The Walking Dead S5E13 'Big Black Horse"

RIP Buttons

(So I'm starting with 3 episodes left in this season...sorry!)

The group just found Alexandria a seemingly safe, fenced in town, that has electricity and running water. They finally get to SHOWER AND BRUSH THEIR TEETH!!! Since all the characters are doing their own thing, I'll break it down that way. The episode starts with Daryl, Rick and Carol in the woods plotting their takeover of this new town, because they see themselves as the saviors of these helpless people. I want to say it's a good plan but for some reason it's giving me 'Govenor' déjà vu. How he was really nice at first but then eventually the evil side came. I really hope they don't turn  out to be evil, because these seem like good people, totally unprepared and disillusioned but still good.

Rick as the leader of the group is in survivor mode for them,  even though it seems that he is starting to develop feelings for his neighbor, Jessie,  who is married with kids. Let's hope it goes nowhere because I really want them to fit in with these new people and being a home wrecker would not be good, especially since her husband is the only Doctor they have. Rick and Michonne are made the new Sheriffs of the town, and while Rick questions these motives of making the newbies the law enforcers, Michonne jumps right in. They both don the uniforms, (tie and all), and patrol the streets. It suits Rick finely but I hate seeing Michelle in that uniform or at least lose the tie. Michonne is so comfortable that she even hangs up her Katana (sadly) in her new home, a sign that she's ready to fit in and move on.

Partna

Daryl is off with Andy, the one who recruited them and gay,  are off on an adventure trying to catch a black horse (symbolism?), Buttons. I recently saw Norman Reedus (who plays Daryl) on Conan O'Brien where he said that there's a theory that is character might be gay. I think this might be the start of some character insight, either way I'll be happy to know about him. After their adventure ended, with the horse sadly being taken over by walkers (RIP Buttons), Daryl and Andy bond. Later that night, Daryl skips out on the Welcome Party to have dinner with Andy and Eric, his partner. We find out that they would like Daryl to go recruit with Andy, since "he can tell good people from bad". Daryl accepts this proposal, and to sweeten the deal they show him their (playroom) garage, where a Motorcycle is waiting for him to build. So something is definitely brewing there there, which I am excited for because I do love my gays!

Carol is in charge of securing guns for Daryl and Rick, as she is the self proclaimed 'invisible' woman. She fits in by playing the homemaker role and is able to spy without drawing attention to herself. While slipping out of the Party to raid the gun room, she is followed by a kid who was expecting more of her famous cookies. Let' just say that kid will not be telling anyone what he saw. She can be one scary mofo when she wants to be!

Kid did not die...(yet)!

Lastly Sasha. Poor Sasha seems to be having some sort of PTSD/ mental breakdown. She's just suffered the loss of her brother, and before that her boyfriend (to cannibals). I can understand how tough it is to around all these people that feel safe and and family members around them. I hope that she gets the help she needs though, before she does anything stazy (stupid/crazy), as she's known to do. That first scene of her shooting the picture frames in the wood, the way the tension built with the music was brilliant; I felt the anxiety she must be feeling. 

Later on we got to see the group and the Welcome Party, where it showed the normalcy these new people are used. Carol baked her famous cookies, there was wine and beer and even those tiny little sword spears that Michonne took a liking to. We got to see more of the new people, and even met Deanna's (Alexandra's leader) husband and son (cute) and might be a new beau for Sasha. Sasha on the other hand was not feeling it, and spazzed out when someone asked her for her favorite dish. 

Side note: Rick, Carol and Daryl while in the woods, take out a walker with a W carved into his head. Wonder what that means. There could be a rival town somewhere that starts with a W.

Also Jessie's son stamps Rick's hand with the letter A showing he is one of them now.  Could it be the A's vs. the W's. We'll see!

It was a semi slow episode, as has most of this season. Next week's episode showed some promise of action.