The Walking Dead | Season 7 | Episode 6 | Swear [AMC] [SPOILERS]

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The Walking Dead - Season 7

Episode 6 - "Swear"

Airdate - November 27th on AMC at 9/8c | November 28th on FOX UK at 9PM

Someone stumbles upon a brand new society unlike anything seen before.

Promo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemB0KhnOyE

Sneak Peek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ATd-BXR29o

nc6000

5

Excellent. More new characters to further dilute the story.

Hande hoche!

5

At least they seem to be having a couple of different locations in the same episode.

The Talking Bread

5

Hande hoche! wrote: »

At least they seem to be having a couple of different locations in the same episode.

That first video is a preview for next 3 episodes until MS Finale!!

Hande hoche!

5

The Talking Bread wrote: »

That first video is a preview for next 3 episodes until MS Finale!!

At the rate this show is going, I have no idea if you're joking or not...:)

The Talking Bread

5

Hande hoche! wrote: »

At the rate this show is going, I have no idea if you're joking or not...:)

no, genuinely, it is! Listen to the intro. "In the weekS ahead" ! I know what/who this weeks episode centres around already!

Hande hoche!

5

Fair play, you're completely right. Assume the episode is about Tara and black lad ,who's name I can't remember, so.

The Talking Bread

5

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Fair play, you're completely right. Assume the episode is about Tara and black lad ,who's name I can't remember, so.

more or less, yes..... (His name is Heath). Both actors were off set for the guts of a year (pregnancy and the actor that plays Heath stars in a new version of 24) so this is catching up on them. Tara still doesn't know her missus is dead as they have been out scavenging for over a fortnight

That_Guy

3

This show is killing me from boredom.

EDIT: If they were going to torture Daryl in Negan's compound, they should replay all the episodes from this season thus far.

Marcus Antonius

5

Again hardly a great episode as everyone else has noted. I gave it a 6 though. The lad who's name I can't recall I don't care about at all. Didn't think I was particularly keen on Tara either, however there were a few moments in the episode that were funny and made me like her more as a character. Is it annoying that they seem to be stuck on this one character/area a week bollox, yes, but I was pleasantly surprised. Seeing the preview thought it would probably be the worst episode of the series (which is saying something) but it was watchable with a few nice moments.

Yakuza

Based on all the comments above (I've not read the spoilers) I think I'll save next few episodes for a Christmas binge, hopefully that will deaden the pain that this season has become, after an eye-popping (in Glenn's case, literally) opening incredibly dull. The last few episodes simply haven't been worth the bother of watching individually.

loveisdivine

Maybe that's why they copped out and didn't show who got killed at the end of the last season. Because they knew without it, this season would have been even more dull! Imagine how much more boring all these episodes would have been had we not had that very intense/action packed opening.

arayess

if only rick hadn't given up the guns , we would have been spared these episodes in explaining how rick got more allies/guns etc..

damn you rick

Shane St.

4

I watched this and westworld b2b. Absolute chore to get through this but Westworld had me on the edge of my seat. Hope it picks up soon but I've found every episode bar the opener this season very boring

frozenfrozen

I think I just finished watching this episode. can't be 100% sure because my brain started to bleed about 45 seconds in from the boredom

titan18

About a minute in, and I'm already meh to this. I forgot these 2 characters even existed tbh. Wouldn't be so bad if knew it was going back to Daryl or Rick soon, but these 2 for the whole episode, **** me.

uncleoswald

6

I enjoyed it. But then I have enjoyed most of this season bar the first episode. Don't get me wrong, it's not vintage TV or even vintage The Walking Dead but I am enjoying the slower pace and letting the characters breath in their own episodes.

thegreengoblin

arayess wrote: »

if only rick hadn't given up the guns , we would have been spared these episodes in explaining how rick got more allies/guns etc..

damn you rick

If only Alana Masterson hadn't got pregnant then the writers wouldn't have had to write her character out of the show for a while and then they wouldn't have had to write this week's episode!

Unearthly

Irrelevant characters, irrelevant storyline, irrelevant episode. At least we are close to the mid season finale where stuff happens

Ping Chow Chi

3

What a poor episode - I stopped reading the comics at around this point and I can see why now

skipper_G

4

My expectations were low going into this one given the fractured nature of the storytelling so far this season. In the end it wasn't as bad as I expected, Tara is a quirky and likeable character but the slow pace hampered the episode. It felt especially noticeable at the end, they finish with a character we've just been reintroduced to (having not seen her for 9 episodes) dealing with emotional fallout of something that happened 6 weeks ago for us the viewers. Why am I supposed to care again ?

Sand walkers were kinda cool though

Hande hoche!

5

Decent enough episode, enjoy seeing the different communities. The new ocean based place seems to add credence to some posters who have suggested the merits of just up and moving. Also a bit more on the ruthlessness of the Saviours. Think Tara is a decent, likeably character too. Seems to find herself over her head frequently.

Dandelion6

I kind of liked the episode (I really like Tara and she was even more likeable in this one) but geographically it annoyed me ... Alexandria is a minimum three hour drive from the ocean and either over a very long bridge or through a very long tunnel!

johnruns

Maybe a stupid question but what was the ppp thing about?

alchemist33

4

I liked the first three episodes when many didn't, but it's gone beyond a joke now. The direction, the tone, the music were all over the place. One second Tara was desperately running through walkers, the next she stood, pensively staring at them while they slowly circled around her. The moments of humour seemed forced and didn't rescue it. Definitely the worst so far for me.

Scraggs

Tara and Heath (or Keith like I thought!) are such weak charcaters that I didn't even remember they were gone scavaging. For the first few mins of the episode I was trying to place whether Tara had died pre/post/during the attack on the Saviours outpost. Anyway Tara is not a strong enough character imo for an episode without the gang but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Does the group she encountered appear in the comics?

Pete Moss

If I could've voted 0 for that episode, I would have. By far the worst episode of this show I've ever sat through. I'd class myself as a fan of the show and comics. I've read up to the latest issue, watched the show from when it aired and rewatched it from scratch last year, but had zero interest in that episode. It was up there with something the SyFy channel would produce.

I feel like I could've skipped this episode and watched next week's episode without missing anything at all. I get what the writers are doing, they're showing a bigger world with Alexandria, The Kingdom, The Sanctuary, The Hilltop and now Feminist Island, but the writers are milking the baps off the show now.

Hopefully next week is a case of onwards and upwards.

Mr.Nice Guy

5

This may come as a surprise but not only did I like that episode, I actually thought it was the strongest of the season.

As the opening minutes passed, a smile crept across my face - a rarity watching this show - wait a minute, I thought, is this another episode without Austin Tatious aka Negan? Another episode without the Disney King and his pal Richard Parker? Another episode without Solid Snake aka Carol? Oh writers, with these non-annoying characters, you are really spoiling us…

But then I groaned in disappointment - a common occurrence when watching this show - as Tara scanned this strange, new camp it dawned on me that there were no men around.

No...please no...I said to myself...it's a community that has shunned men, isn't it? That's what this week's whacky storyline is going to be about, right? It seemed like exactly the kind of goofy nonsense that you would find in a comic - and this show just loves putting the goofy nonsense found in comics on TV. I could even picture the dialogue: 'Tara, we have learned to live in a world without men. We call ourselves the Amazons.'

I was readying another dismal score at that point, but wait: they swerved me this time. It turns out that they aren't against men. This camp wasn't founded by Germaine Greer after all.

Were there flaws? Sure. I mean it's a bit much to expect an entire community of women to swear off men for life and effectively become a type of nunnery, no matter how traumatic the events they went through were; you would think there would be more Cyndies out there. Also made little sense to have a policy of shooting strangers on sight if we're talking about only one stranger: you'd think there would be times a potential hostage would be of more benefit, e.g. to reveal what plans are afoot if an attack is on the way.

Also I was a bit mystified as to what happened to the second woman Tara escaped from (not the one Tara had a showdown with). She must have fallen down a plot hole.

But on the bright side, Tara's character was given a big boost by this episode imo. One thing Tara has, which the other characters don't, is humour. She had some nice lines in this episode and I liked her telling Rachel she was her number one fan. A humourous character is needed on this show with Abraham gone and Eugene the past two seasons turning into an irritating crybaby.

I also enjoyed the final scene featuring Cyndie and the walkers where, for the first time in ages, the walkers actually felt like some sort of a threat. There was also a nice bit of suspense as we awaited finding out what happened to Heath - and I thought that was a nice touch with the walker that seemed to resemble him at the end, but wasn't him.

And so I found myself really liking this episode with a few minutes remaining and I was thinking this episode was about a 7-ish - but then they overreached themselves. That music at the end was atrocious - we have to lose that sax solo! And as noted we had Eugene blubbering away and then Tara processing the death of her love in, what, two minutes? Couldn't maybe save that for a future episode, or do we have more roller skating scenes with Carl and Enid to focus on?

Overall, though, I liked the episode. Last week I gave my first pass mark of the season and this week I'm giving my first honour mark: 6/10.

Nervous Wreck

"Shît sandwich."

Oodoov

1

The writers need shooting at this stage. Really poor stuff.

alchemist33

4

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

This may come as a surprise but not only did I like that episode, I actually thought it was the strongest of the season.

No, doesn't surprise me at all.

The Talking Bread

5

The most ridiculous aspect was Heath's Walker doppleganger walking around the bridge among the other sand walkers with identical dreadlocks, blue t-shirt and not a grain of sand on her!

HighLine

Highlights for me were the close up shots every time Tara was running.

bantee

3

Wow Tara is such a weak and annoying character, her stupid trying to be quick wit really grates on me, and she's actually a piss poor actor. The guy that plays Heath is fairly decent though, plus the effects of the sand walkers was well done. Poor enough episode overall though, my patience with the show is nearly gone now.

silverharp

bantee wrote: »

Wow Tara is such a weak and annoying character, her stupid trying to be quick wit really grates on me, and she's actually a piss poor actor. The guy that plays Heath is fairly decent though, plus the effects of the sand walkers was well done. Poor enough episode overall though, my patience with the show is nearly gone now.

her acting was awful , it was like some bit character on a cheap comedy, I was hoping they had shot her

Agricola

That was the worst episode yet imo. Im actually at the stage now that when I can see they are hunkering down for a long boring, needless chinwag, I just FF through it. Did that a couple of times in this episode. Absolute dirge, as was much of the dialogue and acting. Her bad impersonation of Matthew Perry got old really quickly.

As previous poster said, think I will forget this now and just watch a bunch of episodes at once some time in the future. Can't abide with filler, time wasting bullshít like this.

John_D80

Watched the first 10 minutes. Got a pain in my hole from it. Turned it off.



If next week isnt seriously better, then i'm done with this show.

The Talking Bread

5

John_D80 wrote: »

Watched the first 10 minutes. Got a pain in my hole from it. Turned it off.



If next week isnt seriously better, then i'm done with this show.

You based your whole judgement of the episode on first 10 minutes........

Guffy

3

So this half of the series is introducing us to all the groups that will band together and the next half will be them banding together. Now will the assault on saviour central be the cliff hanger or next season? **** me 13 weeks of boredom

A motly crew banded together under maggie v neagan, all of the neagans

D0NNELLY

5

The Talking Bread wrote: »

You based your whole judgement of the episode on first 10 minutes........

And this series as a whole..

John_D80

The Talking Bread wrote: »

You based your whole judgement of the episode on first 10 minutes........

Yes.

Too stupid to even justify any more of my time being wasted on it. If the first ten minutes of an episode are so bad that they make a person feel compelled to switch it off, then that would usually lead to someone having a poor opinion of it.

I dont see how this is confusing for you.

John_D80

D0NNELLY wrote: »

And this series as a whole..

Incorrect. Judgement on the series as a whole and consideration being given to ceasing watching it, is based on the entire disjointed and almost nonsensical car crash that the series has become.

Robsweezie

6

Your enjoyment of this episode rests on whether you like Tara as a character, and if you're happy to see her have her own ep.

I liked it for what it was, a bit of exposition for tara, someones whos only been a bit player up to this point. She's funny and relatable.

Yet I can't help but feel they might be building her up just to kill her off later on in the season. She's the type of character people wont grieve for long. But the writers may be fleshing out her arc to get us to the point where we'll care more if it does happen.

I'm glad they didn't drag out the reveal of denise's and the other deaths to tara, and have her go on not knowing.

The Talking Bread

5

John_D80 wrote: »

The Talking Bread wrote: »

You based your whole judgement of the episode on first 10 minutes........

Yes.

Too stupid to even justify any more of my time being wasted on it. If the first ten minutes of an episode are so bad that they make a person feel compelled to switch it off, then that would usually lead to someone having a poor opinion of it.

I dont see how this is confusing for you.

Oh, nothing confusing on my behalf. But you seem to be confused as you didn't actually watch the episode so you aren't really in a position to judge the EPISODE. You are in a good position to judge the first 10 minutes though. What are you going to do if you aren't keen on first 10 minutes next week? Flick over again?

John_D80

The Talking Bread wrote: »

Oh, nothing confusing on my behalf. But you seem to be confused as you didn't actually watch the episode so you aren't really in a position to judge the EPISODE. You are in a good position to judge the first 10 minutes though. What are you going to do if you aren't keen on first 10 minutes next week? Flick over again?

No, I'm not at all confused. As I said already I deemed the first ten minutes to be so bad that I didn't feel I wanted to sit through the full episode.

So in my own opinion when a episode of a TV show is that bad that you cant even get to the end then that is a bad episode. Pretty simple reasoning I would have thought.

The Talking Bread

5

John_D80 wrote: »

No, I'm not at all confused. As I said already I deemed the first ten minutes to be so bad that I didn't feel I wanted to sit through the full episode.

So in my own opinion when a episode of a TV show is that bad that you cant even get to the end then that is a bad episode. Pretty simple reasoning I would have thought.

I agree Simple reasoning!

John_D80

The Talking Bread wrote: »

I agree Simple reasoning!

Although not simple enough for you it seems, if I had to explain it twice!!

The Talking Bread

5

John_D80 wrote: »

Although not simple enough for you it seems, if I had to explain it twice!!

There is a couple of interpretations of the word simple! That's all I am saying. If you were a fan of the show you would have stuck it out an extra 40 minutes or so.
Maybe you may not have liked the whole episode but you are not qualified to say you didn't as you didn't watch the bloody thing. In fact you didnt even watch 80% of it.

Now that is simple reasoning.

John_D80

The Talking Bread wrote: »

There is a couple of interpretations of the word simple! That's all I am saying. If you were a fan of the show you would have stuck it out an extra 40 minutes or so.
Maybe you may not have liked the whole episode but you are not qualified to say you didn't as you didn't watch the bloody thing. In fact you didnt even watch 80% of it.

Now that is simple reasoning.

Yes I am well aware there are multiple interpretations of the word simple. Seems you are having trouble keeping up with your own double entendre!!

And I most definitely am a fan of the show. Is there a rule that says as a fan I absolutely must sit through every single episode, no matter how tiresome I find them.

I found the first 10 minutes to be so hard to watch that I had no wish to try and sit through any more of the episode. Ergo, when an episode of a tv show makes me feel like that, in my opinion it was a terrible episode.

I am more than qualified to decide and express what I do and dont like based on my own opinion.

hawkelady

This was an awful episode. I watched the whole lot and it put me right off.. I know it's one episode but my god it's the worst one they ever made by a mile

arayess

Pete Moss wrote: »

I feel like I could've skipped this episode and watched next week's episode without missing anything at all. I get what the writers are doing, they're showing a bigger world with Alexandria, The Kingdom, The Sanctuary, The Hilltop and now Feminist Island, but the writers are milking the baps off the show now.
s.

feminist island?
I called it the same myself

The Talking Bread wrote: »

You based your whole judgement of the episode on first 10 minutes........

a good call on his part.
judged it around the same mark myself but hung on till the end ...my judgement was right