The Walking Dead season 8: The reunion no one is talking about
By Julie L
Austin Amelio as Dwight – The Walking Dead _ Season 8, Episode 8 – Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC
The Walking Dead Season 8 midseason finale was full of astonishing and heart-wrenching moments. But the episode also gave us a reunion that we won’t soon forget!
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The Walking Dead Season 8 midseason finale is gave us a lot to mull over the hiatus. It wasn’t a perfect episode but the lows were uncharacteristically high points, which is not an easy emotional note to achieve. And while everyone is hyper focused on Carl (Chandler Riggs) and the inevitable tragedy the Grimes family is facing, it’s easy to forget some of the smaller moments of the episode.
There’s always some kind of reunion in the mid-season finale. It’s not always what we want but people are driven together to face the latest danger in unexpected ways and the fallout is what follows for the rest of the season. Of course with the focus on so many different communities certain moments were short like Carol (Melissa McBride) coming in clutch in the first few minutes of the episode after Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) and the garbage people abandoned Rick (Andrew Lincoln).
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And then there was Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Dwight (Austin Amelio) who have been working together since the beginning of Season 8. He managed to lure the saviors with him into the ambush and then helped kill almost all of them, outing himself as a double agent. When Tara (Alanna Masterson), Rosita (Christian Serratos) and Daryl approach him he explains himself, asking for their help now that the saviors know he’s a spy. Almost no words are explained by the other side. In fact the only real answer he’s given is Daryl forcibly taking his vest back.
It was a borderline funny moment that we quickly moved beyond because everything that followed took precedence. But I also realized how long it’s been since Daryl has had his vest. For a while there it was strange to see him without it, but I have to admit that I’d also forgotten that Dwight was wearing it in the first place. Perhaps it’s too much to hope that the vest was some kind of source of power and having it back will prevent Daryl from making even more erratic, irrational and asinine decisions.
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If nothing else, going forward he has no reason to sit and blame himself for everyone that transpired. After all Carl’s fate is finally not something he can blame himself for, nor will be it be necessary to see him deal with that death over other characters who will definitely be more significantly affected (yes I am still salty about Maggie (Lauren Cohan) comforting him last season don’t @ me!). Still, it’s good Daryl has his vest back, next he can find that writer that keeps taking all the full sentences he used to speak.
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The Walking Dead returns for it’s Season 8 midseason premiere Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. Be sure to tune in!