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

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I'm Aron.

And today we're talking about season 9 episode 14 titled Scars.

Aron, what do you think of this episode?

I really like this episode.

I was somewhat underwhelmed with the actual origin of the scars being a simple branding

like I had worked myself up in thinking there was some kind of complicated organ theft.

Yeah, you know like there's some kind of

kind of repo man with outfit needing kidneys and taking kidneys.

I was looking for Forrest Whitaker. I never found him.

And that never manifests, but man they did the

betrayal of Michone and making us so personal and so scary and then like they

as soon as like I saw that it was like her best friend

this one and a million thing that gave her this pet talk about Rick and then broke her

heart in the morning I'm like oh I can see why I'm a shown yeah it's such a hardliner and it just kept getting worse right.

I love how they paired the Judith stuff off you know and then the flashback and the present day, you know, that really, it runs the

risk of feeling too writerly, right, like too arranged, but I thought it worked out really well.

Yeah, and then it's like I thought, I'm really liking Judith more and more because I thought

that moment where she had to talk about like a level talk with her mom about like what the things that happened in the past that

Michelle and Michelle assume she's protecting her from so many things that this kid had memories of which you know makes sense that know, you remember things that are like super, I don't know, you remember random shit when you're real young, but like things are like traumatic or impressive or whatever, you're going to have a much better odds of remembering a war crime or a

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