[WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 10 episode 16, “A Certain Doom.”] Show After six months of waiting, it’s finally here — the Season 10 finale. “A Certain Doom” was put on hold after the COVID-19 outbreak shut everything down last spring, leaving AMC unable to complete VFX work on the episode. At last, it hit our screens… though perhaps the episode was not what you were clamoring for, if you were looking forward to a big fight, a la past showdowns between our heroes and Terminus, or our group and the Saviors. With that said, this is by no means a bad episode of The Walking Dead. It ties up the season’s beats in a meaningful way and sets up the show’s future (which we now know is limited) in the exciting final few minutes that point toward the last arc from the source material. If anything, “A Certain Doom” is a victim of the real-world events that unfolded around it, which were unforeseeable and shouldn’t be held against these thoroughly decent 44 minutes of storytelling. Here’s how it all goes down. The Best-Laid PlansAs the episode opens, the group hastily preps for war with the remaining Whisperers, who’ve surrounded the hospital. (If you watched the clips AMC released, this would’ve looked quite familiar.) Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) make it back inside, Team Eugene (Josh McDermitt) continues their trek to meet Stephanie, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) makes it back and gets a Season 9B/Season 10 recap via a letter from Carol and Aaron (Ross Marquand) and Alden (Caleb McAuliffe) are saved by a mask-wearing, axe-wielding dude. The plan, courtesy of Luke (Dan Fogler), is to lead the walkers away—and over a cliff—with a boombox attached to a wagon. Of course, that means he has to get to the wagon to plug everything in… which means a group has to go out there, in the sea of walkers, covered in guts and carrying the materials. Four groups of two end up taking the job; Daryl goes with Kelly (Angel Theory), Carol goes with Beatrice (Briana Venskus). Magna (Nadia Hilker) goes with Jerry (Cooper Andrews) and Luke goes with his lady love, Jules (Alex Sgambati). Like most plans on The Walking Dead, it goes sideways. Beatrice gets stabbed by a Whisperer and dies, placing Carol in grave danger, but she manages to escape unscathed and with the supplies for the wagon. The group, minus poor Beatrice, continues on with a working radio wagon. Maggie to the Rescue!Meanwhile, inside the hospital, the Whisperers make their way through the door and up the stairs. Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Lydia (Cassady McClincy) share a sweet moment where he advises her to run and gives her her mother’s walker mask, and she tells him he could be a hero if he wanted to be. He heads down an elevator shaft, and Lydia leaves to join the party leading the Whisperers away. When night falls, the Whisperers get to Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) and nearly kill him, but he’s saved just in the nick of time by Maggie, who’s brought along her mask-wearing and incredibly deadly friend, as well as Aaron and Alden. Unfortunately, the radio group doesn’t face smooth sailing from there on out. At night, the Whisperers start attacking, and they break the wagon. Daryl and friends are forced to take cover in the woods, where they come up with a terrifying Plan B—they enter the horde themselves and eliminate the Whisperers inside. From there, someone has to take on the suicide mission of leading the walkers over the cliff. Lydia volunteers for the job, but Daryl’s not having it. “We can deal with this later,” he says. They infiltrate the horde and start taking down Whisperers, which whittles away at whatever remains of Beta’s (Ryan Hurst) clinging-by-a-thread mental state. Then, suddenly, a voice sounds: “Hey, shithead.” It’s Negan! He’s headed out with the horde, too, and he makes it his mission to take down the Whisperers’ co-leader. He can’t quite get it done alone, though, so Daryl helps him out, and together, they silence that Whisperer… for good. (In a cool nod to the comics, Negan realizes Beta was a celebrity, when, as he’s dying, the walkers rip off his skin mask.) Finding Their Own WayThat just leaves the “leading the walkers over a cliff” part of things, which Lydia is still determined to do. But Carol approaches her and tells her to leave. “Go,” she says. “This is my choice.” She makes it to the cliff’s edge and closes her eyes—and then someone pulls her back. Daryl? No, Lydia! She tugs Carol to safety behind a rock, and she, referencing a conversation earlier in the episode, reminds Carol that she didn’t tell her to leave—she told her to “find her own way.” They hug and cry together, and then, when it’s safe, they head back to the others. The hospital group and walker-mission groups come back together in the woods, which leads to a string of happy reunions; Maggie hugs Judith (Cailey Fleming), Lydia hugs Negan, and Daryl and Carol have a chat. He asks her if she got what she wanted now that it’s over, and she says she’ll never have what she wants. “You’ve still got me,” he says, and they hug. He adds, “And New Mexico is still out there.” For now, Carol says they have things to take care of where they are; but this seems like a pretty pointed nod to that upcoming Daryl-Carol spinoff AMC announced. Oh, and Connie (Lauren Ridloff)’s alive; she made it out of the cave, but she doesn’t make it back to the group. Instead she crosses paths with Virgil (Kevin Carroll), who’s back in the picture for reasons that are, as of yet, unknown. Come On, Commonwealth!Team Eugene faces a major setback when his bike breaks and it seems they won’t be able to make the rendezvous. He’s heartbroken and convinced there’s no way they can go on, but Ezekiel (Khary Payton) talks some sense into him. They continue their trek and make it to the point where he’s meant to meet Stephanie… and at first it seems there’s no one there. Eugene boldly declares that they should go find her and her group anyway, and then, suddenly, they’re surrounded by soldiers in white armor and blinded by powerful lights. Commonwealth, here we come! Other Observations
The Walking Dead, Returns 2021, AMC What happened in The Walking Dead season 10 episode 16?Outside, Beta notices the Whisperers around him are being killed by the survivors. He then spots Lydia and prepares to attack her, but is interrupted by Negan. Seeking revenge for Negan's assassination of Alpha, he furiously charges at Negan and tackles him to the ground, and prepares to finish him off.
Who dies in The Walking Dead season 11 episode 16?It always ends how you expect it. Then, sure enough, Leah is shot and killed before she does Maggie in.
Is Maggie still alive walking dead?The Walking Dead has eight remaining episodes until the series is complete and Maggie Rhee is alive and well. Though Cohan did leave the series for a time, she returned in season 10.
Who is Georgie The Walking Dead?Georgie, played by Jayne Atkinson, appeared in the eighth season episode “The Key.” She and her bodyguards, the twins, Hilda (Kim Ormiston) and Midge (Misty Ormiston), approach Hilltop and make a proposal and barter supplies for information.
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