The Walking Dead season 11, episode 23, Family: Things to Note

The Walking Dead – Family

7) After no change last week, this week, in the title sequence, the “A” in “DEAD” is now bloody, particularly on its right side. Additionally, a tiny bit of blood stains the lower portion of the left side of the second “D”, getting at least a little bit of blood on every letter of “WALKING DEAD”.

8) Following the scene where Mercer reunites Eugene with Max and Yumiko, we cut back to the train making its way back to the Commonwealth, which obliterates a walker on the tracks. Now, why the hell didn’t the troopers on the train originally do that two episodes ago in “Outpost 22”, rather than jumping off the train to kill one walker?

9) As they’re setting up the antenna to reach Mercer over the radio, Tyler Davis apologizes to Princess for his treatment of her the last time the two were in a boxcar together, referencing his interrogation of her in season ten’s “Splinter”.

10) While the walker guts trick has been used throughout almost the entire series (In fact, it is used here in the second-to-last episode, mirrors its introduction in the very second episode of the series, “Guts”), and Negan successfully convinced Maggie and Elijah to adopt the use of walker masks to combat the Reapers, this episode marks the first time the group has used whispering to communicate with one another whilst in a herd, completing the trifecta of Whisperer behavior.