The interplay between Morgan and more familiar faces like Carol and Michonne is also brilliant. He cracks off several good ones this week, and his brand of crazy plays well with Sasha’s brand of crazy in the script from Scott M. Daryl is always funny, but Abraham has turned into the show’s king of one-liners. Morgan… well, you know all he’s been going through, and everyone’s looking to prove it to the folks around them rather than simply saying they want a second chance and having it granted to them, or endlessly talking about who deserves what and why.Īnother fun change is the way the show continues to develop a sense of humour.
Unsurprisingly, Rick and the gang bust in and catch Caleb holding a gun on Eugene and, rather than just shooting Caleb, as Rick probably would have a few weeks previously, he lets Caleb live. To make matters worse, they don’t have a guard posted outside to keep an eye out for, you guessed it, Rick. Now, the fact that Eugene can sneak up on someone is in and of itself proof that these people are incapable of survival on their own. Eugene stumbles across a plot by Caleb to dethrone Rick and kill him. One big difference between this season and previous seasons is that rather than telling us all this directly, they show it. It helps keep things clear for those who might not be paying total attention during the episode, as a lot of folks are no doubt distracted by AMC’s beloved two-screen experience.
The thing that might need more spelling out is spelled out, for once. This is communicated quite well through body language and expression, and Nicotero’s stylistic choice to use black-and-white for the flashbacks versus colour for the current events is a smart one.
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There’s a lot of stuff at work this episode Rick’s group is still struggling to adapt to their new environment, and Deanna’s people are still adjusting to having what is essentially a two-legged wolf pack in their midst, telling them what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. He’s got a touch with the people in front of the camera, and I’m not sure it’s because he’s used to having a team at his disposal to work together, of if it’s because he knows who he needs to work with and who he needs to leave alone to get good work out of them. His episodes have all been very good, and the impressive thing isn’t the way he handles the visual aspect of directing-you’d expect that from a guy who knows how to make latex and corn syrup look like every possible combination of shredded body part-but the way he handles the actors. Greg Nicotero is a master of visual direction, and it’s not a surprise that he’s getting debut duties yet again for The Walking Dead. Right, because herding several thousand zombies out of a pit and away from Alexandria is a simple task, particularly when the only people you can trust to do it are your own people and the Alexandrians have little to no experience doing anything other than hiding behind walls. All they have to do is lead them twenty or thirty miles away from town and everything will be fine. It’s a pretty bold plan: use Sasha, Abraham, and Daryl to lead a zombie parade out of the quarry (based on the real Bull Run Quarry according to my Virginian friend) and away from town, with walls of cars, sheet metal, and loud noises to keep the herd a herd and prevent the group from breaking up. The lead up to the big plan to get the zombies out of the pit and as far away from town as possible is intercut with the lead-up and preparation. What they’re doing is going to be explained over the course of the episode, as we get a slightly more linear combination of past and present, almost like Pulp Fiction style, but less so.
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