Only the Dwight parts though. I couldn't care less about Morgan and Grace's journey. It was boring like the rest of the season.

But I really did like everything Dwight related. I think he should've killed that guy, but I do understand why he let him go, because that's what Daryl did with him.

I don't really understand the reference of the title of the episode...... Unless I missed something.


EDIT: I wrote the first part before the episode ended. I'm saying it already. I hate this new ship with Morgan and Grace. And them making it all dramatic. They spent like a handful of hours together and they expect us to just believe they fell in love? After Morgan was still talking about his wife? FFS, it's just ridiculous.

"210 Words Per Minute" is how fast Grace says she reads, I think she said. Which I guess in a season 5 FTWD writer's mind connects to why she listens to the audiobooks at double-speed (gotta jam as much into life as you can even if it ruins your life!), so we get the significance of the sYmBoLiSM when she slows her audiobook down (she's gonna slow down and enjoy the life she has left). God, I hate this show now.

I was very close to only just giving this episode an 'ok' rating... compared to the vast bulk of seasons 4 and 5, this episode was not as rage-inducing. Don't get me wrong - rage has still been induced, just not as much as usual.

Mostly, it was boring, but not the same kind of irritating boring, possibly because there was no Laurnaomjune, no cowboy nonsense, no having to watch Alicia/Luciana's characters being destroyed, much less Gimple-speak than has become standard (episode was still full of it though). In tone it felt more like old school FTWD. It was barely perceptible, but there were hints of it.

I really, really, really love the idea of the mall. I really, really, really hate the writer's use of it. Finding a mall, even a small one, that has not been completely ransacked is the resource holy grail in the TWD universe. Morgan and his cult members were like, "Yes, dusty old warehouse full of junk. We shall live here. This is our base of operations". Then they find a fucking well-stocked mall with a BUTTLOAD of resources in it, and they're like, "Let's take some stuff, but we won't take over the fortress-like mall; we'll go hide at a near-by ranch". The A&E alone is such a fucking critical resource. Fortify the fucking mall, you absolute dumbshits.

Also very irritated that after all that effort, Grace decided she didn't want to know her fate. So actually, her and Morgan could have instead spent that time fully checking out the mall, and devising a plan for clearing it and moving their people into it. There didn't seem to me to be anything specifically that happened during their time in the mall that would cause her to change her mind...? I mean, red jacket Chuck knew how and roughly when he was going to die, so he made efforts to have a nice experience while he could... so... his nicer death made her decide she shouldn't know about her own...??? Whatever, I'm probably not paying enough attention to really get character motivations anymore, but I feel like when I do pay attention, I end up understanding their motivations even less.

Speaking of character motivations, I'm glad you commented on the ending, Bibi, because I was confused and thought I'd missed something... so, yeah, I get that they were doing a 'you can still find joy in some things, Morgan ol' chum' thing with the remote-controlled car and merry-go-round, and I was accepting of that. I actually liked the car thing, and liked how they tied it to Dwayne. I thought they did that very small part of the story quite well. But then at the end when they had Morgan crying as he was leaving, I was like, "uh, y he dis sad?" He left people in Alexandria he had much more of a connection with and there wasn't anything much that happened in the mall that suggested that they suddenly became best friends... I guess maybe he just knows that he is choosing to leave so he doesn't have to watch her die...? But then, yeah, it occurred to me that they might be asking us to believe that Morgan loves Grace, given that he had been talking about his only real joy came from the people he loved before the apocalypse. *shrugs*

"Candy beansies" is the new "Jimbo's Beerbos" and I want to throw myself off a fucking cliff. NOBODY LIKES THESE SO-CALLED 'JOKES'. Those kinds of 'jokes' and the trucker lady giving everyone fucking irritating nicknames is universally hated across the fandom. I have researched this. I thought maybe I was just an old fuddy-duddy and these kinds of jokes are what the kids are into these days. But nope, the fandom hates it. Obviously someone in the writer's room thinks these things are peak comedy writing and is gonna jerk the joke vigorously all over us every week.

Also, put Dwight's beard back on.