Padre

I didn't mind Alicia surviving a bite as much as some do. Some scientific progress in zombie world? Maybe teddy embalmed her when she was in captivity, who knows, maybe they've got an explanation that makes it more detailed, but I doubt it.

The rest of it was just nonsensical soap opera drama.

Why did she believe a guy she just met who tells her a walker may know the way to padre, but he admits to not knowing much at all. Why stake years of survival skill on something so tenuous. Cos it's the FTWD universe where insulting our intelligence is part of the equation. Certainly respecting it is off the table.

And she gets bit? Really, like she hasn't fought of hundreds, thousands of em ,and no body though to bash his teeth out? Nobody thought to wear body armor, shove a bar in his mouth? This is the best they can come up with?

Alycia Debnam-Carey is a good actress who deserves better than this. Certainly the loyal audience deserves better than this.

This is a game of bluff and they've got no decent cards in their hand.

After an uneven set of 7 episodes spanning from decent to bad to really bad, this midseason finale is the cherry on top of a season that managed to top Season 5's ridiculousness. And this episode brings back the fan-favorite Alicia Clark as the episode focuses mostly on her and the writers attempt to make up the lost screen time she's barely been getting.

And I thought: because the episode is Alicia Clark centered that it's be great? Well... I was wrong on all parts.

This was one of the worst episodes of the series & can be regarded as a disgrace to the franchise.

There's the out of character-ness of all our characters, to the point its now become an insult for everyone watching how out of character our favorites are acting. The coincidences & plot holes to a forced conflict between the two OG characters. It's simply an insult to everyone who loved the first 3 seasons.

Please either cancel this show or fire the writing team.

Michael E. Satrazemis directed this week's episode of Fear TWD. He does an amazing job with the direction and visual storytelling, the camera work and cinematography are all quite great. The sound editing and musical score is fantastic. I think the locations and scenery were perfect for the episode, the sets are improved immensely for this episode. There's not that many flaws with this episode, thankfully. But it's not perfect. The writing is where it's super flawed yet meeting the showrunners standard. Some of the writing and motivations are stupid and very forced, I found myself shaking my head but the episode ended up being quite entertaining, I just wish the writers would be capable of writing non stupid stuff and take a class in writing a smart script and story. But the showrunners are finally moving on with the story and it has lots of things I've been looking forward to, things I thought would appear in episode 2 and 3 but here we are with the mid-season finale and well we haven't gotten anywhere or well what we promised 7A would be and it took us 8 episodes to get to that point. The dialogue is actually improved. I do like how Alicia Clark have taken a leader role as that's what she should have been in season 5, but I just think her reduced role in this season have been bad for the show. The showrunners have failed in many ways and whilst this was a good mid-season finale, 7A have been extremely flawed with the overall story and character arcs being bad and the direction the showrunners took with the story is even worse.

Alicia enlists Morgan's help to search for a new home for her people, but Morgan soon learns the search is more complicated than he imagined. That's the premise of the episode and what to know about this episode is how it also gives us flashbacks to Alicia Clark and her escape out of the the room she was locked inside of in season 6. I will say this about Alycia Debnam-Carey's performance as Alicia Clark, she were terrific and shows through her acting capabilities that she's supposed to appear in every single episode like Lennie James and Colman Domingo, they are all fantastic in this episode. I just wish there would have been more characters involved in the episode as it is a mid-season finale but they got no screen time. Only Morgan, Alicia, Victor, Dwight and Sherry got screen time and that leaves half of the cast not appearing.

"Padre" was surprisingly mostly a good episode, it exceeded my expectations. It's among the better episodes but that doesn't say much. About the writing and the scope of things, how they're relying on the anthology format in what was a serialized TV show is something I'll keep complaining about as it's hurting the show. But having this episode focus solely on Alicia Clark was needed as we got to see how much the character had changed since season 6 and of course her motivations for this story arc. No spoilers but I did feel like the showrunners kind of went in the wrong direction, just slightly though with her character arc in this season. But it's nice to have the character back and to have another Clark back, I'm of course talking about what was confirmed and it's that Kim Dickens will return in 7B and back as series regular in season 8. That makes me happy and gives me hope of a more story focused eighth season, possibly removing the anthology format all together as that's for the best. Did this mid-season finale leave me satisfied? Surprisingly a yes. I think it would have been better if Luciana and those characters would have appeared, in the same plot or a subplot. But I hope they will have a bigger role in 7B.

The Writing this season has been so poor, especially considering the stellar season 6 we had. The whole nuclear storyline was such a big mistake, any logic and believability has gone out the window.

The other major problem this season (and even the last few) is that the showrunners just dont understand who their good characters anymore, or how to write them and direct them. Characters like Dwight, Strand, Alycia, June and Morgan have all been so lovable for so long now and all had some really interesting and promising plots and arcs in seasons 6-7, but of course, as usual, the writers find ways to make them all seem stupid, unlikable or just under-use them.

Ive been late to watching most episodes this season which is rare for me, as Ive been a long-time TWD fan and watch all episodes the day they come out. I (and probably a lot of fans) really want to like this show and enjoy it but thats just gotten so hard at this point. Do I give it another chance when the season returns? Can I even be bothered anymore? I honestly dont know anymore, this episode reminds me of the time they killed off Carl Grimes. Just seems like writers have shot themselves in the foot once again.

I have the idea that showrunners and Gimple loves to loose the viewers with their mediocres ideas. This used to be a great show with the Clark and Salazar families but now is nothing. Bye bye.