The Walking Dead was back tonight with the second part of it second season, and I might as well get to the most stunning part:
Lori is driving into town to bring back Rick, Glenn, and Herschel. She's not sure of the way, looks at her map - no GPS in walking dead world - and looks back up just in time to hit a walker, swerve, and crash nastily on the side of the road. I haven't seen the coming attractions, so I have no idea what kind of shape she's in, but-
Given this is television and not a movie, it's highly unlikely she's dead. But her baby ... I like the hope the baby brings to this world, even with all the Rick-Shane complications, so I hope there isn't a game changer here. We'll find out for sure, I assume, next week.
Meanwhile, Rick's not doing too well convincing Herschel to come back to the farm, until a pair of humans walk in, by way of Philadelphia, which they say they've traveled south from, and with nothing but bad news. No hope in Ft. Benning, no real hope anywhere, just disparate groups of desperate humans. And - they want in on the farm. Rick and Herschel's opposition to this brings at least has the good effect of bringing the two together.
But Rick soon sees that the two from Philadelphia are not going to take no for an answer. So, in a good gun play scene that could have been from Gunsmoke or Hell on Wheels, Rick wheels around and shoots them both, before they presumably would have done the same to him. Or maybe not, and it's never a good thing to kill humans, especially in this harrowing world.
Powerful start to the second season's second half, and I just wish I could see the rest of it now - or least next week, to find out about Lori.
And see also The Walking Dead 1.1-3: Gone with the Wind, Zombie Style ... The Walking Dead Ends First Season
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Lori is driving into town to bring back Rick, Glenn, and Herschel. She's not sure of the way, looks at her map - no GPS in walking dead world - and looks back up just in time to hit a walker, swerve, and crash nastily on the side of the road. I haven't seen the coming attractions, so I have no idea what kind of shape she's in, but-
Given this is television and not a movie, it's highly unlikely she's dead. But her baby ... I like the hope the baby brings to this world, even with all the Rick-Shane complications, so I hope there isn't a game changer here. We'll find out for sure, I assume, next week.
Meanwhile, Rick's not doing too well convincing Herschel to come back to the farm, until a pair of humans walk in, by way of Philadelphia, which they say they've traveled south from, and with nothing but bad news. No hope in Ft. Benning, no real hope anywhere, just disparate groups of desperate humans. And - they want in on the farm. Rick and Herschel's opposition to this brings at least has the good effect of bringing the two together.
But Rick soon sees that the two from Philadelphia are not going to take no for an answer. So, in a good gun play scene that could have been from Gunsmoke or Hell on Wheels, Rick wheels around and shoots them both, before they presumably would have done the same to him. Or maybe not, and it's never a good thing to kill humans, especially in this harrowing world.
Powerful start to the second season's second half, and I just wish I could see the rest of it now - or least next week, to find out about Lori.
... The Walking Dead 2.3: Shane and Otis ... The Walking Dead 2.4: What Happened at the Pharmacy ... The Walking Dead 2.6: Secrets Told ... The Walking Dead 2.7: Rick's Way vs. Shane's Way
And see also The Walking Dead 1.1-3: Gone with the Wind, Zombie Style ... The Walking Dead Ends First Season
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"Sierra Waters is sexy as hell" - curled up with a good book
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2 comments:
Hey Paul -
I would agree it was a promising start. I felt there where episodes earlier in season two where the pace was too slow and wondered what that meant for second half of the season.
While I didn't predict car accident, Lori's flight into town seemed like a bad idea from the start. Seems by now all in the group would have adopted the "Buddy System" for any movements outside of the group.
Finally while the Philadelphia survivors where pretty clearly bad news from the start I wonder if it reinforces the feeling that the Walkers aren't as dangerous at times as the other humans. And this story is really about how people survive and manage under desperate conditions. And under these dire conditions people might become no better than the inhuman monsters threatening them.
Good points all, especially about the deeper meaning of the Phila travelers ...
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