Monday, November 12, 2018

Dead Viewing: Season 9, Episode 6: "Who are You Now?"

***WARNING***
***You may want to stop here.***
***There will be spoilers.***
***This is not a review. It is just my thoughts as I'm watching the show.***
***I update during commercials.***
Remember, I'm just writing what I see and reacting.


Welcome back, everyone!!! I hope everyone has recovered from last week's final Rick Grimes episode. Last week's episode was perfect to me. Here's why: I would have been fine with Rick dying in that matter, because he was sacrificing himself for those he loves, plus it was such a boss way to go, but I'm glad he did not, because there is going to be an awesome reunion to come in the future. Now, I do not like the idea of Rick being away from his family for this long.  

Michonne opening, she's talking to Rick. Daryl is fishing and kills a walker. Carol's hair is longer (I don't know how I feel about that), and she and Ezekiel are definitely a couple waking up together. She wakes up looking out over the Kingdom. Michonne finds a van with a cigar box with children's toys, one of which is a cowboy that looks like Rick; she takes it with her. Daryl comes across a bird that is feeding its babies. Carol sees a flower growing out of concrete. Michonne finishes her monologue which is simply telling Rick that she has has not given up, and she never will. We also see that they have decided not to rebuild the burned out bridge. I like the images of Michonne, Daryl, and Carol over the monologue, because it shows some of the last members of the last of the core. 

Eugene, Rosita, Aaron, and one of the saviors run into the new comers looking for Judith (who apparently has a lot of Carl in her disappearing). Jerry calls Carol his queen. She has married Ezekiel and adopted Henry. Henry said that they need better tools. While Ezekiel appreciates Henry's passion he does not like the teen's tone. Apparently, Henry wants to train at Hilltop, but Ezekiel is reluctant to let him go becasue he feels that Hilltop has become distant since Rick. The newcomers have arrived at Alexandria and they cannot believe what they are seeing. I can't believe that Aaron has a reasonable facsimile of an arm, and he has been raising Gracie as his own. Michonne arrives in time to see the new ones. Judith tells Michonne that she decided. Michonne accidently dropped the little cowboy and Judith found it. Michonne does not seem to be very receptive to the new people. Gabriel suggests that they hold them until morning and let the council vote. So, Alexandria has established some rules and regulations since Rick's death. It also looks like a utopian western town. Now the downside of having satellite. Weather has stop my viewing.

Okay, it rained all night. It wasn't easy, but I've managed to be spoiler free all day!!! Not an easy task when you work with teenagers. It's 6:14 p.m. Monday, November 12th, and I'm picking up where I left off. 

So, Ezekiel is allowing Henry to go to Hilltop. Ezekiel wants to get the communities back together, so they have splintered since the death of Rick. Now, to Alexandria and the council vote. So, they lost Bernie yesterday. Fantastic Beasts is telling how they all came together. How much time has passed? They ask the new comers who they were and who they are. What did they do to survive? One of them is deaf. I'm surprised she survived. Michonne is a councilperson and head of security. One of the new comers is a former prisoner. Magna, the apparent leader had the prison tattoo, and she was wearing a knife as a belt buckle. Well, I didn't see that coming. She asks can she ask Michonne a question, which Michonne refuses. Michonne is acting much like Maggie did after Glenn. She's not wanting to take in newcomers, which is funny considering she was wounded and carrying a katana when Rick met her. 

Gabriel is working on some type of HAM radio contraption. Rosita tells us that the new people are going to stay until their injured party is well. Gabriel and Eugene want to find people outside of Alexandria. Wait just a pea-picking minute!!! Gabriel and Rosita are together?!!! Wait, what?!! I'm so confused. Michonne is talking to Rick and Judith is spying on her. Judith calls Michonne, Mom. Henry and Carol are not heading to Hilltop? Henry hears a woman crying for help, and so the Saviors have tricked them. Dang it, Henry, and they are lead by the jerk who Carol had to check twice while working on the bridge.

Everybody is driving these makeshift carriages. Eugene is hitting on Rosita as they go to set up the transmitter. They noticed a herd of walkers apparently traveling east while they are traveling west. The newcomers question Siddiq about how he came to be there. The Sanctuary went bust, so their stealing from Carol and Henry. He wants Carol's ring, too, which is too much for Henry who attacks the jerk leader. He is really going to have to die after Carol has spared him twice. Negan is apparently tutoring Judith. She is talking to him about the newcomers. He guesses that she wanted to bring them in. He tells her the story of how he like to bring home strays, and one time the stray he brought home killed the others and took most of him mom's ear. He said that broke him from bring strays. Judith tells him and look how it turned out. She advises him that she only needs him for math because numbers don't care if he's good or bad. Sassy...Eugen and Rosita have just finished with the receiver, when Eugene gets stuck on the water tower and falls hurting his knee as the herd that they thought they had avoided was now headed toward them.

Henry is questioning Carol why she did not stand up to the Saviors. She tells him because of him. She is missing her ring. Magna wants to fight. The others tell her they need to leave Michonne alone. The others do not want to fight. Luke tells Magna to sleep on it. Carol sneaks back and sets the Saviors on fire and walks away like a Boss!!! She tells him that she could forgive the ring, but they took things that belonged to people they had lost. He argues they would disappear, and Carol agrees as she dropped the match he had been sucking on. I love Carol...

Some one is sneaking up to Michonne's house. RJ? Who is this kid? Magna surrenders the knife that Yumiko had around her neck. Brother? Wait, Rick and Michonne have a kid? Judith knows Michonne talks to Carl and Rick. She tells her that she is starting to forget their voices. She hopes that Michonne can remember them. Crap I forgot about Rosita and Eugene. Where are they that it is still daylight, but dark everywhere else. Henry apologizes for what he said to her, but notices she has the ring back, right before they meet Daryl off the road. Why does Michonne have an X on her back? Is she mimicking Rick's injury? We see before she puts on one of his shirts. She gives Judith the Rick toy before telling the newcomers that she is taking them to Hilltop. Eugene and Rosita camo themselves with mud to hide from the herd, that is now talking?  Are these the Whisperers?! More trouble next week!!!!

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