Onward to season 10, episode 3! The Walking Dead’s “Ghosts” felt a bit like a filler episode, but was saved some strong dialogue. That’s just one of the details I want to share with you. Heads up Walking Dead fans!
1. Isn’t Negan supposed to be dead already?
I’m so angry with Negan and the mess he still able to cause. He was on a quest with Aaron to wipe out some local zombies, and I really appreciated Aaron’s patience with the former villain, even though he seemed like was really dedicated to being as annoying as he could. Why are they keeping Negan alive even years after he killed Glenn, Olivia, Abraham, and so many others? Is he so important to the show? Sorry, but it makes no sense to me.
But at the end of the episode, when I’ve already written almost this full topic, something happened. Some kind of poison zombie attacked Aaron and Negan and they accidentally split up. Yes, you read that right. Poison Zombie. The flowers growing outta the walkers were Hogweed, and that made Aaron momentarily blind. He stepped into a random house to hide from a few zombies that were chasing him, and when we thought it was the end of him. But who suddenly showed up? Yes, fucking Negan! He helped Aaron and offered to keep the watch during the night. I definitely wasn’t prepared to grow any affection for him.
Is Negan a good person now? Can we trust him? What does the future hold for him?
2. Is Carol losing her mind?
It seems like when she got back from the boat, Carol let her trauma take control of her life once again. Drugged to stay awake and alert, she started to have these hallucinations when some of the ghosts from the past came to haunt her. Angst-ridden by the dangerous presence of the Whisperers, and coming back to the place where she once saw the heads of her friends decapitated (including Henry’s). she ends up using a hidden pistol to shoot Alpha, which provoked the Alexandrian survivors, and ended up needing Michonne’s intervention. Carol’s attitude is forgiven by Alpha. “From mother to mother” she says.
Ordered to flee Alpha’s newly claimed territory, Carol sees a trio of scattered Whispers and opens fire. Michonne suspects Carol is seeing things, but Daryl agrees to help hunt the whispering spies. The search takes Daryl and Carol to a nearby high school where Carol finds a book. On the cover, a housewife and five happy children.
When Carol looks closer, she is disturbed to see that the cover has turned into a horrible family portrait. She saw herself surrounded by the corpses of five children whose deaths have long haunted her
3. Hopless
Poor Eugene still somehow thinks that Rosita will fall in love with him, despite her telling him time and again that it’s not going to happen. This time, when he changes the course of their amicable conversation toward romance, Rosita snaps. She tells him in no uncertain terms that it’s never going to happen. Ever. Never ever.
And he finally realizes that it’s the truth, and that trying at this point is futile. “We can still be friends,” Rosita says, but Eugene isn’t so sure. After all, he tells her, he’s predicated their entire friendship on this hope of eventually it becoming something more. And what kind of friend does that?
It’s a good moment of self-awareness. What we have here is a classic case of the nice guy befriending the pretty girl in the hopes that someday she’ll realize that the perfect man for her was right there under her nose the whole time. I think when these hopes are dashed, many men would lash out or blame the world, but Eugene acknowledges that this is a deeply crappy bedrock for a friendship. Props to him for that, at least.
To be honest, I still don’t understand what Rosita sees in Gabriel. The fact that she could be romantically involved with a cowardly man of God actually makes Eugene’s hopes less absurd in many ways.
4. The vulnerability of the group
Everyone is exhausted.
That satellite from the first episode is still causing some problems, hundreds of zombies coming out of everywhere following the noise of the crash guiding them directly to the camp provoking 49 straight hours of zombie killing. Plus, there’s Alpha coming back and threatening them again and stealing part of their territory because they crossed the border not once, but three times. The stress and tiredness caused by the fear make the group argue with each other and only make them even more vulnerable.
Continued belowThese are hard times for our characters. Everyone is tense, hopeless, disunited and afraid. I don’t know how much longer they can handle such pressure. And with each passing episode they lose more, whether it’s a friend, supplements, or even part of the territory where they live.
5. Let’s talk about Alpha again
The one thing I like most about Alpha is that she can be much scarier than Negan could ever as a villain. Her freaky subtlety and calmness make her even scarier. There was a moment when the group went on a meeting with the Whisperers where everyone was scared as hell and Alpha was like ”yeah ok I’m just chilling out playing with these losers and threatening them, just a regular day here.”
This was a strong episode, with some good scary bits, and more menace from Alpha. Seems like The Walking Dead found it’s track again, let’s see what’s coming. See you next week!
