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Alexandria is under hourly attack of hordes of walkers for almost two days and the dwellers are exhausted. Lydia discloses that this type of strategy is unusual to her mother that would rather send a massive attack. Gamma comes to Alexandria and tells that they need to meet Alpha unarmed at the North border. Daryl, Michonne and Carol go to the encounter with Alpha that tells that she knows they crossed the border three times but she will not punish them. Meanwhile the resented Aaron is assigned to fight the walkers with Negan in the South. Carol is keeping awake using medication and has hallucinations with the Whisperers.

"Ghosts" is a great and promising episode of "The Walking Dead" with many walkers and a story like in the "old times". Fans of this series will certainly enjoy with "The Walking Dead" back on tracks. The deranged Alpha and the Whisperers will certainly be another powerful enemy of the survivors. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Fantasmas" ("Ghosts")

Note: On 07 January 2024, I saw this episode again.

From the opening scene I could feel this episode being brilliant and heading in a new direction. Carol (Melissa Mcbride) shone throughout !!

Three episodes now .. I keep watching as an experiment.. can't believe how bad and boring this is .. there were maybe two thrills in it and for a second a Horror feeling .. like they noticed that they actually do a horror series .. but that's by far not enough .. so sad .. they should focus again on a group and let them travel and find new places and a new feeling and tone to it .. what happened to the big cities ?

Slowly but surely, The Whisperer War is coming. Episodes like these are important, cause TWD had a bit of a pace problem generally, and when you're bored following episodes like these it makes your attention fried for the ultimate outcome of all the things. After that Whisperer-focused filler episode, this was more exciting and actually got the story developed. Still, there is a need for that 9+ episode, but one hopes that episode arrives soon. This episodes was 8, but close to 7. Negan-Aaron stuff was quite interesting, since Negan behaved as good(?)old Negan for sometime. Carol and what she's been through is kinda boring IMO, because she had been through a lot and yes, "The Calm Before" was on another level but it's just getting more stale than ever to see Carol this way. Overall, a good episode with a bunch of good scenes, it could get 7.5 but not here (LOL) so a bit generous, 8.

While not necessarily a bad thing, this felt like the type of episode that The Walking Dead would put out a few years ago. Especially following a flashback heavy episode last week, I figured there may be a little bit more sense of urgency with The Whisperer storyline. But I have to remember this is a 16 episode arc and there will be plenty of 'filler' episodes, let's just hope they're good.

One of the things I love that they established with The Whisperers is there mysterious ability to monitor the crew without showing themselves. Sure, we had that long staredown a few weeks back with Carol & Alpha, but since the massacre in episode 9.15 last year, there hasn't been a ton of interaction between the two groups, at least as much as there were with The Saviors. But that in itself lends itself to a creepier vibe and aesthetic.

Is this the first time we've had a pill-popping storyline on The Walking Dead? It feels like it. Every TV show has to do it, it's like a requirement... All jokes aside, if I'd buy anyone getting themselves in trouble with drugs/pills, it would probably be Carol. And I enjoyed all of the hallucination sequences, which is like free thrills/horror. The Aaron/Negan dynamic was interesting too. As Ross Marquand said on Talking Dead, this is essentially the first time they have had extended scenes together, and a chance to catch up on all the horror Negan has brought to Aaron and his friends/family.

All in all, it's forgettable but still well done in many areas. I have a good feeling about this season, but it still has a ways to go before we get back to the quality of season 9.

7.6/10

Wow, I will start by saying that the background they gave Carol during the episode is amazing, it was very good. I really liked the horror moments. It's great to see the characters immersed in moments of despair and to see how they develop is brilliant.

The potential of this episode was wasted, what could have been the most bestest episode of the entire series was thrown away in drain, i stopped questioning the situations of how that could be different than real world or something like that but this episode was just so disappointing, had cringe dialogues, alot of talking, i dont know if i can tell either it was canon or a filler. though it was a canon but 8:2 8 being the filler

It's a lot better than season 8 ,and of course it's just the beginning but it seems to be a great season and every fan was wating for it after the boring seasons

I have to admit, I started watching the show with low expectations and I was almost certain that this episode was going to be another crap sandwich that I was going to bite into, but I will say - I was actually into this episode; especially with the Negan scenes. To be honest, if Alpha would lose that ridiculous country accent, her character would be more believable and intimidating. My only wish is that Negan would somehow get to be one of the leaders. Negan in his hay day wouldn't put up with this crap and he would put on a better show rather than the others pandering to whatever Alpha wants. Carol needs to go, to many issues this character has and it's played out and exhausting. I liked how there more involvement with the walkers. That's it for me. Let's keep it up AMC, hopefully good episodes will continue.

Used to love this show. Now i just watch it out of habit. It this continues, I will not bother soon....

This episode was able to do what they couldn't previously in season 8 and that being juggling many different plots at once and not make it a complete and utter mess. Angela Kang was able to organize this season and last into something that this show needed, a new perspective that we hadn't seen before for these characters and this episode proves it.

For now.. this is the best episode in this season!!!! A like the opening scenes, Carol alucinations, Negan and Aaron (more of this two's plz!!!! ) The frontier scene... And.. everything about this episode!!! Watching this episode i feels season 4 era.. and this is good!!! For now.. after two boring season 7/8, The Walking Dead is finally back!!!

My rank of this season:

Episode 3°, Episode 1°, Episode 2°.

9/10

This season is going down as one of the worst. Just rudderless and stumbling as badly as the dead.

Not a bad episode, fairly enjoyable in fact. A lot of action including large-scale zombie attacks coming near constantly which helps to fill it up and feel full.

For the first time in a long time this was genuinely scary. Love how it's also exploring the characters mental challenges instead of just killing Walkers etc. The trap scene was epic and the ending was very cinematic which has got me pumped for next week

This episode is amazing, Ângela Kang is the best. Season 10 is killing.

4.5 out of 5 stars.

The episode delivers on more zombie bashing action. When the group are facing hordes of undead. Which Michonne and her people are threatened. Which they need to meet Alpha to settle their conflict.

Lots of action. Carols sanity is questioned. Negan and Aaron settle their conflict. The episode is good and suspenseful.

Just dumb decisions, dumb drama, I'm done with this series, this is the last episode I will watch,. Nothing but recycled idiocy and never getting anywere, it was good up to before Negan, Negan was over dramatic and now this crap storyline, be passive and never do anything to end it, just more and more drama, too bad, maybe refresh writers, but anyway I won't see how this continues and ends, good luck with it

Seriously, there were moments in the episode that looked like horror. I find it very interesting the issue of traumas and the madness that is being lived (and apparently we will have more of this, I love it) It seems like a chilling way in which Carol is taken during the episode, I was wondering what it was real. The conflict continues to be carried out in a very good way between our protagonists and the whisperers, definitely a strangely satisfying episode.

This season have so far been superb and this episode gives us an even better episode than the first two that was excellent, this episode gave us an opening so good that it just made me sit on the edge of my seat, truly great editing right there, the horror is upon us. The rest of the episode also has some great editing and directing from David Boyd who has been with the show since the start, his cinematography is just stunning in this episode. The writing and dialogue was perfect, all the character development to the callbacks and references. Angela Kang and company are really doing it this season with its writing, loving it! This was truly an interesting episode where paranoia plays a big part of the episode and with its clever editing and nice pacing it really felt that we were in the shoes of our survivors. It was great with nothing negative, I liked the cameo that was seen at some certain points in the episode won't spoil who it was though.

Seeing Ross Marquand and Jeffrey Dean Morgan play out their scenes together was incredible as their performances was perfect, I have never seen that great acting from Ross that was just magnificent! Josh McDermitt and Melissa McBride also had strong performances this episode, these actors, the whole ensemble are really showing their strength with great performances.. How they have grown both as actors and their respective characters. This episode is what makes The Walking Dead good, unexpected moments and moments that we can see the horror that the characters are facing. I wish the rest of the episodes have this quality.