![]() Things certainly don’t get more realistic from there: Rick survives an immense loss of blood, has enough energy to ride/fall off that jittery horse, scraps with some zombies, and most impressively after all that, gets blown clean off a bridge into raging waters and washes ashore, alive.īut how about those dream sequences? In an obvious nod to the iconic image of season one, Rick leads the newly formed megaherd into downtown Atlanta the outbound lanes are jammed with abandoned cars, while the inbound lanes are wide open. But if you’re still judging this show based on plausibility, you might want to find something else to do on Sunday nights. Is that possible? With a surge of adrenaline and two zombie hordes closing in, probably. To get there, though, Rick had to remove his belt, toss it over a piece of metal above his head, and pull himself off the rebar spike that impaled him. The unrecognizable voices asking him, “What is your wound?” might be members of the rescue chopper posse. But there were no skyscrapers outside his window back then, and what looked like a swarm of crows in the distance turned out to be … helicopters. At first, it looked like a nod to the first episode of the series, when Rick woke up alone in a hospital. The opening scene carries new meaning now that we know how it all ends. And please allow me an honorable mention for saying this last week (and yes, I’m about to quote myself): “It seems that any chance for Rick to get out of this thing alive has disappeared (unless Jadis-Anne’s chopper comes to airlift him to a hospital).” Not exactly a prediction, but pretty damn close!īefore Rick flies off into the great unknown, he embarks on an agonizing journey that straddles the physical and metaphysical worlds - or more simply put, slowly bleeds out while taking a wild “This Is Your Life” head trip. The fallen friends he met while slipping in and out of consciousness kept saying, “We don’t die.” We know there’s no way Rick simply croaks alone on a concrete slab. ![]() The episode has been promoted as Rick’s “final,” with no mention of his death. Judith Grimes, who came here to do two things: hand out beatdowns and color - and she’s all out of crayons.Īs shocking as Rick’s exit was, the signs were really everywhere. Cue a major time shift and a band of new survivors. Say what you will about what The Walking Dead has become, but even if you loathed tonight’s ending, there’s no denying that “What Comes After” delivered a full-circle Rick Grimes tribute and season-finale-level game-changers.
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