warrcameron Review of Wrath

The Walking Dead: Wrath (2018) Season 8, Episode 16

Confused

[8/10 · 18 April 2018]

This episode was brilliant. I enjoyed it thoroughly and felt a great sense of scale and momentum in the episode. I thought the Eugene trick was very well done too. Then... the last 15 minutes came. Maggie, Jesus and Daryl in a rebellion against Rick?! This honestly has just ruined everything the season was working towards. At first I was disappointed Rick asked for Negan to be saved, but then I understood for the direction of the story. But then for Maggie, who has known Rick from the start to turn on him, Jesus - a guy who has been against killing needlessly, and has sometimes frustrated audiences due to his uneccesary approach to SAVING THE SAVIOURS INSTEAD OF KILLING THEM. But now?! He is willing to go against Rick because Maggie wishes Negan should die? He was literally just preaching to Morgan THIS EPISODE that killing doesn't have to be the only way?! And Daryl . Daryl being Ricks number one, there from the very beginning, his right hand man. Now is turning against Rick, and siding with Maggie because he thinks Negan shouldn't have been spared too? - WHEN HE LITERALLY JUST SPARED DWIGHT LIKE TEN SECONDS AGO? If this "rebellion" just involved Maggie then maybe I could buy it. Because she's still grieving from Glenn. But I find it very hard to believe that Jesus would go against his own principles, and Daryl against a man that's been a brother to him. This has just completely got rid of any sense of credibility for these characters to me, and sometimes I wonder whether the writers have forgotten the last 8 seasons and have scrapped all character development and put all characters on a blank canvas.

It was a great episode, and I thought this show was back on track, but with this new plot I seriously worry for the future of the show. Once again one step forward two steps back. This plot is ridiculous, and it hasn't even started yet .