![]() I like Nick more and more-he's a great character because he's pretty smart but still makes mistakes that are mostly, at least, grounded in his own character flaws. I liked Charlie more than most of our regular cast. ![]() I'm still pretty lukewarm when it comes to the characters. I like not knowing what's going to happen without comic book spoilers. This third episode of season 2 was again pretty decent with some great tense moments, a bit of humor, and some really surprising stuff like Chris having to bash that guy's head in, or Strand ditching Charlie. Not quite dismay, I think, but something kind of like it. That brings us back to where we began this review, with Strand stranding Charlie and Jake at sea as Madison looks on in.bewildered disappointment. The rest of the group fights off the walking dead just barely and they all escape on the boat. ![]() Nick is pretty funny here, going right up to a zombie and hissing at it. He manages to escape but is covered in zombie blood and guts-inadvertantly discovering what The Walking Dead survivors figured out in season one of that show: Zombies won't go after you if you mask your scent with their insides. Nick, meanwhile, manages to fall off a small cliff where a zombie trapped in the sand almost kills him. Salazar has a momentary lapse of judgment and starts firing bullets at the oncoming horde, as though it will do any good. We'll set aside such concerns and just roll with it. We're not sure quite what's happened, or why the zombies are so fast, or how Charlie went from the life raft to the shore and then got chased by all these undead.but oh well. Salazar goes to look for Chris and instead sees Charlie running like a madwoman away from.a horde of zombies. The group splits up four ways, with Alicia looking for Chris, and Nick wandering around like a hobo. Whatever empathy he may have for his dad now is likely offset by the trauma. ![]() But instead of a gun, Chris has to bludgeon the poor man to death. What follows is a really hard to watch moment of kindness, with Chris doing for this stranger what Travis did for his mom. There's some zombies there for him to kill, but one turns out to be a still living human who asks Chris to end his suffering. They find some clothes, some medicine for Ofelia, and Chris wanders off and finds part of the plane. While Travis fixes the ship, Salazar, Nick, Chris, and Alicia go to shore to scavenge what appears to be a bunch of luggage. Had they not totally screwed things up in the last episode, maybe they could have stayed on the last island, mending fences and surviving. I don't trust Strand, and neither should they, but it isn't like they have much of a choice. Madison confronts him about their destination and it turns out to be a fortified spot in Mexico where they'll apparently be safe. Strand is bossy and irritating, though I can see why he'd be impatient with these bozos. Travis is tasked with fixing it, which leads to some scuba-diving adventures in zombie-infested waters. The crew of the Abigail get stuck when a zombie gets caught up in the ship's filtration system. Charlie's the type of character to survive a zombie apocalypse-much more so than Madison, Alicia, or Travis. Travis says they'll tow her in her little inflatable raft, but later Strand comes down and cuts the rope. When she meets up with our ragged band of heroes, Strand won't let them on the boat. We may never know, since she's only in this one episode apparently.
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