In Fear The Walking Dead’s fifth episode of season 6, Dwight is reunited with Sherry and her group. There’s a lot of pointless drama that doesn’t really offer much. Morgan, Al, a dog, and some of the office people are in this as well. My name is Kent, and for Fear The Walking Dead, I only ask 5 questions and some final thoughts to make this blog a little more compact for your reading pleasure. Any comments in BOLD are written by me. I hope you enjoy it.
1. Did Sherry disappoint you?
Bob: Ahhh, this is hard to say especially with the time jumps. She is irritating and frustrating. (Two fine words to describe a true lady.)
Raylene: I was hoping she wouldn’t fall into the traditional hated female character of a show for me. For one, you couldn’t just be happy you found your man again? Be honest with him about what you are involved in now. Realistically, she has become what she said she hated in Dwight. (Dwight and Sherry really swapped roles in some ways, which made for an interesting dynamic for maybe a minute.)
Kent: I’m not going to mince words. The bitch is shady and I don’t trust her or her decisions. She’s quite pretty, but she is borderline awful. I think that is a rule of the TWD universe. The more attractive you are, the worse your decisions are. I could use any number of examples, but I will go with the first and easiest. Why the hell didn’t she tell Dwight about this Purge group? It’s as if she didn’t trust Dwight. And then it was double shady to not let him know that they would be arriving at some point. She almost killed that dude! All because she was shady.
2. Should Sherry have gone through with the plan and shot up the group that did arrive?
Bob: Of course, and then why be mad that you didn’t? It’s not Dwight’s fault. I don’t think she was going to be able to do it. (All a bunch of big talk and bravado.)
Raylene: If your main objective was to get Ginny and she wasn’t there then nope don’t follow through with it. Their position wasn’t comprised so it was a smart move not to strike. (Right, never give away info that you don’t need to. In a way, I’m surprised it didn’t go worse.)
Kent: No. I can’t think of any good reason. Ginny wasn’t going to show up on the word of Dwight. How dumb do they think she is? And who cares if she shoots up 10-20 red shirt storm troopers? They are simply cannon fodder. It accomplishes very little and Ginny would retaliate and hurt Dwight’s group, no doubt. There was no gain, no net positives. Terrible!
3. In the moment, Dwight ended up siding with Sherry instead of Morgan and Al. If you were in Dwight’s situation, which side would you have chosen if we’re saying that you have to choose one side or the other?
Bob: It’s got to be Morgan, even without Al. Morgan was really important in changing Dwight. Sherry is from the not too distant past of Dwight being evil. (In the ZA, recency bias has to play a role because people change so fast under dire circumstances.)
Raylene: I probably would’ve made the same choices as Dwight and then ultimately later realized I was wrong. (FAIL!)
Kent: I liked that Dwight threw it in Morgan’s face saying that he’d probably do the same thing if Grace was involved. That shows a great weakness on everybody’s part. I don’t like knowing that just because their significant other is on the verge of making an illogical decision, they’re cool with backing them. You can back your significant other on many things, but something with horrible life-altering decisions….hell no! I’m choosing the logical side, in this case, Morgan’s, even if I don’t fully have faith in him after last season. Patience is important here.
4. Why did Dwight let the dog out at the end of the episode?
Bob: I want to think it is a subtlety against the group, like using fingers dirtied by cheese curls and Doritos and using someone’s gaming controller. I think Dwight maybe let go of his violent self here. (Russell is doing well and he sends his well wishes. The chocolate on my Wii-mote will never fully come off. Now I’m sad.)
Raylene: I said that perhaps the dog reminded him of the way they tortured people by locking them in the cell at Sanctuary. He wanted to set his guilty conscience free as well. (I like this idea because some of the stuff that we witnessed with Daryl was difficult. On the plus side, he had good music. I bet that dog knows nothing about Easy Street.)
Kent: I don’t have a funny or reasonable response as of yet. I really am hoping for a good reason other than he liked the dog and felt it should roam free, but then it’s just gonna die. I could understand if he brought the dog with him to go to Morgan’s settlement.
5. The office people were hanging out in a trailer, apparently. Now they are going to be part of Morgan’s society. Does this confirm that something horrible is going to happen at Morgan’s new settlement?
Bob: Frankly I have no idea what Morgan thinks he is doing…. (He’s creating a new Sanctuary. Maybe he will call it Terminus Deuce.)
Raylene: I think Al and Dwight told them maybe of that trailer set up and made a plan to meet with them and try to disappear themselves. Well Morgan needs a workforce to get things going so I don’t think it’ll fail intentionally but what happens if someone years to come fixes the dam wouldn’t that be underwater again? (It’ll be a damn shame.)
Kent: Okay, so they went from a nice building with plague rats to a trailer. How were they found so easily? These office workers are going to be the second coming of the Woodbury survivors. I think Strand is going to be the reason why many of them die because I still think Ginny is going to play Strand.
Final Thoughts – 1. Did this episode hurt the momentum of season 6? 2. What’s the deal with: “The End is the Beginning”? 3. If you have a GMA nominee, please tell us.
Bob: 1) Not really but I was sorta waiting for the episode to end. 2) Nihilists. 3) Egh, Dwight going violent and Sherry rebuking him, then Sherry about to light up 20 people.
Raylene: How in the hell is Morgan finding people? Is he super tracker like the mighty Daryl? I also would think that Ginny is definitely already looking for the truck and Dwight and Al long before Dwight’s last later check-in. This episode just reminded me of any Tara episode or Oceanside jerks.
Kent: 1. Worst episode of the season for me, and it’s not even close. At least the third episode was insanely crazy. 2. This will be another group of survivors that hate Ginny. They think the end of Ginny is the beginning of rebuilding. That sounds reasonable, right? Or maybe they think that killing off everything will allow the world to reset and get a second chance. I prefer my second theory.
3. This one is easy for me. You have 5 people on horseback chasing down the MRAP. Now, first of all, they were completely okay with simply losing a horse that Dwight was jumping off of. I have to imagine that horses should be a huge commodity but TWD seems to just keep finding more and more of them, yet walkers love to eat horses. Go ahead, explain that to me. But in the grander scheme of this, the driver failed to just quickly swerve to a side and knock the riders off of their horses. This was absolutely insulting to my intelligence. Also, does he get to go with Morgan’s group, stay with purge people, or gets released to rejoin Ginny? My head hurts.