The Walking Dead, We Are The End Of The World: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
16) With Gamma’s sister’s passing, we have gone through her entire time on the series without learning her name.
17) Gamma’s…knighting(?) ceremony is bizarre, with The Whisperers “chanting” “To Gamma”. How long have The Whisperers had such ceremonies?
18) As we cut back to the flashback, we see Lydia, attempting to overcome her fear of the walkers, approaches a closet where a walker is kept. On the wall to the left of the door is a poster that, while not entirely legible, you can prominently see the words “Believe” and “Change” written on it, which, considering the nature of Alpha, and the philosophy she’s trying to impart onto Lydia (And, eventually, The Whisperers), makes it quite ironic.
19) As Alpha searches the hospital for Lydia, she finds a room with lots of weird writing (“I AM STILL HERE”, “END OF THE WORLD”, etc., which appeared a various points in the hospital throughout the flashback) on the walls, and pictures of people who, apparently were either staff at the hospital or graduates of its rehabilitation program, including a man wearing a “Have A Happy Day” smiley face t-shirt, and a taller man wearing a cowboy hat. Since we see the walker of the man in the smiley face t-shirt later, the big man is clearly Beta, but, who is smiley face t-shirt guy to Beta? A friend? A counselor at the rehab clinic? Beta’s brother?
20) Beta’s rambling to Alpha after Lydia stops him from attacking her (“I am the end of the world”) reveals that he was the person who’d been scrawling the erratic messages all over the walls of the hospital.
21) This episode gets its name from Alpha’s attempt to convince Beta to join her (Itself an adjustment of Beta’s own mantra): “We are the end of the world.”
22) Even though Alpha removes Beta’s ski mask, we never see his face.
23) In fact, in spite of all the times we’ve seen him thus far between this season and last season, we’ve yet to see Beta’s face, period.
24) With Beta taking his friend/brother(?)’s face, it would seem that he invented The Whisperers tactic of wearing the faces of the dead. It makes one wonder: Whose face does Alpha wear?
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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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