![]() In 'The Walking Dead' Season 8 episode 2 'The Damned', group members struggle with when to kill and when to show mercy. What does that mean for a future in which, even if we’re all under proverbial one roof, someone’s sure to get mad about something and sides will be drawn anew? Hence, we - like our characters - must necessarily default to our convictions on the idea of whether or not a peaceful society can be achieved with mass murder? Or, more confoundingly, without it, which harkens back to the bigger issue I raised in last week’s recap. Likely even the Saviors, who are all largely strangers to us, so who knows what they’re thinking? If this were just about revenge, every single soul would have reason to shoot first and ask questions never. And we do, too.īoth the guiltless killers - Daryl, Tara, the King’s armored legion - and the mercy-first contingent that is Jesus and to a lesser extent Maggie and to an even lesser extent Rick, have all suffered unimaginable losses. But that’s actually turning out to be part of the fun, as we realize amid all the Season 8 gunfire, that just about everyone on team AHK brings their personal business into the business at hand. ![]() And the Walking Dead writers room has no intention of making it easy on us to choose which side of the barrel we’re on. ![]() ![]() To shoot or not to shoot - that is the question. ![]()
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