After the mess of Alicia Clark's exit without a reunion with her mother, this episode at least explains why it couldn't happen (then again, if Alicia can forgive Strand, she certainly could forgive her mother).
The action moved along, with just enough of an explanation about what happened to Madison. But again too much happens off-stage such as how the group of parents got ambushed by PADRE at the dock and how their walker bodies just happened to show up later on the shore where Madison is buried.
It is interesting that nobody in this universe has figured out how you can be bit by a walker and yet not die. We were told at the end of the first season by an army doctor that there is a virus that everybody is infected with that turns you into a walker after you die, and a separate bacteria that if you get infected with it, you will certainly die and thus turn while spreading the bacteria with every bite. Yet nobody seems to have figured out that while most people in this universe have died because of a walker bite, some people have not. They could have been shot, died from an accident, etc. And never come in contact with a walker. Thus when they die they turn, but because they don't have the bacteria in their system if they bite somebody they can't infect them with the bacteria. It's just a nasty bite. The odds of this are very low, but it could happen.
This series has become sloppy. Character motivation is often implausible, and the writers go for cheap thrills. You have to wonder how Madison's need for redemption is any different than Strand's, and why do we have to go through this story arc again after spending all of season 7 on it. But it was a decent cliffhanger, I do want to know what PADRE is about.
The action moved along, with just enough of an explanation about what happened to Madison. But again too much happens off-stage such as how the group of parents got ambushed by PADRE at the dock and how their walker bodies just happened to show up later on the shore where Madison is buried.
It is interesting that nobody in this universe has figured out how you can be bit by a walker and yet not die. We were told at the end of the first season by an army doctor that there is a virus that everybody is infected with that turns you into a walker after you die, and a separate bacteria that if you get infected with it, you will certainly die and thus turn while spreading the bacteria with every bite. Yet nobody seems to have figured out that while most people in this universe have died because of a walker bite, some people have not. They could have been shot, died from an accident, etc. And never come in contact with a walker. Thus when they die they turn, but because they don't have the bacteria in their system if they bite somebody they can't infect them with the bacteria. It's just a nasty bite. The odds of this are very low, but it could happen.
This series has become sloppy. Character motivation is often implausible, and the writers go for cheap thrills. You have to wonder how Madison's need for redemption is any different than Strand's, and why do we have to go through this story arc again after spending all of season 7 on it. But it was a decent cliffhanger, I do want to know what PADRE is about.