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

And today we're talking about season 11, episode 2, titled Akaron Part 2.

It's the follow-up, the premiere, which we were not so hot on.

So that makes me curious, Aeron, what do you think of this episode?

You know, in their old lives, Jim, both the UNI were developers, programmers, and we have a doctrine in programming and automation in general.

Garbage in, garbage out.

You take bad inputs.

Like, you know, if you've got algorithms to add up to and to to get 4, well, if you put in X and parentheses, it's going to fuck things up.

I think that the inputs of this episode from last episode were garbage.

So it does not surprise me that a lot of the answers that they got in this episode were also garbage.

I think the Commonwealth stuff is still pretty interesting, although I thought there was some cringy shit going on in terms of, you know, some of the characters' reactions and things like that.

And then a lot of subway stuff, like, if you're going to have this two episode arc come away with Maggie having a grudging respect for Negan, I don't know why you lean into Negan as an asshole.

When you've just spent, like, a lot of the last season and a whole fucking episode of your bonus trying to say that Negan has different.

And I get it, because I was watching the in the, you know, Angela Kang Zoom call that she has at the end of every episode.

And like, I get to shoot her own Negan's Negan, and he can't, like, you can't expect him to completely change his spots.

But Negan's also not a fool. Then he's astute. You know, he can, he is political enough to warm his way into the upper echelons of the whispers and read the room and make consistently good decisions.

I don't understand why he can't do that with the widow here.

That's just because he loves bald women. Don't you understand? He just loves bald women so much it was for his real problem with women of hair underheads this guy.

I just like, yeah, some of that stuff was, wasn't great. Maggies.

Like, I don't give a shit about gauge. This, this, you know, the shitty teen as I call them.

Yeah, shitty teen. And I, the only reason I know his name is because they said it about 17 times in the course of his, because of course, just by the scene.

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