It had been Morgan who was giving it the Big I Am to the Saviors with regards to wanting to do a lot of murders at them.
Oh yes! The moment Rick buried an axe in that poor Savior’s back was a genuine, almost literally-backstabbing OMG – one that left the extent of Rick’s grief following Carl’s death in no uncertain terms. And while Negan’s desire to relieve Simon of his pulse, for now, unites he and Jadis in common purpose, Negan will surely see knowledge about the whirlybird as a resource he can strip from the premier Panda further down the line. Jadis’s link to the mysterious helicopter is something I’m hoping is explored sooner rather than later. He seemed genuinely sorry – and he swore on his sack, so he must be. It was a hoot seeing Negan relying on his wits to survive, as opposed to his usual shtick of leaning awkwardly until everyone else’s wills bend to match. Character-building (and possibly false) revelations about Negan’s past, and why he loves that bloody bat (literally/figuratively), were welcome. Nevertheless, Jadis and Negan’s gradual coming-to-terms was nicely done.
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And leaving a gun, a flare and some pictures – the only objects left in the world of any value to you – within reach of a prisoner is also deeply stupid, to the extent that you wonder if Jadis one-syllabled her vocabulary so she could free up enough brainspace to communicate and walk at the same time without falling over. Taking off your shoes and going barefoot, while continuing to live in a dump populated almost exclusively by sharp and pointy things, makes zero sense, however you try to spin it as a physical manifestation of a character’s reawakening. Turnip love: Andrew Lincoln as Rick and Danai Gurira as Michonne. Jadis wanted Negan to die slowly, but not before he watched his precious rounders bat go up in smoke. And this is a show in which people seem to get knocked out for precisely as long as the plot requires, while conveniently suffering no pesky after-effects of what must be a fairly serious concussion. We’re still none the wiser as to how Jadis managed to preternaturally locate Neegs after his basement ding-dong with Rick. Understandably crushed by the death of her Pandas – yet apparently doing just fine in a plush, minimalist container-flat which would easily fetch half a million on the London market – her initial plan to torture Negan made perfect sense. Since abandoning her preposterous trash-patois, Jadis has managed to redeem herself as one of the show’s most intriguing players, with Pollyanna McIntosh handling her engorged dramatic range superbly. The episode wasn’t a total, utter and complete car crash – more a pathetic low-speed shunt in a discount supermarket car park – and taking a look at the things it did well seems as good a place to start a review as any. With regards to the show itself – The Walking Dead, that show we’re here to talk about – it says much about Still Gotta Mean Something that once it was over, and not for the first time in my life, all my immediate thoughts turned to turnips.
This week, in the wildly uneven Still Gotta Mean Something, the ‘umble turnip was back, deployed as some kind of back-to-basics low-carb tracking device – merely one of the litany of often-overlooked alternative uses for Pliny the Elder’s favourite root vegetable. Last week, in a stunning exchange, it was Michonne who heroically gambled upon “I saved you this turnip” being an appropriate thing to say to someone you presumably intend to have sex with again. What is with The Walking Dead’s sudden fascination with turnips?