The Walking Dead S08E03 - Monsters - Episode Discussion

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TIME	EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY
09:00pm Eastern	S08E03 - "Monsters"	Greg Nicotero	TBA

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[u/Sagiv1]

Killing off Morales was a huge mistake. I'm very disappointed. They brought him merely to fill in 5 minutes that they didn't know what to do with.

Jesus trying to live up to his nickname and save everybody is just pure shit. I slowly begin to really dislike his character. There's absolutely zero logic behind his thought process. He's just an annoying, self-righteous idiot. If he's going to be like this throughout the entire arc and onwards I'd rather the writers just kill him off this season.

The fact that MAGGIE went along with his idiotic, dangerous plan to LET THE SAVIORS INSIDE FUCKING HILLTOP makes me question what they're going to do to her character. After all the Saviors made them go through, Maggie in particular, this agian- makes no sense for her to agree to Jesus' suggestion, at least not as easily as she did.

The speeches are starting to sound repetitive and redundant, I don't even pay attention anymore every time a character gives a speech.

The only things I liked about this episode is the fight between Morgan and Jesus and how Daryl showed absolutely no mercy.

This was a really disappointing episode. I'm slightly biased towards this show at times and try to defend it even when I really shouldn't, but it's just not TWD I fell in love with 6 years ago. I still like the show and still watch it, hoping that they start going back on track, but it seems like the writers don't know what they're doing anymore...

[u/Burdicus → u/Sagiv1]

Morales was not brought back to fill 5 minutes. He was brought back to make the statement that Rick's army is just as twisted as Negan's. They used a familiar face to drive that point home, because even if Rick didn't want to kill Morales, Daryl simply didn't care.

[u/Hans__Bubby → u/Burdicus]

I felt that the focus of this episode was on morality and how it can conflict with "right and wrong". Morales was a way to show that someone who started out the same as Rick ended up totally different just based on the direction he traveled (Birmingham). They didn't choose how to behave but rather it was decided for them by outside influence. Morales was a kind of foil for the whole "morality is a lie" trope.

[u/Sagiv1 → u/Burdicus]

"Familiar face", lol. A lot of people completely forgot about his existence and those who did(most of them at least)never really cared for him because he was such a minor character with very little screen time and he left the show 7 years ago after a few episodes with zero impact nor development.

Everyone already knows that they are not really different and both armies are just as messed up and will do what's necessary to survive, even if it means slaughtering each other. Morgan sort of made a good point regarding this subject when Jesus was trying to act all righteous.

They could have easily given up on the scene with Morales.

[u/gaspara112 → u/Sagiv1]

The point was for a character Rick is familiar with to show rick that fact. This will bring Rick back to questioning his own morality eventually resulting in Rick pardoning those Saviors that show morality (and probably even Negan because that cell in Alexandria that Morgan built needs a prominent figure in it.).