This is the best episode of the series so far imo. The ebb and flow of the argument is circular because Rick is grasping for reasons not to go home. He's like a broken record. He just keeps saying, "We have to go back." When Michonne asks him, "And after that?" You can see that he doesn't even have a response because (like a soldier) he's just programmed himself to focus on one mission. One bullshit, impossible mission, which is to somehow singlehandedly change the CRM. Michonne literally has to deprogram him. Lol.
What's awesome about episode 4 was Danai G. wrote and directed this episode. She's an award winning playwright and personally, I think she did a great job!!
13:10-13:15 What Rick was doing before he successfully lifted the chandelier off was removing bolts in an attempt to separate parts of it, likely he successfully got enough separation that what he had to use all of his strength to lift off her leg wasn't the weight of the whole thing. 16:30-16:35 "Did we see that?" I have watched your reaction to that episode much more recently than you watched it. I remember it. (I am very glad you intrigued me with a comment in a clipshow of reactors, because it led me to you channel. I've been here ever since. I joined your channel around the time we being introduced to The Commonwealth in TWD, I think. I went back through all of your TWD reactions in order from the beginning until I caught up) It doesn't make me cry when they bring up Carl. But it makes me cry when I see it make you cry. I think it's more because I know the show is just a show, but reactions like yours are actually impacting you. I appreciate the show, and some parts of it are very emotional, and some of the scenes get to me. But the genuine impact on a person, unscripted, unrehearsed will always be more meaningful. The CRM likely isn't looking for them. They sent a helicopter to destroy the crashed helicopter, because it could have led someone to discovering the CR and CRM. Unless someone saw and reported that Grimes and Consignee Bethune had exited the helicopter, the general consensus is likely to be "crashed with no survivors" and after a missile strike on the crash, no one is checking how many bodies there were. (This, of course, doesn't mean Jadis won't suspect Rick and Michonne caused the crash to escape. She's savvy enough to put that possibility together, so I wouldn't put that out of mind as a possibility) When a person has suffered an extensive trauma, it takes a toll on them mentally. When it's prolonged, the mind either finds a way to cope, or it breaks. If the mind finds a way to cope, it builds up those defenses, stacking layer after layer of protection to avoid that pain. No matter how much you want something, the prospect of cracking those defenses is often more terrifying than denying what you really want. Rationalizing is a method used to defend against "letting yourself" open up. Sometimes the most frightening thing is the feeling "if I start to be honest with you, I have to be honest with myself. Once I start, these walls I've built may come crashing down, and I'll crash down with them." Though I felt this episode had a few points where I felt it dragged slowly, overall I enjoyed it. Being a viewer, I wanted more movement on the plot, but I started seeing glimmers of deeper motivation. When Rick started to explain about "they took Carl" was when I finally started recognizing it was an emotional trauma reaction motivating some of his past actions and his resistance. Which is when it clicked for me, the reason was fear of opening up, because once you start, you may not be able to stop, and all those defenses may collapse like a house of cards in an earthquake. While I was watching it, I was impatient at times, until that moment clicked for me _why_ [Major props to Danai and Andrew on delivery of their performances] .I don't think Michonne meant to reveal RJ in that moment, she was talking, arguing, in that instant she wasn't "planning" her words, she was reacting. When Rick responded "children?" was when Michonne realized she had revealed something she wasn't intending to reveal yet. But the info is there, he knows. Either she starts refusing to tell him, or she risks just letting him know it, even if it could mean she'll break him, she could run him off, or she could win him over. She didn't want to present it in an argument, nor at a time when he wasn't ready.
We saw how far to traumatized Rick was on the first episode when he tried to unalive himself. The Rick we knew, a leader, wouldn't even think of that. And the collapsing, losing Michone and creating that wall was on the last scene of Michone dream on episode 1. Like after that we knew he accepted his fate and stop trying to escape.
I agree with most of your points except for the wanting to see more plot movement. This is a bottle episode that gave us the time and space they and we needed to have Rick and Michonne come back together. That’s the most important plot element right now. Jadis and CRM coming after them is secondary imo.
@@KCohere33 I was speaking of _as_ I was watching, and then by the end I understood why they spent as much time as they did. It was my opinion as I was watching, and in the end it was more impatience on my part that was fueling that opinion at the time.
That’s not funny music 🎶 That’s Tony Orlando and Dawn singing a popular love song 1973 about a couple that was apart 12 years. If RJ is almost 8 Rick has been there almost 9 years if you count her pregnancy. Michonne let children slip. She was frustrated and didn’t mean to tell him. Rick didn’t respond😳 Danai was the writer ✍🏽 and show runner of this awesome episode 👏🏽. Great acting by both too. Rick had to take several screws out of the chandelier before he could take it apart and lift it. Rick was checker out at the beginning and saw the scar but they were still too bitter to act on it then. Same apartment and they weren’t just crying having sex. Rick was having a panic attack Michonne calmed him by putting his hand on her heart. Scars episode 9:13 or 14. Rick has lost so many and he has PTSD, panic attacks and trauma psychological pain from that and separation. Michonne is the only one who could snap him out of it. He can’t drive a stick safe with one hand. Watch more carefully cause you seemed to miss details. I wasn’t annoyed at all because viewers had to go through the same process they did to understand the existent of the damage and recovery. This is how real relationships resolve conflicts if they don’t give up. I loved its realness and emotion. They don’t have a therapist but thank God Michonne figured out how to get to the root and she came prepared with a pic of Carl. Watch again for yourself.
Wow there cowboy, take it easy. We are all fans here. Not everyone has to be try hard and try look at every single detail. I'm also a very big fun of Rick and the twd universe but I didn't notice immediately the reason Rick didn't drive was due to his hand. At first glance I also thought he didn't know. Later I understood/realized it. You have to respect others.
@@Savellios just filling in the blanks. The details are there for a reason but you are the first person to every call me cowboy and I think that’s hilarious 😂 You made me laugh out loud 🤣
Love the walking dead we are the ones who live great reaction love you girl all of your reaction is the best made me cry at the when they found there family 😢😢
Did anyone else notice Rick's inability to look Michonne in the eyes when he said, "No, I'm not going home" at 6:44? It was as if he didn't even believe what he was saying. Michonne was right. Rick was lying to himself and to her.
8:19 it makes perfect sense if you look at it without bias. Jadis obviously wouldn't believe they died in the heli and could easily go to Alexandria to get rid of it. In World Beyond Season 2, the CRM took out a community that had 100k people with little effort, double what commonwealth has. Alexandria would only take 1 helicopter to get rid of and it would be a strong chance that that's what'd happen.
Without bias would have you asking what is his actual plan. He has only presented michonne and the audience with an idea. What will he do with Thorne knowing about his intentions? When will he take care of Jadis someone who has proved to be a traitor? Why take her word either way? Also why does beale want to promote you after telling you he doesn't trust you and that he knows you and Thorne are A's. What are you contingency plans? How will you prevent them from attacking Alexandria once they start expanding southward? He doesn't have any answers. Even when Michonne laid out his "plan" to him, he couldn't defend it. The only thing that makes sense is that he is afraid and suffering from ptsd.
@@Savellios I think there's a big chance of that, the only problem is, there's news going about that Andrew Lincoln only signed for ONE season and nothing more, but I guess we shall see if he changes his mind soon.
@@Canareh2310 I'm having this theory, that I don't know if it plays out, but I'm thinking everyone left the main show into the standalone spin offs, but they gotta get back everyone together eventually into one show again. A new walking dead with everyone together, and the ones who live could be that. We gonna need all of them in order to defeat the CRM.
It's probably because you young you didn't understand the arguing or what happen when they started to have sex... Rick had anxiety about being/having sex with Michonne after basically being in prison for 8yrs.There a lot of emotions involved that all came rushing back and it scared him.
Yea I did, I think that was pretty clear. I think I even repeated and explained it in different words a few times after he explained it himself, so I don't know what made you think this.
