Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 4:10:52 GMT
Disappointed. There is no ratings thread.
I would have liked it more if the reasoning behind some of their actions made sense. A lot of their actions made absolutely no sense at all to me. It's almost like you could tell the writers were trying to get from point A to point C, so they completely skipped over point B. I may be in the minority, but that's what it felt like to me.
I did enjoy the last couple of Sasha/Rosita scenes. At first, Rosita was being herself again. Which made me do nothing more than irritate me, because I was still waiting on Sasha to check her but it just never happened. But when Rosita actually showed me her old self, I started feeling differently. I was hoping that this episode would remind me of why I fell in love with Rosita in the first place because this season just made me completely forget why I liked her. But her scene with Sasha was well executed and written, so I did enjoy that part.
The last part is probably why I gave it a 6. Sasha went on this mission with a clear-cut, defined plan that wouldn't end in their deaths. Contrary to popular belief, she still didn't strike me as someone who wanted to death. I didn't get that vibe at all from her in this episode, which is why the ending pissed me off because I didn't buy it. Why continue on with this mission once both of them realized how stupid it was to have done this in the first place? Why not just go back home and wait for Rick & everyone else to finish preparing?
Anyway, I'm always turned off by Black people (especially on this show) sacrificing themselves for people who wouldn't sacrifice themselves for them. When T-Dog did it for Carol all the way back in S3, it turned me off then. So, this rubbed me the wrong way for many, many reasons. Sasha telling Rosita that Team Family needs her more fell flat and rang false. I'm sorry, but Rosita is not more of an asset than Sasha is. Rosita suddenly knows how to disarm bombs, but I highly doubt they're gonna come across many bombs so it's a useless skill at this point. There's nothing particularly special about Rosita that other people in this group doesn't have.
I don't know; when characters say things like that in the show, it always feels like the writers are trying to tell me that I should think this way about a character. Basically, it's like what they always do with Carol; they did the same thing with Rosita in this episode. They told me that Rosita can do everything, but they haven't really shown me that. So, that bugged me. I don't like when writers do that. It takes me out of the story completely.
ETA: Also, the Daryl/Maggie scene also knocked a couple of points off because I've grown tired of them never holding Daryl accountable for anything he does. Especially when the narrative and fandom will drag literally anyone else on this show for crap that's not even their fault, but I digress
I would have liked it more if the reasoning behind some of their actions made sense. A lot of their actions made absolutely no sense at all to me. It's almost like you could tell the writers were trying to get from point A to point C, so they completely skipped over point B. I may be in the minority, but that's what it felt like to me.
I did enjoy the last couple of Sasha/Rosita scenes. At first, Rosita was being herself again. Which made me do nothing more than irritate me, because I was still waiting on Sasha to check her but it just never happened. But when Rosita actually showed me her old self, I started feeling differently. I was hoping that this episode would remind me of why I fell in love with Rosita in the first place because this season just made me completely forget why I liked her. But her scene with Sasha was well executed and written, so I did enjoy that part.
The last part is probably why I gave it a 6. Sasha went on this mission with a clear-cut, defined plan that wouldn't end in their deaths. Contrary to popular belief, she still didn't strike me as someone who wanted to death. I didn't get that vibe at all from her in this episode, which is why the ending pissed me off because I didn't buy it. Why continue on with this mission once both of them realized how stupid it was to have done this in the first place? Why not just go back home and wait for Rick & everyone else to finish preparing?
Anyway, I'm always turned off by Black people (especially on this show) sacrificing themselves for people who wouldn't sacrifice themselves for them. When T-Dog did it for Carol all the way back in S3, it turned me off then. So, this rubbed me the wrong way for many, many reasons. Sasha telling Rosita that Team Family needs her more fell flat and rang false. I'm sorry, but Rosita is not more of an asset than Sasha is. Rosita suddenly knows how to disarm bombs, but I highly doubt they're gonna come across many bombs so it's a useless skill at this point. There's nothing particularly special about Rosita that other people in this group doesn't have.
I don't know; when characters say things like that in the show, it always feels like the writers are trying to tell me that I should think this way about a character. Basically, it's like what they always do with Carol; they did the same thing with Rosita in this episode. They told me that Rosita can do everything, but they haven't really shown me that. So, that bugged me. I don't like when writers do that. It takes me out of the story completely.
ETA: Also, the Daryl/Maggie scene also knocked a couple of points off because I've grown tired of them never holding Daryl accountable for anything he does. Especially when the narrative and fandom will drag literally anyone else on this show for crap that's not even their fault, but I digress