I have been reading The Walking Dead series since the very first comic book and had mostly adored the series to this point (aside from episode two, which was much weaker and broke a lot of rules from the comics - running zombies, smart zombies, climbing zombies, etc.) but the last 10-15 min. of this episode was so jarring in terms of narrative change that at first I thought I was watching another show.
In what felt like a complete rehash of Lost Season 2, we're introduced to a new character and provided his perspective from his place of relative safety. Such a notion could not have felt less like The Walking Dead and I could not help but watch aghast while asking why they would complete abandon the survivors and so clumsily introduce a new character while seemingly tease a reason for the zombie outbreak - something Robert Kirkman vowed would never occur in the series. At the end of this episode, I was completely disappointed and worried about what might occur in the final episode. Sadly, the final episode was astoundingly worse than I had initially feared.
In what felt like a complete rehash of Lost Season 2, we're introduced to a new character and provided his perspective from his place of relative safety. Such a notion could not have felt less like The Walking Dead and I could not help but watch aghast while asking why they would complete abandon the survivors and so clumsily introduce a new character while seemingly tease a reason for the zombie outbreak - something Robert Kirkman vowed would never occur in the series. At the end of this episode, I was completely disappointed and worried about what might occur in the final episode. Sadly, the final episode was astoundingly worse than I had initially feared.