This episode worked, there weren't any real smart people doing stupid things plot devices, and a couple of good set ups and interesting ideas. So obviously it's not impossible for someone somewhere to come up with interesting storylines for the characters to play out. They're not bad actors, the actors aren't the problem, the stories are. Morgan when given the right material is a really likable and watchable character. John Dorie is likewise, Strand could be so again, I think I'm burnt out of hope for Alicia, I can't see anywhere for her to go.
This ship doesn't have to sink and this episode shows that, but, one good episode normally means we'll get 3 bad ones next. Please prove me wrong, Why am I still here?
12 Reviews
Good story
liwaak27 August 2018
Pull the plug please....
spiritcymbal28 August 2018
Guess I'll be the only one willing to speak the truth on here. Time to give up on this show.
LJ is an incredible actor but you can't expect him to carry the show with writing like this. Please send him back to TWD or kill him off so there's no need to continue this.
LJ is an incredible actor but you can't expect him to carry the show with writing like this. Please send him back to TWD or kill him off so there's no need to continue this.
Why so Boring
ZegMaarJus21 May 2020
Filler, Slow, But fun.
Cannonbult06613 January 2023
Clearly filler, Very very slow. But even still...
Ok I enjoyed this one, I thought the interactions were nice and it plays with a strange concept. Plus I like the fact that Morgan wants to ditch these boring ass characters from fear (Except my boy John dorie!)
I like seeing morgan get up to stuff, I'm glad that fear has given the oppertunity to lennie but also the character of morgan since I always loved seeing him on screen despite him being in the bad seasons of twd.
Obviously another boring bump in the boring road that is season 4 of fear the walking dead, Yet still fun watching Morgan. But never the less.
Ok I enjoyed this one, I thought the interactions were nice and it plays with a strange concept. Plus I like the fact that Morgan wants to ditch these boring ass characters from fear (Except my boy John dorie!)
I like seeing morgan get up to stuff, I'm glad that fear has given the oppertunity to lennie but also the character of morgan since I always loved seeing him on screen despite him being in the bad seasons of twd.
Obviously another boring bump in the boring road that is season 4 of fear the walking dead, Yet still fun watching Morgan. But never the less.
great
rfgtdfgvdfg20 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
4x11 Rating:
8.2/10
Storyline: Morgan looks for Alicia Clark in the storm to no avail. Suddenly, he comes across a semi-truck on the road.
Morgan takes refuge inside the truck and discovers boxes filled with supplies. "Take what you need. Leave what you don't. See you further on up the road," reads a note. He takes water and a protein bar.
Next morning, Morgan wakes up to the sound of a walker outside the truck. He cracks open the door and kills it as it tries to climb inside. He steps outside and finds himself at a truck stop in Mississippi.
Morgan enters the truck stop mini-mart and hears a woman's voice on a radio transmitter. Morgan responds and says that he accidentally hitched a ride in one of the woman's trucks and ended up at a Mississippi truck stop. She instructs him to take what he needs and leave what he doesn't.
Morgan looks for supplies and takes a walkie-talkie from a shelf. He maps out a route to Virginia.
Morgan sits on a toilet at the truck stop bathroom. He hears the click of a shotgun as a man orders him to get out of the stall.
Morgan opens the bathroom stall and sees a man in a wheelchair with a shotgun aimed at him. The man, whose name is Wendell, asks Morgan what's in his bag.
Back in the mini-mart, Morgan explains to Wendell that a woman on the radio instructed him to take whatever supplies he needed. Wendell's adopted sister, Sarah, joins them in the store.
Sarah shows Morgan several trucks filled with supplies and explains that she and Wendell delivered supplies before the fall and kept it up. Morgan explains that he's on his way to a community in Virginia that is trying to rebuild. Wendell tells Morgan that they are 400 miles from Morgan's original location. Morgan worries about the friends he left behind and vows to find them.
Morgan packs supplies into a car to drive back to Texas. Wendell informs him of a bridge that likely remained intact during the storm.
Morgan arrives at a fallen tree in the road, forcing him to abandon the car.
Morgan passes a 154-mile marker. At the base of the mile marker is a box filled with supplies and accompanied by the familiar "take what you need" note.
Morgan starts to cross the bridge that Wendell mentioned. He stops in the middle of the bridge then runs the other direction. He radios Sarah and tells her that he's coming back because the bridge is out.
Morgan contacts Sarah and Wendell upon returning to the truck stop. Sarah gives him a meet-up location.
On his way to the meeting spot, Morgan rescues a man, Jim, who is fleeing from walkers with a hood on his head. Jim explains that some people had kidnapped him for his beer recipes.
Back on the road, Jim tells Morgan that he brews beer and intends to keep brewing beer once the world is rebuilt. Morgan invites Jim to join his community in Virginia, which Jim happily accepts.
Morgan arrives at the meeting spot and radios Sarah. Jim recognizes Sarah as his kidnapper and tries to flee, but Wendell appears and holds them at gunpoint.
Morgan and Jim sit in the back of the truck with their hands tied. Sarah explains that they captured the driver while he was leaving boxes at mile markers, then abandoned him on the side of the road. They ask for the location of Morgan's community in Virginia, but Morgan remains silent. Wendell and Sarah decide to start driving in the hopes Morgan will change his mind en route.
On the road, Jim begs Morgan to share the location of his community so that he can start making beer again. Morgan refuses. The truck comes to a crashing halt.
Sarah informs Morgan and Jim that their load is too heavy to navigate the cracked asphalt.
Sarah unloads supplies from the back of the truck and cuts Jim's bonds after he negotiates a deal. Sarah orders them back in the truck when a herd appears. Jim accidentally knocks Morgan into the herd's path. Morgan jumps on top of a car. The herd immediately swarm him. Sarah offers to help if he discloses the location of his community. Once he gives her the directions, however, she abandons him. She also reveals that she knows the bridge was not out.
Morgan remains on top of the car into the night. He radios Sarah and implores her to return so that he can help his friends in Texas. He gets no response. He leaps over the heads of the walkers, grabs a knife from a supply box and cuts himself free. He kills the walkers with the knife and a mile-marker pole.
Morgan walks along the road and runs into Sarah and Wendell in the truck. They confront him about providing false directions. Morgan agrees to take them to his community if they pick up his friends in Texas.
Morgan, Sarah, Wendell, and Jim drive towards Texas and deposit supply boxes at various mile markers. Morgan radios the Mississippi truck stop to alert the listener that they are returning the stolen truck.
At the truck stop, a woman receives Morgan's message and chuckles. She turns to Purvis, a walker that is impaled through its neck on a pegboard, and writes a message on its face: "Take what you need, leave what you don't." She tells it with a wicked smile that they're going to Texas.
Storyline: Morgan looks for Alicia Clark in the storm to no avail. Suddenly, he comes across a semi-truck on the road.
Morgan takes refuge inside the truck and discovers boxes filled with supplies. "Take what you need. Leave what you don't. See you further on up the road," reads a note. He takes water and a protein bar.
Next morning, Morgan wakes up to the sound of a walker outside the truck. He cracks open the door and kills it as it tries to climb inside. He steps outside and finds himself at a truck stop in Mississippi.
Morgan enters the truck stop mini-mart and hears a woman's voice on a radio transmitter. Morgan responds and says that he accidentally hitched a ride in one of the woman's trucks and ended up at a Mississippi truck stop. She instructs him to take what he needs and leave what he doesn't.
Morgan looks for supplies and takes a walkie-talkie from a shelf. He maps out a route to Virginia.
Morgan sits on a toilet at the truck stop bathroom. He hears the click of a shotgun as a man orders him to get out of the stall.
Morgan opens the bathroom stall and sees a man in a wheelchair with a shotgun aimed at him. The man, whose name is Wendell, asks Morgan what's in his bag.
Back in the mini-mart, Morgan explains to Wendell that a woman on the radio instructed him to take whatever supplies he needed. Wendell's adopted sister, Sarah, joins them in the store.
Sarah shows Morgan several trucks filled with supplies and explains that she and Wendell delivered supplies before the fall and kept it up. Morgan explains that he's on his way to a community in Virginia that is trying to rebuild. Wendell tells Morgan that they are 400 miles from Morgan's original location. Morgan worries about the friends he left behind and vows to find them.
Morgan packs supplies into a car to drive back to Texas. Wendell informs him of a bridge that likely remained intact during the storm.
Morgan arrives at a fallen tree in the road, forcing him to abandon the car.
Morgan passes a 154-mile marker. At the base of the mile marker is a box filled with supplies and accompanied by the familiar "take what you need" note.
Morgan starts to cross the bridge that Wendell mentioned. He stops in the middle of the bridge then runs the other direction. He radios Sarah and tells her that he's coming back because the bridge is out.
Morgan contacts Sarah and Wendell upon returning to the truck stop. Sarah gives him a meet-up location.
On his way to the meeting spot, Morgan rescues a man, Jim, who is fleeing from walkers with a hood on his head. Jim explains that some people had kidnapped him for his beer recipes.
Back on the road, Jim tells Morgan that he brews beer and intends to keep brewing beer once the world is rebuilt. Morgan invites Jim to join his community in Virginia, which Jim happily accepts.
Morgan arrives at the meeting spot and radios Sarah. Jim recognizes Sarah as his kidnapper and tries to flee, but Wendell appears and holds them at gunpoint.
Morgan and Jim sit in the back of the truck with their hands tied. Sarah explains that they captured the driver while he was leaving boxes at mile markers, then abandoned him on the side of the road. They ask for the location of Morgan's community in Virginia, but Morgan remains silent. Wendell and Sarah decide to start driving in the hopes Morgan will change his mind en route.
On the road, Jim begs Morgan to share the location of his community so that he can start making beer again. Morgan refuses. The truck comes to a crashing halt.
Sarah informs Morgan and Jim that their load is too heavy to navigate the cracked asphalt.
Sarah unloads supplies from the back of the truck and cuts Jim's bonds after he negotiates a deal. Sarah orders them back in the truck when a herd appears. Jim accidentally knocks Morgan into the herd's path. Morgan jumps on top of a car. The herd immediately swarm him. Sarah offers to help if he discloses the location of his community. Once he gives her the directions, however, she abandons him. She also reveals that she knows the bridge was not out.
Morgan remains on top of the car into the night. He radios Sarah and implores her to return so that he can help his friends in Texas. He gets no response. He leaps over the heads of the walkers, grabs a knife from a supply box and cuts himself free. He kills the walkers with the knife and a mile-marker pole.
Morgan walks along the road and runs into Sarah and Wendell in the truck. They confront him about providing false directions. Morgan agrees to take them to his community if they pick up his friends in Texas.
Morgan, Sarah, Wendell, and Jim drive towards Texas and deposit supply boxes at various mile markers. Morgan radios the Mississippi truck stop to alert the listener that they are returning the stolen truck.
At the truck stop, a woman receives Morgan's message and chuckles. She turns to Purvis, a walker that is impaled through its neck on a pegboard, and writes a message on its face: "Take what you need, leave what you don't." She tells it with a wicked smile that they're going to Texas.
This was a well-acted episode, with interesting new characters, but beyond that, the episode falls apart. But the plot of this episode was one of the weakest of the series
fernandoschiavi20 April 2024
Morgan wakes in Mississippi after taking shelter in a pickup truck where he encounters Wendell and Sarah. They explain that they are truck drivers who deliver supplies. Morgan worries about the friends he left behind and vows to find them. However, when he gets to a bridge, he decides to turn back. He saves Jim Bauer from Walkers and it is revealed the Wendell and Sarah tied him up and left him for dead after he refused to share his beer recipe and that they stole the truck for themselves. They ask for the location of Morgan's community in Virginia, but Morgan remains silent. En route, the truck stops and Jim accidentally knocks Morgan into the herd's path. Morgan jumps on top of a car. The trio leave him there and he manages to escape and catch up with them
They confront him about providing false directions. Morgan agrees to take them to his community if they pick up his friends in Texas. A filthy woman, Martha, listens to a radio broadcast from Morgan and talks to her Walker companion on going to Texas.
But possibly the interesting new role of this episode is the incredibly creepy and crazy lady at the end. The audience gets curious about what's going on there, and what role she plays in this whole scenario. Did she kill the previous person who ran the radio? What does she have to do with the boxes being left? Were they her scheme or someone else's that she's now using to...well, we are not sure at all what she's doing exactly. The walker she has pinned to the wall seems to maybe be the person who originally ran this outfit, is my guess. In just a few short lines, however, she conveys a lot and she certainly gets the creepy-crazy vibe out there fast. The audience is intrigued for sure.
On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, we discuss Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 11, which is titled The Code. It was written by co-showrunner and executive producer Andrew Chambliss & staff writer Alex Delyle and directed by Tara Nicole Weyr. This was a well-acted episode, with interesting new characters, but beyond that, the episode falls apart. But the plot of this episode was one of the weakest of the series, and maybe the entire franchise. How does Morgan not wake up even once while the truck he is sleeping in is being driven from Texas to Mississippi? What were these characters doing BEFORE they met Morgan? Were Sarah and Wendell driving a different truck? If they weren't transporting these boxes, how did they know all the routes? What about Jim? How was Jim going to become "rich" in the apocalypse if he never left the brewery? It goes on and on from there. Listen to the episode for more.
They confront him about providing false directions. Morgan agrees to take them to his community if they pick up his friends in Texas. A filthy woman, Martha, listens to a radio broadcast from Morgan and talks to her Walker companion on going to Texas.
But possibly the interesting new role of this episode is the incredibly creepy and crazy lady at the end. The audience gets curious about what's going on there, and what role she plays in this whole scenario. Did she kill the previous person who ran the radio? What does she have to do with the boxes being left? Were they her scheme or someone else's that she's now using to...well, we are not sure at all what she's doing exactly. The walker she has pinned to the wall seems to maybe be the person who originally ran this outfit, is my guess. In just a few short lines, however, she conveys a lot and she certainly gets the creepy-crazy vibe out there fast. The audience is intrigued for sure.
On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, we discuss Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 11, which is titled The Code. It was written by co-showrunner and executive producer Andrew Chambliss & staff writer Alex Delyle and directed by Tara Nicole Weyr. This was a well-acted episode, with interesting new characters, but beyond that, the episode falls apart. But the plot of this episode was one of the weakest of the series, and maybe the entire franchise. How does Morgan not wake up even once while the truck he is sleeping in is being driven from Texas to Mississippi? What were these characters doing BEFORE they met Morgan? Were Sarah and Wendell driving a different truck? If they weren't transporting these boxes, how did they know all the routes? What about Jim? How was Jim going to become "rich" in the apocalypse if he never left the brewery? It goes on and on from there. Listen to the episode for more.
Fear TWD Soap Opera. Morgan, the Wandering Confused Idiot! The Code: Failure. Introduce more losers. Why?
Bababooe28 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
What the hell is the point of this show? Please someone explain. So far, all the people who praise it give no explanation. They leave 10 stars with praise of greatness, but no backup. They praise the acting and cinematography. Yes, acting and cinematography are fine. What about the story? What about the characters acting out of character?
Last week we had Alycia and Backstab Charlie stuck in a house, where we had Alyc pointing a gun at Char's head, not once but twice, the person responsible for the death of Alyc's family and friends, and what does Alyc do, she adapts Char as her little sister. Why? Because the writers want us to believe that in the Zombie Apocalypse we can still be loving and forgive and forget and adapt a murderer. Char never apologized or explained why she killed Nick. In cold blood, by the way. She never explained why she joined the Vultures. All we got out of Char is some sob story that her family were on their way to a beach, and then her parents turned Zombie, and now she can't recall their faces. F That! Alyc turns from a killing machine to a sack of mush. No explanation or apology, just a sob story from Backstab Char. And that story may be full of crap too. But our supposed hero Alyc buys all of that. And so does a bunch of losers here on imdb. I ask again, if YOU, the lover of the previous episode, were stuck in a house with the killer of your family what would you do?
Ok, so now were onto this episode. Our Kill, No Kill, loser confused and coward Morgan (Morg) hides in a truck from the storm. He wakes up 2 states east in a truck stop with electricity and running water. What luck. He didn't notice that the truck was moving? He's taking a dump in the bathroom when a guy in a wheelchair with a shot gun asks Morg to wipe his arse before holding his hands up. We are now introduced to 2 more losers, Black Wheelchair Gun Guy, and his Twin sister White Chick Trucker. Keep on trucking they say. They say they leave boxes of supplies all along the highway to help people. This is wonderful. Morg says he's heading to Virginia to a community but must head back to Texas to help his friends, the Z-Team. They give Morg a car and supplies. Morg heads back to Texas, but he's confused and decides to go back to his new buddies, radioing in that the bridge is out (Lie). On the way back Morg helps a guy tied and chased by zombies. It's Jimbo, and Jimbo makes beer. Beer! On the way back Wheelchair and Trucker Chick capture and tie up Morg and Jimbo. Apparently The Twins were the ones who tied up Jimbo, and they stole the trucks from the person leaving the care packages all along the highway. They want to go to Virginia too because they all know Fear TWD is a loser show. Their truck gets stuck, and Morg ends up on top of a car surrounded by zombies, and Wheelchair, Chick and Jimbo take off. Morg super human powers gets out, hooks back up with his new buddies, and says he'll take them to Virginia (TWD) but first they must pick up the Z-Team. Oh, boy. We are also introduced to another wacko at the truckstop. Apparently this is the person that the Twins stole the truck from. This is some serious convoluted contrived nonsense. You can't make this stuff up. Unless you're a writer for Fear TWD Soap Opera.
What's next, they bump into a UFO? Maybe Captain Kirk beams down from the Enterprise?
Here's an idea. How about you freaking loser producers hire some real writers. And forget about this contrived soap opera nonsense about idiot characters.
Morg jumps in a truck for safety, finds food and water, passes out and wakes up in Mississippi at a truck stop with electricity and running water. Yeah right. And the Twins, they give him a car and supplies then they capture him, with his new Beer Buddy. Some contrived zombie setup and escape. And what's the story with the guy in the wheelchair? How the hell does he get in and out of the truck? Does the truck have a wheelchair lift? Loser Morg confesses on the walkie that he is a coward because he turned back from reaching the Z-Team. He's not a coward. He's a loser. A confused moron. He left TWD, a show that sucks now, and joined onto a bigger loser show. Kill No Kill. Now he wants to go back to TWD so he can let Rick the Dick know that Dick was right. Good answer, not. Morg is a loser character.
This show is not about Zombies. It's called Fear The Walking Dead. But the "Walkers" are only a backdrop. Where is the story? We are expected to care for people acting stupid, irrational, and out of character. How about some government facilities with scientists researching the zombie infestation? How about interesting and "INTELLIGENT" characters? Not here. After 2 shows, many years and seasons and episodes, locations and characters, we still have no idea how the freaking dead start walking upright and want to eat the living. No idea. Night of the Living Dead gave us some vague idea of a space probe that brought a virus. Even Dawn of the Dead mentioned something about Voodoo and no more room in hell, that's garbage, but it's something. Last Man on Earth gave us some windswept biological war virus. What explanation do we have in TWD? Nothing. Because it's not important to the writers. The zombies are a backdrop. They want us to concentrate on interrelations between these dumb characters, in contrived setups and resolutions. Once in a while someone dies, and then we have to look at all the stupid sad faces with mood music. Here's looking at you CORAL. He you could have been a contender for the next Rick the Dick. But the showrunners had other plans. Dead Meat, sad eyes and mood music!
So, what's next we see Alt and June, then Cowboy John and Vic, then Luc. Somebody's gotta get killed here. I'm hoping that they somehow all hook up and just before the reach TWD they're all wiped out.
Last week we had Alycia and Backstab Charlie stuck in a house, where we had Alyc pointing a gun at Char's head, not once but twice, the person responsible for the death of Alyc's family and friends, and what does Alyc do, she adapts Char as her little sister. Why? Because the writers want us to believe that in the Zombie Apocalypse we can still be loving and forgive and forget and adapt a murderer. Char never apologized or explained why she killed Nick. In cold blood, by the way. She never explained why she joined the Vultures. All we got out of Char is some sob story that her family were on their way to a beach, and then her parents turned Zombie, and now she can't recall their faces. F That! Alyc turns from a killing machine to a sack of mush. No explanation or apology, just a sob story from Backstab Char. And that story may be full of crap too. But our supposed hero Alyc buys all of that. And so does a bunch of losers here on imdb. I ask again, if YOU, the lover of the previous episode, were stuck in a house with the killer of your family what would you do?
Ok, so now were onto this episode. Our Kill, No Kill, loser confused and coward Morgan (Morg) hides in a truck from the storm. He wakes up 2 states east in a truck stop with electricity and running water. What luck. He didn't notice that the truck was moving? He's taking a dump in the bathroom when a guy in a wheelchair with a shot gun asks Morg to wipe his arse before holding his hands up. We are now introduced to 2 more losers, Black Wheelchair Gun Guy, and his Twin sister White Chick Trucker. Keep on trucking they say. They say they leave boxes of supplies all along the highway to help people. This is wonderful. Morg says he's heading to Virginia to a community but must head back to Texas to help his friends, the Z-Team. They give Morg a car and supplies. Morg heads back to Texas, but he's confused and decides to go back to his new buddies, radioing in that the bridge is out (Lie). On the way back Morg helps a guy tied and chased by zombies. It's Jimbo, and Jimbo makes beer. Beer! On the way back Wheelchair and Trucker Chick capture and tie up Morg and Jimbo. Apparently The Twins were the ones who tied up Jimbo, and they stole the trucks from the person leaving the care packages all along the highway. They want to go to Virginia too because they all know Fear TWD is a loser show. Their truck gets stuck, and Morg ends up on top of a car surrounded by zombies, and Wheelchair, Chick and Jimbo take off. Morg super human powers gets out, hooks back up with his new buddies, and says he'll take them to Virginia (TWD) but first they must pick up the Z-Team. Oh, boy. We are also introduced to another wacko at the truckstop. Apparently this is the person that the Twins stole the truck from. This is some serious convoluted contrived nonsense. You can't make this stuff up. Unless you're a writer for Fear TWD Soap Opera.
What's next, they bump into a UFO? Maybe Captain Kirk beams down from the Enterprise?
Here's an idea. How about you freaking loser producers hire some real writers. And forget about this contrived soap opera nonsense about idiot characters.
Morg jumps in a truck for safety, finds food and water, passes out and wakes up in Mississippi at a truck stop with electricity and running water. Yeah right. And the Twins, they give him a car and supplies then they capture him, with his new Beer Buddy. Some contrived zombie setup and escape. And what's the story with the guy in the wheelchair? How the hell does he get in and out of the truck? Does the truck have a wheelchair lift? Loser Morg confesses on the walkie that he is a coward because he turned back from reaching the Z-Team. He's not a coward. He's a loser. A confused moron. He left TWD, a show that sucks now, and joined onto a bigger loser show. Kill No Kill. Now he wants to go back to TWD so he can let Rick the Dick know that Dick was right. Good answer, not. Morg is a loser character.
This show is not about Zombies. It's called Fear The Walking Dead. But the "Walkers" are only a backdrop. Where is the story? We are expected to care for people acting stupid, irrational, and out of character. How about some government facilities with scientists researching the zombie infestation? How about interesting and "INTELLIGENT" characters? Not here. After 2 shows, many years and seasons and episodes, locations and characters, we still have no idea how the freaking dead start walking upright and want to eat the living. No idea. Night of the Living Dead gave us some vague idea of a space probe that brought a virus. Even Dawn of the Dead mentioned something about Voodoo and no more room in hell, that's garbage, but it's something. Last Man on Earth gave us some windswept biological war virus. What explanation do we have in TWD? Nothing. Because it's not important to the writers. The zombies are a backdrop. They want us to concentrate on interrelations between these dumb characters, in contrived setups and resolutions. Once in a while someone dies, and then we have to look at all the stupid sad faces with mood music. Here's looking at you CORAL. He you could have been a contender for the next Rick the Dick. But the showrunners had other plans. Dead Meat, sad eyes and mood music!
So, what's next we see Alt and June, then Cowboy John and Vic, then Luc. Somebody's gotta get killed here. I'm hoping that they somehow all hook up and just before the reach TWD they're all wiped out.
Did that just happen?
sheedyf31 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Like really? Did Morgan just go to sleep in 1 state and wake up half way across the country? Did he honestly journey back in a 10 sec montage, hook up with a guy who was brewing beer for the last 3 years of a XOMBIE APOCALYPSE, transit across country again to be set up by the Hicks twins and ultimately get them to head back to Texas - like WTF!! And this crazy woman on the other end of the line decides to follow so easily!!! Like really!! Did all this just happen in 1 episode. All in the same universe where it can take episodes to hike from Alexandria to Hilltop!!!
I was so disgusted by the hikacking of Fear & The Clarke family story in the first half of season 4 and especially episode 8, despite the introduction of new interesting characters, but the first 2 episodes of 4b instilled a new confidence in me, despite flying zombies, but this episode just pulled too many tricks and messed about Morgan - our supposed new lead - way too much!! How often and on how many shows can we watch him him flip back & forth!! He is meant to be our brave lead now - taking Madison's place & Alicia's birthright, but for this? And for conversations about how beer will save civilization.
I still love the show - but this episode took too many liberties with established canon, characters & setting & has me FEARing for its fate. I'm hoping the next few episodes focus on what the show still has that is good (Alicia, Strand) & on the other things it's been doing good lately - John, June, Al, good cinematography & at times good writing!!!
I was so disgusted by the hikacking of Fear & The Clarke family story in the first half of season 4 and especially episode 8, despite the introduction of new interesting characters, but the first 2 episodes of 4b instilled a new confidence in me, despite flying zombies, but this episode just pulled too many tricks and messed about Morgan - our supposed new lead - way too much!! How often and on how many shows can we watch him him flip back & forth!! He is meant to be our brave lead now - taking Madison's place & Alicia's birthright, but for this? And for conversations about how beer will save civilization.
I still love the show - but this episode took too many liberties with established canon, characters & setting & has me FEARing for its fate. I'm hoping the next few episodes focus on what the show still has that is good (Alicia, Strand) & on the other things it's been doing good lately - John, June, Al, good cinematography & at times good writing!!!
Annoyingly, boringly off-topic confirmation of FTWD's disintegration
jrarichards12 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
An uncoventional approach can be refreshing and inventive, but in the end a series is a series because it has a certain minimal degree of constancy ... of characters, setting, theme, and so on.
Ultimately, "The Code" is an FTWD episode centred around the interloping TWD character Morgan, who is now leaving FTWD out-West locations in favour of TWD out-East ones, in the circumstances of a left-behind world that still features Victor, Luciana and Alicia as the leftovers of the original FTWD, as well as a couple of other new characters we vaguely care about.
Removal from the old confines is almost inevitable in these kinds of circumstances, and might even achieve something if it did indeed confirm that some kind of reorganisation of things is appearing America-wide.
Indeed, this episode seemed to be heading in that kind of direction, and hence serving some kind of useful purpose, in spite of itself. But instead - ONCE AGAIN - it got side-tracked on to small-beer issues (in this case actually literally). What's more, the makers decide that what we now need in our dystopia is more quirkiness, and less taking the things seriously.
This is actually the desperate act of people who are extremely unsure of themselves, and boy is that transparent here. As if that were what enough, Morgan has become even more dithery than he was in the past, and just why should we go on caring even a little bit?
So FTWD is now being driven - out of its original territory - by a guy from another show who does not even really know what he wants or who he is?
How on Earth did a few short episodes bring us to this?
Ultimately, "The Code" is an FTWD episode centred around the interloping TWD character Morgan, who is now leaving FTWD out-West locations in favour of TWD out-East ones, in the circumstances of a left-behind world that still features Victor, Luciana and Alicia as the leftovers of the original FTWD, as well as a couple of other new characters we vaguely care about.
Removal from the old confines is almost inevitable in these kinds of circumstances, and might even achieve something if it did indeed confirm that some kind of reorganisation of things is appearing America-wide.
Indeed, this episode seemed to be heading in that kind of direction, and hence serving some kind of useful purpose, in spite of itself. But instead - ONCE AGAIN - it got side-tracked on to small-beer issues (in this case actually literally). What's more, the makers decide that what we now need in our dystopia is more quirkiness, and less taking the things seriously.
This is actually the desperate act of people who are extremely unsure of themselves, and boy is that transparent here. As if that were what enough, Morgan has become even more dithery than he was in the past, and just why should we go on caring even a little bit?
So FTWD is now being driven - out of its original territory - by a guy from another show who does not even really know what he wants or who he is?
How on Earth did a few short episodes bring us to this?
Boring, Filler, Bad Writing
panagiotis199318 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The Code: S4.11 Review. The weather still sucks, this is happening for the last 3? Episodes I think. I like to see more Morgan. Finally nice weather. So Morgan accidentally goes to Mississippi, that could be interesting. So these 2 random strangers want Morgan to lead them to the Kingdom? To do what exactly? That other guy has a weird beer obsession. The scene with the walkers chasing Morgan was cool. Wow they really left Morgan behind? Didnt expect that. How do they think that they will be able to find the Kingdom without him.
I know that Morgan told them how to get there but a normal person would forget after 5 minutes. The whole scene with Morgan on the car was smart and dramatic. So these people came back and now they wanna help Morgan go back to his friends? Doesn't really make sense, I mean they left him to die hours ago. Well I will only give this episode a 5 because of Morgan's decent performance. Other than that it was a mediocre, many times boring, filler episode, where the main characters are once again not part of the plot which is extremely annoying. Still its better than the previous episode which isn't much...
I know that Morgan told them how to get there but a normal person would forget after 5 minutes. The whole scene with Morgan on the car was smart and dramatic. So these people came back and now they wanna help Morgan go back to his friends? Doesn't really make sense, I mean they left him to die hours ago. Well I will only give this episode a 5 because of Morgan's decent performance. Other than that it was a mediocre, many times boring, filler episode, where the main characters are once again not part of the plot which is extremely annoying. Still its better than the previous episode which isn't much...
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