While this season has definitely seen a step up in quality from last year, one thing it has been missing is an \u2018Oh my god, I can\u2019t believe that just happened!\u2019 moment; something of the ilk of Shane shooting Otis, Rick amputating Hershel\u2019s leg or Daryl\u2019s euthanisation of Merle. Well, the wait is officially over.<\/p>\n
Before that, it was a fairly routine episode. In the wake of Alexandria-car-horn-gate, everybody\u2019s on the run. A number of unprepared Alexandria residents get picked off in increasingly gruesome fashion, but since we can\u2019t remember any of their names, it\u2019s not too much of an issue.<\/p>\n
Even when Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Nicholas (Michael Traynor) get cornered, we assume that at least Glenn will make it out. We recognise that characters who\u2019ve been there from the beginning aren\u2019t safe (especially considering how hardly any of them are left), but still, if they do go, it\u2019ll be in slightly more dramatic circumstances than this.<\/p>\n
Not so, apparently. When Nicholas decides to lose his head physically as well as metaphorically, his cowardly legacy is to take Glenn down with him.<\/p>\n
Already there are fan theories flooding the internet about how he could have survived, but we\u2019re putting all our eggs in one basket here: he\u2019s dead. Very dead. Unless that whole scene was a dream\/nightmare sequence, he\u2019s extremely dead.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a shame that he\u2019s gone, but his death goes to serve a purpose in emphasising once again \u2013 not that we needed to be told\u00a0\u2013 that no one is safe. More than that, they won\u2019t necessarily go out with a bang. They could be simply damned by someone else\u2019s ineptitude. Not everyone can be Merle, Hershel or Shane and have a demise to remember.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s not the only shocking thing in this episode. For all his hard-headedness, cracks are showing in Rick\u2019s own armour, and the end of the episode sees him in a very insecure place indeed.<\/p>\n
The Walking Dead<\/strong> <\/em>is back to doing what it does best: giving us a reason to tune in the following week, and counting down the days until we are able to do so. And that can only be a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shocking scenes (and spoilers) are in store in The Walking Dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":81294,"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\/TWD_603_0021.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81293"}],"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=81293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}