I was into this series for the first few seasons, when story arcs and character development was the driving force, but when it became the repeating loop of fan service/stupidity later on, I tuned the F out pretty much, and would only watch occasionally just to laugh at how terrible and pathetic it had become. Whether it was the extremely cheesy and melodramatic speeches that characters would blather on and on with, or the completely idiotic choices and actions the characters would take in a poorly contrived advancement of the already-weak plot, it always made me laugh with its endless fumbling ineptitude...
So imagine my surprise when I watched the episode "One More" and found that, holy crap, it wasn't a complete sh!tshow! Sure, there was some of the usual characters-being-stupid-as-hell-to-drive-the-plot stuff, like when they find the boar in the room and don't immediately conclude that someone must have put it there, or clear the building in the first place, as would be standard operating procedure to the 2 supposed veteran apocalypse survivors, but no, they decide to pig out (see what I did there?) and get drunk as hell so they're left unguarded in a building which they aren't even sure is empty and are too stupid to suspect otherwise.
But the speech by Father Milky-Eye had an actual purpose, for once it served to make a meaningful advancement in story in character later on. It made the tense main scene with the Terminator guy play out well, even if Gaybeard guy had to ruin it a bit with his 'we save people, we can help, we're the good guys' babble but overall, with the twist at the end, made for a decent stand-alone episode.
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