![]() More: ‘The Walking Dead’ needs to kill Negan to survive We see flashes of the characters not intimately involved in the battle: Carl is feeling sympathetic to a stranger while scavenging for gas (he'll later return and leave the man food), Michonne and Rosita appear to be recovering from last season's injuries and baby Judith is now a small child, further muddying the series' notoriously ill-defined timeline. Crispin's Day best with speeches as the troops ready for battle with the Saviors. Rick, Maggie "they say you can wage war through the second trimester" Green and King Ezekiel do their St. We'll get to what Old Man Rick might mean later.īut the episode's first few scenes have the benefit of rallying both the citizens of Alexandria, the Kingdom and the Hilltop and the audience members that need to be persuaded back onto the show. #WATCH THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 8 EPISODE 1 SERIES#The episode opens with flashes of what we are going to refer to as Old Man Rick from here on, which some fans may have noticed were also in the trailer the series debuted at Comic-Con this year. The new season (according to the trailers, the cast and filmmakers), is an "all-out war" between Rick and Negan, and it seems we're nowhere close to the conclusion of that war yet, even if Rick won a battle. The premiere was a promising start to the season, but it will be hard for the series to follow through with equally gripping and smart episodes going forward. (I'd argue that until Negan is dead and gone for good, The Walking Dead won't be truly great again.) It righted a few of the wrongs of Season 7, focusing on our heroes, allowing them agency and keeping them together. That Team Rick actually had numbers and good strategy on its side (Andrew Lincoln told USA TODAY it was "the first time in 100 episodes that Rick has come up with a really good plan") was only an added bonus. "Mercy" is nowhere near the best episode The Walking Dead has ever aired, but it's an effect season premiere that manages to add some energy into the aging series and at least partially hits the reset button. ![]() go to war with Negan's Saviors in the new season of AMC's 'The Walking Dead' If there's one thing we can glean from the explosive but cagey Season 8 premiere (and 100th episode) of AMC's zombie apocalypse series, it's that the show is actively trying to shrug off it's creative problems from last year and perhaps win back some viewers after a ratings decline. This is not last year's sad and slow Walking Dead. ![]() ![]() Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 1, "Mercy." To read our recap of the Season 7 finale, click here. Meanwhile, Alexandrians scramble to protect themselves when a violent storm leaves them vulnerable to walkers.Watch Video: 3 scenes from 'Walking Dead' premiere that blew our mind Pope suspects Maggie is behind the attack, while Daryl treads carefully. “The Reapers defend Meridian from an incoming herd. Here’s the official synopsis of “For Blood” from AMC: The Walking Dead season 11 episode 8 synopsis That’s why Maggie is working so hard to reach Meridian, but her journey could come at a terrible price. Sure, they’ve faced terrible villains before, but when you’re hungry and trying to fight it makes it that much harder. The stakes have never been higher for the survivors. The survivors have been trying to reinforce the walls but they’re also hungry and desperate to find food so when the wall comes down in the middle of a storm, it’s a desperate time. ![]() Meanwhile, there’s a storm brewing in Alexandria. The Reapers think that Meridian is about to be attacked by walkers, but what they don’t realize is that Maggie and her people are walking among the herd thanks to Negan’s Whisperer training. “For Blood” will feature the impending battle between the Reapers and Maggie’s group. There are a number of stories in motion this season. What to expect in The Walking Dead season 11 episode 8 “For Blood” ![]()
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