This recap/review is going to be more cathartic than fun
this week. I’m not sure I have lost a character on the show who I have
generally loved watching. Glen was that character for me. He was someone who I
could relate too on the show. One of the only people in the group who hadn’t totally
lost his humanity. He was a pillar of dependability, someone who could always
be relied on. His love for Maggie drove him
to grow as a person.
The first thirty minutes of the episode was a bit of a drag
for me. I thought I knew exactly where the episode was going. We were going to
get a plethora of zombie kills, and a few deaths from the inexperienced Alexandrians.
For the first half hour that is exactly what we got. A few of the town people
did meet an unfortunate end. The guy Sturgis who ran off, got what he deserved
for leaving the group. The poor chick who hurt her ankle also met a brutal end.
I didn’t really understand why the others in the group didn’t spare them
getting eaten alive by shooting the unlucky ones in the head. I can see maybe
not being able to help the girl, but not helping the guy who got dragged down
by the fence made no sense. Michonne could have ran him through with the sword,
or someone else could have shot him. These deaths where brutal and gruesome,
and I’m surprised the others didn’t help them out.
This of course was all in preparation for the death of Glen.
Even typing that hurts. I know it’s just a character on a television show, but
even a few hours after watching I’m still in shock. His death really shocked
and hurt. Now if you watched talking dead you herd one of the showrunners say
we will see Glenn in one form or another again in the show. This left some to
speculate that Glenn wasn’t eaten, and that Nick’s body fell on top of him
and this is what the Walkers were tearing through. I don’t really think this is
the case. It truly looked like he was sadly being ripped apart. Man that really
hurts to type, and really hurts to think about. They say we could get a
flashback or a walker shot. I’m not sure how I feel about either of those
scenarios, but at least we might get a proper goodbye. I watched the replay of
the episode up until the killing of Nick, and stopped after that point. I
couldn’t get through it again. Maggie’s reaction when we get back to Alexandria
is going to be brutal. She has lost everyone and it could finally break her.
I had originally speculated in my last
review that I thought Maggie and Glenn could be a bridge between the two
groups. This idea is right out the window. Not just because of Glenn being
killed, but because it will destroy Maggie. She won’t be able to bring the two
groups together. So either Rick will have to regain some of his humanity, or
Deanna is going to have to step up in a big way. I’m not sure either situation
is likely, but I don’t see Rick being able to lead the entire community in his
current state. Deanna is going to have to deal with her grief so she can handle
Rick and the rest of the citizens of Alexandria. This has to be the case with
the mounting threats to everyone involved.
The episode didn’t end with Glenn though, we still had
another extremely tense filled sequence with Rick. I honestly thought they may
have killed him off too when the wolf broke into the camper and fired at him. I
was on the edge of my seat the entire commercial break until they went back to
him dealing with the threat. Rick proved again just how capable a person he is
in this savage world. He was able to quickly dispatch the wolves who Morgan let
get away twice. No quarter or mercy from Rick Grimes. He seems to always kill
first and ask questions later. Who can blame him with all of the events he has
had to go through during the past five years.
Michonne pointed this fact out to Heath in a great scene
during the first half of the episode. She let him know just how far her group
had come and what they had to go through to survive in the world they all now
live in. Even though Heath seems to be one of the more capable members of the
community, he still fails to grasp just how much everything has changed. I
loved this scene and the slow realization on Heath’s face as he started to
grasp what Michonne was saying. This was an incredibly well acted scene and
hopefully we will get more interaction between these two actors. They seem to play
well off one another.
This was a hard episode to watch Losing Glenn hurt, but it was
also because they threw us a huge curveball. They almost lulled us to sleep in
the first thirty minutes and then hit us with a huge sucker punch. We thought
we knew where the show was going tonight, and not seeing it coming added to the
pain. The first three episodes of this
season have been extremely strong. Last year after the first few episodes the
story split to Beth and we had to catch up with her. This year it looks like we
are going to get more information about Morgan, and how he was able to pull
himself together after the events of the Clear episode. I hope we get some
knowledge about what is happening during the current timeline, but I desperately
want to know how Morgan came to use his staff.
Hopefully reading my recap helped with the pain, that sounds
silly, but typing helped me process it. Again I know it’s just a silly
character on a show, but it still hurt. I was yelling on my couch and my wife
and son who don’t watch with me ran down to see what was wrong. Knowing we will
get some other closure helps, but not knowing when is maddening. Let me know
what you think of tonight’s episode. What are your theories about how Glenn
will show back up? Do you think he is
still alive? Comment, share, and discuss.
No comments:
Post a Comment