With a present as inconsistent as Concern the Strolling Useless, you by no means know what you may get.
Concern the Strolling Useless Season 8 Episode 8 was one other middle-of-the-road installment, but it surely did function reunions, callbacks, and a surprising loss of life that ought to usher within the remaining episodes of the sequence.
Since Charlie’s arrival on Concern the Strolling Useless Season 4, she’s been probably the most polarizing figures in franchise historical past.
That is what you get while you kill somebody as pure as Nick Clark and survive.
There was a component of ambiguity surrounding Charlie’s destiny because the finish of Concern the Strolling Useless Season 7 as a result of, with such a extreme case of radiation, she stood to die quickly after the occasions at Strand’s tower.
Many believed she was useless, together with Daniel, who stepped in to grow to be a father determine to her in her time of want.
I would love somebody, principally the creatives, to elucidate how she was match and wholesome when she rocked out of the truck close to the start of “Iron Tiger.”
Madison: I do not get it. Why did not you need us to see her? Due to the stadium?
Luciana: You have not informed her?
Madison: Instructed me what?
Daniel: I assumed Charlie was useless. I did not assume there was a purpose to. Madison: Purpose to what?
Luciana: Let me inform you on the boat.
Madison: What the hell is occurring?
Luciana: It is difficult.
Madison: No. It isn’t.
Charlie: I… I shot Nick. I killed your son.
Madison: What?
Charlie: I used to be scared, and Ennis was useless, and I… I pulled the set off. I am so sorry, Madison. I actually am.
Daniel: Come on, Charlie. Go, go! Get her inside! Come on. Do not do one thing you are gonna remorse.
Madison: Who mentioned I will remorse it?!
Luciana: Allow us to clarify.
Madison: No! Get off me! There’s nothing to elucidate! Get the hell away from me! Each of you!
Then once more, Troy Otto and Madison Clark returned from the useless in latest episodes, so we must always roll with the punches till that is over.
What’s making these storylines tougher to abdomen is that TWD: Daryl Dixon and TWD: Useless Metropolis have each reinvigorated this shared TV universe.
It virtually appears like we’re being punked with these wild storylines, however I can not deny that “Iron Tiger” was entertaining.
The tempo was off the charts, and its occasions may have some important ramifications sooner or later.
Followers have been clamoring for a reunion between Madison and Charlie because the latter took the previous’s son away from her.
When you watch Concern the Strolling Useless on-line, Madison would transfer mountains for her kids, so after all, she was going to really feel a way about assembly the one who ended her son’s life.
The excellent news? The writing for Madison was first rate, at the least initially, as she flew off the deal with and known as the teenager out for her actions.
Luciana: This can be laborious to listen to, however we gave her the identical factor that everybody else desires… a second likelihood.
Madison: Even Alicia?
Luciana: Alicia was the primary one to forgive.
Madison: I do not assume I can do this.
Strand: Nobody’s asking you to.
Charlie: Victor… can I speak to Madison?
Strand: I do not assume this can be a good time.
Madison: No. Let her. I need to hear what she has to say.
Charlie: I do not blame you for feeling the best way you do. I hated myself for a very long time after what I did to Nick. And I do not anticipate you to forgive me or something, however I simply… I really want to say this as a result of I truthfully do not know if I am ever gonna see you once more, so…
Madison: No, this isn’t… this isn’t for me. That is for you, in an effort to really feel higher about what you probably did to Nick.
Charlie: I used to be 11. I used to be 11 years outdated, and I used to be scared, and I used to be being utilized by individuals who have been older than me, and I simply… Look. I actually am sorry that I took Nick from you. I am so sorry I… I took him from the world. I actually have tried to show all that damage and all of the ache and… and switch it into one thing extra. That is why I spend each single day doing what I am doing. It is… It is what makes issues like this doable. As unhealthy as his loss of life was, one thing good did come out of it, okay? And if… if there’s something I can do that will help you see that good, simply inform me. I will do it.
Charlie taking the explosive-filled truck straight in Troy’s course would by no means result in something good, however the present did an amazing job of exhibiting this internal battle for Madison as she realized sending Charlie to a really doubtless loss of life did not make sense for both of them.
Deep down, Madison has been engaged on her internal demons and is attempting to wrestle along with her personal selections within the apocalypse, so listening to her decide up the walkie-talkie to attempt to avert the lethal chain of occasions she began was satisfying.
The one flaw in her actions is that she ought to have been conscious there was an opportunity Troy was listening in. Significantly, this present and its freaking walkie-talkies are a catastrophe ready to occur.
Charlie’s battle after being captured was nicely performed by Alexa Nisenson. On the one hand, Madison and co. might hand over P.A.D.R.E.’s location, however on the opposite, it will be taking this location away from the entire individuals Madison was taking care of.
Strand: I informed you this wasn’t an excellent time.
Madison: No. There’s something she will be able to do. You snuck into the stadium, you fooled me, you fooled my son, you fooled Alicia, Victor, everybody. I would like you to do the identical with Troy Otto.
Charlie: You need me to search out out what he is planning?
Madison: Nope. I need you to do one thing else. I need you to kill him. Luciana: Madison, do not do that to her.
Madison: You took the stadium from me. You took my son from me. That is the least you are able to do.
Charlie: Madison? You are proper. I will do it.
Troy’s desperation confirmed when he made these thinly veiled threats as a result of he ought to have killed Victor Strand in Concern the Strolling Useless Season 8 Episode 7 if he wished us to consider he meant enterprise.
Charlie killing herself to protect the situation of P.A.D.R.E. got here out of nowhere, but it surely was the one manner she might safe the protection of the kids.
She could have arrived on the present as a irritating character, however there have been many first rate Charlie moments over time.
Now that she’s useless, it serves as a catalyst for Madison to grow to be extra cutthroat as a result of Daniel and Luciana are very doubtless finished along with her.
Madison had sturdy connections with Daniel and Luciana earlier than her storyline was minimize brief on Concern the Strolling Useless Season 4, but it surely’s laborious to inform the place these writers will take her subsequent.
Charlie: Why are you chopping their arms off?
Troy: Effectively, you gotta cross the time someway.
Charlie: You need Madison to assume they’re Alicia. Why did you kill her?
Troy: I am the one asking the questions. And seeing because it feels like I am not the one individual to have killed a Clark, I gotta know… Is what Madison mentioned true? Did you kill Nick? He was a good friend of mine. Extra like a brother, really. Yeah, we have been higher suited to this world than the final one. At the least that is what I assumed till I heard what occurred. So why is Madison attempting to guard you?
Charlie: She’s giving me a second likelihood.
Daniel’s anger was warranted as a result of, when you concentrate on it, he at all times held on to the hope that he would reunite with Charlie in some unspecified time in the future.
Understanding she was alive, thrown into the firing line by Madison, after which killing herself to guard Madison’s individuals will not wash very nicely with him.
It is a disgrace that this storyline has precipitated this main deadlock in Daniel and Madison’s relationship as a result of they seem to be a power to be reckoned with once they work collectively.
Madison catching up with Troy and studying that he has a lacking daughter wasn’t totally unpredictable.
There needed to be a purpose he was monitoring Madison, and in all chance, he’ll drop some bombshells on her the subsequent time they cross paths.
It is a disgrace we do not have time to do that storyline justice as a result of we must always have a Troy Otto flashback storyline to fill in all of the blanks.
Sadly, that will not be occurring as a result of we do not have sufficient time. Troy ought to have been the villain for the whole thing of Concern the Strolling Useless Season 8 to present his return time to breathe.
What are your ideas on Charlie’s loss of life, TV Fanatics?
Do you assume it was justified, or do you assume she had redeemed herself?
Do you assume Daniel will return to take down Troy, or is he off the present for good?
What are your ideas on the reunions and callbacks?
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Concern the Strolling Useless continues Sundays at 9 p.m. on AMC and AMC+.
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