Maybe I’ll rethink those Scuba Diving Lessons
Show of hands for who was shocked that it was a floater that clogged the whatever was clogged (why yes I do have my boating license, why do you ask?). Ok, now that we all know the only person shocked was Travis, let’s talk about how I totally missed that the floater was the ginger from Flight 462. Did anyone else pick up on that? I didn’t catch it until I watched The Talking Dead afterwards.
Strand doesn’t give a fuck how you feel
Strand is a man with a plan. A plan that involves super secret phone calls on his sat phone and going to Mexico. Seems totally legit. So when Daniel asks Madison to find out a little more info on the Mexico trip, I was a little irritated with him. He LITERALLY just got done telling his daughter to keep her infection to herself because they can’t trust anyone and then he turns right around and tells Madison that he was snooping through Strand’s business and he wants her to confront Strand about it. Kind of a dick move there Daniel. You want the information, but you want Maddie to take the heat for it. Typical man move.
But then Madison told Daniel that she’s not known for diplomacy. And I’m like, you’re not known for a lot of things Madison, why let that hold you back now?
Oh and I have to say this, when Daniel told his daughter that they need to stick together and handle her infection “in house” so to speak, I literally said out loud; “Oh because that worked real well with your wife.” Daniel has a short memory apparently and doesn’t learn from past mistakes. Typical man move.
Land Ho!
Upon seeing scattered suitcases on a beach, Alicia decides they should go and find supplies. Not a great idea, but not a terrible idea either. So Daniel agrees to take Alicia, Nick, and Chris to the beach for a field trip. Because you know, how else is he going to find more antibiotics for Ofelia. Ofelia – literally the most useless character that ever was.
Some not so useless characters this week? Alicia, Nick, and Chris. I say Chris hesitantly though. Why? Because in a lot of ways, Chris is the worst. Look boy-o, just because you’ve killed a few walkers at a fence does not mean you are ready to be killing free roaming walkers. However, in his totally predictable walk about, he did manage to accomplish a mercy killing, so there’s that. I mean, it took him a while to actually kill the poor bastard, but you know, A for effort.
This episode proved one thing to me, Nick will wear anything. First it’s a floppy sun hat, than it’s a pilots shirt. I mean, he wore those old man clothes for all of season one and well into the first two episodes of this season, so clearly he’s comfortable enough with himself to rock just about anything.
That Guy’s a little crabby
I HAD to. I just couldn’t not say it. But seriously, how disgusting was that walker with the crabs?! I mean, I live in Maryland, born and raised. We’re kind of known for our blue crabs. But those blue crabs? Yeah, I was seriously grossed out.
I have to give Nick some credit, he not only got himself out of a….crabby situation (HA!), but he also discovered that walker guts make you “invisible” to walkers. Oh, and he saved the bag of antibiotics for Ofelia. He’s definitely not useless.
Why you should never say that it can’t get any worse
Did anyone else follow the Flight 462 clips? I did, mostly because I am not a good flyer and I feel the need to watch things that scare the crap out of me and zombies on a plane definitely hit the OH SHIT button for me. If you didn’t watch them or pay attention here’s what happened: Flight 462 had a guy turn while on board, no one listened to Alex, dude bit his wife, wife turned, bit the flight attendant, and then the plane crashed. There my one line recap of a fourteen minute show. #Talented
Now, in the beginning of this episode we see Alex and a young teen being saved in a life raft. Flash forward and it’s Alex who is hauling ass across the beach yelling to our little group to run like hell. Let me just say this, if someone is running across sand and telling you to run as well. You should probably listen to them. Running on sand is the worst. It’s a real calf work out. If I see someone else running for their life, that tells me they are really RUNNING for their life.
So Alex, jumps in our raft and then says they need to make a pit stop, pretty ballsy for someone who just lead a giant horde of walkers to our peeps. How do you think Strand took it when he saw the two stow-aways? Yeah, not too well. After Travis said to just let them be towed by The Abigail until San Diego, Strand walked away. Alex and her crispy friend were given some blankets, water, and food.
This is when Alex tempted fate. She said OUT LOUD “This is the worst moment. It won’t get any worse than this moment. Tomorrow and the next day will get better”. She clearly has never worked in a veterinary hospital; you NEVER say that something is the worst moment. Because there is always going to be another way worse massive emergency coming through the doors right after that. Unfortunately for Alex, that’s when Strand decided to run up and chop the tow line. That’s Strand’s way of saying BYE FELICIA.
Next Week
Next week’s episode looks just as intense as this week’s. There guns being pointed at people, that’s always intense right? Daniel and Travis are talking about how you can’t trust Strand. No change there. But hopefully we won’t have anymore crabby walkers. I can’t handle those guys.
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