The Reapers Full Story Arc Explained | The Walking Dead
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Today I take you through the Reapers story arc in The Walking Dead season 11, as well as give my thoughts along the way.
Are you a fan of the Reaper arc? Let me know in the comments below!
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I completely forgot about this arc tbh. In my mind the show jumps from the whisperer war straight to the commonwealth arc. The fact that this group got TV time from 11A and 11B and leaving the commonwealth arc in just 11C is absolutely criminal
The Reapers had plenty of potential but it was sadly rushed and I think that’s why it failed so far. Plus like you said, Pope wasn’t even truly used to his fullest. Out of all the reapers, Carver was by far the best in my eyes because of his 1v3 and still almost won. Overall, I enjoyed your take on this group and looking forward to the next video
Thank you so much! Yes Carver was definitely the best of the group, wish they gave him more of a story given how skilled in combat he was.
Had potential but was rushed can describe most of twd😅 Storylines either dragged on or flew by 😂
@@Exzactzshut up
It wouldn’t need to be so rushed if it wasn’t for Maggie’s real life actor trying to shoehorn herself in for more money before.
Her having to be re-introduced just convoluted everything
valid points. good critique
My daughter & I ABSOLUTELY loved that scene when sniper Gabriel was on the roof & simply saying "Call me Gabriel"! Oh my goodness me & my daughter both literally jumped up & was just like that was so amazing!!! I tell you Gabriel came a long way from when he first came on the show. We didn't like him then, but now Gabriel is one of our most favorite characters in the show!
I 100% agree. He’s one of the few characters that actually has their arc come full circle in the series finale with him letting the commonwealth citizens in from the herd
Reapers would have been a successful character arc if it were them terrorizing the Commonwealth at the end. Especially if the surviving Reapers took the horde trick and used it against The Commonwealth.
That would be a badass additional to the commonwealth arc
@Swell-Films the Lance/Pamela vs crew arc was terrible and felt forced. Poorly scripted and acted as well.
Imagine the issue being the Commonwealth unprepared for psychopaths like the Reapers, and the power struggle with the new crew being far more competent despite just arriving. Could have even ended with Daryl being required to save Sebastian from Leah and shooting her to save his bratty ass, winning over Pamela and taking their place as leaders of the Commonwealth.
I think that the reapers deserved more screen time and backstory, but they were pretty cool.
Maggie (when she convinced Alexandria for help): "And now I've got the best fighters from Meridian..."
Carver: "Hold my beer..."
Imagine if they all stuck together, worked together and fought against the dead rather than eachother...
I think this sums up why I never ended up watching the walking dead. I just never understood every living splitting off into factions instead of joining and killing all the walkers then continuing life on.
Instead everyone because enemies and I thought that was dumb.
The annoying thing is that the Reapers seemingly gave that one hunter all their guns.
A much better storyline would’ve been to make the Reapers a mercenary group working for Lance. Tying in to the overall Commonwealth arc.
Totally agree! That storyline would have been so much better than the crappy one we got, and it would have given the Reapers the recognition they deserved. Also, the series finale would have been much better if Pope, Carver, Leah and the other surviving Reapers were the final villains to be taken care of, and that they manage to kill about half of the main cast before being defeated. In my opinion, Alden (like in the original), Gabriel, Magna, Connie/Kelly, Rosita, Ezekiel, Maggie, and either Carol or Daryl should die at the hands of the Reapers, both to finally finish their character arcs and establish just how dangerous and frightening the Reapers are, so much that they manage to kill so many main characters within one episode. That would really paint them as the scariest, deadliest and most powerful villains in the whole series, even more so than the Saviors, the Commonwealth and the CRM, all of whom are much larger groups than the Reapers. 💀
FYI, I don't really care for the new spin-offs that AMC have made and I just see them as excuses for AMC to make more cash, which is bloody typical if you ask me. 😒👎
Love you page ! I get excited to see these breakdowns ❤❤
How do you only have 6k subs? You are an amazing story teller!
Thank You for this, Excellent💎👌
Such a badass group. Miss that group and i’ll never forget them!
Neither will I! They deserved so much better than what they got! Damn both the writers and Covid for ruining the Reapers and the final season of this show! 😠
Just found this channel and watched several videos, I think I'll subscribe.
Thanks!!! You’re awesome at explaining this!!
Sincerely thank you from a huge walking dead fan who fell off before the negan arc finished. And caught up again before dead city last year. Thank you man these videos dig into this show the way I use to dive into the lore with my friends. Definitely have a new supporter
Hey thanks so much mate I really appreciate that!
Much love brother and much success.
Love the TOP shirt. And I’ve been bingeing your videos. Great work.
Haha thanks mate! I’m extremely hyped for their new album
Would recommend going way back to season 5 and looking at the grady memorial hospital cops
It’s definitely on the list!
I'm enjoying your videos. Very well done.
Great analysis, I'm looking forward to the Commonwealth Arc video or any other Walking Dead arc you got planned.
Thanks for watching!
Will we be getting a common wealth arc soon?
@@feezyfbabyyy I hope to start work on one soon but I have a couple lined up before then
I've just discovered your page, so here I am commenting and rambling on the pirate video, but you for sure would've seen hundreds if not thousands of groups like this pop up if the outbreak happened today instead of 14 years ago.
Not necessarily all just a cult of roaming butchers raiding for supplies, more likely groups of prepared citizens who would want to protect their own towns and communities early on, but many would begin roaming as time went on. Either simply for an adventure or because communities fell and it's not safe anymore. More than likely, you'd eventually get bands of mercenaries helping set up secure colonies for long-term settlements, lots of videogame type quests and such going on with a mix of "The Postman" and such mixed in for that. Probably get bands of mercenaries wearing patches and flags of their home communities and the ones they get employed with, much like military unit patches.
I should've been asleep an hour and a half ago, but now we've got my brain racing. Subscribed for sure.
I think the point of the torture is to put Daryl in a situation he's uncomfortable with, and put him through trauma, rather than make us question his loyalty.
I feel like the Reapers really did have some potential, but unfortunately they clearly didn’t have the time to stretch that conflict to what it needed to be and get the ball running on the final arc, the Commonwealth.
In an alternate universe, where we got more seasons, probably could’ve been a nice lead in, going from these scary guys with hooks to the white armor of the Commonwealth
Great vid
I thought the 'disappointing' reapers was somewhat deliberate. After the saviors the only way to go with "bandit" factions to stay a credible threat without just feeling like retreading old ground would be the pseudo supernatural like the whisperers, or backed by a massive machine like the commonwealth.
I thought it was underlined by how the saviors nearly broke Daryl, but he was barely phased dealing with the reapers. Also how pope killed one of his men in very similar means to how negan kills that doctor
I kept thinking "what a rip off" like they were *supposed* to be posers to show how much stronger the group had become
Edit: i almost forgot about using walkers as 'guards' which is definitely a savior move. Guarentee Daryl remembered that when he saw frost
I really like that background music
I love how whisperers is revelant until now
The idea was good but the Reaper arch needed to be way long to make us care about these people
100%. If they had the full season like what was originally planned, it would’ve gone a lot smoother
I actually really did enjoy this. It was a great re-introduction to Maggie. And, and I feel like it made the entire fan base. Want to see Daryl Dixon be reunited with Rick Grimes 😢😢😢
The Reaper arc is in my top 3 most fav arcs in twd most def 🔥😤
Can’t say I agree, but I respect it! Haha
Also I don’t know if it was a reference to the book Blood Meridian.
Especially the ending at Yuma crossing where the Glanton Gang (after spending half the book slaughtering and pillaging entire villages and settlements mercilessly) settled down on a fortification and continued their downward spiral.
The reapers reminded me of a less fleshed out Glanton Gang
Pope was a low rent Judge Holden (with the whole preaching and the whole “War is God” mentality)
The similarities are there to show he did what he had to do as she did regardless of guilt or not. It means his tactics are effective.
I only remembered about them when Daryl killed that one girl from that group
They gave me a Hollywood undead vibe
Wish I can find that scene of Maggie hiding under the floor
I actually really liked the reaper ark.
Same but I wish it was longer
I loved to hear more about the reapers, I really wish we got more of them, Carver is still one of my favorites despite barely any screen time, he was strong and looked cool asf, we needed more of him and the reapers
The Mask's kind of remind me of the game Army Of Two....Mercenaries or PMC's wearing mask's to hide their identity.
i thought leeyah was the woman that daryl got wasted with
it's sad a bunch of trained ex soldiers getting killed by untrained hill billys
Hillbillies are trained to shoot and trap at a very young age. Track game and survive in the wilderness. Not sure what training you think ex soldiers have they don't?
And a one-eyed priest, a farmer's daughter, and a gym teacher (even though that gym teacher is highly intelligent and a brilliant strategist, which can more or less rival with the Reapers' military strategies).
But overall, a highly skilled, organised and deadly group like the Reapers should not be able to be taken out by a smaller and less skilled group like Maggie's group. That logic makes no sense whatsoever! Realistically, the Reapers would have decimated them with little to no effort, but bad writing and plot armor for Maggie and her group got in the way of that, as per usual. 😒
It would have been so much better and made so much more sense if the Reapers were defeated by a much larger group or people with similar combat training to them, but also that the Reapers manage to take out a lot of people, including main characters, so that they can leave a far bigger impact to the story than they did originally. The Reapers deserve recognition, dammit! 🫡💀
@paulsmithson303 maybe read up on how the well trained Russian army lost in Afghanistan to a bunch of untrained mountain dwellers. In real life!! US couldn't beat them and they had no weapons like us or the training
@@ryanrhoades5922combat training, hand to hand, they were in combat overseas that gives a lot more conventional combat skills
would it be to farfetched to say that maybe the reapers knew about the wispers would it not have been posible for them to have come aross one another at some point but for what ever reason didnt deem the other s a nessesary threat so left each other alone with some kind of agreement that they dont cross in to one anotheres terrotorys, if they knew about the wispers and their tactics then that would explain how pope was so fast to acknowledge what maggie was doing by leading the horeds, he knew what she was doing simply because he had already witnessed the same thing being done by the whispers
I don't think it's that much of a bad thing to have the villains be hypocrites. It shows that their facad is starting to crack and that they have a weakness.. often times our group ends up using these hypocrisies against them like using Lydia being alive to turn certain whisperers against alpha. So it might be poor writing but it could also be seen as somewhat planned and consistent.
That’s honestly a great take. Respect.
@@Swell-Films thanks mate. I can't really make arguments on popes behalf he was pretty lazily written she to the time constraints but it makes sense logically that people that unhinged in a world like that wouldn't have a consistent set of ethics or stand on principle. They do whageve they have to in order to maintain their position.
I was hoping we’d get to see Pope and Daryl or Pope and Negan go toe to toe. He was built up to be this powerful force to be reckoned with only for him to get easily killed off 🙄
That Leia story line, imo unnecessary. I'm glad the Daryl romance of sorts. I wished they had a child during their time together. Not just a dog.
Whats that laptop in the background?
It’s a Lenovo. You can flip the screen to stand it up lol
Why attack at random if they are about signing particular?
Just crazy bs?
they were exploding arrows not rocks
@@Swell-Films that's completely different the wikki page shows it shoots arrows when you search hwacha from the 16th century
@@gerardmcquade9102 ay my bad I mis-read, you’re correct.
I personally think they stole the focus from the commonwealth, we were introduced to a community with 50k people and star wars armor, i had no interest with the reapers
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I want to say thank you. Thank you for making such great walking dead story arc videos. Ive watched everyone of them over the last couple days and they are magnificent! As someone who has been watching faithfuly since episode#1 all those years ago, and has watched the series and spin-offs in their entirety at least 4 times throughout the years, I absolutely loved these vids! This has been an entertaining trip down memory lane for sure. To re-live some of my favorite story arcs in the way you've put them together has been an entertaining viewing experience! I know its hard work but please man, keep making these for all significant story arcs in TWD universe. Id love to see you weave some arcs together between shows and tell the larger overarching story between them while filling in time jumps. I do not usually leave comments complementing the channel creator of vids like this, but in this case I absolutely had to give you your flowers. 👏 👏 WELL DONE! Youve done something really great here! I've liked your vids and subscribed to your channel. I will recomend your channel and vids. I'll also share them in the appropriate places to try and drive some views and subs your way. Thanks again man!
Wow those are some very kind words! I really appreciate all the support!
The amount of time spent on this group was easily one of the worst parts of the final season. Nothing original about them. We've seen PTSD ridden veterans in all of the WD shows at his point. We've seen people raise a cult around themselves. Having them as the antagonists that pushed Maggie back to the survivors only hurt her character. It still baffles my mind that after already being introduced to the Commonwealth and dealing with the Whisperers for years that the writers thought this group would serve as interesting content more than two episodes.
Even based on the assumption they meant to stretch this plot further, it's horrible. Outside of "Daryl fucked one of them" there is nothing engaging, or entertaining of the group. Nothing related to Georgie or the 6 years Maggie left the survivors. Maggie is picked up like nothing happened over the past few years except for this one, 1-note bad guy, killed off this one single group with nothing except for some small angst fuel for Maggie to yell at Negan before they go in and kill them all off for some food.
I yearn for the old days of the theories that Georgie was really Pamela Milton building up the Commonwealth and Maggie rejoining would be bringing them into the fold
Thank you for the explanation! You look so handsome.
What was really lame about Reapers, unless I've missed something: They had no motive. They had supplies. They could protect each other. Why would anyone that managed to survive for so long decide to kill random people just because.
I love the reapers tbh they are the most realistic survivors along w Rick Daryl and Shane
Wish we could turn baccc time to the good ol dayzzz
Can you cover the common wealths story arc?
I’ll definitely be getting around to it!