Boooooooooooooooooring.

I hate when they talk religions on this show (or the main one). Maybe it's because I don't believe in God already, but I don't understand how someone can still believe in God in a world like this. Who wants to believe that God is capable of such a thing. It doesn't seem realistic to me, so I hate when they show religious people on this show, it just doesn't make sense.

An episode focusing on like June and Charlie. PASS. Can we get like an entire episode of Dwight or Logan instead?

It feels like every episode of 5B is missing an episode before it... I feel like I've accidentally skipped an episode every week (IF ONLY!!!). It is so hard to get a grip on how much time has passed between the end of one episode and the beginning of the next, and how much distance they are covering or there is between groups. I googled how long it takes to drive across the whole of America. Of course, there are heaps of factors that increase the length of time this would take in a zombie apocalypse, but this episode gave the impression that the group had been on the road for an extremely long time... It seems like the writers are doing the 'staying on the road VS settling down' thing (again), so I get that they are just keeping moving and not necessarily going anywhere in particular (a fucking apt metaphor for FTWD right now, by the way), but they are either driving in circles (and therefore never escaping the watchful eye of Logan, which is their aim), or they are heading so far away from Logan and the oil fields that Logan wouldn't need to do what his people spent most of this episode doing. So either the group has been driving around for so long they could have driven all over most of the united states (and if so, why does Morgan not ship them to Alexandria where he knows there is a strong functional community???????????????????????????? This storyline only works if we assume Morgan and Dwigt have completely forgotten that Alexandria exists. I have actually written a huge rant about this kind of thing that I will post as an article. I just haven't decided if I'll wait for the season to play out fully before posting it. The more episodes, the more fuel for my fire, but it is already a really long rant, so I might post it sooner rather than later) or they haven't really been driving around that long and something caused The Nick Murderer to become so desperate she leaves the convoy (maybe just sick of Laurnaomjune?) and takes up Judaism. We haven't really spent any meaningful time with The Nick Murderer this season (not a complaint, just a fact), so it doesn't make any sense to us as the audience as to why she left. It comes down to character motivations again. None of these characters seem to have any motivations for their actions. It's like the writers just think of situations to stick the characters in, like 'landmines', 'mall', 'nonsensically using ladders to walk over cars like that team building game we all played as kids'.

Anyway, the distances they are travelling and the time they are taking doesn't make any sense to me. And then it seems that they have been using the oil fields, so that is a whole lot of time that seems to also be missing. I'm assuming they found an oil field with a functional refinery. How the refinery functions, and how they have the skills to use it properly to make usable petrol is going to be stark raving nonsense, but ok. I mean, I know virtually nothing about oil/petrol/cars/trucks. But I know that oil has to be processed into different forms of fuel and treated in different ways for it to be usable in cars. I also know that trucks like the one they are holding the petrol in run on diesel, not the same petrol used for the average car. And that you cannot use different kinds of fuels interchangeably - put petrol in a diesel engine, it won't work. So when the truck ran out of petrol and Dwigt questioned how it could have run out of petrol when it was their main cargo, does that mean that they are producing and transporting diesel, rather than standard petrol? Or are they making multiple forms of fuel? In America, is "gas" just used as a catch-all word for fuels? I was under the impression that in America "gas" generally meant "petrol", like the standard fuel for cars. Am I overthinking this? It just seems like basic knowledge is even being thrown out the window. But I guess this is from the same showrunners who wrote characters too dumb to put a bucket under a bullet hole to collect a liquid that would save their lives.

There is also no rhyme or reason to who this group decides to "help" (are they really helping anyone anyway?) and who they'll happily leave alone. Alicia and Strand harassed the fuck out of Tree Picasso, but Laurnaomjune and Cowboy Man are just like, "thanks for looking after our little murderer, but we'll be off now and leave you to your rabbi-ing and will not try to convince you to come with us at all, despite the fact that we thrust ourselves upon everyone we meet, except for this one guy Logan we don't like and now you for some reason kthxbye!"

The dumbest part of the episode was the ladder-ing. Why didn't Laurnaomjune and Cowboy Man just run to the truck? Multiple camera angles showed that the zombies were clustered around the building and the first cars that they walked across, but the rest of the area was relatively zombie-free. Every time they tried to position the ladder on the next car, the zombies would then surround the car and ladder. Use the ladder to get clear of the hoard, then just jump down and run to the SWAT truck. It was infuriating to watch them spend so much time positioning the ladder, giving the zombies time to surround them, when they could have just hopped off the car and run, or even walked fast, to the truck. Why would a writer write that? Why would a director direct that? It's fucking bizarre.

This is a long comment, so I'll just bullet point a couple of other thoughts lol:
- Why didn't the convoy just fight off Logan's people? There were like 6 of them. They had them way outnumbered.
- Why did Laurnaomjune and Cowboy Man take the weaponised vehicle to pick up a child they knew was in a safe place? Why didn't they just take a normal car and leave the weaponised vehicle with the resource they are so desperate to protect?
- Laurnaomjune talked about how the synagogue wasn't big enough or resourced enough, but Morgan left a mall in the dust lol ok, you dumb fuckers.
- Put the fur back on Dwigt's face immediately.