The Walking Dead: 5 Things That "No Sanctuary" Did Right (And 3 It Didn't)

The Good:

5. They Were Cannibals

From the very first time that a sign for Terminus appeared on the show, viewers were crying foul. Sure, traveling down the railroad toward a sanctuary fortress that could very well lead to reunions with their loved ones would have sounded great to the survivors of the Governor's assault on the prison, but if there was one thing that we'd learned by that point in Season 4, it was that people in the zombie apocalypse tend to be exponentially worse than the zombies. The Greenes were darn lucky that the group to invade their farm in Season 2 only had one Shane instead of a dozen. Even if the prison survivors were too desperate to read anything sinister into the signs, we knew better. There were theories aplenty, and long before Maggie's and Glenn's groups wandered in to find a kindly woman welcoming them over a grill of mystery meat, the most popular was that the sanctuary was actually a trap set by a crew of cannibals to stock their larders. By the end of Season 4 and the easy capture of three of the most capable fighters on the show, our suspicions seemed all but confirmed. The Termites had to be cannibals, right? With so many viewers sussing out the cannibal angle from the beginning, it might have been tempting for the producers to change tack over the hiatus. A show such as The Walking Dead thrives on shock value, and the possibility of abandoning the creative integrity of the intended storyline for a twist was all too real. The Termites weren't cannibals... they were members of a religious cult making sacrifices to their zombie god! They weren't cannibals... they were candle-makers who needed fat for their craft and disposed of the meat! They weren't cannibals... they just liked to quarantine new arrivals in train cars before welcoming them into their land of milk and honey! As it turned out? The Termites were totally cannibals. Throat-slitting, blood-draining, corpse-butchering, larder-filling cannibals with a hunger for man meat. It was great. Way to stick to your guns, show.