Walking Dead Recap: Lockdown Season 11 Episode 17

The third act of The Walking Dead’s eleventh and closing season has begun, but it surely doesn’t appear to be anybody notified the present. Other than a fast montage of acquainted faces at first, with a little bit of narration by Judith (Cailey Fleming), it’s an unceremonious continuation of the final episode. Which isn’t a nasty factor! But it’s not precisely factor, both.

When we final left our zany buddies, Daryl, Maggie, Aaron, Gabriel, Negan, and his new spouse Annie had been being hunted by Hornsby and about 1,000,000 Commonwealth troopers. Back within the Commonwealth, Yumiko was Governor Pamela Milton’s lawyer, Carol was watching over the children whereas additionally doing jobs on the facet for Hornsby, and Eugene, Max, Magna, Kelly, and Connie had been fomenting rebel in opposition to town’s rich elite, which culminated with Connie writing an article about Pam’s son Sebastian’s behavior of sending town’s “undesirables” out to die on numerous errands on him. It is essential to me to notice but once more that the newspaper proven within the earlier episode appears to be like like a terrorist manifesto, and an particularly poorly designed one at that.

Although it’s repeatedly mentioned that the article provides no proof that Sebastian prompted the deaths of so many lacking folks, “Lockdown” reveals everybody within the Commonwealth believes it and has begun protesting outdoors Milton’s workplace, demanding that “Give Sebastian to us!” so… they’ll homicide him, I suppose? There’s a courtroom system within the Commonwealth, so I’m unclear why they suppose that is an possibility. Although to be truthful, Sebastian—now and ceaselessly Kingsley St. Buffingsworth of the Cape Cod Buffingsworths—is essentially the most terrible particular person within the zombie apocalypse, so I can see why they’d like to skip a trial and get on to the execution.

Honestly, I’m going to go forward and admit there was an important deal that was unclear to me in “Lockdown.” It has some good motion however not sufficient to distract me from the plot, which regularly will get The Walking Dead into bother. I’m effective with Daryl et al. and Hornsby searching one another for half the episode, though I don’t know in the event that they notice Hornsby has taken over Alexandria, Hilltop, and Riverside but. I’m equally effective with Negan being despatched to the Commonwealth to warn Carol and the others that Hornsby will virtually actually be radioing house and sending his secret goons to kidnap the children. Carol already had a secret attic hideout the place Jerry’s been stockpiling meals, in fact. It all appears sensible!

It’s what everybody else is doing within the Commonwealth that bugs me, as a result of everybody appears to be working at cross-purposes. Connie is delighted—delighted—to have riled up the proletariat to rise in opposition to the upper-class/demand the demise of an asshole, however Kelly worries issues have instantly gotten out of hand. Magna hates the higher class and needs a revolution however someway feels the necessity to shield them from the inevitable warfare that inevitably comes with a revolution, however additionally desires to go away. Yumiko appears like she wants to remain within the Commonwealth regardless that as Pam’s lawyer the revolution will in all chance go poorly for her, after which Magna says she’ll keep if Yumiko stays. While trouble toppling the Miltons when you’re simply going to go away? Why begin a revolution when you’re apprehensive about it placing everybody at risk, due to course it’ll?

Likewise, Connie’s newspaper particularly focused Sebastian’s crimes… regardless of the very fact the paper’s (bananas) headline solely says, “Pamela Milton is lying to you,” which, uh, she isn’t? She really appears to don’t know what Kingsley’s been doing, though maybe she’s mendacity about different issues. But Carol and Negan search out Kingsley hiding in a secret room, passed-out drunk and urinating into mason jars, to allow them to safely escort him again to Pamela in change for the governor bringing Hornsby to heel. Carol even says they need to blame Hornsby for the deaths, which might take the warmth off the Milton household fully and squash the revolution in its tracks.

I really feel like everybody would have benefitted from having a workforce assembly and determining what their objectives had been and the way finest to attain them, partially as a result of they’re all working at cross-purposes, however principally it could be much more thrilling to observe these folks work collectively. At the very least it could lend the battle with the Commonwealth a extra epic really feel, which might be good provided that there are solely seven extra episodes to go.

To be truthful, I don’t suppose the unhealthy guys have a plan both. Hornsby appears to have conquered Hilltop, Alexandria, and Oceanside for the immense energy and untold riches it’ll deliver him, each of that are non-existent. Pamela Milton simply desires to remain in cost and dwell her lifetime of luxurious by exploiting the working class (which sucks, however is sadly no extra a criminal offense within the zombie apocalypse than it’s in actuality), however when confronted with protestors, she initiates one thing referred to as plan “B14,” which the present signifies is the next:

Putting town into lockdown, forcing all of the residents to return to their houses. But then, someway, telling them that anybody caught out after curfew will probably be arrested “for their own safety.” But… since they’ve already ordered everybody to return to their house, why wouldn’t you simply arrest everybody who’s outdoors no matter what time it’s?

And then it turns on the market really is an enormous zombie horde heading in the direction of city, so the lockdown is a superbly good and sensible factor to do, no matter the way it’s stifling public unrest. But did Pamela have a very big horde of zombies ready for this actual scenario? How would she get them and comprise them? Did she someway have somebody ship the zombies to the Commonwealth, endangering everybody together with herself, when she may simply have her minions lie and say zombies had been on the best way?

Furthermore, the zombies get by a number of strains of protection earlier than Mercer, Rosita, and a really small workforce of Commontroopers head out to cease them. It’s implied that somebody, presumably Milton, advised the advance troopers to let the zombies by, however… why? Wouldn’t no less than one of many troopers get suspicious that he was being advised to go away his submit when zombies are on the best way? They’re nonetheless on the market, by the best way, when the episode ends—and Daryl has his knife to Hornsby’s throat, the group surrounded by Commontroopers who very pointedly do not put their weapons down.

Here’s the factor about all these questions and plotholes—I don’t significantly care? I don’t have any expectations that The Walking Dead will pull out all of the stops for these closing eight episodes, and I will probably be pleasantly shocked if the present manages to shock me in any respect in its homestretch. It may, if the present decides to wrap up this Commonwealth enterprise sooner fairly than later and begin laying the framework for the following a number of TWD sequence; possibly by exhibiting us one in every of these developed zombies we’ve heard so little about it, or giving us hints of how or why the hell Daryl finally ends up going to Europe in his spin-off. But someway, I don’t anticipate the present to do that for an additional six episodes no less than. Until then, I suppose, viva la revolución. Until you don’t need it to viva. Either approach.

Assorted Musings:

• For some motive, AMC has began importing behind-the-scenes photographs with the common TWD stills and this was too cute to not share.
• How did the jeep flip? There are solely two solutions: 1) The driver someway tousled extremely badly, provided that he was on a virtually flat discipline, or 2) the zombies did it. Silly both approach.
• Carol’s look when Negan tells Kingsley about how he’s seen her pull rabbits out of her ass, as a metaphor for her skill to repair tough issues, is perfection. Pleased on the praise and fully irritated that Negan put it that approach.

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