If something surprises in the twentieth episode of the last season of The Walking Deadof Disney+, is the way you understand the sense of control. A haunting look at the remnants of civilization that struggles to rise around the Commonwealth. But what is this corrupt, alienated and violent center really, if not a brittle illusion? The Walking Dead, which showed the fall of the world as it was at some point in the past, now shows it as it could be. However, the perception is disturbing in all its breadth. What awaits on the brink of the apocalypse are monsters with human faces?
So is the way it announces that the series’ conclusion will be a look at its main themes. the walking deadwho meditated on survival and then on pain, loss and fear of destruction, is now something more. A painful, restless and twisted journey through complicated spaces of what his characters can be and will be. Perhaps that is why Pamela Milton’s leadership becomes a point of honor.
In an eloquent and well-constructed look at greed, and with the compelling need to force Yumiko to sentence Eugene, Pamela makes two key points clear. On the one hand, that The Walking Dead continues to explore the broad and painful idea that The Commonwealth is nothing more than a nucleus of dominance. On the other hand, that any protest is a sign that the deceptive utopia is about to collapse.
The Walking Deada long way to nowhere
Consolidating leadership in the Commonwealth remains paramount in the twentieth episode. Especially when the notion about the entire structure of the show’s final season comes from the direct perception of its importance. Hence, Pamela Milton’s iron fist continues to be violent, brutal and manipulative. Isn’t that the great lesson in the devastated terrain of the future? But of course, The Walking Dead it does not lose its essence by taking a brief tour of its painful points.
After years in which the series seemed to go from one place to another without direction, the plot tension returned again. Which means that, inside and outside the walls, the perception of what is necessary and what is ruthless is confused again. What does Pamela Milton need to sustain the precarious peace that she enjoys in her small territory subjected to iron discipline? It seems that the lessons of the ninth episode were not entirely clear. What is even worse, those that connect with the essential idea of the production about what lurks and the latent danger.
Perhaps for that reason, it is of considerable importance that Carol and Daryl not be captured. As always, both characters have the weight and consistency to slowly but surely push forward and impose their presence. What can Pamela aspire to without help? There is a fragile perception about how the action takes place between lines in a series that depends on the internal tension that it can generate. With the unrest in the Commonwealth subdued, Pamela’s big question is where to direct her efforts.
As the visible leader of the Commonwealth, Daryl and Carol know that Hornsby can be a particularly important player in The Walking Dead. So his release becomes a priority. More than that, in an incessant and persistent search for how to ensure that the leader does not have the resources to sustain her power. Sedition comes from the bowels of a society that is increasingly suffocated, anguished and crushed. The twentieth episode makes it clear. Much more, it begins to show that some characters are expendable. When not completely useless in the face of an end that envisions an increasingly voracious, brutal and definitive confrontation.
The race against time
Hornsby, who spent the early part of the season as a variable and increasingly expendable powerhouse, eventually lost value. At least, that is what the argument makes clear. Something that The Walking Dead elaborates with expertise, although by known paths. Hornsby is irredeemable, but also a piece that sooner or later will be useful. Which? The series, as on so many other occasions, seems to have lost the sense of how to define its characters and their final stories..
So beyond the horror of showing the character feeding a mummified Sebastian Milton, Hornsby changes little. In fact, once he meets Carol again, he regains his vulgar sense of the Machiavellian. That insistence on manipulating, with his few intellectual and emotional weapons, those around him. The objective? Achieve the advantage of becoming a near acclaimed leader of the Commonwealth.
As usual, Daryl is, again, the unpredictable point in the middle of the action. He is the man to bring up the rear to save Hornsby. A kind of god ex machina as complicated as dark. How many times will Daryl become the hero of the day, the unexpected one, the one who arrives at the right time? The Walking Dead he seems unable to do without his favorite tricks, his aches and pains. From her persistent feeling of going in concentric circles to achieve his goal. Something more evident in the twentieth episode of the last season of it.
unanswered questions in The Walking Dead
In many ways, Yumiko seems to be at the center of a sense of urgency from internal pressure on the Commonwealth. Eugene’s conviction is a priority for Pamela and that is clear in a twentieth episode full of political movement at the edge of the main plot. Will the character be able to defend Eugene once and for all? Can she pull off a painful journey that ultimately leads to redemption?
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As usual, The Walking Dead he guards his secrets carefully. So much so that this weird 20th transition episode leaves questions all around. In the end, is Hornsby, as it seems, fated to happen? Will Eugene find a heroic moment to show his will to survive? The tour of The Walking Dead towards its end it is complicated, long and painful. But consistent enough to show that the series still has a lot to tell four chapters from its grand finale.