![]() These acts of quiet strength in the face of certain death felt entirely in-character. He received as good a sendoff as anyone could have hoped for.The show has put a lot of groundwork into the development of Carl’s moral grit over the past couple of seasons. That he spent some of his final hours dwelling on a cold-blooded murder he committed way back at the end of season three showed how much the character blossomed from odious, behatted snot-munchkin to stoic, brave and honourable leader. ![]() I was surprised by how moved I was, Carl being a character upon whom I used to wish the most profound misfortune. ![]() It helped that the episode’s centrepoint – Carl kicking the metaphorical bucket – was the most well-handled main-character death the show has given us in years. So it is with some pleasure that I can say that, besides Carl taking about a thousand years to die, Honor was not boring. There have now been 23 bumper eps and – for the past few seasons, at least – they appear to be deployed solely to attract attention to themselves as “event TV”, seemingly without the writers having any idea how to fill the extra minutes with anything of substance. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Walking Dead feature-length episodes are like a box of chocolates: the odd one will be good, most are OK and some leave a bitter aftertaste.
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