The Walking Dead has thrown a challenge my way this week, as if it knows I’m going to have to write about it. I say this because Episode 13 of this 3rd Season did not offer much in the way of material for commenting on. To compensate for this, I will take every shameless opportunity to make a pirate joke about the Governor and his eye patch.
As most episodes do, Arrow begins with a handful of group members on their way to do… something, whatever that may be. This time, they’re on their way to meet the Captain of the Good Ship Woodbury in a neutral zone, where they’re hoping to smooth things over after the whole ‘tried to kill each other’ incident.
“What arr ye starin’ at?”
So a basic summary of the negotiation is that, after some good old fashioned whiskey drinking, Governor Blackbeard is still a terrible person and there was really no point to the meeting at all. So, I’m not going any further with that. What was more interesting to me was what happened outside the ‘meeting room.’
Something that we’re used to after a couple of years of watching TWD is zombies/walkers. So when some of them show up to find Daryl, Andrea, and Caesar waiting outside arguing we don’t think anything of it. However, this turned out to show two things that I took the most notice of during the episode:
- Once Daryl and Caesar started chatting, I realised that everyone in this messed up world is still a fairly normal person, even henchmen.
- The Governor is the only reason that people in Woodbury seem so barbaric and ignorant.
“HEY! Wanna see my pegleg?”
Just a note, I really hope Milton makes it out alive, he seems like a misguided Samaritan just trying to be useful for Humanity’s survival.
So after we see Hershel displaying a good sense of humour, and Glenn and Maggie having a good old time back at the prison, the storyline makes a loop, it ends up back where the episode began. It was really just a character development episode, but it definitely served a purpose in this.
“We’re going to war.”
-Rick, for the 50th time.
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