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Originally Posted by Yamer
Another really fantastic episode with all sorts of branches of background, veiled truths, and potential storyline and conflicts weaving together.
As to the quoted posts, I was fine with the episode up until the Gabriel gone Judas speech. Seems like an absolute contradiction of character given what he has done himself and how, essentially, Rick's group got him to 'paradise'. Strange time to draw such a distinct ethical line in the sand for that character, and at such an abrupt moment. I can't recall anything so egregious, outside of the Terminus church massacre, that would have given him any justification.
I appreciate the tension that is definitely going to arise out of this, but I think it was poorly executed narrative once again. Too bad considering how solid an episode and how great the show has been since Aaron came a'knockin at the barn. I've read the responses in the thread concerning Gabriel's motivations, but I'm not quite there with accepting this turn (other than he's a complete coward). Any other insights?
Oh, and mother-dick...
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I can understand where he is coming from.
He thinks he's found paradise, he's been greeted in, and he can be a priest again (the note and strawberries). He feels like he has purpose, and he sees this group of people that has proven you don't have to be savages to survive in this world. He thinks that is the norm, and that Rick's group are evil (you can't say they haven't done anything egregious...except that time they slaughtered a bunch of people in side the church...that's not an "Excpet that one time" type of thing you could brush off).
Anyway, I think Gabriel is thinking, "See, these people in Alexandria are good and have made this world work without doing horrible things. Rick's group have all done horrible things and therefore are evil, and now they are trying to spread that evil to this paradise".
I think it's a case of Gabriel still not understanding exactly what this new world is like, and wrongly assuming that Alexandria is the norm, and Rick's group is an extreme outlier, instead of the truth which is the exact opposite.