![]() ![]() He remains accusingly focused on Maggie the whole time, and when the zombies inevitably break the door down and begin to pursue the group through the car, Gage is once again at the head of the pack. Gage remains visible through the door’s glass as he stabs himself to death and is disemboweled by the walkers in a particularly grim scene. When Maggie refuses to open the car’s doors for Gage, who is trapped outside with a horde of walkers, the implication is pretty clear. Maggie being basically okay with it - at least after a while - absolves Negan of that it makes it okay for us to see him as the good guy again. By mirroring the scene in the previous episode where Maggie confesses to intending to kill Negan, they’re both on the same moral footing. The premiere’s last-minute flirtation with the idea that Negan was up to his old tricks again was undermined almost as soon as Maggie climbed through the car’s hatch. Maggie was a fan-favorite character before her departure, but Negan became one in her absence. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but the evidence is there if you’re looking. That’s where most of the interesting drama is since it’s where the show continues the idea that Maggie and Negan have essentially traded places. And Maggie, Negan, and the rest of the Alexandria-Meridian cohort find themselves stuck inside a subway car. Eugene, Yumiko, Ezekiel, and Princess continue to spar with the Commonwealth, though more on that in a moment. Daryl spends a lot of the episode alone, combing through old communities erected in the tunnels while searching for Dog, who keeps acting up and running off. “Acheron: Part II” is divided into three separate story strands for most of its runtime, but they eventually coalesce into two. ![]() The Walking Dead season 11, episode 2 recap If that seemed like a reach a week ago, it probably seems a lot less like one now, since it’s pretty difficult to refute the idea that the second half of this opening two-parter isn’t trying to paint Maggie in an especially favorable light. I reasoned that the show intended us to side with Negan in this instance. I said that the idea isn’t really taking with Maggie, since we’re being told that she’s a great leader, but all we’re being shown is that she’s a pretty terrible one, walking her followers into almost certain death despite objections, mostly to spite Negan. In the previous episode, we discussed how this show tends to equate its idea of leadership with moral compromise. It reduces a potentially murderous rivalry to a rather childish game of tit-for-tat.īut it’s important. Maggie might have socked him in the mouth out of anger, but his open admission of what he did neatly mirrors her open admission of wanting to kill him in the previous episode. I was pleased to discover that something I said offhandedly in that recap, that Maggie, by her own logic, didn’t really have much right to be annoyed with Negan, turned out to be a nice little prediction. After being left for dead by Negan, she was piled-on by a group of enthusiastic walkers but managed to sneak beneath the subway car in which a decent chunk of “Acheron: Part II” takes place, eventually emerging from a hatch in the floor, rather predictably unhappy about the situation. Not to ruin the surprise for anyone, but Maggie survived the cliff-hanger ending of the Season 11 premiere. ![]()
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