The Walking Dead, Home Sweet Home: Things To Note

1) This episode begins with, essentially, a recap of season ten up to this point, from Lydia’s perspective. This is the first episode of The Walking Dead to begin in this fashion.

2) Right after Lydia’s recap, Judith is seen being put on a wagon back to Alexandria; upon that wagon leaving, Maggie sees Negan, which is their first encounter with one another since Maggie’s ill-fated attempt to kill him back in Rick’s final episode, season nine’s “What Comes After.”

3) At the end of the title sequence, there are an additional eight or so walkers. This carries on from the previous episode, “A Certain Doom,” where this new addition to the title sequence debuted.

4) Right after the title sequence, Carol and Daryl discuss Oceanside “Taking the rest.” While we don’t get a complete explanation of this, considering that the pair show Maggie the devastated state Hilltop is in the right after this conversation, it’s almost certain that they’re talking about taking in the displaced Hilltoppers and Kingdommers. Since this wasn’t really addressed following the community’s destruction by the Whisperers, this is a nice bit of continuity.

5) In another nice bit of continuity, Maggie introduces Daryl and Carol to the ninja (Who helped her save Father Gabriel from the Whisperers in “A Certain Doom”) as Elijah. That episode left off with us getting no explanation of who the ninja was or what relationship he had to Maggie, so, again, nice to see that loose end get tied.

6) At no point in this episode (Or the previous one, for that matter) does Elijah speak. Is he mute? If so, why? Was he born so, or did he lose the ability to speak after the apocalypse hit? If it’s the latter…will we learn how?