The last season of The Walking Dead has distinguished itself by raising the tension in favor of resolving a tough seasonal conflict. If until now the Commonwealth had been a way of understanding the devastation of a probable future, now it is also a symbol of possibility.
The probability of hope is a substantial change in the argument. Especially in a series where he based much of his storytelling on the fall of civilization and the many ways that version of good and evil can be expressed.
One of the most intriguing points of season eleven of The Walking Dead is that his characters — the eternal survivors — became three-dimensional. But more than that, more than mere requirements were made for a battle against the darkness of a world in ruins.
Something that is clear in the new episode, in which all the narrative threads lead to a single place. That is, of course, how Daryl and Carol will manage to save those held captive by the Commonwealth. Both characters, converted into a fundamental pillar to understand the dynamics of power in The Walking Dead, reach a curious three-dimensionality in the new installment. From just saviors, they’re also the script’s way of setting the stakes outside of the supposed remnants of civilization.
A jump to the road and the unpredictable in The Walking Dead
Who are we when all is lost? Daryl, invested with the rare authority gained through his evolution as the figurehead of the survivors, he is also a half hero. One full of mistakes and moments of confusion. Same as Carol. Perhaps for that reason, her decision to stand up to the Commonwealth has such considerable symbolic value. An insight into how The Walking Dead move your pieces towards a definitive endgame.
Gabriel, Rosita and Maggie are part of the Commonwealth hostage caravan. Which, of course, makes the possibility of rescue and escape even more complicated and difficult to pull off. Much more, when on the bus that they accompany, Ezekiel, Kelly, Negan also travel. In one of his favorite plot twists, The Walking Dead manages to build a version of danger that is also emotional. Anyone who dies — and every character is at risk — will completely change the scenario that the scenario displays.
Perhaps for this reason, the way Maggie escapes is almost prodigious in its simplicity. But it is not only a fact of fundamental importance. While Gabriel and Rosita take advantage of the fact that a guard fell asleep to jump onto the road, Maggie is once again the emblem of difficulties. And again, The Walking Dead gives the character the opportunity to show how hard the simplest actions are to face.
When Maggie finally escapes — in almost a prodigy of skill and chance — The Walking Dead underscores the big message of its final season. Living is a casual situation, without order or meaning. What awaits, beyond the constant battle to avoid the simple eventuality, death, is beyond anyone’s control. There is no destiny among the damned.
a death in the woods
Perhaps the hardest scene of the entire chapter of The Walking Dead it is the ethical decision to which fortuitous survival seems to push Maggie. Once away from her captors, she stumbles upon a child turned walker in the woods. For Maggie, again, the battle to survive goes through a type of suffering that the series shows in a solemn and silent scene. Daryl and Carol just wait, bewildered and not daring to intervene.
Finally, when Maggie murders the boy, the big unavoidable question is where the impending sense of disaster leads. Of the impulse that pushes all the characters to advance towards unknown and complicated terrain. The issue is repeated, over and over again, when Gabriel and Rosita join the three of them together to go to the rescue of the rest.
Sabotaging the train track, again, is an almost symbolic vision of this eventful season, aimed at breaking the status quo of the Commonwealth. Between gunshots, lurking danger, and half-hearted success, the group can understand the obvious. The time has come to dare a greater goal. One more necessary but hard to achieve.
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Especially when the big twist of the chapter is discovered. By the time the convoy hostages reach their destination: the labor camp they are headed to. This new forced labor camp they arrive at is not uncharted territory for the plot. Outpost 22, is what until a few years ago, used to be the last hope, Alexandria. A look again, at the idea thatThe Walking Dead it closes the last lines of its journey towards the end.