Here's a snippet of a review I just read
However, "Them" also tended to pound on a nail that had already been hammered into place last week. Last week, in fact, when Glenn was the most morose of the bunch. This week, he'd actually flipped around somewhat because it was Maggie who couldn't seem to latch onto any hope. At first I though they may have been taking Maggie in a certain direction from the comics (one that would have actually put a really great exclamation point on all of this), but it never happened. So as it stood, "Them" not only reminded us of last season's back-half (when everyone was scattered and following those train tracks forever) but it also didn't have the Terrence Malick-style v.o./dreamlike quality of last week's great Tyreese episode.
It also didn't bring anything necessarily new to the table. I fully understand that the show isn't always going to be about making enemies or defeating enemies, and I'm willing to spend a few symbolic, meditative moments looking at a tied up walker in a trunk - no problem - but the notion of "We need to find a place or we'll die" was part of last week's message. Granted, only a few characters were featured last week, but I still feel like it spoke for everyone. Now, it seems, all that was left was mostly the question "Well, what if we don't make it to a new place?
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However, "Them" also tended to pound on a nail that had already been hammered into place last week. Last week, in fact, when Glenn was the most morose of the bunch. This week, he'd actually flipped around somewhat because it was Maggie who couldn't seem to latch onto any hope. At first I though they may have been taking Maggie in a certain direction from the comics (one that would have actually put a really great exclamation point on all of this), but it never happened. So as it stood, "Them" not only reminded us of last season's back-half (when everyone was scattered and following those train tracks forever) but it also didn't have the Terrence Malick-style v.o./dreamlike quality of last week's great Tyreese episode.
It also didn't bring anything necessarily new to the table. I fully understand that the show isn't always going to be about making enemies or defeating enemies, and I'm willing to spend a few symbolic, meditative moments looking at a tied up walker in a trunk - no problem - but the notion of "We need to find a place or we'll die" was part of last week's message. Granted, only a few characters were featured last week, but I still feel like it spoke for everyone. Now, it seems, all that was left was mostly the question "Well, what if we don't make it to a new place?
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