{"id":81528,"date":"2015-11-02T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=81528"},"modified":"2015-11-02T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:29:55","slug":"walking-dead-season-6-episode-4-heres-not-here-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/walking-dead-season-6-episode-4-heres-not-here-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 4 ‘Here’s Not Here’ review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damn you, The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em>. We didn\u2019t need to hear Morgan\u2019s back story. Okay, maybe we did, but not yet, not straight after an episode in which a major character\u2019s fate is left in the balance (well, apparently \u2013 we maintain that Glenn\u2019s pretty dead).<\/p>\n

Post-Rick\u2019s Season 3 visit, we see what Morgan\u2019s been up to since then: namely wandering off and discovering himself, all the while he dispatches walkers and anyone foolish\/stupid enough to think they can get the better of him.<\/p>\n

Until he comes across Eastman.<\/p>\n

Played with a detached sense of calm by John Carroll Lynch, Eastman practices the kind of existence that it doesn\u2019t seem possible to live in this world: a peaceful one. He spends his days looking after his goat, practicing aikido, and attempting to impart his way of life onto the initially unresponsive Morgan.<\/p>\n

We say initially, because anyone watching the show will know Morgan had to have got his skills from someone, and that someone is Eastman. He\u2019s a funny kind of pacifist \u2013 the kind who\u2019s capable of kicking the living shit out of you with next to no effort \u2013 but different to the kind of character we\u2019ve seen thus far, and one who\u2019s instantly endearing.<\/p>\n

All of this only serves to make his inevitable demise all the more tragic. Granted, all we see is the bite, but we know how this plays out. And so does Eastman ultimately, who opts to have Morgan help him take the less painful way out.<\/p>\n

Eastman\u2019s beliefs do seem to have some relevance: according to him, humans aren\u2019t built to kill, and can\u2019t handle it when they do so. Pretty much everyone still alive at this point has blood on their hands, but they\u2019re hardly the better for it. Suddenly, Morgan\u2019s state of relative zen seems to make sense.<\/p>\n

Even so, it\u2019s a helpless situation. For every person like Morgan who\u2019s willing to be swayed by reason, you have the wolf he has captive in the present day, who assures him that if he escapes, he\u2019ll kill everyone in Alexandria. Morgan maybe pretty kick-ass with his staff, but he\u2019s one man, and there\u2019s a whole pack of wolves out there. As if it wasn\u2019t clear enough already, the world of The Walking Dead<\/strong> <\/em>is a dangerous place to be.<\/p>\n

At the start, we were worried that this would be an unnecessary filler episode when it was the last thing the show needed. We\u2019d still have preferred a straightforward follow up to last week, but moments of introspection like this don\u2019t hurt either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Morgan did next in The Walking Dead. Spoilers ahead…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":81529,"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\/11\/Walking-Dead-Season-6-Episode-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81528"}],"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=81528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}