This episode bothered me for a couple of reasons. The main reason is the Silas flashbacks seemed like a retcon to redeem his character, but there are problems. Silas still beat his father to within an inch of his life, so even though it was after he turned, Silas was still responsible. Yet the writers most obviously don't want fans to think that. Also, why would his mother act all horrified at Silas after he just saved her life from his zombie father? For all she knew, he could have had a heart attack or fell down the stairs and died, then turned. And we know from the previous flashback that Silas went into a quiet shell after he killed his father, so he never told anyone how his father died. Why would his mother turn on her son and defend her abusive husband even after death, especially when the whole situation can easily be chalked up to that he died unexpectedly and then turned, so Silas had to put him down? None of it makes sense.
Then there's that dumb twist ending with Huck, which completely violates what we learned about her character in the previous episode. Why would Huck, who disobeyed orders and killed her entire unit to save the lives of a bunch of innocent people, end up working for a shady organization like the CRM, who had just destroyed the university compound in the Pilot? It's total piling on to try and make Huck more interesting, when she was already the most interesting character from the prior episodes. Why do characters have to be villains for people to call them interesting? Huck was a character that fans were just warming up to (I liked her from jump) and now this crap is going to compel them to hate her again. This really disappoints me because now fans will be trashing her for the rest of the series because of bad writing when she had already won a lot of fans over with previously good writing. Here's hoping these writers have yet to explain all of this, but as of now, this episode made things worse and more confusing instead of forwarding the plot convincingly.
Then there's that dumb twist ending with Huck, which completely violates what we learned about her character in the previous episode. Why would Huck, who disobeyed orders and killed her entire unit to save the lives of a bunch of innocent people, end up working for a shady organization like the CRM, who had just destroyed the university compound in the Pilot? It's total piling on to try and make Huck more interesting, when she was already the most interesting character from the prior episodes. Why do characters have to be villains for people to call them interesting? Huck was a character that fans were just warming up to (I liked her from jump) and now this crap is going to compel them to hate her again. This really disappoints me because now fans will be trashing her for the rest of the series because of bad writing when she had already won a lot of fans over with previously good writing. Here's hoping these writers have yet to explain all of this, but as of now, this episode made things worse and more confusing instead of forwarding the plot convincingly.
