#THE WALKING DEAD LAST DAY ON EARTH FULL#

Granted they might have had some pretty epic victories in the past, and survived where all the odds said they shouldn’t, but here they were facing an enemy who seemed to be able to pre-judge and counter every single move they made. The more the RV-ites ducked and weaved, the more they discovered that their air of tactical superiority, one they had clung with a fierce sense that they had overcome in the past and would overcome in the future – Rick and Carl’s assurances to each other that there was nothing they couldn’t do together ended up looking like the height of vaulting hubris – was nothing but a great big bucket of delusional stupidity. Regardless of which route Eugene, now officially a badass brave-as-hell survivor who volunteered to drive the RV when Rick and the others deciding going overland on foot was their only option, plotted, the Saviors were waiting for them, either freakily silent or taunting them with passive-aggressive speeches that veered between platitudes to treat each other as if it your last day on earth and barely-veiled threats that trouble was coming the way of the Alexandrians … and FAST.Ĭarol’s recently-renewed faith was a wonderful thing although she kept forgetting, and often to her cost, that walkers couldn’t hear her confession (image courtesy AMC) Unfortunately what should have been a quick 23 mile dash to Hilltop became an arduous, almost cruel game of cat-and-mouse with the still-unseen Negan, as his Saviors, who seem to be breeding like rabbits and multiplying in number all the time, formed blockade after blockade, either in person or using burning logs or a chain of zombies strung across the road to stop the RV’s progress. Yes, unlike the much of the back half of the season where the “good” citizens of Alexandria were killing Saviors left, right and centre, calling into question just how good they actually are – one of the things this episode did brilliantly was raise the question of who is really in the wrong, Rick or new Big Bad Negan (Jeffery Dean Morgan) and his Saviors – everyone was simply trying to get a much-loved friend to the doctor on time.Īnd time was really of the essence this time with Maggie deteriorating by the kilometre.

To be fair, at the time that they all come a-cropper, Rick, Carl (Chandler Riggs), Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Eugene (Michael McDermitt), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Aaron (Ross Marquand) are speeding a likely miscarrying Maggie (Lauren Cohan) to get some urgent medical attention.

#THE WALKING DEAD LAST DAY ON EARTH FULL#

It’s good to know that some things never change even in the zombie apocalypse.įor instance, the idea that pride most often comes before a fall, nowhere on better display that in the final episode of the sixth season of The Walking Dead, “Last Day on Earth” in which Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the gang discovered that a little bit of hubris goes a long way and can quite royally stuff things in ways no one, full of pride as they are, actually sees coming.

*SPOILERS AHEAD … ALONG WITH HUBRIS AND ITS INEVITABLE TWIN HUMILITY … AND MORE ROADBLOCKS THAN PEAK HOUR HAS CARS* It was possible that Rick, having not been out in the midst of the brutality of the apocalypse as much as he once was, might have forgotten that you should never pet the walkers (image courtesy AMC)

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