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'THE WALKING DEAD' DIGS INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE WHISPERERS



Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers for Season 9 Episode 10 of The
Walking Dead.

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The Whisperers have proven themselves to be one of the most terrifying threats
in The Walking Dead, and learning more about them has only made them scarier.

In Sunday night's episode of The Walking Dead, "Omega," the mysterious origin of
the Whisperers began to unravel as the captured Whisperer Lydia recalls the
early days of her and her family surviving after the zombie outbreak first
began.

In flashbacks and conversations with Henry and Daryl, Lydia recalls how her
mother handled the crisis unfolding in the South, how quickly she turned into a
compassion-less person who would do anything she could to survive, even killing
her own husband.

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Lydia's backstory makes her a much more compelling character and her revelations
remind everyone that the Whisperers started out just like everyone else, normal
people living in the normal world before the dead started coming back to life.
There are humans underneath those stitched together zombie masks and they are
capable of doing horrible things.

That's not really a new concept in The Walking Dead, but the Whisperers, and
specifically their leader who has named herself Alpha, have a more psychotic
drive than any other villains before them. Unfortunately for Lydia, Alpha is her
mother.

Lydia's whole outlook has been warped by her mother, who gaslit her into
believing that her father was weak and that's why he died, which covers up the
fact that Alpha murdered him for disagreeing with her. Lydia's mindset is on
full display when she eats a worm and insists that a peaceful settlement of
survivors isn't possible.

There wasn't much in terms of moving the story forward in this episode, but it
was important and gripping as it unraveled the Whisperers and gave a more
empathetic look at Lydia.

At the end of "Omega," The Walking Dead did what it does best and left us with a
tense cliffhanger as the Whisperers and an unmasked Alpha arrive at the gates
asking for her daughter.

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