Season 6 | Episode 14 | Twice as Far [AMC] [SPOILERS]

8/10

very tense. as soon as she wanted to join daryl out scavenging you knew she'd be put in danger. she kept wandering off and it felt like an exercise in ''lets get myself killed''. I was waiting for that arrow the whole episode, especially when she was stood talking and vomiting for a good bit. when she launched into that speech, she was a goner. any time a character shows strength, promise, steps up, finds meaning, gets major development and screentime, they get cut short. but a character like denise is disposable in the long run. I was expecting a tara or Abraham death.

Dwight seemed a good bit different to when we saw him in the woods nicking daryls bike and bow. aside from the obvious burnt face, hes more unhinged, like negan's got to him.

where will they go with carol? I read spoilery bits so I have an idea, but i'll shut up now

roll on next week.

did daryl take the arrow out of denise and re use it! Shame to waste it :-o

cjmcork wrote: »

2 observations - how could Denise's brother be 6 months older than him (unless she was seriously premature) and did anyone cop Daryl's tricolour arrangement of his arrows

I'd have to rewatch it but I'm almost sure she said 6 minutes, not 6 months.

Good episode. Slow burner but enjoyable none the less. Didn't expect that to happen to Denise, especially like that. Came out of nowhere. Daryl also looks mightily pissed off, which can only bode well for the last 2 episodes.

"You know how to bite a dick Eugene. I mean that with the utmost respect" - Abe

Denise deserved that for all her yakking. They should really be more quiet when out and about, considering that Carol & Maggie decided to have a shouting match in the woods two weeks ago and brought the saviours down on top of themselves.

I don't remember why that Dwight guy had reason to be pissed off at Darryl. I'll have to wiki it.
Edit: I'm no wiser.

What a fantastic episode! What are they doing bringing the weaker group members out and about when they know there's danger in the form of saviours out there?

Very upset to see Denise die, I really liked her character, her comedy and awkwardness.

Love what they've done with dwights face!

Was kind of building to someone dying and thought that the doctor was the most likely and she was on the show the shortest time. so not unexpected but yeah a dumb move to risk the life of the only doctor in town. Also as soon as you have 2 lesbians on the show they always kill one off so the other lesbian can die alone

As is to be expected from an episode of TWD this episode was riddled with moments of idiocy.

The intro of this episode was so long, boring and drawn out that I thought I was watching some artistic French perfume ad. I was expecting 'Chanel' to flash on the screen any second. You know an episode has been designated filler when they reuse the same shot over and over again.

As this episode wore on I felt like this was going to be one of the worst I've seen. An episode seemingly devoted to Denise, surely the most annoying lesbian character on TV since Tara from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, was an awful prospect.

And yet again we had the tired out shtick of a character facing emotional pain and rather than open up about it, instead walking off in a huff to drag out the 'drama' a little bit more. It's so beyond redundant at this stage. She didn't even have the decency to tell Daryl and Rosita to put that walker out of its misery before she had her dramatic walkout.

Then her passionate defence of her moronic decision to put herself in danger. 'Do you have any idea what that means to me?' No, because you won't f*cking talk about your emotions. Oh my goodness as I listened to her go on and on about how she respects Rosita and Daryl I was the one about to vomit. It reminded me of an Amy Schumer skit. 'I just sooooooooo love you guys.' At this point I was thinking this episode was about 5/10 territory at best.

And then that arrow came.

Robin Hood, Legolas, The Green Arrow...surely none of them have fired an arrow greeted with the amount of sheer relief from the audience as this one. This arrow instantly shot the episode up into the realm of 8/10, easy.

But then the writers can't help but do something stupid. After a moment of pure win we have Eugene biting a guy on the c*ck. I mean, really? THIS was his grand plan to save the day? He nearly got Abraham killed for a plan that involved him biting a guy's crotch through his clothing (and jeans too, I think?) and not only that, but it actually WORKED? Bollocks! Literally bollocks!

This soured me when I was just on such a high note, but I have to take into account the welcome news that Solid Snake aka Carol is seemingly gone for a while now. This is as good as we can hope for since they're obviously not going to kill her off what with her super combat skills and all. I also have to take into account that Glenn was not there which is always good news and means I don't have to dock the obligatory mark for his presence.

Overall I'm feeling a 7/10 whizzing through the air for this episode.

Foreshadowing: Zombie at the start impaled with a metal bar stuck through his mouth. Fade shot of Eugene walking in the background with Abraham. Eugene ending up biting dick.

Carol smoking cigarettes.

Bolt through the eye of lady doctor.

Episode will stick in my head for a while.

Thought it was v good episode, suspense fantastic all through. Re Dr going out, I thought you could see why she'd want to tbh....

Abe, have to love him...!

What happened Dwight?? Overall great episode

mzungu wrote: »

That was fairly average.

As soon as the Doc got into her monologue ye could see the death coming a mile away.

Thats Carol gone for the rest of this season anyways.

Looking forward to the last two episodes though.

Yup, I was thinking the same thing, only I thought it might be a walker. When she started talking sh!te, I just thought 'uh-oh'.

I liked Denise and if I'm not mistaken she was the only surviving new character who we've really got to know, apart from Enid who annoys the living sh*te out of me.

Abe really does have the best lines these days.

The Talking Bread wrote: »

I don't get the hate for Denise?? As to be expected some of the characters are cartoon like personalities with superpowers at this stage whilst she was the sort of character to keep things grounded.

Yeah I don't get the hate for her either myself. She had been the only one of the Alexandrians that we'd gotten to know in any detail and she was one of the few characters resembling a 'normal' person any more. It's starting to feel like the Alexandrians exist just as Star Trek 'redshirts' to get killed off in place of Rick's group. I do agree with earlier posters however that it was beyond stupid for the only medic in the settlement to go out scavenging. Especially since her rationale for going, to identify the meds, was rendered pointless when Daryl & Rosita just grabbed everything they could and would sort it later.

I really like Denise, she was so awkward and bumbling and cute

I didn't mind the character of Denise, but the"acting" she displayed was woeful.