Good news, Walking Dead the fans – uh, people who have watched the show for so long that they feel compelled to watch it to the end, no matter how fun they can Where Maybe not get from this! Pamela Milton has finally declared war on all the people who have made her cushy life difficult since their arrival, and things could finally start to look up. A little.
“What’s Been Lost” is a fairly simple episode of TWD, but simple is a direction, meaning the long-simmering hostilities are finally getting somewhere. Pamela has her Commontroopers and her private team of goons kidnap all the Alexandrians, Hilltoppers, and various friends who have been stirring up trouble and causing trouble, though Daryl and Carol manage to escape their would-be captors. The only Pam has no seized is Yumiko, whom she wants to sue Eugene for killing Sebastian (by pushing him into a zombie). Yumiko, unsurprisingly, isn’t inclined to do this, but Pam not only threatens her friends but also her brother Tomi.
Daryl and Carol go to Hornsby in hopes that he has some kind of information that will allow them to free the others. They find him in his cell, covered in blood, mumbling to himself, as the chained zombie Sebastian writhes in a pool of blood trying to get another meal. After some light torture, Hornsby agrees to show them where they’ve been taken and how to get out of town, but Daryl is forced to stay behind to cover up Carol and Hornsby’s escape from prison.
Hornsby is actually the highlight of “What’s Been Lost,” because he forces one of the series’ main protagonists to consider what he’s doing in the Commonwealth and what the consequences may be. He rightly points out that it is civilians who are always injured in revolutions. “You and your people will hold the lives of 50,000 people in your hands,” he says, when Pamela is knocked down. “Do you want to let the Commonwealth burn? When Carol says it’s not her problem, he reminds her of the many children in the Commonwealth: “Are you really going to deny them the one chance to have the kind of life you took for granted?” But Carol has no answer to that.
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Hornsby takes him to one of the Commonwealth’s abandoned “Infrastructure Repair Projects”, where they fight in the dark with zombies whose skin seems very easy to tear off. It’s just a busy bit of work until Carol and Hornsby come out, are confronted by a group of Commontroopers, who are themselves busy because Daryl shows up and guns them down from behind, saving the day.
That’s when Hornsby makes a near fatal mistake – he mentions that all the trio have to do is follow the train tracks to find where everyone has been taken. With that, Daryl and Carol have all the information they need to go save their friends without the untrustworthy Hornsby. They seem seconds away from murdering him – and tell him they’re about to murder him, repeatedly – but offer him a chance to run. And this is where Hornsby makes his fatal mistake. He grabs a rifle from the fallen Commontroopers jeep and Carol instantly shoots a few arrows at him. Goodbye, Hornby. You were weird and reasonably interesting while you lasted.
Back in the Commonwealth, Yumiko is forced to hold a press conference where she will announce that she will prosecute Eugene to the extent of the laws the Commonwealth still has in force. Instead, Yumiko announces that she will defend Eugene, which surprises everyone at the press conference and no one watches the TV series. The final spectacle is of everyone loaded onto a Commonwealth bus, tied up and with bags over their heads, going wherever Pam sticks dissidents.
There were, as expected, none of the new, smarter zombie variants that gave last week’s episode some excitement, alas. Which means that, although this episode made the conflict between Our People and the Commonwealth manifest, and although Hornsby bit him, “What We Lost” is a little less exciting than door handle from last weekwhich is pretty much the cruelest way to put it, although I don’t really mean it that way.
That’s just it The Walking Dead is still winding its way regardless of its conclusion, which should be pretty epic considering the series was once the most popular drama series on television. At the very least, you’d think the showmakers would want to ramp up the excitement to hopefully inspire the remaining fans to watch the spin-offs. ghost town and Daryl Dixon. In place, The Walking Dead is just… happening.
But, if you want to be optimistic, there are still four hours left in the series and there’s no reason the series shouldn’t get more exciting in that time frame. Is it too little too late? Most likely. But I would still appreciate it a bit Something before the final takes place.
Assorted Daydreams:
- Hornsby admits that the integration of Alexandria and other communities into the Commonwealth fold has been “mismanaged”. That made me laugh.
- The Commontroopers also took Dog. It’s ridiculous.
- After Pam threatens Tomi, Yumiko wisely thanks him for all his contributions to the Commonwealth at the press conference, making sure people will notice if Pam pushes him away. Clever! However, she is still technically condemned by the rest of her friends, at least as far as she knows.
- When Daryl and Carol dragged Horsnby out of his cell, the corpse of Sebastian‘his head was fine, minus a knife hole in it. But when Pam goes to the cell to check later, Sebastian’s head is crushed and Hornsby’s two-sided coin is stuck in the gore. Was my screener missing a scene? Or was it the same for you guys?
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