Lydia introduces Alpha’s darkness on The Walking Dead

This week’s episode of The Walking Dead, Lydia talked about her mom. The back story took us on a ride and helped us learn about the enigmatic survivor known as Alpha.

This past Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead was special since we took a trip inside of Lydia’s mind.  Lydia recollected how her mom Alpha was level-headed and her dad Frank wasn’t as loving and weak. This includes Frank’s horrible comments scaring Lydia about their situation and Alpha being loving, singing, and playing checkers.

From the very beginning, the story Lydia told didn’t make sense. She presented Alpha as a warm post-apocalypse Martha Stewart type. It was clear that there was a lot of falsehood about Alpha. It seemed like Lydia was being malicious, and most of us were suspicious about this story.

The story took a quick turn since Lydia was triggered by the sound of a baby crying and began to remember something that contradicted what she said from the very beginning. She recollected that Frank was killed by an undead survivor, who was “accidentally” suffocated by Alpha.

Wait a minute…Why would Frank sacrifice himself if he was such a bad guy according to Lydia? It all started to come together after that and even Lydia saw the contradiction after telling it out loud probably for the first time. She realized her father Frank was loving and her mother Alpha is the monster.

Frank stood in Alpha’s way from doing what she wanted to do. Alpha wasn’t having any of it and killed him. This sets the tone for Alpha as a dangerous, manipulative, cold, unfeeling woman who will kill anyone standing in her way from getting what she demands.

Lydia evidently suffered from unthinkable abuse from her mom, and Alpha brainwashed her this whole time. Lydia was clearly terrified after coming to this realization since she blamed herself for her father Frank’s death.

In the past, the fall of humanity changed people in some way. The most disturbing revelation that came from this, is that Alpha was clearly a monster before it all began. The Governor, Terminus, the Wolves, and Negan were all different people before it all began, which makes Alpha the most dangerous foe ever encountered.

Alpha is a person who embraced the fall of humanity before the fall ever started. Now that it is here, Alpha is in her true form as she stood there glassy-eyed and demanded her daughter back. Alpha is a genuine monster and not someone that could eventually be reasoned with like Negan.

With Alpha being the first genuine monster in The Walking Dead history, the communities are all in danger and at risk with someone who feels nothing for anyone or anything, not even her own daughter. The society they have worked hard to build is in grave danger of falling at the hands of Alpha. Tune in for a new episode this Sunday on AMC at 9 to see it all unfold as they fight for their society.