This was our world, apart from everyone else in every way.' – sounding exactly like dialogue ripped from the character's mouth. Yes, 'The Lost and the Plunderers' is the first step towards bringing the comic's next big bad into the show.Īlpha's on the way, with one bit of Jadis dialogue – 'We could create something new, we could become something new. Potential future spoilers follow, but we're pretty sure this episode will be remembered as the origin story of a very major villain. Now, the show devoted a sizeable chunk of the runtime to this storyline, and it did it for a reason. (He later explained he did it to scare her away, but that makes no sense.) Now, that's enough to ruin anyone's day, let alone the fact that Rick had a chance to rescue Jadis from her miserable fate – instead choosing not only to abandon her, but also to fire a shot in the air to attract zombies her way. Following a genuinely tense and thrilling sequence (seriously, we're not even being sarcastic this time) at the dump, Jadis not only witnessed all of her friends being shot down by Simon and his cronies, she then had to see them getting mashed up into dog food after she tricked them into a trash compactor (another great B-movie moment). The episode sets up one of the comic's most significant villains

Related: 23 ways The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 2 was the worst 3. Or it could just be a sign they're flailing around, trying to find something – anything – that works, we're not sure yet.īut if this is evidence that the directors have been encouraged to 'find the fun' again, we're all for it. These elements could signify that Gimple and his team have finally realised they're not making an epic award-worthy drama and actually helming a long-form B-movie. And then just before we cut to those titles (now without Chandler Riggs' name, *sob*), we get some more fresh stylistic quirks in the form of a couple of '70s-style crash zooms.

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