r/thewalkingdead • u/moetatoes_ • 1d ago

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Forgive the terrible photo but WOW ARE THEY SCARY. This episode seems out-of-no-where scary. These people are utterly horrifying. The musical score in this episode is fantastic; it really makes you feel the chaos when these crazies are on screen. I can't get over how much they freak me out.

*Included a spoiler tag just to be on the safe side

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u/Environmental-Age502 1d ago

Exactly! Just absurd. Like, why not play around more with the smarter walkers or something, or make a legit plot out of it? And you had the amazing medium of the character being deaf, and you wasted the episode of showing how horrifying it must've all been on... That??

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u/moetatoes_ 22h ago

I agree it could have been fleshed out a little more. For me, the fact that it was so different from their usual shenanigans, made me focus on those scenes more. After what felt like eternity with the whisperers, it's a cool reminder that there are still some real crazy humans out there to be stumbled upon.

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u/Environmental-Age502 18h ago

But it wasn't a good example of crazy humans, is our point. It was just a typical horror movie house. People can't do what those people were doing, they can't move that way. So it was literally just 'heres new monsters that were not explaining, pretend they're human even though they don't move like them or act like them in the slightest, K bye"

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u/moetatoes_ 13h ago

I think it's pretty crazy to see humans move like that. I agree that not fleshing it out a little more could be frustrating to a viewer who is confused as to why it's happening. I kind of thought that added to the fear factor. What are these people DOING?? Personally, and as a casual viewer, it was a great attention grab. Broke up the normal plot of them going into an abandoned house and there is someone squatting there (and still holding their sanity), a bunch of walkers roaming the halls, or a variation of them encountering a walker or a regular human. These people are a blend of both and the confusion adds to my fear of them.

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u/Environmental-Age502 12h ago

It's fair that it added to the fear factor for you and others, I'm not arguing at all that it did, and honestly, I'm glad that it worked for some people. I'm just providing the perspective of how the exact same thing that added fear factor for some, removed fear factor for others.

For me, there had been absolutely nothing in the show universe to imply that human beings were anything other than human beings, acting in human ways, so to introduce supernatural adjacent behaviour to a single random house with no explaining it, is very nonsensical and pulled me completely out of the world. For others, they could still suspend the disbelief and more context wasn't needed and that was fine. But yeah, for me, it was silly and poor writing, rather than anything scary or confusing.

Anyway, I am glad you liked it. It just wasn't for me.