Previously seen covertly legging it from Alexandria every now and then and bonding with Carl (Chandler Riggs), the opening scene gives us a look at what led to Enid (Katelyn Nacon) becoming an inhabitant of the community.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, she\u2019d seen her parents killed and devoured, before subsequently surviving on her own (which involves eating a poor old tortoise).<\/p>\n
The imagery is fairly on-the-nose, and per what we\u2019ve come to expect so far, the insinuation being that Enid has become just like the undead, as evidenced by the way she gobbles down literally the most harmless mammal you can find.<\/p>\n
Despite this sudden instance of character development, her story initially takes a back seat to Carol (Melissa McBride) continuing to pretend to be a domestic goddess. It seems as if it\u2019ll be a fairly conventional episode. Maybe they\u2019ll follow up on last week\u2019s horn-blowing antics at a later date.<\/p>\n
And then it all happens.<\/p>\n
With a swing of a machete and a hurl of a Molotov, the wolves are through the door. Carol\u2019s earlier pronouncement that \u201cthere\u2019s enough things trying to kill us\u201d comes horribly true. No longer is The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em> the kind of show that dangles loose ends. Every action has sudden \u2013 and in some cases immediate \u2013 ramifications.<\/p>\n We knew the wolves would come, and we knew the people of Alexandria\u2019s lack of battle-readiness would come back to haunt them. We just didn\u2019t think it\u2019d happen so soon.<\/p>\n It\u2019s one of the bloodiest episodes for a while, and there\u2019s barely a walker in sight. Although no major characters lose their lives, it\u2019s never without tension; you\u2019re just waiting for Maggie, or Eugene, or \u2013 god forbid \u2013 Morgan, whose samurai-esque skills are becoming a highlight.<\/p>\n If there\u2019s a recurring theme, it seems to be to face up to who you are; Enid does, and absconds. Aaron (Ross Marquand) has to face up to the fact that \u2013 however inadvertently \u2013 his actions have resulted in many deaths, and Carol can no longer hide behind her shield of benign domesticity. Having shown her true colours, she can afford to a bit more\u00a0open about her ass-kicking capabilities.<\/p>\n Yet while we know the undead horde is on the way, things won\u2019t stay still for long. If this is the shape of The Walking Dead\u2019s new world order, then we can\u2019t wait til next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Find out what happened next in our spoiler-filled Walking Dead review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":81054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[8,207],"tags":[4118],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Walking-Dead.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}