Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon – The Walking Dead _ Season 9, Episode 5 – Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC /
The bad things
Michonne’s advice. Essentially telling Lydia to leave was harsh. While she’s not wrong that Lydia is a risk, she has to think about what she has gone through and her connection to the group already. The Whisperers will need to be dealt with either way, and throwing Lydia back to Alpha won’t help.
The sewers. Last time fans saw the sewers under Alexandria, Carl revealed that he had been bitten to his father and Michonne. Having Michonne once again look to the sewers and wonder if Judith’s fate will also be determined there had to be quite hard. No wonder they closed those off!
Being betrayed. A friendly face robbing Alexandria blind and killing or hurting people is the last thing Michonne needed and explains why she is hesitant to trust anyone anymore. Combine that with the loss of some close family makes it understandable why she snapped, even though not everyone is that way.
For the brand. The source of the scars on the backs of Michonne and Daryl have now been revealed and the reasoning behind them and terrifying. A group of kids branding the two, marking them for life is better than a lot of the things which were previously running through my mind, but still…that’s never going to heal.
What a massacre! Oh wow. MIchonne was forced to kill a group of kids in order to protect Judith. It was obvious she didn’t want to do it and even offered for them all to come to Alexandria to live there. But watching a scene with so many kids being killed by Michonne shows the line between good and bad isn’t nearly as clear as many would think.
