Michonne has very much been the real star of this season of The Walking Dead, making all the smart leadership decisions whilst Rick continues to tumble down a crevasse of paranoia and hysteria seriously, what was up with that freak out about his baby he's barely been around for the majority of this run of episodes and setting out the principal conflicts and themes of the show. A couple of weeks back, she commented on the difference between surviving just making it and having a life actually worth living. Now, this is going to be a problem with The Walking Dead from now until whenever it eventually ends (if ever). For the first five seasons the group have just been making it, presumably in some vague hope that stuff will eventually go back to normal. Evidently that isn't going to happen, but in the meantime they haven't exactly been making much of a life for themselves. Constantly on the move, mistrusting of everyone they come across, all bearing their own deep figurative and literal scars. The Alexandria Safe-Zone could very much be the place for this group of battered, bruised and broken people to start their lives again. But as soon as they do that, and the drama stops, and the zombies are safely behind walls, The Walking Dead ceases to be. But then again, eventually the constant churn of that drama starts to get a bit boring, and there doesn't appear to be any point for the survivors to carry on if this is all there is. So what will happen next? It seems to be up to Rick...
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