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Hello, it is Elliott, and welcome to my reaction of the very action-packed episode of The Walking Dead called Just Survive Somehow. Which is taken from Enid’s coping method, to help her survive. I will just say that I absolutely loved this episode. It was so action-packed, very well acted and unbelievably well directed. I also want to talk about characters in this episode, two in particular; Carol and Morgan.
First of all, I really want to mention the direction of the episode. It was amazing and it drew me in while watching. I think, I would have to say, that my favourite part of the episode is when we saw Carol looking out of the window at the woman smoking – yet then saw The Wolve coming to kill her, brutally. This scene was truly terrifying and horrific; really setting the tone for the rest of the episode and making for an awesome introduction to an awesome battle. This scene was made even more serious by the fact that we were introduced to the character, that we see die, at the start of the episode. She is a very, for the world that they live in, stupid and horrifically unprepared. This, again, sets the tone for the entire episode and gives us the idea that a lot of people are going to die.
Okay, so I have to talk about the legendary badass Carol Peletier. She was brilliant here. She knew what she had to do to keep the community safe. And, like Morgan said, was ready to spring into action at a moments notice. This really showed how capable she was and allowed her to tear down her motherly facaude that she’d created when arriving in Alexandria. She really got to be, fully, herself again and do what was necessary. This meant not wavouring from killing, when necessary, and showed us the lengths that Carol will go to to protect what she believes in.
Which is why it’s so interesting to see such a stark contrast in the character of Morgan. He will do a lot to keep the people of Alexandria safe. He has so much care and compassion for people. While this is amazing and very interesting to see, it also can be a bad thing, in that; not killing can get you, or people that you care about, killed. This is such an interesting change from Carol because they both have the same desire to keep the people of Alexandria safe (actually Morgan probably cares much, much more) but Morgan doesn’t want to kill. This episode is almost an arch for him in that, he had to revoke his morals because he had no other choice. He had to kill. The way that that was done was amazing in this episode and it shows that this world has to take people to new levels. This episode really did a good job of that in showing what the world did to The Wolves.
Overall, this episode was very nice to see and also showed us a different side to things that we didn’t see last week. This was one of the most action-packed and awesome episodes of The Walking Dead and felt completely like that. We got to see some of the characters being brought to new lengths and we saw that Rick was definitely right about the Alwxandrians being unprepared for attack. The episode almost weeded out the weak members of the community and the shot of the, usually peaceful, Alexandria filled with blood and bodies was shocking and really made you look back on how serious the attack was in this episode.
Thanks for reading 🙂