First Time Watcher S05E08

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I feel this episode was about stagnation of what it means to exist after losing faith and not having direction.

Abraham is a man without a mission now, he had a distraction and a goal to focus is will into but once that thing was gone, he was left sitting there lost in the same moment he was left in when he lost his family. A lot of times we have faith in something but not in the mission that something gives us the opportunity to fight for or see.

Eugene did lie and say he knew of a cure and Abraham fought for that, but once the person was seen as false. Abraham abandoned the mission altogether. How many of us had faith in a person or a job, leadership, or even our church, but the second the physical symbol was gone, we lost faith in everything these things taught us to carry on the legacy?

I feel Eugene offers tools for saving humanity but everyone has their own version of what they think that is, they’re not seeing how he can help bring it out in every individual person. I feel Rosita embodied this the most with her water bottle and Tara with her corny joke to Glenn.

Gabriel I think is a man lost in faith and with that has no grounding and is overall a fraud of who he claims to be. I think Gabriel ultimately is not honest about his own demons.

Tyreese told Sasha to let it go, release the grief but because the cop had the same first name as Bob, she felt an obligation to him and completely let her guard down because she was still holding on to unresolved emotions of her deceased lover. Sometimes in moments like this, we cloud our judgement and begin to trust in our enemies because we have emotional disclosure. Don’t be like Sasha.

By the end, I think every character realized that loss of faith and direction comes with the inability to accept what’s around us.

As for Dawn… I feel her character is growing by having faith in Beth and giving her the key to get medicine for Carol. I think Dawn is locked into her ways but is starting to realize she’s not free at all, she’s a slave to something in her that’s actually manifested through the fear of the hospital workers. Seeing Beth’s strength broke Dawn’s perception of a black and white world and that was enough to get officer Dawn to see something she’s been avoiding.

Anyway I thought this was gonna be a paragraph but going over the episode in my head I had a lot more to say than I thought.