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AMC's The Walking Dead [Spoilers!]
November 1, 2010 at
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For a show on a non premium cable channel, I thought it was very good. I never read the comic, so I don't know how it compares, but I'll be watching every Sunday. pisses me off that I don't get AMC in HD though.
For a show on a non premium cable channel, I thought it was very good. I never read the comic, so I don't know how it compares, but I'll be watching every Sunday. pisses me off that I don't get AMC in HD though.
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i liked it, but i tend to like bottle episodes. [tvtropes.org] i thought Carol was 100% playing possum early on, but it really does seem like her faith in her worldview has been shaken by Morgan and the wolf. selfishly, i don't like this because Carol has been one of my favorite characters, partially because of her willingness to do literally anything she thought necessary to keep the group safe.
thankfully for everyone, Maggie now has ice in her veins, maybe as a result of those maternal hormones kicking in. i wonder what Hershel would think of her insisting she and Carol stay until everyone in the opposing group is dead. i mean, you could make a case it was the right call, but if you would have told me two seasons ago that Maggie would be convincing Carol to kill people, i would have asked if you had the characters reversed.
it's character-driven, dialogue-rich episodes like this that keep me watching this show. i've played enough video games and watched enough of earlier seasons than zombie battles/kills are boring, and doing something that shows the interplay between characters/groups is far more interesting.
so, among other things, Carol's goodbye letter was basically a huge "eff you" to Morgan, right? since Sophia died in front of that barn, Carol has recognized the new reality of this world is you either kill or are killed (by walkers or people), and a short logical leap from there is if you're unwilling to kill to protect yourself and those you love, they're better off without unless you possess some other indispensable skill (medical care, ranger/recon, farmer, etc.). barring that, you're simply another mouth to feed and a hostage waiting to happen. Morgan has refused to kill for a while and has not displayed any indispensable skills, so she's basically saying he's a selfish person for staying after she has the decency to leave, right?
i know i've said this before, but Daryl's instincts/judgement have sucked for the last couple seasons. from getting baited into the wolves' glaringly obvious food truck trap to helping Dwight escape to allowing his sentimentality to get him to follow train tracks again, his batting average has taken a precipitous dive.
i know i'm supposed to be sad about Denise, but i find it hard to be. if we've learned anything in this show (other than not to trust anyone), it's that going into a situation unprepared is stupid, bordering on suicidal. for all his gradual progress, Eugene was surprised by a smelted walker and likely would have been bitten if Abraham wouldn't have been there. and that was after he'd been out in the wild for a time with Rick's group and actually had a kill under his belt. Denise wanted to eat the elephant all at once, and while that kind of confidence/bravery is commendable in some cases, it's foolhardy when she had a choice to do it in a more stepped manner. Daryl and Sasha tried to impress this upon her, but she went against their advice in the name of confronting her fears, completely ignoring the fact that as the only "real" doctor, she's most useful to the group inside the walls and safe. from a group survival standpoint, she was one of the most important members, and she willfully squandered that.
ignoring the idiocy of the train track/dick biting sequence, i liked the episode. important stuff happened, and it's nice when they use the discovery of abhorrent actions of normal people (in this case, the drowning of a child in the name of survival) to go to a dark place instead of relying on literal darkness and the skewed moral landscape of the now-hardened survivors. it hearkens back to the days of season one when everything seemed almost relatable for its relatively short distance from our current lives.
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And...really, the ending was so lame. Show who was beaten / killed to keep my interest and make me want to return next season. Put a fork in me, I'm done...
We got 80 minutes of driving / walking around, mostly one group, a stupid plot device to get nearly a dozen main characters in one spot merely for speculation purposes, string us along with a drawn out entrance for Negan, and then they pull a balls-less blackout ending like that?
Big middle finger to the viewers, Gimple.
And...really, the ending was so lame. Show who was beaten / killed to keep my interest and make me want to return next season. Put a fork in me, I'm done...
I liked the episode. Was hoping for more, but was also surprised by the "knights" or whatever on horses who showed up.
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