The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
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His journey home is also detoured from the detour.
I will need an America-bound ship or aDaryl Dixonseason two announcement ASAP.
Oh, and there are super-zombies now.
I dont want to talk about it.
(Unfortunately, I have to.)
Beginning with how it began, the flashback opens with Daryl en route to the Commonwealth.
He has all of his favorite things on him: crossbow, poncho, vest, and motorbike.
He takes him to an abandoned body shop with others trying to get back on the road.
The task is simple: Bring back tall, able-bodied zombies in exchange for ethanol.
The fresher the zombie, the more you get.
No children, elderly, or shorties allowed.
We later learn that hes in Maine.
You could have fooled me with the various accents on display, but Ill allow it.
Now if that isnt the most American thing Ive ever heard!
Bean Capital of the World, so Im guessing the body shop is in Portland.
But hes not making it to the Golden State.
Another member of the group named Juno murders TJ for fuel.
Its actually a nice little bit of dramatic storytelling.
Juno tells TJ hell let him tag along on a hunt if he chops more firewood.
Daryl teaches TJ how to chop wood more efficiently and that gets him killed.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Daryl punches Juno, which leads management to put both men on a freighter ship headed across the Atlantic.
(There were very strict rules against fighting, stealing, and sexual deviancy of any kind.)
They soon realize that they are not prisoners but actually food for the hoards of zombies on board.
Daryl jumps, et voila!
Thats how he washed up on the shore.
But there is onekeyelement of the Maine flashback that Im leaving out.
Someone came back, she says before they get cut off.
Now we know there is some urgency to Daryls desire to go home that we werent previously aware of.
The day or so that passes is probably the most peace that Daryl has had since arriving in France.
He teaches Laurent how to fish and tells him about his friends back in America.
They talk about faith.
What do you believe in?
At night, he muses philosophical with Azlan over the campfire.
One could call that a theme of this spin-off series.
How do we keep our demons at bay?
A purpose, however big or small.
Isabelle wakes up in a four-poster bed underneath a chandelier.
A woman named Marie greets her.
Shes in some kind of Parisian palace.
Quinn soon appears with forearms out and a tray of food.
Hes clearly keeping her here in some kind ofBeauty and the Beastfantasy.
The difference is that Quinn and Isabelle have a history that makes their situation more complicated.
And the fact that she fashions herself a shiv the second he leaves.
Isabelle may not be able to kill him, but shes depressed, not a damsel in distress.
Marie interrupts with fresh eggs and a message from a friend.
Shes … jealous, I guess?
Or maybe shes pissed that Quinn would rather court a woman against her will than stay with her.
Or maybe shes the one who messaged Isabelle and betrayed Quinn to help her escape.
Either way, she betrayed them to Genet.
Like, all of them.
Quinn is immediately captured and put in a cell with, you guessed it, Daryl.
Then things get very, very strange.
Madame Genet addresses her people.
She talks about a united France free from elitism.
Those gathered sing the French national anthem.
While this happens, Daryl is led out of his cell and toward a staging area underneath her.
Hes clearly getting set up for some kind of zombie fight, but theres a twist.
We finally know what Les Guerrier of the Pouvoir de Vivant has been doing with the undead.
They created a substance that gives them rabid and speedy superpowers.
Whats the purpose of this, from a storytelling perspective?
Its gross, and Ihateit.
Plus,The Walking Deadis where I go to escape things like Super-Soldier Serum.
Maybe its just me.
The episode started with such a beautiful image.
We were sailing on the misty water.
Everything was quiet, save for the sound of Josephine Baker singing Jai Deux Amours on Azlans record player.
Whyd it have to end so ugly?
She talks of an enemy who wishes to restore the status quo and points at Daryl.
My good sur, he is not the establishment youre looking to destroy.
Power to the living, Genet says as she demonstrates her new power to kill.
I will never understand the French.
Ah, New England.
You think youll leave that behind when you cross the Mason-Dixon, but sometimes its somehow worse.
You probably know Carol and Judith.
RJ is Rick and Michonnes son.
I hope this series eventually shows the Nest.
Im so curious as to what this haven is like and their plan for Laurent.
What if Daryl loves it?
Where is Daryls vest now?
Anybody got eyes on it?
He lost and regained it in the flashback, but I havent seen it since.
Im too stressed about the super-zombies.
