SQUAWKING DEAD: [Episode 187] Season 7, Episode 9 of Fear The Walking Dead, "Follow Me"

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The #midseasonpremiere kicks off with #AliciaClark's revolution underway, having already sought assistance from Arno (and failed). With that understanding, the show-runners take time to tell us an anthologized story in the process to show her a new way forward: to much polarization from the audience.

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Bridget: Always find the silver lining! Loved Paul, loved the Scotland references, and the Alicia Clark focused episode. Along with Rachael, not a fan of her sweaty, fever or Paul's death.
Could we be seeing the side effects from the (possibly irradiated) walker blood that splattered all over Alicia in the first half of Season 5?
Dave: This episode was a masterpiece. Never fully embraced the hype fans had towards Alicia's character as a hero/bad-ass.
Dave: This episode is working through issues with Alicia’s (arrested) character development from prior seasons.
Addressing possibly confusion: Alicia trying to get back to her friends on the sub, not the followers she was trying to lead from Theodore Maddox's bunker.
But is Alicia truly equipped to be a leader?
Bridget explains the way Alicia demonstrated leadership qualities in the back half of Season 3, at Broke Jaw Ranch.
Bridget wonders whether Follow Me was all a dream.
Paul represents Alicia's hope and optimism.
Similarities to The Wizard of Oz: along with a girl in pigtails (albeit, in a gas mask) like the character Dorothy Gale.
Has the audience expected Alicia to fill the void Madison Clark left since her departure?
Rachael would've preferred more of an ensemble-style (rather than anthology-style) episode, for a mid-season premiere
Should they have swapped 7x09 with 7x10 since it contained more cast?
🎖SURVIVORS Tier Member: Jasmine's take, "Hagus ain't so bad!"
Rachael: It would be better if this were a stand alone movie, but for an episode in an overall arc, it doesn't move the story along.
Dave: It does move the story forward, just not in the way you would've hoped/preferred.
Get on with the war, already!
Is Alicia actually sick or is it in her head?
Sherrandy asks, in the chat: Might her confidence have been shaken from the events of Damage on the Inside (6x07), in that she chose to provide Dakota asylum from Virginia?
Bridget felt the opening sequence was surreal and dreamlike.
Was Paul's phrasing of the musical instruments as "out of tune" a metaphor for No one's gone until they're gone?
What role does luck play in the apocalypse?
When was the last time Alicia was actually in a good place?
Bridget hopes we continue to actually see Alicia’s character develop over the course of the remaining episodes, rather than squelched by time jumps; however, a montage will suffice.
Shoutout to Warren "Wawa" Snipe, who actually played the bagpipes in Paul's final moments on screen (gone too soon!).
What good is Paul’s cochlear implant if it's non-operational?
Is the little girl in the gas mask a representation of a younger Alicia? ...all of the people waiting to be helped/help her? ...connected to the group that has her mother?
Is Ode to Joy, a song that preaches peace between all peoples, a breadcrumb for things to come? Will there even be a war?
Sherrandy recommends Immortal Beloved, a movie that depicts Beethoven's struggle with hearing loss.
Paul patched the bagpipes with the skin from a walker’s face!
After Dave explains the significance of both Paul & Ed Gein (from Damage from the Inside) being two men, gone too soon, that remind Alicia to trust/believe in herself, Sherrandy points out Paul was shot in the same spot where Ed was impaled.
Dave's Crazy Brain: Might Alicia’s illness be derived from something sci-fi-like contained within walker Senator Vazquez's blood?
Was all these events part of Executive Producers Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss' overall roadmap?
Parallel: Arno's left hand is shot just like Alicia’s left arm.
Spenser Granese (Arno) also played Arlo on Better Call Saul.
Now that Alicia is assuming the role of PADRE, will we ever see its location?
What if the people who have Madison are (in the actual) PADRE?
ChrisTheBeat, in the chat, asks if Alicia was the one broadcasting PADRE's existence in the surrounding region.
Should Alicia lead or should she follow? Dave & Rachael spar on this one.