The fact that it took a couple seconds for him to render what he was hearing due to the fact that it's been so long since he heard that, and the fact he probably had no idea what it was at first.
This legit could have been the series end, I'm glad it wasn't but this ep would finish the series nicely The group all comes together slowly taking on walkers and other humans, becoming more violent as they survive and ultimately find a safe community where they can rest in peace
Bet you thought you were all gonna grow old together. Sitting around the table at Sunday dinner and the happily after. Na Rick it doesn't work like that. Not anymore
@@Naimedclaiming By that logic this would be "useless" too because the season 3 finale was also a good ending point for the show, and the comics continued after they arrived anyway. The rest of season 5 was great regardless
@@NaimedclaimingNah I wouldn't go that far, I love twd but there's numerous things that could've been done better up to this point to be on the same level aa breaking bad.
@@patrickbatman141The worst part is every time I rewatch it, I think to myself “awesome, there’s 6 more seasons to go!” and than I remember what those seasons were actually like and I feel sad lol
this scene always makes me emotional, you can see the literal relief in rick’s eyes as he hears the laughter from children. incredible acting from andrew as always
I know Aaron recruited them but still, this day was the day that marked a heroes welcome and acceptance into community as they protected the community from then on
I remember reading a review of this episode (I believe it was from IGN) that stated this could have been a good series finale for the show. If it was, I would be satisfied with it. For the first time in a long time, Rick finally senses peace standing before him after hearing the children from outside the Alexandria walls.
Reading so many comments saying exactly what I have been saying about how the scene with Andrew Lincoln’s (Rick) eyes should have been the last scene of the entire series brings me so much joy. I still intend to watch the series all the way through again and turn it off at that point. The real end of The Walking Dead.
This is where the series ended imo everything after this is where it goes really far downhill this is quite literally the perfect ending to the series.
@@someguy8951 Alexandria was ok up until Rick started simping so hardcore for that one girl that he was ready to kill her husband over it Shane style. That was pretty cringe. The end of season 5 is where everything started to fall apart a bit but season 6 was when it really started to go off the rails and then season 7 was the final nail in the coffin for me.
@@g-man9988 I mean to be fair about that, it's not like Pete made a very good first impression, and I did think that subplot was interesting but to each and their own. And he also turned out to be abusive so there's that. And I always felt like the show has been pretty off the rails since season 3-4. The Governor rolling up to the army during his introduction and somehow managing to stand in an open area and not get blown away was always pretty unrealistic to me.
@@someguy8951 My only issue really with the whole Pete thing is the weird way Rick started simping for her outta nowhere. It would've been fine if they'd just left out the simping. The subplot is decent besides that but the fact that they made him completely infatuated with some random girl the second he got to alexandria to the point where he was willing to kill her husband just to have her always struck me as completely nonsensical. Now as for the show being realistic I don't think that really matters. Ever since the beginning you really had to suspend your disbelief in twd. I mean if it was any bit realistic the army would have taken out the zombies relatively easy and there never would have even been an apocalypse. The military has (mostly) been the most unrealistic part of the show so I don't really have an issue with them being unrealistically incompetent. The realism doesn't really become an issue until the later seasons imo when people started surviving the most ridiculous situations purely because of plot armor. There was the occasional moment early on where the cracks started to show but it didn't become unwatchable or go off the rails until season 7 imo. S6 was mostly mediocre but got pretty bad occasionally but 7 was when it went from a small, slow decline to a straight drop off into shite.
@@g-man9988 Well I mean, it had been a while since Rick saw someone he'd fallen in love with and it's the apocalypse, so I do get why he liked her considering she was one of the first people that welcomed him into Alexandria and all. With the realism, yeah I agree that it doesn't really matter in a universe like that I've always found the show to have pretty obvious plot armor since season 1. Because zombies were faster and more agile in s1, Rick should've been dead the second he fell off the horse but for some reason the walkers suddenly became slower which allowed Rick to get into the conveniently open tank. There's the stuff with the cdc, Hershel's infinite ammo shotgun where he conveniently runs out just as zombie is next to him and his saved by Rick, the prison attack and Terminus which were all pretty off the rails and I found the characters to have pretty obvious plot armor then. Season 6 was no different to me. Season 8 though, is where the plot armor became ridiculous.
@@Iamkrogan07 I respect it but idk just the whole thing with the mercs and the commonwealth I just didn’t really like it and I agree about it being anticlimactic but can’t wait for the spin offs and that maybe one day they all reunite again
@@simonium8123 season 6 is very watchable. It has some of the best episodes in the series like 6x09. But it’s the season where the Scott Gimple asspulls like the Glenn dumpster fake out death for example started to become distracting and take away from the greatness the show once had. Season 7 and 8 are paced horribly and the writing and dialogue also took a nose dive after 7x01. This show needed a bigger budget and better writers to properly adapt that part of the comic. It didn’t feel epic like it should have, instead it felt cheap and corny. Also Carl’s death ruins the story completely. And the way they handled Morgan’s character is a crime against humanity. They clearly had plans for him in season 6 but whenever they decided to throw him into the spin off they had no idea what to do with him in season 8. He was clearly set up to fill Carl’s role in dying to convince Rick to put Negan in the JAIL CELL THAT MORGAN BUILT IN SEASON 6. He was the one character who tried to convince Rick in season 6 to make a deal with the saviors. This was obviously setting him up to be the martyr to end the war. Instead they turned Carl into a pacifist which makes no sense because he was just on a suicide mission to kill Negan himself only a few episodes before hand.
@@simonium8123you just enjoy action Twd from episode 1 to this episode would’ve been perfect season 6 was useless, people dying and Rick killing saviors for no reason
If Frank Darabont was never fired he would of ended it here most likely. Every season and spin off after this was purely milking for money. This will always bee the true ending to me because of how terrible everything after turned out.
@@Shamonsnipes I think it’s a decent ending, because after this, the whole show became a mess. Better for them to have ended the show here so that way that leaves a door open for the writers to make a movie like they’re doing now. Now it just feels like marvel where they constantly try to hash out show after show and it’s just them milking the cow dry.
What a great way to end a series! Good thing they decided to finish the story here and didn't drag it out for 4+ poorly written seasons so they could keep making money. Right? RIGHT?!
Only season 7 and 8 were a lil bad which sucks cuz all out would’ve been awesome if properly done but the whisperer war was amazingly executed. The episode where hilltop falls is an amazing one if not of of the best in the show
@@Walker-ow7vj Season 9 was honestly great, but somehow, I feel they messed up on the ending. They killed Henry too early imo, because he was actually an interesting character to watch, especially his dynamic with Lydia
the relief in ricks eyes when he hears children is top tier acting by Lincoln 2:28
Should’ve been the last scene of the entire show. Would have been the perfect ending.
tienes toda la maldita razon
@@willyghost2213It woulda, but it’s based on the comic so it obviously wasn’t the end lol
@@willyghost2213 It was the intended ending for the comic once aswell
@@willyghost2213 honestly you are 100% correct
2:24 The sound of kids is what causes Rick to tone down on his savagery and finally starts to soften him up
The fact that it took a couple seconds for him to render what he was hearing due to the fact that it's been so long since he heard that, and the fact he probably had no idea what it was at first.
Andrew Lincoln man, what an incredible actor.
This legit could have been the series end, I'm glad it wasn't but this ep would finish the series nicely
The group all comes together slowly taking on walkers and other humans, becoming more violent as they survive and ultimately find a safe community where they can rest in peace
Yes!!! I am so glad there are other people who realize the beauty of such an ending to a great show.
Bet you thought you were all gonna grow old together. Sitting around the table at Sunday dinner and the happily after. Na Rick it doesn't work like that. Not anymore
@@johnnydoe9169mannn stop acting like you know the way ahead LIKE you KNOW the RULES
@@donlc3000there ARE no rules man we’re lost
Yesss and the fact that the episode before this Rick says the “we tell ourselves that we are the walking dead.” line, It’s so perfect.
In another world this would’ve been the series finale at 2:34 he hears “life” and just cut to black
Thank you! I have been beating this drum for years!!!! 🙏🏻 🫱🏻🫲🏽
Yea I feel like everything after this scene in the series feels added on. Not all of its bad butbthe story feels complete here
No not cut to black I like the whole scene when Rick gets his daughter smiling
Yeah but maybe this could've been the end but like season 9 .
Should have switched up the order differently and made this the end.
this scene is so beautiful for some reason
Because it summed up Rick’s entire ark and should have been the end of the show in that very moment.
@@willyghost2213nah the comics kept going they couldn’t stop. The only real bad season was season 7
Cause it’s the first time they’ve had that feeling of normality
@@Walker-ow7vjthey should’ve stopped here
The reason why so many don’t like this show because of everything after this episode was useless
@@Naimedclaiming By that logic this would be "useless" too because the season 3 finale was also a good ending point for the show, and the comics continued after they arrived anyway. The rest of season 5 was great regardless
If this episode ended the series here it would’ve been a masterpiece. It’s a peaceful resolution while still keeping the suspense.
“Mercy of the Living” kicking in hits so hard in the feels in this scene
This is “a return to compassion” but yeah I get your point.
if the show ended right here it would be a serious contender for one of the best shows of all time
I couldn’t agree more
It would’ve been a contender to breaking bad
@@NaimedclaimingNah I wouldn't go that far, I love twd but there's numerous things that could've been done better up to this point to be on the same level aa breaking bad.
@@someguy8951 Nah, Breaking Bad was alright, but TWD, better.
I stop watching here on every rewatch. It is a masterpiece if you do that.
@@patrickbatman141The worst part is every time I rewatch it, I think to myself “awesome, there’s 6 more seasons to go!” and than I remember what those seasons were actually like and I feel sad lol
this scene always makes me emotional, you can see the literal relief in rick’s eyes as he hears the laughter from children. incredible acting from andrew as always
I know Aaron recruited them but still, this day was the day that marked a heroes welcome and acceptance into community as they protected the community from then on
2:24 i hope this is how rick returns to Alexandria in his tv show
would be a great parallel
I remember reading a review of this episode (I believe it was from IGN) that stated this could have been a good series finale for the show. If it was, I would be satisfied with it. For the first time in a long time, Rick finally senses peace standing before him after hearing the children from outside the Alexandria walls.
This should've been the finale perhaps he closes his eyes and the screen cuts black symbolizing that he feels safe at home.
Where it should’ve ended
Reading so many comments saying exactly what I have been saying about how the scene with Andrew Lincoln’s (Rick) eyes should have been the last scene of the entire series brings me so much joy. I still intend to watch the series all the way through again and turn it off at that point. The real end of The Walking Dead.
I concur. it’d leave questions unanswered, such as morgan though
Rick asking Judith if they should go was so cute
Ain’t no way Rick burry Shane gun
i cant be the only one that giggles thinking michonnes talking about ricks beard. i know shes not obviously but just thinking that is hilarious
This could’ve been the final episode of the series and I would’ve been fine with that, it’s all Rick was looking for sanctuary and future for Carl
This is where the series ended imo everything after this is where it goes really far downhill this is quite literally the perfect ending to the series.
Hard disagree, Alexandria was great imo and makes up for the hospital arc. Season 7 is where'd I agree.
@@someguy8951 Alexandria was ok up until Rick started simping so hardcore for that one girl that he was ready to kill her husband over it Shane style. That was pretty cringe. The end of season 5 is where everything started to fall apart a bit but season 6 was when it really started to go off the rails and then season 7 was the final nail in the coffin for me.
@@g-man9988 I mean to be fair about that, it's not like Pete made a very good first impression, and I did think that subplot was interesting but to each and their own. And he also turned out to be abusive so there's that. And I always felt like the show has been pretty off the rails since season 3-4. The Governor rolling up to the army during his introduction and somehow managing to stand in an open area and not get blown away was always pretty unrealistic to me.
@@someguy8951 My only issue really with the whole Pete thing is the weird way Rick started simping for her outta nowhere. It would've been fine if they'd just left out the simping. The subplot is decent besides that but the fact that they made him completely infatuated with some random girl the second he got to alexandria to the point where he was willing to kill her husband just to have her always struck me as completely nonsensical. Now as for the show being realistic I don't think that really matters. Ever since the beginning you really had to suspend your disbelief in twd. I mean if it was any bit realistic the army would have taken out the zombies relatively easy and there never would have even been an apocalypse. The military has (mostly) been the most unrealistic part of the show so I don't really have an issue with them being unrealistically incompetent. The realism doesn't really become an issue until the later seasons imo when people started surviving the most ridiculous situations purely because of plot armor. There was the occasional moment early on where the cracks started to show but it didn't become unwatchable or go off the rails until season 7 imo. S6 was mostly mediocre but got pretty bad occasionally but 7 was when it went from a small, slow decline to a straight drop off into shite.
@@g-man9988 Well I mean, it had been a while since Rick saw someone he'd fallen in love with and it's the apocalypse, so I do get why he liked her considering she was one of the first people that welcomed him into Alexandria and all. With the realism, yeah I agree that it doesn't really matter in a universe like that I've always found the show to have pretty obvious plot armor since season 1. Because zombies were faster and more agile in s1, Rick should've been dead the second he fell off the horse but for some reason the walkers suddenly became slower which allowed Rick to get into the conveniently open tank. There's the stuff with the cdc, Hershel's infinite ammo shotgun where he conveniently runs out just as zombie is next to him and his saved by Rick, the prison attack and Terminus which were all pretty off the rails and I found the characters to have pretty obvious plot armor then. Season 6 was no different to me. Season 8 though, is where the plot armor became ridiculous.
This is an amazing scene. The show used to be way higher quality. Season 6 is where the show lost that.
i disagree, on rewatch the s6 and above seem much better for me
@@simonium8123same.. only season I didn’t like was season 11..
@@Iamkrogan07 I respect it but idk just the whole thing with the mercs and the commonwealth I just didn’t really like it and I agree about it being anticlimactic but can’t wait for the spin offs and that maybe one day they all reunite again
@@simonium8123 season 6 is very watchable. It has some of the best episodes in the series like 6x09. But it’s the season where the Scott Gimple asspulls like the Glenn dumpster fake out death for example started to become distracting and take away from the greatness the show once had.
Season 7 and 8 are paced horribly and the writing and dialogue also took a nose dive after 7x01. This show needed a bigger budget and better writers to properly adapt that part of the comic. It didn’t feel epic like it should have, instead it felt cheap and corny. Also Carl’s death ruins the story completely. And the way they handled Morgan’s character is a crime against humanity.
They clearly had plans for him in season 6 but whenever they decided to throw him into the spin off they had no idea what to do with him in season 8. He was clearly set up to fill Carl’s role in dying to convince Rick to put Negan in the JAIL CELL THAT MORGAN BUILT IN SEASON 6. He was the one character who tried to convince Rick in season 6 to make a deal with the saviors. This was obviously setting him up to be the martyr to end the war. Instead they turned Carl into a pacifist which makes no sense because he was just on a suicide mission to kill Negan himself only a few episodes before hand.
@@simonium8123you just enjoy action
Twd from episode 1 to this episode would’ve been perfect season 6 was useless, people dying and Rick killing saviors for no reason
Season 5 was truly great. Idk wtf happened man
It’s not like the show turned ass yeah season 7 wasn’t the best but they made it even better later on
@@Walker-ow7vjbetter than season 5?
The show should have ended right here and would've been perfect.
Highly recommend Andrew Lincoln's episode of Cabinet of Curiosities
If Frank Darabont was never fired he would of ended it here most likely. Every season and spin off after this was purely milking for money. This will always bee the true ending to me because of how terrible everything after turned out.
This is where the walking dead ends. There are no more seasons or spin offs after this episode to me.
This would be a good finale there’s a lot of episodes that could’ve been the finale 3x16 7x16
Nah mfs this is where it ends!
How do you make the clips up to 4K?
God I wish I can grow a beard like him
The true end to the walking dead story
No the fuck it is not
I never understood why people say “this should’ve been the end of the series”. I think it would’ve been awful because of a massive cliffhanger.
@@Shamonsnipes I think it’s a decent ending, because after this, the whole show became a mess. Better for them to have ended the show here so that way that leaves a door open for the writers to make a movie like they’re doing now. Now it just feels like marvel where they constantly try to hash out show after show and it’s just them milking the cow dry.
@@nickcruz6736yea I think this a great ending sort of like the end of the last of us part 1 that ended on a cliffhanger
@@nickcruz6736 Season 9 and 10 are some of the best seasons though.
I agree they should have ended the series here
Great work man keep it up 👍🏻
If they made Alexandria a little more protected and bigger this very well coulda been the final episode. Nothing good happened after this episode
They ran into the commonwealth which gave them even more comfortable lives.
@@getaloadofthisguy2927 Yea, after just about all of them from this group died.
What a great way to end a series! Good thing they decided to finish the story here and didn't drag it out for 4+ poorly written seasons so they could keep making money. Right? RIGHT?!
Only season 7 and 8 were a lil bad which sucks cuz all out would’ve been awesome if properly done but the whisperer war was amazingly executed. The episode where hilltop falls is an amazing one if not of of the best in the show
They were adapting the comics, the story didn’t end here so there was no point to end it here.
@@Walker-ow7vjevery thing after 5:11 was either unnecessary or terrible
@@Naimedclaiming saying No Way Out is terrible is wild
@@Walker-ow7vj Season 9 was honestly great, but somehow, I feel they messed up on the ending. They killed Henry too early imo, because he was actually an interesting character to watch, especially his dynamic with Lydia