of the 5 were said during their respective segments. The creativity was…put on the back burner so to speak.)
Raylene: It was alright although it just seemed lacking for a season premiere. (And they knew it was lacking because you could have watched it 5 or 7 days in advance with AMC Premiere. Most of the episodes are only 2 days in advance. Still, ain’t worth my $5 a month, but I have considered it.)
Chris: Eh it was fine. I don’t think it added anything. (I am fine with it if they keep it all season. I highly doubt that they will. This episode wasn’t special enough to warrant it. That’s my complaint or concern, depending on perspective.)
Kent: I’ll say that I actually liked it. I didn’t think the execution was top-notch, but I would be good with this being a weekly thing. I would like to see more wit with the wording though. It’s season 10, have some fun with it. If this is the only episode, then it was a poor decision.
4. We know that Michonne is leaving the show. We also saw Carol and Alpha see each other at the end. Was this the show’s way of telling us that we’re getting Carol versus Alpha? We also see Michonne and Ezekiel together in a season preview. Carol seemed to dismiss Ezekiel. Daryl seems interested in Connie. Still, the show gave us a lot of Carol and Daryl. Any thoughts on all of this?
Bob: I think Ned Stark and Peter Griffin are going to fight it out. I hope it is a preview of a C v A showdown. (And we have our second GoT reference. How bout that? I could see Carol vs Alpha be like Peter vs the Chicken, back when that was really funny.)
Raylene: Mother to Mother showdown I think Carol would make a badass Alpha. Ezekiel still seems to harbor jealousy of Carol’s love for Daryl. I’ll be shocked if Daryl actually has a love interest. (The thing is that Ezekiel misunderstands Carol’s affection for Daryl. He perceives it as romantic, one can safely assume. Carol would make a fantastic Alpha, but I digging her hair, so I am torn.)
Chris: They better give us Carol vs Alpha. I know that’s not how it happens in the comics, but I don’t care! I swear if Arya kills Alpha too…….. I have never really seen why everyone wants Daryl to hook up with carol. I’ve always seen it as more of a brother/sister thing. (Honestly, I think the show has long given up on really following the comic once they killed Carl. That was their way of saying that they are going to carve their own unique path, very foolishly. While Carol and Daryl is certainly more akin to a sibling relationship, all the bored housewives at home sit there with their devices and fantasize about whether Darol or Caryl is the best way to “ship” them. I hate every word in that last sentence and I feel unclean. Carol sails the seas, Arya sailed the seas. Ohhhhh shit.)
Kent: Ezekiel is gonna get pissed off and desperate because he sees far too many happy relationships. Jerry is always rubbing it in his face, off-screen, of course. Ezekiel has lost his backup plan in Enid. So yeah, he’s gonna go for Grimey seconds. I think Connie is barking up the wrong tree, shout out to Dog, by the way. They actually have a Dog Funko Pop coming out in December, along with Alpha and a couple of others. No Beta though. I plan on getting Alpha at the very least. I would like a playset of all the heads on spikes. This episode was fairly meh and I am getting off-topic.
5. Who do you think will become the alpha father figure of Rosita’s baby, Coco? Will it be Siddiq, Gabriel, or the Eugenius?
Bob: Gabrielle. He is the alpha of that group.
Raylene: Eugene all the way. Siddiq is losing his mind. Gabe will be more of a church Father than regular dad.
Chris: I hope Eugene. Siddiq is going to go insane, and, well, I don’t have a good Gabriel excuse, but Eugene is awesome! He deserves to win at something!
Kent: We all know that I am cheering on Eugene. The thing is, the best solution is for Gabe to be the main daddy. Eugene has a ton of important things going on, including a radio that needs his attention. I loved all the charts, I truly did. But Siddiq is a definite NO for everybody because of his PTSD. I am curious if he will snap or see someone and hurt them that isn’t really an enemy. Gabriel doesn’t have much going on since Ann left him. Gabriel is also excellent with children. I say that Gabe will be able to give the most attention and best guidance and Eugene truly feels like an uncle figure, not a father figure. I want pickles now.
Final Thoughts – What is your GMA (Glenn Memorial Award) nominee for this week’s most inane scene or moment? Also, does anybody else find it odd that Ryan Hurst (Beta) is billed ahead of Samantha Morton (Alpha)?
Bob: The fire thing, I see what they were trying to do, but it just comes off silly. They spent all night fighting that thing? (All night, and they are right to the side of an Ocean, per the name. But yeah, all night with all that smoke inhalation. Yup.)
Raylene: The fact that after all these years they found a fairly new looking and intact fishing boat. Nah nothing seems odd after the shows firing on Chandler. (And we get our second Carl grievance of the blog.)
Kent: I had a few things here among my copious notes. The Ghostbuster type backpacks filled with water. Like, they already had them made, so they had a plan, but it seemed like they didn’t have a plan. Aaron’s foolishness early on is probably my answer. That is until Carol and Alpha stare at each other after all of this time has passed. That won it for me this week. I think Alpha is dead by midseason. Wait, I think you all deserve to hear this one.
So The Whisperers are pissed and they are going to go on an all-out assault on Alexandria. Negan and Judith will end up in a house together and Negan will fight to keep her alive. After this assault, Michonne will give Negan his precious Lucille back. Negan will then go and do the comic thing with Alpha. Then Beta takes over and that is why he is billed ahead of Alpha. The big twist is that Negan comes back, doesn’t like Michonne’s tone and he bashes her stupid head in too. Then Negan blames it on Beta. Come on, that wouldn’t be terrible, right?