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Stream of consciousness 11x13

Oh Elijah's still around I was wondering if he'd get the oceanside treatment. Cool little cinematography. Sidenote has Elijah's ever spoken before?

Are Lydia and Elijah sharing A Moment? Oooooooooo!

More horses....? K. Sure

Why the fuck would they go and help anyone right now? I'm w Maggie. They gott deal w their own shit first

So wait Lydia DOES want to leave I guess? Hmm. Was Maggie about to leave without saying goodbye to hershel jr?! Wtf?! Also he has not gotten nearly enough screentime. Which is something I never thought I'd say about one of the ten thousand new characters lol

Aww Maggie sharing ❤️ also she calls it "The Fall" interesting

Stormtrooper walkers interesting

So wait when did Aaron go to commonwealth? I thought he was back at hilltop or Alexandria?

Ha Gabe is a deep agent of Alexandria. "Fuck capitalism and god loves u"

"Werent too keen on immigrants when we came in" Yeah I bet! Would have been nice to see!

I find it funny that they're looking at the apartment complex thru the forest and they're like "Yeah no seems hostile" but it's like. You can barely see the top of the building. You can't see anyone inside. How on earth do you know.

Where's Gabe's hat? I like his hat!

"Peacekeepers" like in the hunger games... how appropriate

50,000 people damn. Oo they've been watching them too!! Cell phones?! What?! I hope it's just photos bc that would be literally unbelievable

I totally see where angry guy is coming from tbh like... the way to go about this is to leave little commonwealth pamphlets and say "here's a meeting point if you're interested"

What THE FUCK TOBY goddammit hope you fuckin die

Lance you're telling me you guys don't have snipers? I don't buy it. Oo I love his whole scared-of-his-boss thing. It's cowardly in a way I find rly fun. Aw he's got a soft side. Yknow I actually rly like Lance. Not as like a person obv he's a bad guy but he's actually intriguing and a good character. More compelling than a lot of these ppl.

Yknow what I actually bet they did find the caravan like that. Oh shit OK Gabe is rly growing on me like he is officially a badass and a better priest OH FUCK I guess Billy was a stormtrooper.

Oh oh OK now I get it I didn't even recognize the kid lol. AARON NO OMG also where's Gabe? Hopefully they reunite. OK I officially am invested in their storyline.

Jfc these flashbacks r annoying. Altho I do kind of get their AHHHHHHHHH NEGAN narrative use but still. Ugh God ANOTHER character? Pls tell me she's not gonna have any screentime past this episode pls. OK wait so Gabe isn't the badass. Well that's still OK. Interesting that negan is helping I bet Gabe and Aaron are gonna vouch for him. But like how did he get hooked up w the now-dead guy?

OK I had to go back and rewatch the flashback. HINT THIS IS PARTLY WHY I HATE FLASHBACKS BC IT MAKES THE TIMELINE V CONFUSING FOR ME! it's unclear to me how/when this kid got here? Like after they arrived at the apartment complex and before they came in? Was he tasked with getting the horses? I'd love if someone could clear this up for me bc i can't figure out at what point in the arrival to the apartment complex this kid got waylaid by negan.

I'd like to know how negan and this woman met and trusted each other and why they're there but not enough to see it. Tbh I'm fine with him just explaining it in 2 sentences. Wait maybe did the kid somehow escape the complex or something during the attack? Idk what's going on ugh

Why aren't they just storming the complex and killing everyone? They can just find their supplies when they search? I guess this is a lazy way to make sure team family doesn't get found and killed before they get the weapons or something idk. I find it kind of funny that negan is so affected by the pseudo defenestration bc I'm like 99% sure he did the exact same thing w the saviors lol. And even if he didn't he did some pretty fucked up shit without any issue. Altho I guess 6 years gives him a bit of perspective or something. How does she know it better? Was she one of them? Negan was one of them too I guess? But how did THEY escape before the attack? Ugh so annoying.

All in all. Pretty good episode! I liked it! I do wish that it all could have been contained in 1 episode but tbh idk how that could have happened. I feel like none of the flashbacks were necessary like we knew the scouters were gonna be evil. That wasn't a good plot twist. Negan was a good plot twist but again it made the timeline v confusing for me.

I also think it's funny that Alexandria and hilltop and everyone is like "oh what do you know! There's actually another community like 2 hours away that we never knew about in the past 10 years!" But whatever plot holes don't rly matter to Kang. Which usually doesn't actually bother me bc I'm fine suspending disbelief in a zombie show.

Def one of the best episodes this season so far. Tbh not saying much BUT I rly did like it regardless of how shitty the season has been so far lol. Like it's a good episode in and of itself.

Hoping that the apartment complex joins hilltop and just become extras in the background besides negan. I'm assuming they do, and that Maggie's like I'm gonna kill negan and Aaron and Gabe are like you better not bc he's a helper now and there's gonna be even more drawn out repetitive stupid boring tension between him and Maggie. Maybe he'll choose to go to commonwealth to get away from her idk. That would be nice. Still hoping he sacrifices himself for hershel jr by the end of the season as the resolution to his redemption arc

Also thinking about it: magna, yumiko, and yumikos brother that I still can't remember his name have served their purpose. I'm fine if they're just like featured in the inevitable battle as like "remember these 2? Yeah they're still here slitting throats and whatnot" but past that I'm good to just never see them again. Magna found peace w her family and is pissed to be on the bottom rung of society once again. Yumiko is reunited w her brother that we never knew about and apparently they were v close and it was rly hard to be apart for the last 10 years or something idk. Whatever. Brother has saved zeke. They're all finished w their storylines. Sad to see more wlw go but that's tptb fault for Burying The Gays and not making anyone else of the 90 characters wlw in the meantime.

Tldr: good episode. Hoping new characters are contained solely within this mini plot. Didn't mind the lack of caryl at all. Tbh I'm more annoyed when Daryl is featured in an episode and Carol isn't, even if it's not caryl-y lol.