It was actually a good episode, IMO.
Still I'm really tired of the difficulty the television media has with strong-- heterosexual-- black men. This seems to be television's last taboo! Strand appeared to be a strong and intelligent wealthy adult male who happened to be black. But having a major male black character on a television show, I was wondering how they were going to deal with potential romantic relationships with women that's usually part of being a major male character on a television show.
Of course, Fear the Walking Dead solved that-- difficult-- problem of having a black male character on the show by simply making Strand a homosexual.
But they've pretty much done the same thing on the Walking Dead. Morgan's wife was already dead before he even met Rick. And they appear to have no intention of ending his single status. In the comics, of course, Morgan actually had a romantic relationship with Michonne. Of course, Michonne is now Rick's current love interest on the show.
In the comics, Tyrese had romantic relationships with both Carol and Michonne. But on the television show, Tyrese, had an extremely brief (practically platonic) romantic relationship on the show until his love interest was quickly killed off of course:-) And, of course, the romantic relationship between Bob and Sasha was barely explored before he was killed off.
Its a shame that the original comic book is a lot more provocative and progressive than the television shows derived from it!
Still I'm really tired of the difficulty the television media has with strong-- heterosexual-- black men. This seems to be television's last taboo! Strand appeared to be a strong and intelligent wealthy adult male who happened to be black. But having a major male black character on a television show, I was wondering how they were going to deal with potential romantic relationships with women that's usually part of being a major male character on a television show.
Of course, Fear the Walking Dead solved that-- difficult-- problem of having a black male character on the show by simply making Strand a homosexual.
But they've pretty much done the same thing on the Walking Dead. Morgan's wife was already dead before he even met Rick. And they appear to have no intention of ending his single status. In the comics, of course, Morgan actually had a romantic relationship with Michonne. Of course, Michonne is now Rick's current love interest on the show.
In the comics, Tyrese had romantic relationships with both Carol and Michonne. But on the television show, Tyrese, had an extremely brief (practically platonic) romantic relationship on the show until his love interest was quickly killed off of course:-) And, of course, the romantic relationship between Bob and Sasha was barely explored before he was killed off.
Its a shame that the original comic book is a lot more provocative and progressive than the television shows derived from it!