The Walking Dead is Back
Our Holiday Hiatus is over and the Walking Dead is back!
Tonight’s episode was a decent example of what the Walking Dead does really well, that slow burn type stuff, where we take a quick break to let the characters simmer on all that’s been going on. Rick looks like a Walker all by himself and spends most of the episode unconscious.
Carl was the majority of the episode and spent most of his time trying to prove he didn’t need his dad. The kid is one of those characters the fans seem to hate, yet he never really got on my nerves. Lori and Andrea, possibly two of the most hated characters in television during their run, had a tendency to do stuff that was out of character. This wasn’t the actresses fault by any means, it was bad writing and I’ve already written about that before. Actually…I wrote about it twice, and apparently it did bother me. Sorry, that’s kinda embarrassing, enough so that I had to point it out. Anyway, at this point in the show I understand where Carl is coming from. We’ve seen Rick make bad decisions, we’ve seen his entire family be killed, his whole world turned upside down multiple times. The part where he’s screaming at Rick, telling him everything he’s done wrong was great. When you compare it to the moment when he can’t shoot his dad (thinking he’s a walker) and tells him he’s scared once he figures out he’s still alive, it was very touching.
Michonne continues to be the perfect level of crazy. She doesn’t get very many emotional moments, but when she does, they’re great. Seeing her dream about her past, watching as it is hinted to what happened to her family while she continues to go about her day, was incredible. I think we’ll continue to see great things from her this season.
My prediction for these episodes is we’ll see everyone gather together again and push forward to the next step. This is where my knowledge of the comics starts to get fuzzy so I have very few predictions. Except for one of those girls totally being a serial killer, ala a fill in for Ben.
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