5.02: The Walking Dead - Strangers

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With supplies running low and not knowing whether to trust the people around them, Rick leads a mission where the risk might not be worth the reward.

 

[Jesse412]

Episode 2 "Strangers" I was excited when I first heard that Seth Gilliam from The Wire was cast as Gabriel so I've been looking forward to this episode. It was much slower than the season premiere but I think that's to be expected. It did have a couple of tense scenes and put Carol and Daryl on the trail to find Beth. The zombies in the flooded basement scene looked great. Just when Bob starts to become likable he gets captured by cannibals.

 

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I was excited when I first heard that Seth Gilliam from The Wire was cast as Gabriel so I've been looking forward to this episode.

I haven't watched it yet but did you do it because of Seth or because of Gabriel?

Just when Bob starts to become likable he gets captured by cannibals.

Oh no. Not Bob. He's one of the least likeable character (from the audience pov) and mostly he's been on the sidelines. Sorry to hear that but it makes me want to watch the episode right now.

 

[Culhwch]

I really like Bob - I think his character has had a strong redemptive arc, and I was sorry to see him get taken again. At first, after the basement, I thought for sure he was bit, and he was hiding it from Sasha.

Gabriel is one shifty *******. Something is definitely going on there. Linked to terminus, maybe? I can't figure it out.

A more slowly paced episode, but still strong. Everything was going a little too well to last, though, and next week should prove interesting. Daryl and Carol on the trail of Beth, and the main gang besieged by the Terminus survivors. Can't wait for Rick to follow through on his promise from last week.

 

[Lenny]

At first, after the basement, I thought for sure he was bit, and he was hiding it from Sasha.

Ditto. It would be an ironic turn of events if he is turning, and by eating him the Terminus folk are sealing their fate, but I don't think he has been bitten, because he's been captured. Maybe his breakdown came from the close call he had?

Shame that it looks like he won't survive, either way. Maybe there's an unwritten rule about the number of members of The Wire cast you can have together at one time?

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I agree that it was slow but strong. Interesting that Tyrees and Carol don't want to share things with the group, but Tara does. And so much for the group not wanting to split up again!

I wonder what's going to happen in terms of leadership? The group still think they're in a Ricktatorship, but Rick has, privately, given command to Carol - "Can we join you?".

Also, it looks like the writers were anticipating questions about the last episode - both the kid who had the watch, and the loss of the sword, were discussed.

 

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I agree. The episode was strong even though not much happened during it. I also thought that at the beginning when they were talking about someone watching them that it was Morgan keeping their rear safe. But knowing what happened at the end I believe it was the cannibals. The worst kind of people you would want to meet during the zombie apocalypse.

I really like Bob - I think his character has had a strong redemptive arc, and I was sorry to see him get taken again. At first, after the basement, I thought for sure he was bit, and he was hiding it from Sasha.

I don't think there was many people, who weren't scared on behalf of Rick's gang storming the flooded basement, and weren't thinking why couldn't you do it from above with spears or something. Surely that would had been easier, and less dramatic then storming the basement and making hasty barricades from the shelving units. How much of that stuff they lost in the spoiled stagnant water is unknown as I doubt they drained whole basement and got the stuff that way, while the wimpy priest covered in the corner. But the thing is they surely got whole lot out from the food bank.

In fact, by looking those two trollies they got more than they expected. Not talking about those three suppressors Glen found from the mini-fridge. Or that Garand with bayonet attached to it. That surely would had been useful in zombie culling. But talking about the undead, the town priest led them was strangely void from the shambling kind.

Gabriel is one shifty *******. Something is definitely going on there. Linked to terminus, maybe? I can't figure it out.

Gabriel was originally a white person, but I approve that they made a similar kind of change as what they did with Bob. And I agree that there something he's hiding because nobody in that world could had lived that long without killing a zombie or a living person. Or then they would had to have two to three supply of food, and a location that nobody can find. A church near to Terminus is one of those places that surely would had been checked by their scouts. And I think it was their scouting party that we saw at the very end.

I wonder what's going to happen in terms of leadership? The group still think they're in a Ricktatorship, but Rick has, privately, given command to Carol - "Can we join you?"

As far as I can see they have several candidates for taking a leadership position, and I strongly doubt Carol is one of those people who would want to bear the weight of that responsibility. Just look at how shifty she was on hiding the car from rest of the group. So, the question in my mind is: how far she and Daryl are going to get before Rick and others find out three people are missing from the group?

Three crucial people that the group couldn't do without, as by now they have lost Daryl's hunting/tracking ability, Carol's survival skills and Bob's field medicine experience. All that they haven't thought to the other survivors, like Rick calls them, and he is right, they are survivors in big scale. There's no doubt about that in my mind.

 

[Bugg]

Episode 2 "Strangers" I was excited when I first heard that Seth Gilliam from The Wire was cast as Gabriel so I've been looking forward to this episode.

That's three cast members from The Wire on this show now, isn't it? What we need is McNulty and The Bunk to turn up. They'd sort the walkers out pretty damn quick. Either that or get roaring drunk and forget to care

 

[paranoid marvin]

I thought the last 5 minutes was really silly and quite unbelievable in all honesty. I know at times there have been instances which have stretched the boundaries of credulity , but for me that went far beyond those limits.

As for Rick handing the group over Carol, I don't think he has any intention of doing so. For me his speech was more of an apology and getting Carol back into the group. After all, he didn't defer to her when the question of going to Washington was raised.

 

[Lenny]

That's three cast members from The Wire on this show now, isn't it?

I've been trying to think, all day, who the third cast member from The Wire is. Finally got it - I can't believe I forgot about Tyreese!

 

[svalbard]

Loved the final scene. It was horrific and mesmerising in equal measure. Gareth is deliciously bonkers and has gate crashed right into my top ten of villains. Really looking forward to his showdown with Rick.

I wonder is the cross on the back of the car significant and has it a connection to the church and Gabriel. Also the marks outside the church, leads me to believe that Gabriel locked his own flock outside and this is what is tormenting him.

 

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I wonder is the cross on the back of the car significant and has it a connection to the church and Gabriel. Also the marks outside the church, leads me to believe that Gabriel locked his own flock outside and this is what is tormenting him.

I think you might be on right track. Something awful happened at the past, and Rick's group are paying for it.