Really, the one weak point of this season finale was the one main weak point of the entire season: Father Gabriel Stokes. Since The Governor the show has really struggled to come up with effective antagonists for the characters to come into conflict with. This season has already suffered through Officer Dawn, the personality and motivation-deficient totalitarian leader of that place Beth ended up in. But worst than that is Father Gabriel, introduced as a whining little baby sad that people were cutting up his church so they wouldn't get eaten by flesh eating monsters, now promoted to the position of whining little baby who tries to get Deanna to eject Rick and the rest of his group from the Alexandria Safe Zone for reasons of, like, religion or something? He's never been anything more than a cipher, a walking thematic flourish that's been deployed suddenly at the last minute as a sort of deus ex machina bad guy. And in the finale he somehow became even less sympathetic, even though the show was trying to position him as such. Gabriel stinks. He is a boring and annoying roadblock whose motivation makes no sense and is The Walking Dead equivalent of the Tom Cruise's dying daughter in War Of The Worlds. Get rid.
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