The Walking Dead The Ones who Live, EP 6 *REACTION & REVIEW* 

Lol yall had no faith in Michonne. Questioned literally every single decision she made.😂

It makes sense that Beale was easy to kill, he's an old relic who has been sitting behind a desk giving orders for decades while doing other performative nonsense like having people swear allegiance on a revolutionary-era sword. Beale's mistake was giving a known "A" that briefing without his lieutenants around to protect him. The 2533 soldiers who received that briefing were members of the CRM's elite force, all of whom were at the summit, so they're dead. The show has been setting up this outcome the entire season, Thorne mentioned in E3 that EVERY decision-maker and frontline force member would be at the summit. Pretty stupid to have them all in one place, but it speaks to Beale's hubris/superiority complex. The Civic Republic Council was a governing body within the city, separate from the CRM, and the citizens were fed up with the CRM and their secrecy, in E1, when Rick goes into the city to see Esteban, protestors have signs that read "CRM Transparency NOW!" That is why Michonne tells Jadis she knows the city would not stand for the CRM's actions if they were aware. It would have been nice to see R&M The pacing was fast, but it spoke to the sense of urgency, especially when Rick got the briefing and learned Portland was going to be taken out in less than 24 hours, they had no choice but to do it right now. Once Rick went off-script and killed Beale, it was a now or never moment. The plan was not that outrageous, Rick has said several times this series "you have to burn things to bring it back", and Nat "I know how to burn things" when Michonne first get's to the CRM, and observes the size of the military, she lights Nat's lighter. The show was telling us the entire time exactly how this was going to end. Michonne has always used Walkers innovatively, which was a nice chef's kiss to the plan to pull the pins of the grenades.

Echelon briefing also gave Rick an indication on how many soldiers CRM had.

It 'fell away' easily because the City's government and residents had no idea what Beale and his 2,500 soldiers were doing. The main Army had no idea that Beale and his 'Elite' were destroying cities and communities. They all only knew about the 6-year requirement, the fact that the city's existence was a secret, and that no one could leave. The residents didn't even know what they were doing with the so-called As, which from my understanding might have been happening at Omaha (experiments).

Sister, this wasn't about the CRM or BEALE or THORNE, it was about bringing RICHONNE to a *close.* The World Beyond gave more information about CRM for those who wanted that. Two more episodes would have ended up being FILLER because of the fact that this series was about Michonne & Rick reuniting and then reuniting with their kids. Notice there was NO OTHER MAIN character in the ending either, even though Carol could have been (as an OG). Also, the SPIES who WEREN'T at the event may come back to bite the group in a spin-off down the road but the CRC is too big and militarized to have been left as an obvious threat.

This was always a love story. They said it before ot even premiered. Always about Rick and Michonne. Not Beale or the CRM. Their unstoppable love. Don't know why people act so surprised or get upset about the kisses. They also said 6 episodes to bring closure to Richonne's love story.

They didn’t have Disney money to film and do post-production on a bunch of alternate episodes depending on popularity. That would take a lot of money that they just didn’t have. They actually ran out of money as it was according to Andy and Danai.

Jadis’s file was DETAILED!

“Innocent bystander” ?? Probably 99% of the elite soldiers at that base are complicit in committing atrocities against innocent people. Rick was the only soldier at that base that didn’t have the red stripes yet.

I took a shot for everytime you both said "I FEEL like"... Drunk now, and it's early😅 Second, I'm gonna need ppl to use their imagination! These things didn't take place in ONE day! They were likely there atleast a month, and if you watch every episode back to back to back, you would understand that Michonne started to plan all of this out the moment she got there, and it won't FEEL rushed! G'day

I just want to say that the CRM uniforms are walker or delt proof (so if a walker bit Rick anywhere on his uniform, it wouldn’t penetrate. Also, Rick survived the grenade he launched because he threw it in front of the walkers closest to him and he used some of the walkers as shields because, again something about their uniforms and their bodies as a layer of protection.

The people who knew the echelon briefing (the 2533 people) were all at the base for that briefing. They were all at that summit. Hence, they are now all dead. The only military remaining are the infantry who didn’t know what the elite 2500 did, hence they say there is the ability to reform. Sure, it’s a bit convenient, but it does work for the plot we were given. They were all in one place, so remove them all at once. Clearly all of them had accepted the trade of having their loved ones safe at the expense of everyone else was enough for them to choose to believe that the mass murder was worth it. The most ridiculous thing for me was Rick leaving the hand behind. It was a weapon he surely knew would be useful. Rick would’ve kept the hand. Can’t see a 2nd season of this, but maybe Rick and michonne could pop up in the Daryl spin off or another spin off one day, but their story is complete.

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May I give a suggestion. Please turn on the subtitles so, when you’re talking over the dialogue, you know what you’re missing. You wer chatting over parts of Beale’s briefing with Rick, and over the CEP All Hands that Michonne saw. They were both getting key info that you completely covered over when you were talking about what you speculated was being said. Also, burning anything in a military dormitory is the best way to bring a lot of people to where the smell of burning is coming from.. Michonne couldn’t walk out of that room with that paperwork intact risking being caught and searched. Best course, make it immediately unreade by manually shreddin it. The CRM Hand: Rick took what he wanted out of his quarters and left that CRM hand behind because he wasn’t their weapon anymore and didn’t think he’d need it. The plan was to set the explosives, get to one of the nearby choppers on the tarmac waiting to be loaded, and peace tha hell out before the detonation. Also, this isn’t the entire CRM being taken down. It’s a secret operation hidden inside the CRM. Beale (a completely unreliable narrator) even said all of this coupe ish was his idea and his alone. The majority of the Military knows nothing about what was being planned at Cascadia. Rick survived the grenade: Remember Natasha Romanov in the tank in Captain America: Civil War? Beale mentioned that everybody is ordered to leave him in solitutde before an operation. No aides. No Leiutenants. No interruptions unless it’s an emergency. “Rushed”?? How long did it take Natasha to take down Hydra/SHIELD. *Minutes*. If they’d added another episode, it would have made this not about Rick and Michonne. Two more episodes would have dragged it out. It wasn’t rushed. You just want more. And we don’t know what’s up with the CRM, *really*. And there are still walkers. There’s still a whole nation that needs to be rebuilt. There are still people and politics. The 2 thousand or so people Beale told the Briefing to were the ones at Cascadia Base, prepping for the operation to bomb Portland and begin the takeover of the country. Rick got the Echelon Briefing so he could get that information out to the people. He and Michonne found out that the Plan was horrific. They had to do something quickly because Portland was going to be bombed in *18 hours*. An explosion that size at a military base is going to be noticeable and draw immediate attention to the Base and then the secret operation. Bottom line: It’s a love story, planned to take place over the span of 6 episodes. The story needed 6 episodes. The story took 6 episodes to tell, and they told it. We didn’t need a whole CRM episode because the CRM wasn’t the story. We didn’t need Thorne as the only baddie. No Season 2 is necessary for the lovers. Rick and Michonne’s story is done. We don’t need to see them again. Let The One’s Who Live be other people now.😁 As for you two. I had fun watching your reaction/recaps! How about doing a reaction of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier now that we’ll be having Sam Wilson being the new Captain America, and his friend Bucky Barnes as part of the Thunderbolts. What happens after Endgame for these too is really compelling. Especially Sam and his complicated feelings about accepting The Shield.

You guys are great!!

Brava!

2500 military personnel is a fraction of the overall military

If there was a planned season 2 they could have left both Thorn and Beale alive, had a cliffhanger came back and finished that off and had Richonne meet up with the kids in episode 3 or something. This finale felt like “we’re done” to me so I don’t know where a season 2 will come from. Are other characters coming back? How will they be in Alexandria with just them four and no one else we know? So I don’t know about a season 2. I’d still be invested tho.

Judith is now 17 years old in REAL life❤

In episode 5 they could have found out about the ESCHOLON BRIEFING. Then they would have more time in episode 6

Woman in this reaction is absolutely right it’s s too rushed. Peopel can’t connect to background stories without lot of context which looses interest considering peopel used to watch the show for 11 years and just rushed things in this series which is horrible. Man in video, wat ever u say sounds bit silly don’t try to sound smart ur not

I disagree with your assessment.

I completely agree with your wife your wife and I came to the same conclusion I don't like the ending order turns out of events hopefully the CRM is playing 3D chess and they are waiting to make them move on all the communities 😁😅 and that will be the End Game!!! 🎯🦾⚔️🗡️