FearTWD, The Wrong Side Of Where You Are Now: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
13) This episode gets its name from Naomi explaining to Madison why she believed they should have considered leaving: “I’ve been on The Wrong Side Of Where You Are Right Now, and I really don’t wanna see that happen to you”.
14) Just before Madison sends Mel away, he tries to warn them that they’re being the type of
“people who are extinct”. This is actually a revealing look into his and, subsequently, The Vultures’ philosophy, namely that permanent civilizations as we think of them (And the sort of people who inhabit them) are “Extinct”. This is not unlike The Wolves belief about settlements and that people didn’t belong in them anymore, except The Vultures don’t seem to be as extremist about it.
15) Madison saying to Mel “No one’s gone til they’re gone” as she dismisses him is an ironic twist on this phrase. When she used it earlier this season, she seemed to be using “gone” much in the way Rick had in Season 4 of The Walking Dead, seemingly meaning “devoid of humanity”; Here, however, she’s using it to mean physically gone, trying to shoot down Mel’s bleak outlook on the group’s immediate future.
16) In another parallel to The Wolves, Ennis dumps the collection of infected The Vultures have on The Diamond as a means of attack. In The Walking Dead Season 6 episode, “JSS”, The Wolves clearly intended to do much the same, as they crashed a walker-loaded tractor trailer into Alexandria, but Spencer foiled them before they could let them loose.
17) With Mel obviously concerned about he and Charlie’s safety while at The Diamond in the face of Ennis’s impending attack, why didn’t either of them…just try to convince Ennis to call off the attack?
18) With The Vultures officially gone, I can now say that they went their entire run on the show without calling themselves “The Vultures”.
19) Alicia making a point before the attack of saying how she and Nick had to save Mel is a stark reversal of how they treated Mel and Ennis in their respective run-ins with them in the present. Furthermore, that contrast seems to be part of a larger theme this season of how people can change after one bad turn of events.
And, with that, we’ve concluded our Things To Note for this week. Was there anything you missed? Was there anything I missed? Feel free to throw in your things to note in the comments!
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