{"id":85520,"date":"2016-03-14T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=85520"},"modified":"2016-03-13T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:05:47","slug":"walking-dead-season-6-episode-13-the-same-boat-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/walking-dead-season-6-episode-13-the-same-boat-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 13 ‘The Same Boat’ review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that\u2019s another fine old mess we\u2019re in. At least that should be the motto of The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em>, which kicks off where last week left off, following the \u2018progress\u2019 (for lack of a better word) of Maggie and Carol after they are taken hostage.<\/p>\n

Even though it feels like they\u2019ve escaped from tougher scrapes than this before, you get the feeling from the off that at least one of them is about to make their maker. Maybe it\u2019s because there are only a few episodes left. Maybe it\u2019s because we still haven\u2019t seen Negan yet.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because their captors seem just that bit more competent than any we\u2019ve seen before. Either way, there\u2019s tension throughout, and unlike at other points in the show\u2019s chronology, it seems totally real rather than manufactured, and no amount of Carol\u2019s attempts at convincing everyone that she\u2019s got religion can change that.<\/p>\n

She may not be convincing to us, but she definitely is to her captors \u2013 to their cost, as is inevitable. And when the time finally comes to flip the tables, she does so with aplomb, and even by her standards it\u2019s brutal. We don\u2019t know who is the more unfortunate: the woman she leaves impaled to get feasted on face-first by a walker, or the two guys she burns alive. Again you start to question who the good guys really are.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is prodded along by the fact that their situation is, at least in part, their fault. \u201cYou\u2019re not the good guys,\u201d Maggie is told by one of her captors, and it\u2019s hard to really argue. After all, they are the one who attacked the Saviours and killed a lot of their people. Concepts of good and bad seem kind of irrelevant in this world, and nowhere is this more evident than during this interrogation scene.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost a pity that we know Jeffrey Dean Morgan is going to show up as Negan at some point, because otherwise there\u2019s a moment in this episode that would have made for a nice twist. Either that or it\u2019s a top-A piece of misdirection.<\/p>\n

For not the first time, this feels like a turning point for some of its characters, although considering their sudden influx of screen time, we have to admit that we\u2019re worried for Maggie and Carol. As it is, they\u2019re safe for another week.<\/p>\n

So all in all, it\u2019s another episode in which everything turns out fine. Surely they\u2019re luck can\u2019t hold out for much longer though\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maggie and Carol keep their wits about them in the new Walking Dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":85521,"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\/2016\/03\/TWD_613_0049.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85520"}],"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=85520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}