While Rick and his group are searching for a missing Alexandrian, they meet a new mysterious community who are like nothing they have seen before.
Finally. It’s the moment we’ve waited for: No, unfortunately, Negan wasn’t killed in tonight’s episode (He was a no-show again), but Carol and Daryl were reunited and it was sweet and wonderful and all misty-eyed bittersweet.
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So even though very little happened in the most recent episode, “New Best Friends”, what did happen was satisfying in a way the show hasn’t been in a while. They arrive. Jerry opens the trunk to show they’re offering. Richard gets into an argument with one of the saviors, guns are drawn. But instead of the king pinning up his Che Guevara poster, only his resident hothead, Richard, is moved to action. Daryl ends up tackling Richard to keep him from attacking the Saviors.
The Saviors take Morgan’s stick. Everybody re- gains control but the leader of the saviors small groups threatens the group. Deciding he doesn’t have a place in the Kingdom, Daryl sets off on foot to return to the Hilltop. The saddest part is that Morgan only puts up a half-hearted resistance, leading Daryl to pull him aside later and essentially ask WTF gives. Should Daryl have told Morgan about Richard’s plan to sacrifice Carol? Richard says he would die for The Kingdom, but Daryl points to his contradicting behavior: “Why don’t you?“. Richard wants to hide out on the road the saviors travel and shoot them before bombing them.
It also shows the reunion between King Ezekiel and Carol. #TheWalkingDead doesn’t often give us happy moments to be grateful for because, you know, all of the dying, but the reunion between Daryl and Carol was definitely one of those rare moments that hit us right in the feels for a good reason.
Daryl told her that everybody is fine and that the Saviors came but nobody got hurt, which made Carol sigh in relief.
His resilience is strong to persuade Jadis to join the fight against the Saviors, one that is shaping up to be of epic proportions, well at least I hope it is. You don’t see them until they’re right on you.
“The thing about Daryl is, he’s loyal to one group, and it’s hard for him to stay behind and stay behind and stay behind”, Norman Reedus told Entertainment Weekly on why Daryl left The Kingdom. The theory was sparked by Merle Dixon’s blue crystal meth in Season 1-which looks quite similar to the meth shown in Breaking Bad. But doors open and dozens pour out. Now Rick and the gang just have to figure out where to acquire a bunch of guns without running afoul of the Saviors. They barely speak, they communicate with an odd dialect, they even have unusual names. They’ve mostly become a kind of wallpaper that occasionally needs to be stabbed in the head.
She pushes Rick off the top of the heap and he faces “Winslow”, a walker with spike armor. Jadis agrees that her people will join Rick’s fight – but only if he can deliver them “lots and lots” of guns.
The first half of Season 7 saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group broken by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), forced to fall under his will and brutally convinced to live under his rules. And are they responsible for Father Gabriel disappearing in the middle of the night? A fight breaks out. It’s not like our world, where you might sense a friend-spark with someone, ask them to kick it with you over some tacos or fro-yo and – bam! – you’re besties.
They’re very much about keeping to themselves and not getting into trouble.
When Rick is taken to the top to seemingly negotiate with Jadis, it appears to be going in a good direction, but of course there is a curveball. Once upon a time, Michonne claimed a cat trophy when she helped Carl retrieve a picture of his mom. He found a confidant in King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and objective in training young Benjamin (Logan Miller).
“Time has passed, things are changing again, so maybe we change, maybe”.