Victor Strand has always been… complicated.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So Strand throws a dude off a roof… as one does.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS:I think you could say it’s pretty irredeemable.
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And that was kind of the point from Strand’s point of view.
So in his twisted logic, he does what he thinks will protect him from that.
And he thinks that’s going to be what keeps her away from him.
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It is a very dark move from Strand, and he’s aware of it at the moment.
Is Strand a straight-up villain now?
He feels like Negan in reverse almost.
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IAN GOLDBERG:I don’t think Strand would see himself as a villain.
And he has built this empire for himself and he doubles down on that in this episode.
He does what he thinks he has to do to hold on to that.
Andrew, you alluded this a little bit, but this isn’t really a strike against anyone else.
Throwing that guy off the roof, it’s really a strike at himself.
He’s fighting himself with that act, isn’t he?
I think at that moment he thought, no, he had to do it.
He had to be the hero.
He had to prove Alicia wrong.
But ironically, he ended up proving her worst suspicions about him to be true.
And that’s very much what’s happening here.
What’s up with his outfit, and the hat and everything?
GOLDBERG:He’s rocking it!
When we see him in season 7, where it all came from was history.
And the end of season 6, he met Howard in the tower.
Howard is a historian.
What essentially Strand is doing here is he’s writing a new chapter in history for himself.
And he is at the center of that.
That’s why he’s carrying a sword from 19th-century Texas history.
That’s why he’s wearing that historic-looking tunic.
And he’s using garments from various points in history to bolster that.
What about this guy Will?
He sort of gives the circumstances for why he was banished, but doesn’t give the exact particulars.
CHAMBLISS:There’s definitely some history in that bunker, some history he had with Alicia.
And it’s definitely something that we will be exploring this season.
Stay tuned for more.
It’s definitely going to continue to be a mystery that we unpack as the season goes on.
This group that Will calls the Stalkers, are we going to be seeing them more or not?
CHAMBLISS:Short answer is yes.
And we’ll say that there is a reason that Will knows more about them than Strand does.
