Good information, Walking Dead followers—er, individuals who have been watching the present so lengthy that they really feel compelled to look at it till the tip, no matter how a lot pleasure they might or could not be getting from it! Pamela Milton has lastly declared conflict on all of the individuals who have made her soft life tough since their arrival, and issues could lastly begin to be selecting up. A bit.

“What’s Been Lost” is a reasonably simple episode of TWD, however simple is a route, which suggests the long-simmering hostilities lastly get someplace. Pamela has her Commontroopers and personal squad of goons kidnap the entire Alexandrians, Hilltoppers, and various pals who’ve been stirring up bother and inflicting unrest, though Daryl and Carol handle to elude their would-be captors. The just one Pam doesn’t have seized is Yumiko, who she desires to prosecute Eugene for killing Sebastian (by pushing him right into a zombie). Yumiko, unsurprisingly, isn’t inclined to do that, however Pam not solely threatens her pals however her brother Tomi.

Daryl and Carol go to see Hornsby in hopes he has some kind of info that may enable them to free the others. They discover him in his cell, lined in blood, muttering to himself, because the chained zombie Sebastian writhes in a pool of extra blood making an attempt to seize one other meal. After some gentle torture, Hornsby agrees to indicate them the place they’ve been taken and find out how to get out of the town, however Daryl is pressured to remain behind to cowl Carol and Hornsby’s escape from the jail.

Hornsby is definitely the spotlight of “What’s Been Lost,” as a result of he forces one of many collection’ foremost protagonists to reckon with what they’re doing within the Commonwealth and what the implications could also be. He factors out, precisely, that it’s the civilians who all the time get harm in revolutions. “You and your people will hold 50,000 people’s lives in your hands,” he says, when Pamela is overthrown. “Will you let the Commonwealth burn?” When Carol says it’s not her downside, he reminds her of the various children within the Commonwealth: “Are you really going to deny them the only chance for the kind of life you took for granted?” But Carol has no reply for that.

Hornsby takes her to one of many Commonwealth’s deserted “infrastructure repair projects,” the place they’ve a struggle at the hours of darkness with some zombies whose pores and skin appears very simple to tear off. It’s only a little bit of busy work till Carol and Hornsby exit, are confronted by a bunch of Commontroopers, which is itself busywork as a result of Daryl exhibits up and weapons them down from behind, saving the day.

This is when Hornsby makes a near-fatal mistake—he mentions that each one the trio must do is comply with the practice tracks to search out the place everybody’s been taken. With that, Daryl and Carol have all the data they should go rescue their pals with out the provably untrustworthy Hornsby. They appear seconds away from murdering him—and inform him they’re about to homicide him, repeatedly—however provide him an opportunity to run. And that’s when Hornsby makes his deadly mistake. He grabs a rifle from the jeep of the fallen Commontroopers and Carol immediately places a few arrows by means of him. Goodbye, Hornsby. You had been bizarre and fairly attention-grabbing whilst you lasted.

Back within the Commonwealth, Yumiko is pressured to carry a press convention the place she’ll announce she’ll be prosecuting Eugene to the extent of no matter legal guidelines the Commonwealth nonetheless has on the books. Instead, Yumiko pronounces she’ll be defending Eugene, which surprises everybody on the press convention and nobody watching the TV collection. The ultimate present is of everybody loaded right into a Commonwealth bus, tied up and with sacks over their heads, going to wherever the hell Pam sticks dissidents.

There had been, as predicted, not one of the new, extra clever variant zombies that gave final week’s episode a bit of pleasure, alas. Which means, though this episode made the battle between Our People and the Commonwealth overt, and though Hornsby bit it, “What We Lost” is considerably much less thrilling than final week’s doorknob, which is concerning the cruelest method I can put it, though I don’t actually imply it that method.

It’s simply that The Walking Dead continues to be meandering to no matter its conclusion goes to be, which needs to be fairly epic provided that the present was as soon as the most well-liked drama collection on TV. At the very least, you’d suppose the showmakers would wish to ramp up the thrill to hopefully encourage the remaining followers to look at the spin-offs Dead City and Daryl Dixon. Instead, The Walking Dead is simply… taking place.

But, if you wish to be optimistic, there are nonetheless 4 extra hours within the collection left to go and there’s no purpose the present can’t turn out to be extra thrilling in that timeframe. Is it too little too late? Probably. But I’d nonetheless recognize a little bit one thing earlier than the finale rolls round.

Assorted Musings:

• Hornsby admits bringing in Alexandria and the opposite communities into the Commonwealth’s fold was “mishandled.” It received a chuckle out of me.
• The Commontroopers additionally took Dog. This… is ridiculous.
• After Pam threatens Tomi, Yumiko properly thanks him for all of his contributions to the Commonwealth on the press convention, making certain that individuals will discover if Pam spirits him away. Smart! She’s nonetheless technically doomed the remainder of her pals, nonetheless, at the very least so far as she is aware of.
• When Daryl and Carol dragged Horsnby out of his cell, the corpse of Sebastian’s head was effective, minus a knife gap in it. But when Pam goes to the cell to test it out later, Sebastian’s head is crushed and Hornsby’s Two-Face coin was caught within the gore. Was my screener lacking a scene? Or was it the identical for you guys?

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