What caused the communities to not be united now??

[Mia]

Michonne needs an attitude adjustment for sure. If she is the leader of ASZ then I would not want to deal with her so I would probably tell them to fuck off.

Pretty much.

I don't see Kingdom making that call. Kingdom seems to be happier than they've ever been and that is saying a lot. Even though we haven't seen Oceanside yet, my guess is they don't have the power to make that call. They were barely a settlement. More of a small group that worked with the settlements. Sanctuary definitely didn't make that call because it appears to be defunct now and I'm guessing whatever caused this happened after The Sanctuary fell because as you can see there are Saviors living in Alexandria now. I'm not even talking about the whole lock down thing (unless the 2 things are connected) but if you aren't working with the other settlements why would you invite them to live with you so I'm guessing this is after The Sanctuary fell. They may not have immediately stopped working after Rick "died" but they slowly got more and more distant until they stopped helping and seeing each other all together unless people actively went out of their way to visit each other but nothing official.

So It's pretty much down to Alexandria or Hilltop.

But we also don't know if Alexandria is no longer working with The Kingdom. Maybe Kingdom and Alexandria are still getting along but don't see each other as much because they are too far away from each other and have no cars. It could just be an issue between Alexandria and Hilltop and my guess is the only thing that I could see it being is Michonne being mad at Hilltop & Daryl for what happened to Rick. I mean, Michonne is fucking nuts right now. Still talking to Rick after all these years so its very possible that she just never let it go.

[ChromeTomahawk]

They had cars before and the roads were clear. Now they have to take horses and that one bridge is out. It got to the point where it wasn't worth going to other communities for anything other than checking in. The batteries for the walkies don't last forever, even though they are rechargeable the batteries get to a point where they no longer hold a charge. So when they all lost the ability to talk over the air and they no longer needed eachother for sustainability, they drifted apart.

[Mi10]

Michonne has always been suspicious of others and never relaxed (except for when she was sleeping around with Rick)....

just look at her facial expression... always looks so serious and hardened up... She only smiles around Judith and her new baby...

[SnuffVille]

Michonne being angry and alone while apparently having learned nothing from Rick or Carl. Everyone else were ready to welcome Magnas group in until Michonne threw a temper tantrum

[Mia]

She has never been a very friendly person. Now it is worse though.

Michonne has always been suspicious of others and never relaxed (except for when she was sleeping around with Rick)....

just look at her facial expression... always looks so serious and hardened up... She only smiles around Judith and her new baby...

[Jay]

Yeah, I think it's safe to assume that this is a Maggie/Michonne issue or at the very least between those but maybe others are on Michonne's shit list from what happened like Daryl because we still have yet to see Michonne interact with him though it is weird they both have the same mark on their back. Hopefully it's not a gay pact. but w/e back to Michonne vs Maggie...

Michonne didn't even want to enter Hilltop in the recent ep until she found out Maggie was gone but is now willing to enter with everyone else still there. So my guess is it's not even a Alexandria vs Hilltop issue but a Maggie vs Michonne issue and everyone else is just suffering because of it.

Like, maybe Michonne still likes Jesus for example.

[shrike]

Are there any former Saviors (besides Alden) at Hilltop? Maybe Maggie was at odds with Michonne over her taking some of them into the ASZ. Though in this case Michonne did trust them and it seems to have worked.

[Rickyl]

I don't have any idea but it's chaotic and worrisome and the show should have told us before now, at the mid season finale or by the end of it. This whole show has been all about our characters coming together and forming as a family, but it looks like the mid season finale is full on action and introducing The Whisperers, head on. I am not complaining, the next show looks great as far as I can guess, but maybe we will find out the reasoning this Sunday.
It has to have to do with our major group, Michonne, Maggie, Daryl and Carol and they are all scattered about, though some still talking. This show needs to tell us and soon.
It would be a good story, but what with the way that they have written it, we've barely gotten anything story line dialogue about it, besides this past week with Jesus and Aaron speaking together and Michonne and Siddiq. Daryl seems indifferent and at peace on his own, now that Rick is gone, just going by how I view him.
I sort of wonder if we will get a flashback at some point, to right after Rick's demise, to show us what went on directly after the scene that we ended on, but that seems a bit much with this show and like a lot of work. They could have just shown us that when the show came back next week, if it is such important progress with the story and how it's stacked up to draw out for the future. And why jump six years ahead to go back and let us in on a huge dividing point in the family dynamics?!! What a conundrum.

[athleticboy1212]

I'm wondering now if it might have something to do with the season 8 finale when Maggie had the meeting with Jesus and Daryl and said whatever about how Rick was wrong to spare Negan. I wonder if word of that meeting somehow got out to Michonne and she was upset by it

[DarylsHand]

Quite simply. Rick, Maggie, Jesus were all uniquely graceful leaders. Inner conflicts led to missteps. The others want the communities to be strong, but no one envisioned it like them and no one dealt with shit sandwiches like them. Rick sold it to them. The only one left that can really sell the idea is Ezekiel.