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

I'm Aeron and today we're talking about season 11 episode 13 titled Warlords.

Aeron, what'd you think of this episode?

You know, I actually kind of liked it. I kept on thinking, I mean that's the thing. I keep on

thinking, boy, I really wish they'd really slow burned the deviousness and the maniacalness,

the evilness of the Commonwealth, because like stuff like this, I'm just watching Gabriel and

Aeron understand something that I knew from the jump, because the show's been pretty blatant

that there's something to be, you know, something to, I just think I would have been a gut punch,

you know, if this show had played the Commonwealth straight as if they are, you know, maybe cautious

and maybe it's hard to get into because they're, you know, they're in this place of privilege and

they don't want to share it with everybody, but like once you're in the inside and then see

that there's multiple levels of like fuckery going on. Or if this is a contrast of something,

but like, I don't know, if I pretend like that was the case, and I put myself an Aeron and

Gabriel shoes, especially Gabriel, who, you know, was starting to really heal and kind of come

closer to the light and all that and to see this kind of horrific, you know, CIA dirty deeds,

kind of done the name of safety and security. I think it works, but I think it'll work better

if the Commonwealth have been a little bit more ambiguous and it just seems like it's their hell

been done and proving Maggie right, you know. Yeah, yeah, and I think I like that. I think I

enjoy what they're rounding into here, even if maybe the road is a little rocky to get there.

We'll talk about it as we go through the episode, but I kind of think they're rounding into like

a message that says like, hey, you can be good and you can use violence in the proper

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