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This episode actually looked good from the promos all week but it was the most lackluster 'battle' ever. A whole episode of Alycia and Strand running around making stupid decisions and acting like idiots because the writers have ruined their characters.

Daniel had some cool scenes but he too, unfortunately has been ruined. This episode felt like it was supposed to be one for the OG Fear fans by having Alycia, Daniel and Strand as the focus but it fell flat and did not deliver.

Best moment from the episode was Wes getting killed by Victor. It was pretty in-character for Strand to do it but the death felt rushed as hell, bit of a waste of a character. I wonder if the writers have got more ballsy with killing people off or if the actors are trying to leave a sinking ship...

Not really excited for episode 15 (100th episode) at all after this.

(S7. E14) My Reaction / Review for Fear The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 14 ''Divine Providence'': Episode 13 was good and I gave it a rating of 7.8/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. I don't like Wes but I think it works better for him to be a villain. Wow Wes and the other men of Strand going against him? I didn't see that coming. Poor Daniel still thinks that he will find his dead daughter. Seems like Charlie is dying, im not sad about it. Wes is dead? Hell yeah, finally something good. I never liked Wes, im glad he is gone. While not perfect this episode was pretty decent in my opinion. I think that the IMDB rating (5.8/10) is a bit unfair. My rating is 7/10.

Completely off-the-deep-end writing here. Some observations:

-Wes "turns" on Strand, and manages to convince his entire band of loyal soldiers to betray Strand too, after a 30 second conversation. I laughed out loud when they turned the guns on Strand. Yes Wes, the master manipulator tree drawer.

-Wes is clearly going to kill Alicia and allow her "army" to get eaten, literally everyone she cares about, yet Alicia considers his death to be the Strand "bridge too far". What? Just what, writers?

-Alicia is sweaty dying very slowly for some reason. Why? Oh, silly me, it's because the actress is bailing on the series.

-I saw the rabbi! Rabbi sighting! No dialogue though. Must suck to be a cast member on this show.

-Multiple good guy characters are slowly dying at the same time. Just stellar storytelling.

-Wes to the soldiers convincing them to betray Strand: "He lost the baby!" Yes, fellow tv viewers, "the baby" is now a prized possession in the zombie apocalypse. Because a crying noisy mouth to feed is for some reason a valuable asset in this world now.

I watch this show now like someone reading a decent book that becomes terrible in the last 10 pages. Just get it over with and blow up!

I understand. This season has been terrible. I agree. But I also think nothing can satisfy you guys (other reviewers) at this point, and the sour taste it's left in your mouths has clouded your judgement in reviewing this episode. This was exhilarating, there was a decent amount of action, character development with original characters, a good death, and what is hopefully the end to the tower. Rubén's performance alone should have people rating it higher than a 1/10. Andrew & Ian are horrible writers, but this was a good episode. Surely deserves higher than a 7.3.

This Episode begins with Victor, he shaved his beard. Alicia her crew has arrived at Victor his headquarters. Victor locked up Alicia in his headquarters. Alicia points a gun on Victor. Alicia fainted in the elevator. Victor begins a gunfight against Wes. Daniel killed the guard. Victor tells to Daniel that Ofelia died in Mexico. Wes says to Victor that he has changed. Daniel shotdown two of Wes his guards. Victor killed Wes with his sword. Alicia fights with Victor. A fire begins on the roof. Alicia fainted. Solid Episode of Fear the Walking Dead Season 7, this was not so good. I expect more from this series!

This episode shows the plot of this season was absolutely nonsensical and made no matter at all.

Wes was asking to die by not killing Strand & Alicia sooner, how stupid can the guy be.

Show has gotten that bad I've forgotten it exists and barely even pay attention, not that it's worth it.

Daniel accepting Ofelia is gone was a relief, however, the Daniel forgetting his memory arc is so dumb and should have never been implanted in the plot.

Next episode better be good as people are expecting Madison.

Finally, an amazing episode. At first when I watch episode 9, it's going to be a bad second half but no, it's just gotten better and better.

The scene with Daniel and the flashbacks of Ofelia are so emotional. And Wes dying is quite predictable.

And one more question, when did the rabbi come back? Maybe that's one of the questions that will never be answered.

I am totally hyped for the next episode!

This season has been terrible. This episode confirms my decision to stop watching.

Wes can convince the group to turn on Strand by saying he lost the baby? Alicia the only known person to live months post bite. Like some sort of Mary Sue. The raft nonsense and Sherry and her always being cryptic.

Strand was right. If you want to build a system for the masses, you need an iron fist. If there is a law, it needs an enforcer. The lack of authority destroyed the tower.

We have finally got to the episode that was hyped up as the big war that would be the payoff for hours of boring filler and bad writing. Yet the episode didn't end up being much of a war at all... Rather we have an episode of Alicia, Strand, Daniel, and Wes bickering.

There is so much nonsensical dialogue it makes it difficult to even review. I couldn't sum up what the characters are thinking if I tried.

Firstly, Wes is our title character for the episode, and the bull**** way he's been handled this season comes to a climax. His willingness to kill Alicia is nothing short of character butchering. It's also unrealistic how he got all of the Tower's rangers to turn on Strand in such a short time. His story definitely should've gone to Howard.

By the time Strand thankfully kills Wes I was so done with him. Still, he is only killed to give the writers an opportunity to make Alicia more ridiculous as she gets mad at Strand for his one kill this season that made any sense.

I cannot stress how poorly Alicia and Strand's relationship is handled here. It's sweet to see how much Strand still cares for Alicia, but his actions throughout the season don't add up with anything he tells her.

In theory, an episode about the original cast is great. Alicia, Strand, and Daniel are still my favorite characters and they get some good scenes here and there, but everything surrounding those scenes is so awful that they are ruined completely.

Daniel is still the absolute highlight despite his annoying demented state. He's still a badass and him making amends with Ofelia's death was super heartbreaking. I hope now he won't have memory loss in the future.

I was mixed about Alicia and Strand suddenly being friends again, but their last-second fight that destroyed the Tower was even worse.

In the end, we get another episode that is disgraceful and it's clear now that the whole season has been pointless.

This was the "war" that was being built up to? It's honestly pitiful...

When we look back on the long, weird and often insufferable post Season 3 legacy of "Fear the walking dead", several characters and plot lines stick out, both as good and bad. This will definitely settle itself into the 'bad' category' now that the battle for the tower is finally over, even though it basically never began. You have to give the show some leeway when you consider its budget is probably low and actually having several high budget action heavy episodes is difficult when you have little money to spread around, but at the same time, when we finally get given our 'battle' action heavy episode, its a massive mixed bag full of unfulfilled potential. Anyone that has read my views on the last few installments of Fear will know how much I'm waiting for Madison Clark to finally make her reappearance and maybe (I'm practically on the floor, begging) steer this practically sunken ship around.

The reason why I (and probably so many others) haven't abandoned the series is because of our investment in the original Clark's story. I love Alicia, she's one of my favorite TV characters and whether or not the actual stories she involved in are compelling, I feel an obligation to stay around until shes gone, after all, this is now her show (when it isn't Morgan Jones). Now, onto the actual episode itself. The cast for this show is huge at the moment, with so many characters on the list that even though Althea left earlier in the season, alongside John Sr's death (and now Wes' death), the cast STILL feels too massive to actually develop characters and make you care about them. I think I and a lot of other viewers were hoping that this episode would crack up the death count for the series and start to trim the cast heading into Season 8.

Look, its not that I don't like these characters, but what purpose has Grace, the Rabbi and Wendall actually served in this season's story line? They should've been some of the casualties of this ongoing war, to actually add stakes and make it feel as if characters can die in an unpredictable fashion, not long winded deaths like John Sr or Charlie (presumably, she'll be gone soon). Some fast, action heavy casualties would bring the suspense that this show has missed for the entire season, and allow other characters to come into the forefront and stop this long overused anthology format.

Strand and Alicia's relationship feels so weird now, he killed her love interest and also manipulated one of her closest friends (Wes) into becoming a psychopath, but after all this, she STILL (SOMEHOW) trusts him by the end of the episode's run time (before he turns the light off). This writing is bonkers. Strand has shown his true colors as an untrustworthy, evil, psychopath so many times yet Alicia is still going to trust him? Such a weird episode. All the stuff with Daniel's memory and his fight for his humanity in the decision NOT to kill Strand was actually fantastic, and the only redeeming features of this episode. The flashbacks to Ofelia from the early seasons were nice to see and the scene with Dan talking to Charlie was quite emotional by her bedside.

Overall, this is an extremely half baked, very plot hole filled episode that remains watchable only through the decent performances the cast give and some solid scenes spread throughout. Look, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm actually more invested in the cast remaining from this series (Strand, Daniel, Alicia and Madison) than the actual main series, so I'm hoping we get a somewhat compelling story for Madison when she finally comes back next episode (or the one after), here's hoping.

5/10.

The episode starts off stupid with Alicia agreeing to go inside and meet Strand one on one. This is a man who told his people to shoot Morgan, killed Will, and throws people off buildings. The fact she didn't demand they have the conversation over the phone is so crazy to me.

Wes's character is a complete 180. He literally left Luciana like a day ago for lying to Daniel about his daughter, but he's fine with Strand who murders people over nothing and holds them against their will? Lying is too far but that's fine because at least he's an honest murderer crazy person?

Strand captures Alicia and won't let her leave (shocker, how could she have known?). He's deluded himself into thinking Alicia and him can be friends after he murders everyone she loves. Basically, they lost their crazy person when the cult dude died so they just gave all of his character traits to Strand. Great writing. Is Alicia the messiah or something? She's in so many crazy men's "visions for the future" and she didn't die of the bite for like weeks so... what's going on?

I also just don't get what's so great about this tower compared to anywhere else. It doesn't seem particularly great but the people there care enough for Wes to go feral and flip all of Strand's men in like 30 seconds. Who knew overthrowing Strand could be so easy? It's almost like June could've just let him be poisoned and been done with it. Moronic June, always saving cult leaders.

Strand has an epiphany and goes back to like pre-season 6 Strand somehow after being crazy and homicidal and narcissistic all season and wants to help everyone? He is obsessed with Alicia to such a crazy degree, saying he built the tower all for her, everything he did was for her, whatever... all the way until he gets to the stupid light, where he changes his mind AGAIN? And Alicia says that she would've forgiven him if he hadn't killed Wes... WES. Who just tried to kill you both multiple times and everyone in your group outside? That's your line in the sand? Not Will? Or Morgan?

What even was Strand's plan? Did he think the walkers would move on after eating Alicia's whole army and leave them all alone? You're risking your tower, your people, your life to bring the same kind of radiation infested walkers to your front door that got Charlie terminally ill? What an absolutely idiotic plan.

To the people saying not to listen to the bad reviews, I feel like we aren't even watching the same show.

Drivel. Sappy, pointless, nonsensical, drivel.

Good Lord. If I have to sit through one more introspective speech, or listen to the sad, sappy music one more time...I'm gonna hurl myself into the next passing herd of walkers.

Strand has become a caricature. I am laughing at the dialogue at this point. Dwight and Sherry's CODE sounds like a line from ELF. I chuckle every time they talk about it. I almost fell over when Morgan and Grace and the baby survived the nuke under a CAR??? Talk about a "nuke the fridge" moment.

They should have put this mess out if its misery several seasons ago.

Just stop already.

Im completely lost in the story and can't wrap my head around what strand or morgan or "the tower" wants.

I didnt like this one that much. There have been 4 times this episode where wes could kill strand and alicia but he didn't because of ? And it has been a dissapointing ending of the "fight" where the last few episodes have been building up to. Also, where are the rest of the population of the tower? Are they all soldiers and dying right away? I can still remember that strand said they already have 100+ poeple living there, i have barely seen anybody else doing regular things in the building.