Everything involving Carl was fantastic. Andrew, Danai and Chandler all put in top tier performances.
But if any episode was going to leave out cast members, this was the one to do it. Going back and forth between the Carl story and Morgan story was terrible. What made it worse was the fact that the Morgan plot had unintentionally funny moments. The little kid stabbing Gavin through the neck was terrible and dumb. The stealth involved, the perfect stab through the neck despite being much shorter, the way it was shot. Awful.
And then it's back to fantastic acting and an emotional goodbye.
Even when the show has the absolute perfect set up for a home run, they somehow manage to botch it somehow. It needed to be a regular length episode and it should have focused on the events at Alexandria alone.
But aside from that, I think this was a bad decision. I am running out of characters that I care about. And soon, we'll be losing Morgan. Potentially Maggie. And I'll no longer get to see one of my most wanted arcs from the comics now that Carl is gone.
This was a good episode. But it could have been amazing, maybe a top 5 episode in the series. The pacing was poor, the back and forth was awkward, the flash forward reveal was a complete cop out.
And I do not feel good about the future.
