in spite of what critics are saying about the last few episodes of the the walking dead’s 11th and final season, there were a few things that just hit different especially with the finale:
SPOILERS FOR TWD “REST IN PEACE” 11.24!!
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daryl barricading judith in the hospital the same way shane did to rick in 01x01 – like father, like daughter and even brother because he also carried her the same way rick carried carl when he got shot
actually, daryl carrying judith into the hospital to save her life vs how he carried beth out after she was killed. the FEAR he must’ve felt given the last time he carried someone in/out from the hospital.
any scene between them + carol (keeping this short bc i can write a whole novel about their scenes)
luke dying & being comforted by magna, yumiko, connie & kelly (his og group) during his final moments; even though he wasn’t seen for most of the season, dan folger’s acting + that of nadia hilker, eleanor matsuura, lauren ridloff & angel theory was TOP-TIER
people always die in twd, but up until luke, the newish members of the group didn’t really suffer a sudden and harsh loss like the group from earlier seasons until now
that’s why his death + the group’s raw grief hit different when you consider how this is the first time we’ve seen them have to mourn one of their own so suddenly and with walkers literally banging on their doors
the team up of eugene porter & gabriel stokes = the two characters who, at one point of the story, were the weakest and most cowardly members of the group. i mean, the parallels of how they started vs. how they ended are insane:
eugene, who lied to abraham and rosita about knowing how to cure the infection almost making himself a martyr by telling the truth about the common wealth’s corruption, and
gabriel, who locked his congregation outside his church to die being the first to open the gates for everyone even when pamela’s people had their guns pointed at him
if twd did anything right, it was the development of these two characters
even if i didn’t know christian serratos chose rosita’s ending, i still would’ve thought she had a fitting end as one of the original (and last) big hitters for rick’s group on the road
it wasn’t painful and gory like abraham or glenn, shocking like sasha’s or even bittersweet like carl’s in the midst of war– rosita dies a dignified and otherwise peaceful death after all the bloodshed is said & done
she sees her people are safe, knows her daughter’s in good hands and finally lays to rest after fighting on the frontlines for so long
even with her gone, her final interaction with eugene at her side really cements that he is her and abraham’s legacy because “i’m glad it was you at the end”
(someone make baby rosie looking up to older coco because her mom was her namesake + uncle eugene canon right now)
this post-war celebration dinner mirroring the what-if dream dinner from 7x01 about what could’ve been (credit to this article for the pic: here) also makes rosita’s death so poignant to me because negan had likened the dream as something that wouldn’t ever happen
it’s not the same exact group and it wasn’t exactly her dream, but the sentiment remains the same
in the end, peace was possible for the alexandrians after all & i’m so glad rosita got to see this before she went & re-joined the others who are no longer at the table
negan & maggie now established as two sides of the same coin: motives, beliefs and and now shared trauma of being unable to stop their partner from being killed (or almost killed, in negan’s case) as they’re about to start a family
maggie was never going to forgive him for what he did, but that in itself gives so much more substance to their spin-off and i can’t wait to see it happen
rick “we are the walking dead” grimes + michonne “it’s true. forever” grimes – welcome back.
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When a kid at orphanage starts to get a little aggressive with Yumiko, but Yumie comes outta nowhere:
Kid: "that's why ur shoes ragedy!"
Yumie: "That's why ur momma dead. Dead as hell..."
Kid: *starts tearing up*
Yumie: "what shoes she got on her? What shoes she got on her casket?"
Heinkel & Anderson: *too stunned to speak*
Yumie: "That's why your granny ain't got no knees! And she can't pray to Jesus bitch. How bout that?"
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