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Welcome to The Watching Dead, the officially unofficial podcast for The Walking Dead on AMC. I'm Jim. I'm Aaron and today we're talking about season 11 episode 8, the season 11-A finale. I don't know what it's called, but the title of it is Hwacha.

Hwacha. That's not true. That's not true. I wish the title was Hwacha. It's for blood or something. It is. It's for blood. But come on, that's such a better. It's a still have time.

They can call episode 9 when they come back. They can call it Hwacha. We're right in the middle of Hwacha. I just love the word Hwacha.

I love the word Hwacha, too. I had a little Hwacha renaissance. I looked up some information about it. I got a pretty solid theory about why we saw it. Maybe hilarious, too, because if they had named this episode Hwacha, you know people would be like, what could it mean? Well, Hwacha is a Korean word for this.

It's a, you know, fireworks arrow, a terribly battery. So maybe it means it. And it's like, no, it just literally has Hwacha. Yeah.

Yeah. It went back in 500 years in Asian history and discovered the ultimate field of artillery piece against obvious.

Oh, yeah. They found some leftover Georgian materials in Meridian. For sure.

Yeah. Hwacha equals intellect. I think this is scribbled on one of the faded copies of the key to whatever. Anyway, yeah. Hwacha.

Yeah, it's called four blood, which I don't know. It's a family thing, right? Dom Torredo would be super happy about this title.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

All right. Maybe things that this episode's four blood. Maybe next will be Hwacha. First blood or first blood part. No, it's four blood.

Four blood. Next will be Hwacha. Four blood parts, too.

Four blood parts, too. Love it.

Yeah. No, no. Yeah. I got I got the fast and furious jokes in here, too, that this is essentially. Yeah.

Yeah. This is a Don Torredo movie with with directed by George Romero. It's pretty pretty nice. What do you think of this?

You know, I actually thought most of it worked really well. There's a couple of silly things in it. Yeah.

You know, I don't know where you fall on landmines, zombies and halaches and all that stuff, but I like that stuff. That's fun.

Yeah. I watched this movie or watched this episode twice, and it's the first time I was like being real critical about the Darryl Halea dialogue.

But I feel like if I really put my mind into Darryl Dixon, like I think he played his cards about as well as he could have.

Like he got to a point where he can no longer keep the subterviews. And it's essentially killed a woman you love or just fucking radically level with her.

Yeah. And he did. And then I thought that well, clearly they're going to be like they're going to, you know, match you at and she's going to run off. But I actually liked how the episode in where they both were true to their families and surprising and infuriating ways to each other.

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