Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 16 Review
Summary
"End of the Line" was, predictably, a complete nonsensical mess of a finale, its merely saving grace that it brought the prove to a merciful, admitting probably temporary determination.
This recap of Fear the Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 16, "Finish of the Line" contains spoilers. You tin check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words.
In the opening scene of "Stop of the Line",Fright the Walking Expressionless'due south 5th flavor finale, Dwight (Austin Amelio) staggers through the woods in drastic search of a better show. Doesn't find one, obviously. What he finds instead are horses, abased, wandering effectually near the charred remains of the convoy that has reliably carried our Scooby gang around on their happy-clappy adventures. Those adventures are now mercifully, admitting probably temporarily, over. And this woeful episode just confirms how muchFear the Walking Deadneeds the interruption.
Following on from last week's ill-advised trek to Humbug'southward Gulch, "Cease of the Line" finds Morgan (Lennie James), having shelved his pride in lodge to radio Virginia (Colby Minifie) for help, trying to negotiate terms. He wants her to take in anybody; she only has use for the able-bodied, not the sick or old or wounded. He wants everyone to be kept together; she demands everyone goes where she wants them, which will be adamant to ensure the highest number of lives saved. It's time, she says, for Morgan to brand "a hard choice". None of this makes any sense at all. Why would splitting upward the convoy grouping save more than lives than keeping them together? Why wouldn't she but lie to Morgan and say sure, whatever, and then betray him at the concluding minute, since that'southward pretty much exactly what she does anyhow? And why, subsequently spotting Humbug'due south Gulch from a nearby hillside and seeing information technology was completely overrun with walkers, is the group at present correct in the middle of the identify?
Whatsoever. Grace (Karen David) doesn't recall Virginia volition take her since she's dying of cancer, and she warns Morgan this is something he's going to have to deal with, just in true Morgan fashion, he only insists he won't let it happen. In the nick of time, Dwight returns with the horses he found in the prologue, and it occurs to the group that Morgan might not take to let that happen afterward all. As well, if there are horses nearby, that means at that place's h2o, too, meaning Virginia was lying nearly the identify existence across repair, which they for some reason just completely took her word about. A new plan is hatched. Using the horses — just plenty for the main cast, and don't worry, they can all ride them really well — they're going to lead the herd upwardly the road and sic it on Virginia as she arrives. Genius!
Surprising absolutely nobody, "Stop of the Line" sees this plan become horribly wrong. Outset, Virginia turns upward with Luciana (Danay Garcia), and then the gang can't set the herd on her. Doh! Then they realize she'due south going to commandeer the SWAT van, but don't worry, since Daniel (Rubén Blades) has sabotaged it and brought the starter with him. By the way, exercise y'all remember Daniel in Season 3, when he was a rock-cold assassin and not a stupid human who carries around a cat named Skidmark and allows Strand (Colman Domingo), who is openly conflicted about whether to accept Virginia's deal, to "await afterwards" the essential part that will allow her to turn the SWAT van against them? I practise too. I wish the writers would.
This all leaves the rest of the gang trying to corral a herd that they all of a sudden take no employ of, which ends predictably. Dwight goes into heroic self-sacrifice style despite having loads of space to but run away, simply Morgan, John (Garrett Dillahunt) and June (Jenna Elfman) have other ideas, leading the herd into nearby water so they're all swept away. Anybody laments non having the means to take on Virginia anymore, despite having already established that they couldn't employ the herd to fight her anyway. It's ludicrous.
Fifty-fifty more ludicrous: Back at Humbug's Gulch, Al (Maggie Grace) finds some settler insignia on some corpses, and deduces that Virginia'southward people got into a fight with the residents of the Gulch when they wouldn't agree to terms, thus explaining where the horses came from. This is presented every bit something of a twist. Are we really supposed to exist surprised that Virginia is lying here? All nosotros've seen her do is lie and murder people for no reason. Why is anyone surprised by this revelation? It doesn't make whatsoever sense at all. Anyway, the gang in one case over again resign themselves to giving up, but they as well decide that they have enough fourth dimension before Virginia arrives to live how they intended to — which means John and June are going to get married.
"Terminate of the Line" independent well-nigh nix merely stupid moments, but the nuptials stood out because it wasn't just stupid — information technology was also offensively saccharine. Dwight gives them his rings and an idiotic spoken communication about how he won't need them, and John'due south doesn't fit on his finger. Oh, how we laughed. Daniel and Grace sing some other duet. At this signal, I was more than fix for Virginia to just march in and massacre everyone, which is but about the only ending that would accept brought the audition any catharsis. No such luck. She arrives, in the SWAT van no less, and has another argument with Morgan about who is eligible to go and who isn't. She somewhen lets him accept his style. Everyone tin come to exist settled, including Grace, but they don't get to determine where they go, which means we accept to endure loads of slow farewells and promises of finding ways back to each other like ICE raided the place. Nonsense. Morgan finds himself left backside, at which point Virginia shoots him. Then she tries to shoot him again simply the gun jams, and so she just inexplicably leaves him alive. At some point during this sequence, the medico who took Grace away radios in to say she isn't sick — she's pregnant, the symptoms of which apparently overlap with those of radiation-induced cancer.
Thanks to whatever inexplicable moon logic the testify is operating on at this point, Morgan sees Grace'south pregnancy equally some kind of ultimate victory. Having proudly toppled Virginia's ideology, he's happy to just sit there and permit the budgeted walkers to feast on him, but not before giving a long-winded speech on the radio imploring his compatriots to go on living. "End of the Line" doesn't confirm whether or not Morgan gets eaten, though it'southward difficult to care either way. For what it'due south worth, I promise we never have to find out.
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