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Welcome to The Watching Dead, the officially unofficial podcast for The Walking Dead on AMC, I'm Jim.

I'm Aron, and today we're talking about season 10, episode 12 titled Walk With Us.

Aron, what do you think of this episode of The Walking Dead?

You know what? I think this is an excellent episode of The Walking Dead. It really hit on some emotional cylinders for me.

I'm just so impressed that they completely rehabilitated Daryl's character. Rick Leaving the Show is the best thing ever happened in Norman Reedus.

Yeah, he gets the spotlight all to himself now.

Well, I mean, it's not even the spotlight. It's just like Andrew Lincoln, and I don't think it's any fault of his own, but the narrative, Daryl was never supposed to be in The Walking Dead.

So all of the narrative, he's always going to be a second banana because there isn't anything in the source material for him that you can kind of mind.

And I feel like, so him and Rick always kind of like a split soul in this show, and getting rid of Rick has let him show a lot of his natural qualities.

And some of that stuff with Kim and Judith, the stuff with the Judith and Earl, the blacksmith.

It really hit with me, man. I wish Walking Dead was always this good.

And I have literally no fucking clue what's going to happen next. This episode blows things open so wide.

And I'm not even sure I'm not annoyed with it. I thought the end was cool, and then who showed up to kind of like,

oh, it's all been part of our plan. And I'm like, I, yeah, I'm thinking back, okay, does that all track?

I can't pinpoint the spot where they came up with that plan, but okay.

But it might be, it might be cool. I don't know. I'm not going to, I'm not going to like two years ago, I would have heaped so much scorn on the end.

I'd have been like, man, they had a great episode, and then they fuck it up at this weird curveball at the end.

Two clever by half, but you know, they just showed might be twice as clever now.

So it's easily twice as clever.

Yeah.

But otherwise, like, yeah, like there was an genuine loss, like the destruction of Hilltop felt like a momentous thing.

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