syncing the dopamine…
S7E16
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
The Walking Dead · 2017-04-02 · 61 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 25 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
The stakes continue to grow higher as paths cross; the group enacts an intricate plan.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
70
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
4
how much it moved you
Read from 25 comments — 7 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
openingending
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
Reddit24 read
“I laughed when the garbage people threw smoke bombs and ran away.”
MissHunbun▲ 2,304about 75–100% inread it ↗
“sometimes I don't understand why they force the pace to be so slow”
TouchLikeMidas▲ 847about 0–100% inread it ↗
“that went from being an awful episode to fucking amazing in about a five second period”
▲ 838about 90–90% inread it ↗
“rick's speech made me nut. the TIGER. the SUPERFLUOUS EZEKIEL BRAVEHEART CRY. holy FUCK. that was so good.”
▲ 838about 90–95% in
who made it
- directed
- Greg Nicotero
- written
- Angela Kang, Matthew Negrete, Scott M. Gimple
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Seth Gilliam as Gabriel Stokes
Ross Marquand as Aaron
Khary Payton as Ezekiel Sutton
Michael Cudlitz as Abraham Ford
Cooper Andrews as Jerry
Katelyn Nacon as Enid
Tom Payne as Jesus Rovia