![]() ![]() It’s giving each character’s story time to flesh out and dig deeper into their journey. I wasn’t sure I’d like it, but I think it’s something I’m definitely warming up to. Read Ron’s review of the previous episode, Ouroboros, here.Fear The Walking Dead Season 6 treks forward as this week focuses on the conflicted John Dorie and an unexpected loss.įear The Walking Dead Season 6 has taken an interesting path with character-focused episodes. And if not, is it really that big of a loss? Sure, Chris has become a walker slayer, but Alicia is basically just a security risk, particularly with a radio in her hand. Then again, Luis is a crack shot, and we know how good Salazar is under pressure, so… maybe between the two (or three) of them they’ll be able to stop the pirates and get their people back. ![]() It’s going to be interesting to see Strand in action, assuming he’s a man of action and not just a well-dressed con man. None of it happens, of course, but it gives the survivors another mission to accomplish in the recovery of Chris and Alicia from the pirate base of operations. There’s a lot of things that could happen: Salazar could get loose, Alicia could turn on Jack or talk him into turning on his crew members, the level-headed Connor could see the value in people like Travis. No one gets killed, at least not until Nick and Luis arrive, and yet it plays out as surprisingly tense. The most interesting part of the episode isn’t Strand’s back story-which isn’t nearly as cool or mysterious as the one everyone imagined for him, I assume-but the very tense armed raid on the Abigail. Still, bonus points for inclusion the original series still has trouble keeping certain minorities alive for very long, but it’s nice that the spin-off has a gay black man as the second-most capable character after Salazar. I was waiting for it pretty much the entire time the two were on screen. That’s only explicitly brought up at the end of the episode, but there’s no real subtext there it’s straight up text, and Michael Uppendahl goes to great lengths to make Strand’s interactions with Abigail as something other than a con-man looking to steal credit cards it’s obvious seduction, and I don’t necessarily need an interracial gay kiss at the end to push the point home. ![]() One thing I can say for this episode is that Strand’s homosexuality isn’t hinted at it’s blatantly stated, basically from the very beginning when he’s first getting Thomas Abigail drunk enough to rob him. Though if the Abigails are involved in something illicit, it makes a little more sense for them to be prepared for any contingency, particularly one involving automatic weapons and defensive fortifications. He seems entirely too prepared for someone who makes money on real estate when he’s not relaxing in a Mexican villa. For a real-estate developer (who may or may not be crooked), it’s strange to see him have this sort of survival training. It’s interesting to see a little bit more about the world before the fall, and it’s further interesting to see Strand actually not being mysterious. But first, he has to survive being stranded in the ice-cold Pacific Ocean on a sinking rubber raft. Namely, Strand is trying to get back to his boyfriend, Thomas Abigail (Dougray Scott), and his associate Luis (Arturo Del Puerto) and Luis’s mother Celia (Marlene Forte). Where he got the money for the boat, where the big house came from, and just why he’s so interested in getting to Mexico. With a pirate problem in the modern day, we also get to go back and explore Strand’s mysterious past. While the crew on board has to deal with pirates-and Strand leaving with the keys, only to get his raft shot up-Nick’s on dry land searching for a mysterious associate of Strand’s at the designated meeting place.
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