All caught up.
I feel like I should hate this season, and be more annoyed at the somewhat soft reboot, the time jump, the deaths, the lack of Salazar...But I don't, because it's a pretty decent season so far, though not as good as S3 which was really solid. I'm enjoying the pacing and format quite a bit and I like most of the new characters, the story is decent, the writing is mostly decent and the dialogue is pretty good. Though I still have some issues with it. First off, it sucks that Nick (I know he wanted to leave) and Madison (at least she went out like the badass she was and not the softy they turned her into this season) are dead but at least it's nice knowing no one has plot armor. The time jump is just stupid, it was completely unnecessary just to accommodate Morgan when they could have taken it back to before Morgan reunited with Rick. The filters were too heavy, may as well be black and white or sepia at this point. Not really a fan of Scientology nut job Jenna Elfmans character, but really liking John Nemo and don't know her name, camera girl, played by Maggie Grace who by the way looks so hot with short hair.
My biggest issue with this season though is Nick and Alicia sitting in the car outside of the stadium just allowing it to get surrounded by Walkers, how fucking dumb was that? This was a case of some monumentally shit and lazy writing. Also...She died for them, she died for me, she died for us...I really hated the way Alicia, Strand and Luciana took turns forming a damn sentence in the finale.
We'll see how the second half plays out. I just hope Strand and Alicia (and Daniel) don't die just yet, they're the only remaining cast from the first episode.
All in all, I'm really not sure how I feel just yet. Yeah, I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I'm also very skeptical because S3 was so good and this while still good, is just too different. I also worry that this show is just going to be a bunch of Morgans now. Going around trying to save people form themselves, as much as I like Morgan and his character, one of him is enough, I don't want to watch a group of people preaching about saving lives and helping strangers especially when this show was pretty damn brutal in the past compared to this season.
Still, while not as good as S3, it's way better than TWD has been for years.