I actually enjoyed this episode of season 11 and shows you what can happen when you’re out in the wild of the apocalypse and it was the first truly scary episode in my opinion
you unironically think there isn't a single scary episode in 11 seasons of the show? stop over-exaggerating. its good, but it isn't "The first scary episode." lmfao
The feral family seemed fairly young. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were around mid to late 20s. Which means they were kids when it all started. I believe they were abandoned due to their parents or adult figures in their life dying and they managed to survive all these years in the house. But that kind of life has caused them to develop into these creatures.
I just assumed they were kids that were left to fend for themselves. They were isolated and trapped inside that house with literal flesh eating monsters surrounding the place. Maybe they saw how the walkers ate people and figured thats what they are supposed to do. Also that episode kind of reminded me of the horror movie Mother where two kids get kidnapped by their dad and left in a cabin alone for years and when someone finally finds them they act just like these people in TWD only they lives off cherries and not human meat lol
I want to thank you so much for acknowledging the actual Mi’kmaq windigo legend. The desire to consume at any cost is a great way to explore the walking dead universe.
In the World War Z Book there is a reference to children that became feral after been left alone for so much time, this might be something similar, they could have also evolve from the group named the wolves
@@ymi0613the movie and book are very different. The book is about a journalist collecting anecdotes from different periods of the zombie war. It spans pre events, the war, and the aftermath. I believe the movie main character (Gerry) narrates another anecdote at some portion in the story.
@ymi7924 the framing device for the book takes place 20 years after the outbreak, with the Zombie Wars lasting about a decade, with one official end date (Victory China Day) but several localized end dates after that. (Such as Victory London). The feral children grew up alone in the 'grey zones', managing to survive but possessing only basic instincts due to trauma and isolation.
Stories like this and Maggie's story that she tells on the subway are where this world shine, so much of the personal inter-social drama is slow and it drags and by the end of the show it's bogged down by so many characters I couldn't even tell you their names if you asked me. THIS these self contained little world building stories? Those are fucking fascinating. I wish we had more of this.
I don’t really understand what you mean. The interpersonal relationships cause you to forget character names but the action sequences don’t? That’s backwards
@@daphneglasurus7886 its easier to follow and care about a small group that you watch go through a harrowing experience than it is to try and follow 10 different dialogue scenes with people who barely matter to the story
@@jeffheald8228 seguramente por como andaban al ser humanos No podían siquiera pararse y solo arrastrarse así que simplemente podrían ser casi como el "Hunter" Serian carroñeros que se levnatarian en 2 patas solo para ver más en su alrededor,luego seguir a 4 patas
I don't think that they were too stupid to flee, now don't get me wrong, I'm happy that they were purged but it almost seemed like they started to come back for each other when each one was swarmed. Or I could be wrong, and they have Kuru and are just messed up in the membrane. Very chilling episode.
@@erwinthedodo9205yea I think they came back cuz the only way they all eat is if they hunt together , seemed like they were mostly trapping people once in a while and were starving for the most part so I guess they need numbers
The feral family is kind of like a combination of the Wolves and Terminus. I wonder what caused them to become that demented and if they were once part of either of those groups.
Someone else said that they look like they're in their twenties. And were about 10 to 12 years into the Apocalypse now. So it's believed they we're kids who ended up abandoned somehow. Stay stuck in the house and went feral.
@@tena2sweet Can you imagine if Sophia ended up never being bitten and turned into a Walker and instead ended up on that house. Feral Sophia would be insane. Or even crazier, feral Lizzie! Maybe Carol tells Lizzie to run away and never come back so she does and ends up joining the ferals.
maybe they were all humans..had younger children and/or pets in the house but got so hungry they had to eat them to survive and made them absolutely feral.
Did the family go crazy cuz they ate walker flesh? Like eating human flash can cause Kuru? In FTWD, the drug dealer was selling walker pineal or pituitary glands for an adrenaline rush, wonder if the people continued to consume that, turned out like this
Jeez that’s a really interesting theory. I really wish fear explored the gland high more, such a cool concept. And I hadn’t even considered they could be eating walker flesh. Great theory. I remember Robert Kirkman saying the hunters wouldn’t have turned from eating bobs tainted meat, so you could be onto something.
Fun fact: human growth hormone used to be extracted from pituitary glands in corpses not so long ago. It can lead to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for the consumer. Like kuru it’s a prion disease. So they basically gave themselves a death sentence
This was one of my favorite episodes in TWD. It was creepy, terrifying, and had me going "what the f***?" the whole time. It showed how when someone isn't able to get the basic needs we all require, they go to drastic measures to ensure their survival and eventually become something less than human. It has got to be one of the best episodes despite the season it was in being pretty mediocre.
This remainds me of the abandoned kids from world war z. It mentioned that by different reason kids end up alone to survive. They grow up to a wild state were they can be like animals. During the start of the zombie war (that span for 10 years) most cases were children and at worst early teens. Making it easy to deal with them and with anough effort to educate and make them into proper people. But after the zombie wars and rebuilding of goverments.(around 20 years after the fall of society) the kids are now adults and even having kids of their own. Making it difficult to explore towns and areas of citites that are claimed by this groups of feral people. I think it mentioned how they thought the zombies had mutated as the books zombies are like walkers, slow and no intelligence but this kids were to fast and smart. What made so difficult to deal with them was that even though they are feral they are still somewhat smart. They set traps and use tools and managed to give difficulties to squadrons of trained soldiers.
Thanks for typing this up that was a great read. I’ve always heard the movie completely stripped the book and just used it’s name, but holy shit it’s criminal that hasn’t been adapted to screen yet.
I liked this episode i actually remember putting down my phone and being like whoa what was that, i wish they did more with it. It felt like such a 1 off, random episode.
You know there's a zombie book series, Rot and Ruin, that does something similar to this with a werewolf in the final book in the series. It's not necessarily a realistic take, but it's a very interesting take seeing someone under that affliction who has adapted to a zombie apocalypse world. Fun fact: there's a very brief Walking Dead reference with a side character named "Sheriff Carl" who wears Rick's classic hat and carries his gun, both of which were given to him by his dead father.
That’s actually pretty interesting haha. I wish twd would lean more into a realistic take on supernatural tales. I always had this thought of some walkers legs growing together in water and forming a kind of mermaid tail. Stuff like that I think would be cool.
I didn't get far in TWD after 3 seasons i watched it now and then and it was always the same. Group meets a baddie,has a long drawn out story, shots fired and gang wins, I never heard off anyone talking off an episode that was realistic ie illness, food storage something scary and a friend mentioned this episode and boy did I enjoy it,could watch this over and over again
The Wendigos/ferrals are mentally snapped humans. However, something more is happening. The eyes are vastly different from human eyes. The eyes, what should be white are black and what should be an iris colour is white. Cannibals are common in TWD. However, the Terminus cannibals weren't like this. So what caused such a change? Well, maybe they ate an infected person (someone freshly bitten), and we have not yet seen the effects of eating infected flesh in TWD (as far as I can recall) so perhaps when the virus is digested it causes a different reaction, thus getting the Wendigo as a result. That's the only explanation I can think of that includes the eyes.
They are years and years past terminus, those people had just started eating people, after a couple decades of human meat, interbreeding this is what the 2-3rd generation cannibal looks like, and living in the complete darkness...and who's to say they weren't eating walkers too? The writer said after the "hunters" ate Bob's infected leg meat that they wouldn't have turned from eating tainted meat...consuming human mean specially only human meat it drives a person insane its actually basically poisoning you, the terminus cannibals cooked their meat and eat other side dishes, these creatures eat straight meat and I don't think they're doing any cooking...so yeah who knows,
I find this to be one of the best episodes ever written. When I first saw I remember tweeting out to the Writer of this one, because I was so thrilled by this, so refreshingly different, horrifying and giving great characters more time on screen. I wanted to shout out the Writer specifically because they don't always get the love for it and WHAT a great teleplay. It is so good it can really stand on its own, even if you don't watch the show and just watch one episode, this is that one. Reminds me of "Home" from the original X-files series but with a fresh take.
The part where you said the whisperers felt like cos players - yes! How they came across once they started being "humanised" was so far removed from the way they were introduced and their "disguise" was nothing more than a face mask. It made little sense to me. I struggled to buy into them as a society. And knowing that in essence their strength is in zombie herding, I couldn't understand why they chose to live the way they did rather than just being zombie ranchers or something. I also couldn't understand how they recruited and having children in their society seemed like a sure way to become zombie food. How the heck did they get so powerful as a faction?!
Virgil has stab wounds, and she lathers the guts all over him. This plot hole shows up pretty often - I mean if a bite or scratch can cause infection then surely guts and blood on an open wound can.
In one sense it would be quite cliche to add in other supernatural creatures to this universe, but with zombies being a reality of this universe you can't rule anything out. Hell even Daryl thought that he saw a chupacabra once, or was it a bogfoot?
@@ChrisLaporte-uj7is I didn't mean bogfoot btw but it would actually be a swamp Bigfoot though so I guess it was a happy accident. Says Merle anyway! 😂
@@ChrisLaporte-uj7is There is also the theory that certain substances actually allow you to see into other dimensions or whatnot, sometimes it's like wearing 3d glasses on a 4k screen, it just adds extra depth and clarity you could say, so it could have been extra clear, but who knows. Cryptids is probably higher on the probability scale than actual animated corpses, so I'm thinking at least aliens have a good chance of being real in this setting. It would be cool if they visited somewhere like area 51 for instance, who sent cell cultures to France without telling them where it came from. But since the CRM has been neutralized as a threat they almost have no choice but to expand the stakes to secret government programs and such things. I don't think we'll ever actually see aliens but possibly their technology and vague allusions to aliens.
I absolutly would like to see if they would added the walker king in season 9 as the wishperers uses him i mean they find it randomly on a field and '' good damn lock at that we need him to our deads'' that would be cool ✌️🔥
@@pyronderman9055 walker king is a mutated walker from the walking dead city is and a walker mutated whit many others walkers and they made a huge walker it has many walker heads and its tall and fat
They don't go out to hunt or forage so yes, they're constantly hungry because they wait for unlucky humans to enter their home and that might not be often. In addition to what's already been said, there are diseases humans can get from consuming other humans. So, that's another thing that could have led to the degredation of their sanity and physical health.
Pretty sure the tales of the walking dead time loop wasn't a time loop obviously but the last few moments of someone's consciousness before the infection sets in, Just takes some analyzing to figure out.
this was the 1 episode of the whole series i missed. when i found out Connie was back I was like oh, sweet, but didn't wanna watch the episode cuz i didn't really care about Virgil. BUT KNOWING I MISSED OUT ON THIS, DAMN
What I really enjoyed about the final season was all the different types of episodes there were. Reapers, wendigoos, commonwealth there were so many interesting stories in different locations
A fantastic video!! Loved this entry. Loved this episode and wanted to find out more. As you said at the end, Tales (especially that ghost story nonsense one) was terrible. They could have easily told a compelling story about how the Ferals came to be in Tales
I actually think it was closer to the Baba Yaga. A evil spirit that makes people commit cannibalism and I immediately thought this the first time I watched it because more oft sin than not the baba yaga will lead people to the cabin in the woods then a storm would come in leaving them stuck in the cabin giving the Baba Yaga time to kill and eat the victims. And something similar happened in this episode.
THAT was a pretty good episode. It wasn't the tired old nonsense they were shilling in 10, and the rest of the season... I wish they could have done a few more shows in this style. It just fit in perfectly...
I think the cannibal/Wendigo plotlines have been very underused in survival horror. Very few and far between and one off episodes if that. Closest we got was Terminus tbh but that was on a big scale cannibalism.
holy shit this is such a well edited and put together video my guy ive not been interested in walking dead for ages but i was genuinely invested in this video because of your narration and editing definitely gonna sub and go check out your other videos
Idk nor have a watch this far of the Walking Dead but if she just has a lost of hearing she can still speak, even if she cant hear herself , unless she is mute too
She's been deaf her whole life. Non vocal. Losing your hearing after having it is one thing never having it is another. So no she can't make a sound, she signs and uses a pen a pad with those who don't sign, or a knife and wall like in this case to write with.
This chapter reminds me of the cannibal bunker episode in the game Metro Exodus, since they have things in common. The house is the bunker, in both there is only one way to enter. That entrance is a trap for any visitor. The first thing you can see is darkness and human remains. And the TWD cannibals may have contracted the same disease as the Metro Exodus cannibals due to excessive consumption of human flesh. This disease exists in real life and is called Kuru, which is caused by a prion that appears when eating decaying human brain tissue.
Or maybe the writers wanted to show what could happen to children or young adults without a support network as they probably saw their families die and due to their young age they resorted to more primal instincts to survive and after a prolonged period resulted in their appearance and level of intelligence, as they demonstrated a pack mentality and I think this was one of the scariest episode in the entire TWD universe and most interesting take on the human psyche during an apocalypse
I imagined it like this.. these kids were left all alone. Maybe their parents died. Maybe they were home alone when the outbreak occurred. Maybe their parents never made it back. My guess? They saw the walkers attack and eat their parents. Anyways, the kids stay in the house, maybe their parents told them to always stay in the house. They take it literal and never leave. But good starts to run out. Occasionally people come through and..just like the walkers.. instinct drives them to eat..
10 months late to the party but in the real world, people who are hungry enough will literally eat anything, regardless of previously perceived disgust and it is actually known as wendigo psychosis
Like most things zombie, totally unrealistic. People like this would easily be bit by a walker and turned. This is not how feral people move or act. Just the producers and writers trying to shock viewers.
Something that bothers me is that how they didn't know how to react to walkers? At that point they should've known to stay clear from walkers and go into hiding instead of attacking as if thwy were humans. Even feral they should've known when to run.
I don’t understand why being feral would make them walk on all fours. I’m sure they did it more a more terrifying effect. To me it just isn’t realistic.
I believe that just like thaty other group early on after they got to Alexandria the "Wolves" I think these people were probably escapees from some nuthouse. Almost like the Whisperers even if the latter two groups the "Wolves" and the Whisperers" still had "SOME" reasoning power...
My favorite theory… and yes I know this really makes zero sense at all.. but I imagine these being really rich kids. Maybe their parents were away at some country club when the outbreak happened. Their parents never got back to them, and they grew up in this magnificent home, but became feral and wild.
I totally agree i just think that when u said they died because they didn't know better to escape wasnt entirely true i think its that when they saw one of their own in danger the rest would swoop in to help save them because they still had some sense of human empathy to care for one another if they really are a family. They definitely lost their old way of life but still had a glimpse of love in ther heart to risk their lives for eachother but ultimately still pretty messed up that they let themselves get to the point of looking like cannobolistic cave men from just being out there for too long to just go crazy like that
A tru fan of Twd. You appreciate the frank derabont seasons all the way to post Rick Grimes. Maggie also ran into somewhat feral family in one of her off screen adventures.
The fact that they had this family walking on their hands and knees is just dumb. Try walking down a staircase on your hands and knees. It's impossible. You'll end up sliding down it on your stomach. People who are living in a normal home as normal human beings don't suddenly decide to just start crawling like a baby or an animal because it's terribly uncomfortable to the point of being downright painful. I can understand them being filthy since there is no longer any running water. I can't understand people turning to cannibalism in this world though. This zombie epidemic very quickly took over the entire world, right? So there should have been an abundance of food in grocery stores, in warehouses all over the place, in restaurants, and in every home in the world! Even if people had looted the groceries stores to the point where most of them were empty, there would still be homes full of food. So the whole idea of people turning feral like this is ridiculous. It's like this show isn't even about the walking dead. It's about people struggling to survive in a world that's just slightly more insane than the one we actually live in.
@Ni-dk7ni I’m guessing you pay zero attention to the time line 🤣 if they were toddlers when the apocalypse started those mf would be around the same age as Judith in that episode, but they weren’t they were full grown adults. They were already properly raised at that point. The whole point of that episode was to show how ppl could become animals after being isolated alone for a long time
I actually enjoyed this episode of season 11 and shows you what can happen when you’re out in the wild of the apocalypse and it was the first truly scary episode in my opinion
It is definitely one of my favourite from the season. Wish they would touch on their horror roots more often!
It's done by a George Romero student
you unironically think there isn't a single scary episode in 11 seasons of the show? stop over-exaggerating. its good, but it isn't "The first scary episode." lmfao
@@Gandalfthegoldenbird thats why I said "in my opinion" lmaoo that's what you think. I didn't say it was the only one🤣
But it's all good lol
Tales of the Walking Dead should have had stories like this episode. Absolutely badass episode
It's definitely still possible
The feral family seemed fairly young. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were around mid to late 20s. Which means they were kids when it all started. I believe they were abandoned due to their parents or adult figures in their life dying and they managed to survive all these years in the house. But that kind of life has caused them to develop into these creatures.
I just assumed they were kids that were left to fend for themselves. They were isolated and trapped inside that house with literal flesh eating monsters surrounding the place. Maybe they saw how the walkers ate people and figured thats what they are supposed to do. Also that episode kind of reminded me of the horror movie Mother where two kids get kidnapped by their dad and left in a cabin alone for years and when someone finally finds them they act just like these people in TWD only they lives off cherries and not human meat lol
Mama is indeed a scary movie
Yeah, I had simular thoughts after watching this episode.
Wendigo psychosis that’s what they have
@@mycklaflonscamping1398everytime I think of that movie, I just see Snoop Dog and Mac Miller pulling out infinite guns on each other 😂
@Ni-dk7ni so much she wanted to kill them, if she wasn't selfish she would let them have a better life than dying
I want to thank you so much for acknowledging the actual Mi’kmaq windigo legend. The desire to consume at any cost is a great way to explore the walking dead universe.
In the World War Z Book there is a reference to children that became feral after been left alone for so much time, this might be something similar, they could have also evolve from the group named the wolves
Exactly what I thought of
How long did the story took place on the book? The movie is seems like a couple of days, probably weeks
@@ymi0613 if I'm not mistaken in the book the history happens like in a couple of years or less
@@ymi0613the movie and book are very different. The book is about a journalist collecting anecdotes from different periods of the zombie war. It spans pre events, the war, and the aftermath. I believe the movie main character (Gerry) narrates another anecdote at some portion in the story.
@ymi7924 the framing device for the book takes place 20 years after the outbreak, with the Zombie Wars lasting about a decade, with one official end date (Victory China Day) but several localized end dates after that. (Such as Victory London).
The feral children grew up alone in the 'grey zones', managing to survive but possessing only basic instincts due to trauma and isolation.
Stories like this and Maggie's story that she tells on the subway are where this world shine, so much of the personal inter-social drama is slow and it drags and by the end of the show it's bogged down by so many characters I couldn't even tell you their names if you asked me.
THIS these self contained little world building stories? Those are fucking fascinating. I wish we had more of this.
God me too. It’s what tales should’ve been
And when Maggy finds that kidnapped girl turned walker.
I don’t really understand what you mean. The interpersonal relationships cause you to forget character names but the action sequences don’t? That’s backwards
@@daphneglasurus7886 its easier to follow and care about a small group that you watch go through a harrowing experience than it is to try and follow 10 different dialogue scenes with people who barely matter to the story
So they were feral cannibals. Now they will become Walkers,err not that much of a life change
I think it's an upgrade if anything, they will be able to walk now.
@@jeffheald8228 seguramente por como andaban al ser humanos
No podían siquiera pararse y solo arrastrarse así que simplemente podrían ser casi como el "Hunter"
Serian carroñeros que se levnatarian en 2 patas solo para ver más en su alrededor,luego seguir a 4 patas
@@jeffheald8228 now that makes me wonder, when they turned, are they going to walk or crawl?
@@jeffheald8228they won’t. Walkers walk because as humans they walked. These ferals crawled so they’ll crawl as zombies.
“Connies uneasy with the temporary shelter. Creaks and cracks fill the house” she can’t hear creaks or cracks 😂😅
No, she feels them.
Same way Beethoven felt his music. The vibration through the floor.
@@angryyoutuber8013 barely lol alight creaks and cracks are almost silent no way she “felt” them
@@taylorbatchelor5809 slight creaks and cracks are almost silent they aren’t loud enough to create vibrations you can feel
@@parkeydeeyou can definitely feel when the floor beneath you creaks and cracks
I don't think that they were too stupid to flee, now don't get me wrong, I'm happy that they were purged but it almost seemed like they started to come back for each other when each one was swarmed. Or I could be wrong, and they have Kuru and are just messed up in the membrane. Very chilling episode.
Honestly this got me thinking, the wendigo legend itself could have spawned from cases of kuru back in the day. Super interesting
Live by the pack, die for the pack
@@erwinthedodo9205yea I think they came back cuz the only way they all eat is if they hunt together , seemed like they were mostly trapping people once in a while and were starving for the most part so I guess they need numbers
Heh. Kuru 😂 probably had Kwashiorkor ( the Kwash) .
I stopped watching TWD so long ago I wouldn’t have even known this episode is that good. Thanks!
The feral family is kind of like a combination of the Wolves and Terminus. I wonder what caused them to become that demented and if they were once part of either of those groups.
Someone else said that they look like they're in their twenties. And were about 10 to 12 years into the Apocalypse now. So it's believed they we're kids who ended up abandoned somehow. Stay stuck in the house and went feral.
@@tena2sweet Can you imagine if Sophia ended up never being bitten and turned into a Walker and instead ended up on that house. Feral Sophia would be insane. Or even crazier, feral Lizzie! Maybe Carol tells Lizzie to run away and never come back so she does and ends up joining the ferals.
@@tena2sweet 10 year olds can still walk like normal people though, and even talk.
@@SwedishEmpire1700 yeah I know that was just someone else's idea. 🤷🏻♀️
they live in the apocalypse, where danger i always present, and this idiot Virgil is just like "you're imagining things. get some sleep"
Yeah. People are stupid.
Yep. Easily could have being “normal” walkers inside too, even in the walls or inside closets and etc. He was dumb to be so cocky and dismissive.
At first I was thinking they were a different type of Walker. They did a good job not showing the feral girl chest.
maybe they were all humans..had younger children and/or pets in the house but got so hungry they had to eat them to survive and made them absolutely feral.
Did the family go crazy cuz they ate walker flesh? Like eating human flash can cause Kuru? In FTWD, the drug dealer was selling walker pineal or pituitary glands for an adrenaline rush, wonder if the people continued to consume that, turned out like this
Jeez that’s a really interesting theory. I really wish fear explored the gland high more, such a cool concept.
And I hadn’t even considered they could be eating walker flesh. Great theory. I remember Robert Kirkman saying the hunters wouldn’t have turned from eating bobs tainted meat, so you could be onto something.
What’s more likely is these were a group of young children who were forced to grow up in the wild due to the outbreak.
Fun fact: human growth hormone used to be extracted from pituitary glands in corpses not so long ago. It can lead to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for the consumer. Like kuru it’s a prion disease. So they basically gave themselves a death sentence
you can get kuru from eating the brain only, eating regular human flesh is completely safe as along as it’s cooked.
@@moist_boist well just muscle tissue as it has less infection chance
This was one of my favorite episodes in TWD. It was creepy, terrifying, and had me going "what the f***?" the whole time. It showed how when someone isn't able to get the basic needs we all require, they go to drastic measures to ensure their survival and eventually become something less than human. It has got to be one of the best episodes despite the season it was in being pretty mediocre.
I agree. Season 11 was weak, but this episode stands out
This remainds me of the abandoned kids from world war z. It mentioned that by different reason kids end up alone to survive. They grow up to a wild state were they can be like animals. During the start of the zombie war (that span for 10 years) most cases were children and at worst early teens. Making it easy to deal with them and with anough effort to educate and make them into proper people. But after the zombie wars and rebuilding of goverments.(around 20 years after the fall of society) the kids are now adults and even having kids of their own. Making it difficult to explore towns and areas of citites that are claimed by this groups of feral people. I think it mentioned how they thought the zombies had mutated as the books zombies are like walkers, slow and no intelligence but this kids were to fast and smart. What made so difficult to deal with them was that even though they are feral they are still somewhat smart. They set traps and use tools and managed to give difficulties to squadrons of trained soldiers.
Thanks for typing this up that was a great read.
I’ve always heard the movie completely stripped the book and just used it’s name, but holy shit it’s criminal that hasn’t been adapted to screen yet.
I liked this episode i actually remember putting down my phone and being like whoa what was that, i wish they did more with it. It felt like such a 1 off, random episode.
You know there's a zombie book series, Rot and Ruin, that does something similar to this with a werewolf in the final book in the series. It's not necessarily a realistic take, but it's a very interesting take seeing someone under that affliction who has adapted to a zombie apocalypse world.
Fun fact: there's a very brief Walking Dead reference with a side character named "Sheriff Carl" who wears Rick's classic hat and carries his gun, both of which were given to him by his dead father.
That’s actually pretty interesting haha. I wish twd would lean more into a realistic take on supernatural tales.
I always had this thought of some walkers legs growing together in water and forming a kind of mermaid tail. Stuff like that I think would be cool.
Imagine a were-hyena in zombie apocalypse - endless food.
It’s one of my favorite book series
This was such a 🔥 episode! Felt like a horror movie. Really cool, different type of episode 👍🏽 good video
10/10 episode for me, it really captured the horror aspect of the apocalypse. Wished they did more like this. Great video 👍👍👍
I didn't get far in TWD after 3 seasons i watched it now and then and it was always the same. Group meets a baddie,has a long drawn out story, shots fired and gang wins, I never heard off anyone talking off an episode that was realistic ie illness, food storage something scary and a friend mentioned this episode and boy did I enjoy it,could watch this over and over again
There’s tons of episodes with illness , starvation , cannibalism , boy have you missed out if you stopped at season 3 😂 🤡
@@pandahsykes602 been told about that side group they meet that were cannibals, they weren't no Governor, whispers or Negans
@@connorwiseman3685 that was " Terminus They were definitely some cannibals lol
Soap opera.
I couldn't stop thinking of Golum the whole episode.
This was the most the show has felt like a true horror film in many years. Loved this episode.
That episode with John's dad and June canonized ghost as well.
This spooky behind the back guy on a computer aesthetic is fun
The Wendigos/ferrals are mentally snapped humans. However, something more is happening.
The eyes are vastly different from human eyes. The eyes, what should be white are black and what should be an iris colour is white.
Cannibals are common in TWD. However, the Terminus cannibals weren't like this. So what caused such a change?
Well, maybe they ate an infected person (someone freshly bitten), and we have not yet seen the effects of eating infected flesh in TWD (as far as I can recall) so perhaps when the virus is digested it causes a different reaction, thus getting the Wendigo as a result.
That's the only explanation I can think of that includes the eyes.
They are years and years past terminus, those people had just started eating people, after a couple decades of human meat, interbreeding this is what the 2-3rd generation cannibal looks like, and living in the complete darkness...and who's to say they weren't eating walkers too? The writer said after the "hunters" ate Bob's infected leg meat that they wouldn't have turned from eating tainted meat...consuming human mean specially only human meat it drives a person insane its actually basically poisoning you, the terminus cannibals cooked their meat and eat other side dishes, these creatures eat straight meat and I don't think they're doing any cooking...so yeah who knows,
I find this to be one of the best episodes ever written. When I first saw I remember tweeting out to the Writer of this one, because I was so thrilled by this, so refreshingly different, horrifying and giving great characters more time on screen. I wanted to shout out the Writer specifically because they don't always get the love for it and WHAT a great teleplay. It is so good it can really stand on its own, even if you don't watch the show and just watch one episode, this is that one. Reminds me of "Home" from the original X-files series but with a fresh take.
The part where you said the whisperers felt like cos players - yes! How they came across once they started being "humanised" was so far removed from the way they were introduced and their "disguise" was nothing more than a face mask. It made little sense to me. I struggled to buy into them as a society. And knowing that in essence their strength is in zombie herding, I couldn't understand why they chose to live the way they did rather than just being zombie ranchers or something. I also couldn't understand how they recruited and having children in their society seemed like a sure way to become zombie food. How the heck did they get so powerful as a faction?!
Virgil has stab wounds, and she lathers the guts all over him. This plot hole shows up pretty often - I mean if a bite or scratch can cause infection then surely guts and blood on an open wound can.
She put it on herself and stood infront of him
In one sense it would be quite cliche to add in other supernatural creatures to this universe, but with zombies being a reality of this universe you can't rule anything out. Hell even Daryl thought that he saw a chupacabra once, or was it a bogfoot?
Waittt though, wasn't it determined Darryl may have been under the influence of some very fun but heavy duty substances at that time lol
@@ChrisLaporte-uj7is I didn't mean bogfoot btw but it would actually be a swamp Bigfoot though so I guess it was a happy accident. Says Merle anyway! 😂
@@ChrisLaporte-uj7is There is also the theory that certain substances actually allow you to see into other dimensions or whatnot, sometimes it's like wearing 3d glasses on a 4k screen, it just adds extra depth and clarity you could say, so it could have been extra clear, but who knows. Cryptids is probably higher on the probability scale than actual animated corpses, so I'm thinking at least aliens have a good chance of being real in this setting. It would be cool if they visited somewhere like area 51 for instance, who sent cell cultures to France without telling them where it came from. But since the CRM has been neutralized as a threat they almost have no choice but to expand the stakes to secret government programs and such things. I don't think we'll ever actually see aliens but possibly their technology and vague allusions to aliens.
I absolutly would like to see if they would added the walker king in season 9 as the wishperers uses him i mean they find it randomly on a field and '' good damn lock at that we need him to our deads'' that would be cool ✌️🔥
Aw jeez. I’ve never even thought of that and now I’m upset they didn’t do it lol.
what is the walker king ?
im with you wtf is the walker king yo?@@pyronderman9055
ah ok thx
@@pyronderman9055 walker king is a mutated walker from the walking dead city is and a walker mutated whit many others walkers and they made a huge walker it has many walker heads and its tall and fat
This episode scared the shit out of me man, it was so good!
They don't go out to hunt or forage so yes, they're constantly hungry because they wait for unlucky humans to enter their home and that might not be often.
In addition to what's already been said, there are diseases humans can get from consuming other humans. So, that's another thing that could have led to the degredation of their sanity and physical health.
Pretty sure the tales of the walking dead time loop wasn't a time loop obviously but the last few moments of someone's consciousness before the infection sets in, Just takes some analyzing to figure out.
@Ni-dk7ni um no, Ive read all the comics i dont recall that ever happening
I laughed out loud at the bonk sound effect that was hilarious.
This episode scarred the shit out me. Especially the scene where Conny see an eye in the bathroom
I can’t believe you released another one today lmao, I watched all the other last night and wanted more 😂
Haha I’m trying to keep a consistent schedule!
it's basically Gollum
Basically yes 😂
Split into infinity and still no luck with the precious
One of the scariest episodes in the whole show. And one of the best wish they did more stuff like this
that is a good, theory, talking about cryptids i would love to see bigfoot vs walkers
this was the 1 episode of the whole series i missed. when i found out Connie was back I was like oh, sweet, but didn't wanna watch the episode cuz i didn't really care about Virgil. BUT KNOWING I MISSED OUT ON THIS, DAMN
It’s seriously a diamond in the rough. Such a good episode
This episode was actually scary good.
Got me thinking someone’s in my house now 😭 loved the vid
Haha thank you so much!
One of my favorite episodes. Super intense.
Lol they don’t even compare! Just one Wendigo from UD will kill them all!🤣
That was one of the creepiest episodes.
What I really enjoyed about the final season was all the different types of episodes there were. Reapers, wendigoos, commonwealth there were so many interesting stories in different locations
Cyraxx is true evil. First, Blind Billy, now, Deaf Connie
Next Thining Tibbz
This feels more like an homage to H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear" than wendigo to me.
A fantastic video!! Loved this entry. Loved this episode and wanted to find out more. As you said at the end, Tales (especially that ghost story nonsense one) was terrible. They could have easily told a compelling story about how the Ferals came to be in Tales
I actually think it was closer to the Baba Yaga. A evil spirit that makes people commit cannibalism and I immediately thought this the first time I watched it because more oft sin than not the baba yaga will lead people to the cabin in the woods then a storm would come in leaving them stuck in the cabin giving the Baba Yaga time to kill and eat the victims. And something similar happened in this episode.
It’s funny how so many cryptids are similar in many ways. Makes you think, maybe different people in different cultures were seeing the same thing.
@@Swell-Filmsyep. Vampire, undead, ghost, wendigo and many others are VERY alike in various cultures. Also a dragon concept. Really makes you think.
Those things scared the crap out of me.
this was easily the scariest episode of the series for me, just such a tone shift from the fighting earlier in the season w reapers
This episode made Connie my favorite character of all the late arrivals
This was the creepiest episode of the walking dead
THAT was a pretty good episode. It wasn't the tired old nonsense they were shilling in 10, and the rest of the season...
I wish they could have done a few more shows in this style.
It just fit in perfectly...
Shiverme timbers 😂😂 great video brother
A great episode along with a great theory video. Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
I think the cannibal/Wendigo plotlines have been very underused in survival horror. Very few and far between and one off episodes if that. Closest we got was Terminus tbh but that was on a big scale cannibalism.
That was the scariest episode in the whole series
holy shit this is such a well edited and put together video my guy ive not been interested in walking dead for ages but i was genuinely invested in this video because of your narration and editing definitely gonna sub and go check out your other videos
Hey thanks so much! Appreciate the kind words!
Good videos bro and funny edits lol
Idk nor have a watch this far of the Walking Dead but if she just has a lost of hearing she can still speak, even if she cant hear herself , unless she is mute too
She's been deaf her whole life. Non vocal. Losing your hearing after having it is one thing never having it is another. So no she can't make a sound, she signs and uses a pen a pad with those who don't sign, or a knife and wall like in this case to write with.
Also deaf in real life as well.
This chapter reminds me of the cannibal bunker episode in the game Metro Exodus, since they have things in common.
The house is the bunker, in both there is only one way to enter. That entrance is a trap for any visitor.
The first thing you can see is darkness and human remains.
And the TWD cannibals may have contracted the same disease as the Metro Exodus cannibals due to excessive consumption of human flesh. This disease exists in real life and is called Kuru, which is caused by a prion that appears when eating decaying human brain tissue.
4:21 the coconut sound though
"Please don't put that filter effect on the video"
"Its to avoid copyright"
"Oh okay, I still hate you"
Lol it is what it is I guess
I’m pretty sure the creaks and cracks in the house didn’t bother Connie lol
Or maybe the writers wanted to show what could happen to children or young adults without a support network as they probably saw their families die and due to their young age they resorted to more primal instincts to survive and after a prolonged period resulted in their appearance and level of intelligence, as they demonstrated a pack mentality and I think this was one of the scariest episode in the entire TWD universe and most interesting take on the human psyche during an apocalypse
I imagined it like this.. these kids were left all alone. Maybe their parents died. Maybe they were home alone when the outbreak occurred. Maybe their parents never made it back. My guess? They saw the walkers attack and eat their parents. Anyways, the kids stay in the house, maybe their parents told them to always stay in the house. They take it literal and never leave. But good starts to run out. Occasionally people come through and..just like the walkers.. instinct drives them to eat..
That’s a really good explanation
Babe wake up swell films just dropped another banger 🗣️🔥
I wish there were more episodes like this one.
10 months late to the party but in the real world, people who are hungry enough will literally eat anything, regardless of previously perceived disgust and it is actually known as wendigo psychosis
Yeah, like the story of that sports team who’s plane crash landed in the mountains and they ate those who didn’t survive
Like most things zombie, totally unrealistic.
People like this would easily be bit by a walker and turned.
This is not how feral people move or act.
Just the producers and writers trying to shock viewers.
1:40
“Hello there.”
*”Holy shit!”*
“Welcome to the Hotel California.”
I really like this theory. I’m going to run with it. Thank you! 😊 ❤
They were children when it started children will go primarily feral and after age 7 it's impossible to rehabilitate them
The sound effects @4:22 😂
Something that bothers me is that how they didn't know how to react to walkers? At that point they should've known to stay clear from walkers and go into hiding instead of attacking as if thwy were humans. Even feral they should've known when to run.
Yeah that’s without a doubt a “shit we’re almost out of time let’s wrap this up” writing move
I don’t understand why being feral would make them walk on all fours. I’m sure they did it more a more terrifying effect. To me it just isn’t realistic.
...as we watch zombies ! 😂
One off my favourite episodes
I believe that just like thaty other group early on after they got to Alexandria the "Wolves" I think these people were probably escapees from some nuthouse. Almost like the Whisperers even if the latter two groups the "Wolves" and the Whisperers" still had "SOME" reasoning power...
I like that theory !
They reminded me of the Falmer of Skyrim.
My favorite theory… and yes I know this really makes zero sense at all.. but I imagine these being really rich kids. Maybe their parents were away at some country club when the outbreak happened. Their parents never got back to them, and they grew up in this magnificent home, but became feral and wild.
I totally agree i just think that when u said they died because they didn't know better to escape wasnt entirely true i think its that when they saw one of their own in danger the rest would swoop in to help save them because they still had some sense of human empathy to care for one another if they really are a family. They definitely lost their old way of life but still had a glimpse of love in ther heart to risk their lives for eachother but ultimately still pretty messed up that they let themselves get to the point of looking like cannobolistic cave men from just being out there for too long to just go crazy like that
Ahhhhh, the hills have eyes but walking dead edition
They ain’t Wendigo‘s. They are just cannibals.
How introverts survives in the apocalypse.
Sounds like the issue we have irl of ‘Feral Children’. These are children whom went missing young and went feral due to being alone.
Love ur videos like this soo soo much.
I absolutely loved this episode
A tru fan of Twd. You appreciate the frank derabont seasons all the way to post Rick Grimes. Maggie also ran into somewhat feral family in one of her off screen adventures.
Reminds me of the Sawny Bean family. Part of English history.
They seem to have taken some inspiration from Resident Evil for this.
When I watched this episode I thought I had accidentally clicked on a horror movie😂
The fact that they had this family walking on their hands and knees is just dumb. Try walking down a staircase on your hands and knees. It's impossible. You'll end up sliding down it on your stomach. People who are living in a normal home as normal human beings don't suddenly decide to just start crawling like a baby or an animal because it's terribly uncomfortable to the point of being downright painful. I can understand them being filthy since there is no longer any running water. I can't understand people turning to cannibalism in this world though. This zombie epidemic very quickly took over the entire world, right? So there should have been an abundance of food in grocery stores, in warehouses all over the place, in restaurants, and in every home in the world! Even if people had looted the groceries stores to the point where most of them were empty, there would still be homes full of food. So the whole idea of people turning feral like this is ridiculous. It's like this show isn't even about the walking dead. It's about people struggling to survive in a world that's just slightly more insane than the one we actually live in.
@Ni-dk7nitoddlers? They would still be children by this point 😂 those were grown adults
The episode is supposed to show how ppl can turn into animals in an apocalypse… that’s why the crawl.. like an animal…
@Ni-dk7ni I’m guessing you pay zero attention to the time line 🤣 if they were toddlers when the apocalypse started those mf would be around the same age as Judith in that episode, but they weren’t they were full grown adults. They were already properly raised at that point. The whole point of that episode was to show how ppl could become animals after being isolated alone for a long time
@Ni-dk7ni bro what? That would only make sense if they were babies when it all started… they weren’t
The people under the stairs vibes
Wendigos are fascinating but extremely dangerous.