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The Walking Confusion
I have to admit, this season's Walking Dead is not as shitty as last season. The first is still my favorite--because it's really a 6-hour long zombie drama. It bucks a lot of traditional tropes, and showed us the kind of drama we don't usually get from my beloved subgenre.
At the same time, I hate the overuse of CGI, and last week was ridiculous. Maybe some of you know better than I, but I declare major shenanigans at Michonne cutting a zombie essentially in half with a Katana. I'm digging David Morrissey as The Governor, thus far. But that's not what occasions me to post about The Walking Dead.
Okay, two weeks ago that lone prisoner created Merle-style havoc by letting walkers in everywhere. T-Dog got bit, and sacrificed himself to let Carol get away. He died a hero. I'm into that--though I didn't care for the obvious Black Guy Swap. The new black guy won his way into Rick's graces within 5 show-minutes of T-Dog dying. Really, FX? But I digress...Carol does get away, and shuts herself in a small room. That's the last we see of her.
The guys find her head scarf, and it's bloody. But c'mon, they're all bloody by that time. At the end of that ep, after Lori dies, Glenn (or someone) says that T-Dog and Carol are gone. It seems like looking for her, or at least not giving up right away, would be in order. As a viewer, I totally thought she was alive and everyone would be so happy when they found her.
Last week, Glenn was digging graves and talking about how 1/3 of the group was dead. I counted characters and realized that he still thought Carol was dead. Wow, I thought. I can't believe she didn't come out by now--that no one found her. Later, Daryl came and put the Sofia flower on the grave marked as Carol. Now, it's one thing to not look for her or not find her--but surely they didn't create an empty grave. Did I miss it? Is she actually dead? The Walking Dead Wiki doesn't say.
I'm digging reversals in who has humanity and who doesn't. Maggie's sense of "let's go out and risk our asses to get so-and-so their something" has increased greatly. Glenn has become protective and fierce to the point of losing compassion for those outside the group. I'm starting to feel really bad for those prisoners (I predict that the white one will die and the other will live to meet The Governor). And Rick? Well, Rick has lost everything about himself. Carl is now the man of the house--on the off chance that Carl is actually IN the goddamn house.
I pretty much figured a girl baby would be named Sofia. I liked the point that they couldn't possibly honor everyone they lost, there were just too damn many. If it was a boy, I guess the name Shane would have been out of the question. Imagine the raised eyebrows if Lori had lived and named the kid, say Jim, Merle, or Dale. I miss Dale.
The eclipse was cool. I hope everyone watched it.
At the same time, I hate the overuse of CGI, and last week was ridiculous. Maybe some of you know better than I, but I declare major shenanigans at Michonne cutting a zombie essentially in half with a Katana. I'm digging David Morrissey as The Governor, thus far. But that's not what occasions me to post about The Walking Dead.
Okay, two weeks ago that lone prisoner created Merle-style havoc by letting walkers in everywhere. T-Dog got bit, and sacrificed himself to let Carol get away. He died a hero. I'm into that--though I didn't care for the obvious Black Guy Swap. The new black guy won his way into Rick's graces within 5 show-minutes of T-Dog dying. Really, FX? But I digress...Carol does get away, and shuts herself in a small room. That's the last we see of her.
The guys find her head scarf, and it's bloody. But c'mon, they're all bloody by that time. At the end of that ep, after Lori dies, Glenn (or someone) says that T-Dog and Carol are gone. It seems like looking for her, or at least not giving up right away, would be in order. As a viewer, I totally thought she was alive and everyone would be so happy when they found her.
Last week, Glenn was digging graves and talking about how 1/3 of the group was dead. I counted characters and realized that he still thought Carol was dead. Wow, I thought. I can't believe she didn't come out by now--that no one found her. Later, Daryl came and put the Sofia flower on the grave marked as Carol. Now, it's one thing to not look for her or not find her--but surely they didn't create an empty grave. Did I miss it? Is she actually dead? The Walking Dead Wiki doesn't say.
I'm digging reversals in who has humanity and who doesn't. Maggie's sense of "let's go out and risk our asses to get so-and-so their something" has increased greatly. Glenn has become protective and fierce to the point of losing compassion for those outside the group. I'm starting to feel really bad for those prisoners (I predict that the white one will die and the other will live to meet The Governor). And Rick? Well, Rick has lost everything about himself. Carl is now the man of the house--on the off chance that Carl is actually IN the goddamn house.
I pretty much figured a girl baby would be named Sofia. I liked the point that they couldn't possibly honor everyone they lost, there were just too damn many. If it was a boy, I guess the name Shane would have been out of the question. Imagine the raised eyebrows if Lori had lived and named the kid, say Jim, Merle, or Dale. I miss Dale.
The eclipse was cool. I hope everyone watched it.
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(Anonymous) 2012-11-13 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)I like the major as well. But I feel like the new town is just another farmhouse. Right down to them housig zombies.
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(Anonymous) 2012-11-13 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
Lori is dead though. Carl shot her.
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(Anonymous) 2012-11-13 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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