TWD: Allow Me to Reintroduce Morgan

Season 8 / Episode 2 / AMC A lot happened on The Walking Dead these weeks that can best be summed up: action scene, cut to other members of the group in mid-action scene, cut to a different other members of the group in a different action scene. Repeat. Repeat. Everyone is close to accomplishing their varying mission, but doesn’t quite. Cue end credits. So now that we got the recap out of the way, can we talk about Morgan, right? So I’ve been rooting for Morgan to return to the killing side since… forever. At least since the episode no one needed. And now I got my wish. But I’m torn. Because we know Morgan was holed up in a ghost town of his own design, equipped with curmudgeonly old man mountain recluse type boobie traps, we know he was in a dark place for a long time.

Because of the white savior who teaches Morgan Buddhism from a well-worn paperback book episode, we know Morgan struggled with his desire to bludgeon to death everyone he encountered. Eventually, he suppressed this desire (after getting his fake mentor killed in the worst choreographed walker in the series’ history) to murderdeathkill everyone. Like most converts, he was the most zealous. It was like he was a vegan. So the pendulum swung over to “let me escort this spider outside lest it come to harm.” Okay, cool. I didn’t like it. I didn’t think it was practical. I didn’t think it served the group (or Morgan himself). In fact, it actually put everyone id danger. No, I haven’t forgotten the time you tried to …