No joke, I literally had to consistently remind myself that I wasn't watching a Disney movie. The thought popped into my head time and time again, "This is a weird Disney movie." I'm not joking. I honestly wish I was joking. I honestly hope this whole fiasco of trash is a joke. I have never seen a great show fall so quickly and swiftly, and so low down.
When the shot near the end of the episode mirrored the shot of Madison, Strand, Nick, Alicia, and Luciana finding the baseball stadium in "No One's Gone", that's when it hit me. I felt like I just got slapped in the face with the force of 8,000 typhoons. This episode somehow felt more offensive to fans of the original Fear than the deaths of Nick and Madison did. Never have I seen more stupid decisions, more god awful dialogue, more "of-course" moments, more """"""""poetic"""""""" garbage being spewed by characters with so little life or soul in them, more awful cliches and tropes that should've been worn out in the '80s.
I really can not see how the showrunners (Gimple included) can think in their right minds that this is good television, or that these are good characters, or that this is a good story. I always try my best to see how other people might like something even if I don't, and if you personally enjoyed this episode then more power to you, but I can not see any objective bits of merit here. The grey filter remained. The Gimple-ogue remained. The awful characters remained. Everything that made this season awful remained. And a season's build up of going to Alexandria is completely destroyed in one nonchalant sentence ten minutes before the episode's end, in favour of a LITERALLY NEVER-BEFORE HEARD OF DENIM FACTORY.
I don't have closing thoughts. I just needed to rant.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.