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The Crazy Way The Walking Dead Handled Morales' Story

Last week's Walking Dead was capped off with the return of Atlanta survivor Morales, whose surprise reappearance was coupled with the shock that he was now within the ranks of Negan's Saviors. This week's episode cut Morales' return short, offering a small bit of explanation for his current situation before Daryl took him out of the land of the living for good. I imagine there will be a lot of irate fans expecting Morales to have had a bigger arc in the story.

When Morales came back last week, I was mistaken in thinking that he had a full idea about who Rick was whenever his name would get spoken by the Saviors. It wasn't a very sensible assumption, since there would be little reason for that connection to happen in Morales' brain, considering not a whole lot of intel is at anyone's disposal in this society. So it was a much better move for him to not make the connections between Rick Grimes and "Rick from Alexandria" until seeing him. That had to be a very weird feeling for Morales, and not one coupled with reflections of the good ol' days.

It's like finding out that the unseen executive making your life a living hell at work was someone you went to summer camp with as a teen. Just, with more gore than most non-Crystal Lake camps have. I wonder if Morales had a conversation with one of the other Saviors and made a point of mentioning Rick, like, "Yeah, I knew a guy by that name back in the day, nicknamed Officer Friendly. But his son had both of his eyes, so it's probably not the same dude."

On the more solemn front, it was sad to hear that suspicions about Morales' family's fate were on the mark. They were killed on the way to Birmingham, putting a sizable dent in that mission. That doesn't justify him siding with Negan's tyrannical bombast, but at least Negan wasn't involved with his wife and kids' deaths, since that would have been an uglier situation. It almost seemed like Morales might actually make a change of heart about who to side with -- such is the convincing manner in which Rick Grimes says things -- but Daryl went and shot him before that could come to any sort of fruition.

For years, actor Juan Pareja has kept fans' hopes alive for Morales' potential return, and he was overjoyed to get a chance to finally make that reprisal happen. When explaining how Morales' comeback came about, Pareja naturally offered no hint that he would be re-exiting the show so quickly. It probably wouldn't have made much sense to keep Morales around after turning him villainous, but people likely still wanted to see him get more to do after being gone for so long. Or to at least get a better death than "Impulsive Daryl." What do you guys think?

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