I love how tense this episode is. The shocking opening of Ezekiel getting kidnapped is a great jump-start of an opening. There's constant stress over the safety of those who avoided capture, and it makes you question how they could possibly save everyone. The premise allows for a much smaller cast and a resulting tighter plot for the episode, with the A and B plots being directly related this time around.
While admittedly, some of the cast is severely lacking screen time, I found the decision to only focus on Daryl, Carol, Yumiko, and the villains to be a good one.
It does feel a bit out of place how much we get of Yumiko here despite her being a supporting character, but I really love her story. It also makes sense that she is so important considering she has taken Michonne's comic storyline. I never cared too much about her before, but the Commonwealth arc has made me really like her. I wish some of the other supporting characters got as much love, but there is only so much screen time left to work with.
As you'd expect with TWD, they really don't hold back with the brutality in 11C. Daryl murdering the assassins was sick, and finding Lance in his cell covered in the blood and guts of his own man whom he fed to Walker Sebastian was a spine-tingling scene. The visuals of the gore when Sebastian is put down are on another level!
The longer 11C goes on, the more I fall in love with the antagonists. Lance, especially in the aforementioned jail scene, is so disturbingly ripped of his sanity. His acting is incredibly remarkable. You can tell what he is feeling from his eyes alone.
Meanwhile, Pamela's eerie and extremely confident threats are frightening. Her incredible amount of leverage on our group is really stressful. She was one step ahead of Yumiko the entire time, which made it really satisfying when she is finally outsmarted at the end. Very cleverly written speech scene!
Lastly, Carol killing Lance was insane. It's great to see her off a main villain before the end of the show. I found it very dumb of Lance to try and shoot Daryl and her, but it's not necessarily out of character for him to make that rash a decision in such a scenario. Either way, it's a bit sad to see such a slimy, smart villain be killed so foolishly.
We are now in an unexpected position where Pamela is our only villain left. I'm really starting to question if we will get some major deaths before the show ends. Lance went down as one of the best villains anyway, but he definitely should've killed someone off before we lost him.
So while this was another solid episode that was easy to get fully invested in, I'm once again scratching my head on how they successfully move forward from here.
While admittedly, some of the cast is severely lacking screen time, I found the decision to only focus on Daryl, Carol, Yumiko, and the villains to be a good one.
It does feel a bit out of place how much we get of Yumiko here despite her being a supporting character, but I really love her story. It also makes sense that she is so important considering she has taken Michonne's comic storyline. I never cared too much about her before, but the Commonwealth arc has made me really like her. I wish some of the other supporting characters got as much love, but there is only so much screen time left to work with.
As you'd expect with TWD, they really don't hold back with the brutality in 11C. Daryl murdering the assassins was sick, and finding Lance in his cell covered in the blood and guts of his own man whom he fed to Walker Sebastian was a spine-tingling scene. The visuals of the gore when Sebastian is put down are on another level!
The longer 11C goes on, the more I fall in love with the antagonists. Lance, especially in the aforementioned jail scene, is so disturbingly ripped of his sanity. His acting is incredibly remarkable. You can tell what he is feeling from his eyes alone.
Meanwhile, Pamela's eerie and extremely confident threats are frightening. Her incredible amount of leverage on our group is really stressful. She was one step ahead of Yumiko the entire time, which made it really satisfying when she is finally outsmarted at the end. Very cleverly written speech scene!
Lastly, Carol killing Lance was insane. It's great to see her off a main villain before the end of the show. I found it very dumb of Lance to try and shoot Daryl and her, but it's not necessarily out of character for him to make that rash a decision in such a scenario. Either way, it's a bit sad to see such a slimy, smart villain be killed so foolishly.
We are now in an unexpected position where Pamela is our only villain left. I'm really starting to question if we will get some major deaths before the show ends. Lance went down as one of the best villains anyway, but he definitely should've killed someone off before we lost him.
So while this was another solid episode that was easy to get fully invested in, I'm once again scratching my head on how they successfully move forward from here.