Now, if the show was more stylish, if the world that has been created was more heightened and aesthetically designed with a clear purpose, this narrative tactic might have worked but that's not the case.
And mind you, he's been the most interesting and most complexly built character to arrive on the show thus far, meaning that nearly all the characters seem to represent nothing more than a very simple, uncomplicated ideological perspective. The fact that he knows where they're going and holds power over them - he refuses to allow them to take on new passengers - means more than what he's thinking or feeling as a distinct human being. Even Strand, the most interesting element of the first season by a country mile, now feels less important as a character than he is as the holder of the story's biggest secrets and the trajectory of the group on the whole.
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There's certainly more promise in the episodes I saw than there was in most of the first season episodes, but the series remains stuck to laying out thematic platitudes and being guided by plot turns over characters.
Sadly, as the setting is not long after the bloodshed and flesh-eating began, there isn't much in the way of history, but in this particular meet-up, the leader of the other group does impart a carefully considered belief in coming to terms with the inevitability of death, and the heightened likelihood of coming face-to-face with it in the current state, to Travis. When they meet up with another group in the second episode, "We All Fall Down," the series teases one of the great elements of its superb predecessor, that being the discovery of other people, their unique skills and philosophies, and their histories.
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