![]() ![]() Though she debuted at the end of last week's episode, "Look at the Flowers," fans were more fully introduced this week to Paola Lázaro's Juanita Sanchez, aka Princess, in "The Tower." She's not a part of The Commonwealth, but in the comics, she is a character our heroes meet, and pick up, on their way to their meeting with Stephanie. After Stephanie gave him a place and time to meet, Eugene took off with Ezekiel and Yumiko (the comics' expedition gang was a little different, though Eugene and Yumiko were in it) to meet up with his new love and hopefully sync up with her community. This season, Eugene began secret communications (and flirting) with Stephanie, who in the comics was one of The Commonwealth's radio operators. Presumably, this place is (or is part of) The Commonwealth. When the big time jump happened in Season 9 and Maggie left Hilltop, we found out that she'd left to go help Georgie - either boosting a different community or fully moving to whatever community Georgie had founded. In exchange for goods, Georgie would give these starter towns "A Key to a Future," which contained medieval schematics for windmills/watermills as well as lessons on how to refine grain and create aqueducts. Georgie, along with her helpers Hilda and Midge, would travel the wasteland and find communities in need of a bit of systemic help. Georgie, Stephanie, Princess and the Seeds of The CommonwealthThough she's not a character in the comics, Jayne Atkinson's Georgie, who popped onto the show back in Season 8, was one of the series' first hints at a Commonwealth-style angle. Basically, there are nobles and peasants. A person's societal value, and rank in the Commonwealth, is based on their skills and profession. The Commonwealth has better technology, better systems of farming and manufacturing in place, and a wickedly arcane class hierarchy that makes everything feel like a feudal system. It's basically a network of communities, centered in Ohio (in the comics), that holds about fifty thousand folks in total. Sure, there are some bad eggs within it, but it's not an overtly awful place. So what is The Commonwealth? What does it mean for our heroes in the wake of the Whisperer War? And how does it line up with the other major militarized group that stole Rick and is also a huge part of Walking Dead: World Beyond? What is The Commonwealth?Firstly, The Commonwealth isn't a hostile, enemy force like the Saviors or Whisperers. ![]() This arc is also how the show will bring back Lauren Cohan's Maggie, who's set to re-emerge on the series after a long time away (and Cohan brief time with 2019's Whiskey Cavalier on ABC). ![]()
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