How I missed my zombie action! A mostly great start to the season, although I would have liked to see somebody fall victim to the horde, but I suppose I will accept the shocking ending of the episode as a decent reminder that the stakes are and remain high. No one is safe.
I really liked where this episode took place - travelling along a highway, somewhere in the country but who can really say where, with all these signs of disaster. Why did all these cars get stuck here? Why are there so many dead bodies in the cars who never arose as zombies? What happened here? And yet none of that matters anymore; it's all about what will happen here, what still can happen here.
Our heroes continue to try to find a balance between humanity and survival. The road is a graveyard, a battleground riddled with corpses. It has been so long since it was normal to remove the boots from a dead body simply because they were too good quality to waste. For centuries, need required us to give little respect to the dead we did not know, but in North America, that need is no longer prevalent. Yet, post-zombie apocalypse, that need has returned. To survive, no qualms can be suffered regarding robbing the dead - after all, the dead have no qualms about eating our flesh.
As I said, I was disappointed that no one died when that massive horde of zombies passed through. Lucky, weren't they, that no zombies noticed Sophia (Madison Lintz) until most had gone. Had the horde come after here, they would know where she is at this moment, and feel far worse about it. T-dog (IronE Singleton) got off easy with that extremely ugly cut he gave himself. It was nasty, and bleeding, and SO gross. Good thing there was so much death around that the zombies could not smell the fresh meat through it. Daryl (Norman Reedus) may be my favourite character. Sure, I love Rick (Andrew Lincoln), and I think he is awesome too, but Daryl is so badass. Stabbing a zombie in the back of the head with a crossbow bolt, then throwing corpses on T-Dog and himself...I loved it.
My favourite scene, of course, was when Rick and Daryl dissected that zombie to be certain it had not eaten Sophia. Disgusting. I was practically gagging, but it was so wonderfully done. Exactly the kind of thing that keeps me watching this show.
After that, the episode did get a little monologue-y. There are other ways to do exposition, guys. But I suppose we needed to get some of that info out there.
So now we wait until next week to see what's going to happen next. Are Shane (Jon Bernthal) and Andrea (Laurie Holden) going to leave the group together? Will they find Sophia? Will Karl (Chandler Riggs) survive being shot? And will zombies eat somebody soon, please?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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