u/mjmilian

Watching season 11 for the first time, and while it’s pretty poor for the most part, the writing in episodes 15, 16, 17 and 18 is appallingly bad.

I know that not everything has to be spelled out and disbelief is to be suspended, but nothing feels earnt. The show is now simply moving from plot point to plot point, nothing is an obstacle, there is no tension, drama or even logical explanations for things that happen.

- End of episode 15 Hornsby and his men stumble upon Leah. He tells her not to kill them, as they have a job for her in killing Maggie. Unless I missed something, Hornsby has no idea who this woman is and the beef she has with Maggie. But we are just supposed to accept the fact that he thinks asking some stranger to go and kill someone for him is a viable play here?

- Episode 16 starts off really well, great tension as Daryl and co enter the killing zone, but then it’s down hill

- Is that the cabin Leah used to live in? I guess it must be, as Daryl come's knocking. But how did he know Leah would take Maggie here?  How did Hornsby and his troops find it?

- Max’s and Connies' little conspiracy group. Max grabbed some papers from the cabinet, but we are given no idea what info is in it, but obviously connected to the list of 200 people Connie has that included April. 

But what are the lies here they are writing a story on, that these people are missing?  How do they get the article passed the angry editor we saw earlier and why do they need Ezekiel’s team of paper boys? If they’d had got as far as printing the paper, you’d think the usual distribution would be no problem.

- Episode 17 starts off with Hornsby and his troopers stalking our team in some town. Yet at the end of the last episode, we see Hornsby taking control off Hilltop, Alexandria and Oceanside.  These places are hinted at being quite pretty far apart, so why is Hornsby and co so easily on the tale of our group? They would have had a few days to move away from Hilltop area, yet they tracked them down so easily?  Perhaps the town they are in is on the outskirts of the Commonwealth, but unless I missed something, this wasn’t stated.

- The news is out and the public is out for Sebastian’s blood. Why Sebastian exactly?  Either Connie wrote a story about 200 people missing, knowing that some died trying to get Sebastian cash, so blamed the other 200 missing people on him?  Seems a bit of a stretch.  Or the public just hate Sebastian so blamed him (he hints at this saying the public have no one else to blame). That just seems ridiculous

- Negan says to Carol Commonwealth doesn’t seem like a place they can just walk out of. Yet we have seen Carol slipping out herself. Doesn’t stretch the imagine to think the rest of the group could slip out under the cover of darkness the same way Carol did.

- The way Carol just instinctively knows that Sebastian must be hiding in the Governmental building. Oh look, a secret door.

 - Episode 18 starts with the stand off in the sewers, just as Carol, Negan, Pamela, and Mercer arrive.  How on earth did they know to look for anyone down there?

Does it carry on like this to the finale? Is there going to be aby actual stakes? Do people like this kind of writing in a show?

Many of the filming locations for the first 3 films have been well documented, exact locations found and people often visit them (myself included!). However for Furiosa, I can only find general areas where it was shot.

I know a lot of it was filmed around Broken Hill, where Road Warrior was shot, but where exactly?

The sequence where the Mortifiers are chasing the Rig was filmed on the Hay Plains around Hay.

The use of CGI to redress the locations, plus the remoteness and vastness of them likely makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly. Also, the film not having the cult statuses of the original 3 probably makes the locations less desirable to find and travel too.

Still, I'd love to see some stories and photos from the locations!