“The Walking Dead” hit last night and finally started paying off the last few episodes. Unfortunately, none of it centered around Rick.
Look, I hate to say it, but Shane, jerk that he is, is pretty much 100% right at this point. Rick’s an idiot. I get why he refuses to give up, but dude, seriously, put down the Idiot Ball and step away. Sophia kinda deserves to die.
But this was pretty much Darryl’s episode, and it was great. One of my big problems with this show is how schizophrenic the characterization is, and how it wasted Michael Rooker: let’s just say I think they solved both problems in one shot with one episode.
What’d you think? Let’s keep spoilers to a minimum, if we can.
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I think it’s getting tiring how the only way they seem to think they can create suspense/drama is by having someone become horribly injured through shitty luck. This season there was T-Dawg, then Carl, now Darryl. Who knows how many more non-zombie-related bad luck injuries they’ll cook up this season alone.
There’s a scene in a Woody Allen movie where a miserable man in a train carriage filled with other miserable people looks out of the window and sees an adjacent train carriage full of colourful, beautiful people having a great time. I am sick of being stuck with these annoying, stupid characters, Daryl aside. There must be some other characters in this world we can watch. Were the characters in the comics this bad?
@Charlie Well, they were less stupid. But by this point things were a lot uglier than the show can get, honestly.
I think that the writers for the show could still come up with more interesting conflicts/dangers than they have without resorting to the extreme grimness of the comic. Sophia being lost this long has more or less reached a point of absurdity close to Meadow’s extended car parking in the Soprano’s season finale. Also, I see what they’re trying to do with Rick and Shane’s opposing perspectives but it’s just so damn ham handed it’s almost painful to watch. “We have to do whatever it takes to stay alive, even if it means totes shooting the fat crazy dude from ‘Identity’ in the leg and letting zombies eat him.” “No way bro, the safety of the group is worth one non-contributing member because humanity.” Zzzz. The characters don’t need to be that black and white, imo. All that said, last night’s episode was maybe the high water mark for the season so far.
Please, oh dear God, please, find this stupid child by the end of the next episode. I personally hope she’s a zombie and that Daryl chops her up into little pieces. I need that kind of punishment for making me sit through the bore that is this storyline.
I was really really hoping that the rustling in the bushes was going to be zombie Sophia and he was going to put an arrow through her head. I have yet to hear someone say “Gee I sure hope they keep looking for Sophia this week, it’s awesome to watch people dick around on a farm for four episodes”. I don’t think I’m going to hear that anytime soon, it’s time to move on.
I wanna see more nekkid Maggie.