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What I appreciated even more was that all this, while very badass, wasn’t exactly presented as a badass series of events. Then consider how they ended it as their own “saviors,” not only taking out Paula and the others, but also killing their entire back-up, thanks to Chekhov’s gasoline canisters. Consider how Maggie, a pregnant woman, and Carol, an older woman, began “The Same Boat” as hostages, outnumbered two to four. This was an elegantly written and executed bottle episode, designed largely to subvert the trope of the helpless woman. And though Rick and the rest clearly had no intention of waiting patiently for the Saviors to agree to a deal, the fact is that no one saved Maggie and Carol-except, of course, for Maggie and Carol. What followed was somehow much more interesting than a straightforward rescue mission, with the Saviors, led by a woman named Paula, taking Carol and Maggie to an abandoned slaughterhouse and debating what to do. Meanwhile, Carol’s plan-as it long has been-was to feign the opposite: pretend to be weaker than she actually was. The Saviors’ solution? Bluff it out, and pretend to be stronger than they actually were. But in this lifetime, they were all destined, in one way or another, to kill each other.īacking up: “The Same Boat” began by showing how a small band of Saviors (three women, one man) ambushed Carol and Maggie, and just how little bargaining power they had to negotiate the trade for their captured ally. There were fun lines like, “You should be lucky she doesn’t have a sack of gonads to trip over,” and, “Guys can’t handle pain,” but for all the awesomeness of seeing a truly female-dominated story, it came with an important caveat: In another lifetime, these tough, smart women might have been friends. The vast majority of screen time went to women, who over the course of the episode discussed issues of particular concern-childbirth, domestic violence, the sexism of the old and new world. No surprise, then, that “The Same Boat” was The Walking Dead’s most overtly feminist episode thus far.
The Small Island Where 500 People Speak Nine Different Languages Michael Erard
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