The Walking Dead Ep. 612 “Not Tomorrow Yet”
Why are dingle berries brown? That’s just the way s#’% is!
Not Tomorrow Yet posed some heavy moral questions and tossed the community of Alexandria into a situation that shook the resolve of even the most hardened and resolute members of Rick’s group. Season 6 of The Walking Dead has been slowly building towards this moment, with the ongoing battle of ideologies and the lengths several characters will go to survive. Those ideological differences are heightened even more now that the show is on the verge of introducing one of The Walking Dead’s most dangerous adversaries.
Carol’s back and it’s good to see Alexandria’s favourite cookie baking, zombie killing badass get some more screen time this week. The tension between her and Morgan hasn’t subsided but the relative peace that has blanketed Alexandria over the last few weeks has allowed Carol to exhale and soften a little. Her cookie baking not only harkens back to her days before the apocalypse but is her way of expressing some love in a world that, in her eyes, has no place for it. Carol’s brief domestic bliss is shattered however when Rick returns from the Hilltop Colony with a message: They’re going to have to fight.
The encounter on the Hilltop last episode has opened Rick’s eyes to the danger posed by Negan and the saviours. Rick argues that offense is the best defence to combat the threat that faces them all. Morgan’s pacifist stance is put to the ultimate test as Rick rallies the community to protect themselves from Negan’s saviours. The ultimate choice put forth by Rick causes everyone to do some deep soul searching and to question what’s more important to them: survival or their moral code.
Killing is one thing. Most of the characters in The Walking Dead have dispatched walkers to survive. Others like Rick, have killed in self defence but the notion of a pre-emptive strike, of killing in cold blood shakes the resolve of even those closest to Rick. The dilemma that everyone is confronted with is this: adhere to your moral code, like Morgan or follow your personal form of JSS – even if it makes you more of a monster than those you’re trying to defeat.
Sometimes kicking the hornet’s nest, even if ones intentions are sound, is more trouble than it’s worth.
