Channel Flipper stumbled upon Channel of the Week Tales of the Walking Dead You might think they landed on a particularly pessimistic Animal Planet documentary. An invisible narrator flies a drone over images of animals and trees. The world is rapidly being reshaped by the arrival of apex predators. Homo MortusThey do not sleep, are deadly singly or in flocks, and have rapidly climbed to the top of the food chain.

The opening of this fake documentary is Tales of the Walking DeadClever ways to make The Walking Dead look fresh – especially how clinical research scientists handle the horrors of a zombie apocalypse. Our narrator is Dr. Everett (Anthony Edwards). He decided to spend the rest of his life observing the habits and patterns of zombies. He sees it as “natural beauty in its purest form”.

Dr. Everett’s observations reveal some interesting complications. One individual routinely reaches out to the noise first, he points out. I’m sure his favorite zombie, his Specimen 21, has even shown signs of communal generosity, such as killing wild dogs and feeding his fellow zombies.

None of that matters to Amy (Poppy Liu), the second half of the episode’s title pairing. She is relieved when Dr. Everett appears and takes her to safety. It is only later that she realizes that he was not trying to save her from her Specimen 21. He was trying to save her specimen 21 from her.

In concept, “Amy/Dr. Everett” is reminiscent of the series’ opening, “Joe/Evie.” But where the first part leaned towards hope, “Amy/Dr. Everett” leans towards despair. Back at Dr. Everett’s research station, Amy reveals why she’s been running around in the woods. Her group hopes to build and maintain a permanent settlement in a nearby area called “Dead Sector”. However, Everett has already given up on the idea of ​​human relationships.In his eyes, it’s now a zombie world, and we’re just living there.

Everett’s misanthropy, which he justifies by acting like a scientific detachment, is challenged by his growing connection to Amy. He saves her from the Poison Berry she ingested, and they bond over a shared love of poetry, and she comes to appreciate the zombie research side of him. Whatever the case, Everett is keen enough to realize that his interest in the zombie horde is laced with many emotions. Dr. Moseley, whom he reunited with when he gave up on The man may be dead, but Everett’s “study” is a chance to spend some more time with him.

As such, Everett is much closer to Amy’s worldview than he admits.Amy’s worldview claims that human connections and memories alone are all we are. , it is this philosophy that guides the unlikely duo in their quest to track down Specimen 21, who has wandered into the small camp where Amy’s friends are settling.

It’s a conflict that literally describes the tension between Everett’s and Amy’s philosophies. Is this world for the living or the dead?Amy chooses to live and fights desperately to save her allies. Everett refuses to intervene, at least when humans are in danger, and Amy ends up realizing the truly darker implications of Everett’s worldview.

Finally, when Specimen 21 stumbles into the river and begins to drift away, she tries to help him once more. They try to save the zombies, as Amy points out to be a betrayal.

It is here that he dropped his last bomb. As it turns out, his research uncovered some useful information. Her friend is doomed, he insists, but she doesn’t need to go back – just as she will remain as his research assistant and continue Dr. Moseley’s work after he leaves. he can continue his work.

Of course she turns him down. Amy is not going to accept the world as it is. She wants to do better. “I’d rather die than be like you,” she tells him while sneaking into the settlement.

And that’s exactly what happens. As the episode ends, Everett visits the settlement to find everyone dead and reanimated as zombies, including Amy. But if there’s a glimmer of hope in this very dark ending, Amy’s hopeful worldview is only because she hasn’t lived long enough to build a better world. I mean, you’re not wrong. As she said, memories and relationships are all we’re all about. Thanks to her, Everett now has 21 new specimens to watch, as well as plenty of both.

• The full text of Emily Dickinson’s poem Everett recites at the end of the episode, “Nature is what we see.”

• She never actually said the title or author of the poem, but I think Amy was referring to Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s “Wear a Mask.”

• Everett’s late friend and mentor, Dr. Moseley, may have been named after the late actor Michael J. Moseley, who played one of Michonne’s pet zombies. the walking dead.

• Two more entries in walking dead An ever-expanding list of zombie franchises that aren’t “zombie”: Homo Mortusa coined term coined by Dr. Everett, and “Chopper” coined by Amy’s group.

• Dr. Everett’s Homemade Remedies to Prevent Unripe Solanum Fruit Toxicity: Charcoal Water, Meadowsweet, Ginger, Turmeric, and Frankincense Oil. delicious.

• according to walking dead Wiki, Dr. Everett’s name is Chauncey. I can see why he likes Dr. Everett.