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Monday, May 18, 2015
Blood, Boobs, & Carnage Blogfest
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Come on, you knew it was coming. It's only my favorite show that I do extremely long, detailed recaps and analysis of when it's on...
The Walking Dead !!!
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The great thing about TWD is that it has everything. Great story lines, great character arcs, great plot twists, plus the excellent effects (gore, etc.) tragedy, and the human element that gets you all addicted and you just can't stop watching.
There are no boobs in the walking dead. Very little skin at all, in fact. But there's definitely blood and carnage. Most kills in this show are zombie in nature, but there's some gore involving the living, too.
I've added some gifs below to illustrate. Notice how Daryl is in most of them. That's because he's the show's most physical character and generally gets the best kills. Of course there are a few other characters with gnarly kills as well.
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| Daryl hatchback walker kill. - Season 3 Source |
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| Daryl beheading a walker. - Season 1 Source |
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| Daryl killing Merle (after he became a walker). - Season 3 Source |
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| Rick ripping out Joe(bad guy)'s throat with his teeth. - Season 4 Source |
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| Noah's death (voted worst/gnarliest death of season 5). Source |
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| Daryl killing 3 walkers at once with a chain (a.k.a. awesome!) - Season 5 Source |
What's your favorite involving blood, boobs, and/or carnage?
Monday, March 30, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap Episode 16: Conquer
Episode 16: Conquer
These recaps are just a discussion tool and a chance for me to geek out about my favorite show and do some over-analyzing. Maybe throw out a few theories. Remember, spoilers run rampant below. Don't read if you haven't watched!
This episode started out with Morgan. (Yea! I totally freaked out when I saw him. I was like, "Finally!" And he did NOT disappoint.) We see him wake up in the back of a car, then start a fire to make himself some breakfast. A stranger approaches who has a W carved into his forehead and the two begin to talk. It becomes obvious that this dude is one of the "wolves" Daryl and Aaron are tracking. When the guy turns hostile, and another of his buddies tries to jump Morgan from behind, Morgan graves a quarter staff and goes all Jedi Knight on these guys. So great! I was practically jumping up and down.
Back in Alexandria, Rick wakes up after the fight with a start. Michonne is watching over him from a nearby chair. After a moment, he chuckles and when she asks why, he says he thought he was back in the train car at Terminus. There was a mirror theory which I'll talk about below. It didn't pan out the way I thought it would, but I guess you could argue that this episode mirrored episode one of the season in a way because Rick sort of woke up in captivity and had to make plans for what to do with his group. Michonne tells Rick that Pete has also been separated into another house and Deanna is holding a meeting with everyone in Alexandria that evening to try and decide what to do about Rick.
This episode started out with Morgan. (Yea! I totally freaked out when I saw him. I was like, "Finally!" And he did NOT disappoint.) We see him wake up in the back of a car, then start a fire to make himself some breakfast. A stranger approaches who has a W carved into his forehead and the two begin to talk. It becomes obvious that this dude is one of the "wolves" Daryl and Aaron are tracking. When the guy turns hostile, and another of his buddies tries to jump Morgan from behind, Morgan graves a quarter staff and goes all Jedi Knight on these guys. So great! I was practically jumping up and down.
Back in Alexandria, Rick wakes up after the fight with a start. Michonne is watching over him from a nearby chair. After a moment, he chuckles and when she asks why, he says he thought he was back in the train car at Terminus. There was a mirror theory which I'll talk about below. It didn't pan out the way I thought it would, but I guess you could argue that this episode mirrored episode one of the season in a way because Rick sort of woke up in captivity and had to make plans for what to do with his group. Michonne tells Rick that Pete has also been separated into another house and Deanna is holding a meeting with everyone in Alexandria that evening to try and decide what to do about Rick.
Monday, March 23, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.15: Try
Episode 15: Try
These recaps are just a discussion tool and a chance for me to geek out about my favorite show and do some over-analyzing. Maybe throw out a few theories. Remember, spoilers run rampant below. Don't read if you haven't watched!
This episode begins with Deanna, her husband Reg, and their son, Spenser sitting together in the dark. She puts on a CD that has crazy music on it, quite contrary to the mood. We can only assume that this is music Aiden would have liked and that they're grieving for their son/brother together. Meanwhile, Carol bakes a casserole and Sam, who last week hinted that there was abuse going on at his house, appears at the window. Sasha is shooting walkers from her perch in the watch tower, but it's obvious she's still not doing well. Kind of freaking out and still dealing with PTSD. Carol leaves her casserole and a condolence note on Deanna's front step, but Deanna ignores the food and burns the note.
Meanwhile, outside the walls, Daryl kills a walker. He and Aaron see a light up ahead--a small campfire or something like it--and head toward it. They're looking for others to bring into Alexandria and it looks like they're finally on the trail of something.
Next we see a recorded tape of Nicholas telling Deanna what happened on the run with Glenn, Noah, Eugene, and Tara. He lies, of course, blaming Glenn and saying that he would never have left anyone. Douchebag. Concurrently, we see Glenn explaining what happened to Rick. Rick says that the Alexandrians don't understand what it is to live in this world, especially on the outside. He says that their rules don't apply to Team Family and that Team Family can't afford to answer to any of the them.
This episode begins with Deanna, her husband Reg, and their son, Spenser sitting together in the dark. She puts on a CD that has crazy music on it, quite contrary to the mood. We can only assume that this is music Aiden would have liked and that they're grieving for their son/brother together. Meanwhile, Carol bakes a casserole and Sam, who last week hinted that there was abuse going on at his house, appears at the window. Sasha is shooting walkers from her perch in the watch tower, but it's obvious she's still not doing well. Kind of freaking out and still dealing with PTSD. Carol leaves her casserole and a condolence note on Deanna's front step, but Deanna ignores the food and burns the note.
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Meanwhile, outside the walls, Daryl kills a walker. He and Aaron see a light up ahead--a small campfire or something like it--and head toward it. They're looking for others to bring into Alexandria and it looks like they're finally on the trail of something.
Next we see a recorded tape of Nicholas telling Deanna what happened on the run with Glenn, Noah, Eugene, and Tara. He lies, of course, blaming Glenn and saying that he would never have left anyone. Douchebag. Concurrently, we see Glenn explaining what happened to Rick. Rick says that the Alexandrians don't understand what it is to live in this world, especially on the outside. He says that their rules don't apply to Team Family and that Team Family can't afford to answer to any of the them.
Monday, March 16, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap: Episode 5.14: Spend
Episode 14: Spend
These recaps are just a discussion tool and a chance for me to geek out about my favorite show and do some over-analyzing. Maybe throw out a few theories. Remember, spoilers run rampant below. Don't read if you haven't watched!
I totally loved all the developments in this episode!
As the episode starts, Gabriel (who's been noticeably absent the past two episodes) walks into what looks like a garage that has been set up like a church: pulpit, chairs, desk, bible, etc. On the table is a bowl of fresh strawberries and a welcome note from someone named Rosemary. Gabriel opens the bible, but after a moment, begins tearing out pages, eventually ripping the bible to shreds. This was pretty disturbing. Gabriel is obviously losing it on some level. How would you feel if you walked in on your priest/pastor/bishop/etc desecrating the bible? Also, let's talk about the strawberries. Apparently they can represent righteousness and spiritual merit in Christian art, but the first thing I thought of was that the last time we saw them in TWD was back at Grady Memorial Hospital, when Beth used them as bribes to get wards of the hospital to help her steal medicine. Not sure if they're being used the same way here, but my first thought was that they were a bribe on the Alexandrians' part to make Father Gabriel like them or something. Thoughts?
Everyone seems to be preparing to do something. Daryl and (I assume) Aaron head out to recruit. Daryl has already rebuilt his motorcycle (that was fast! :D) and this is all we see of him in this episode.
Noah has apparently set up an early morning meeting with Reg, Deanna's husband, who is the architect that built Alexandria's wall. Noah asks Reg to teach him architecture so he can help maintain the walls, build houses and new buildings, etc. He wants to be around protecting Alexandria for the long haul. Reg gives him a notebook, saying there will be much to remember, and agrees to teach Noah. But seriously, why aren't they doing this anyway? The world ended, and there are very few people in a community that everyone knows is vulnerable in a lot of ways, and you don't even think to pass on your knowledge. With so few people living within the walls right now, they should make sure everyone knows how to do everything, just in case they lose anyone. But it's like that hasn't even occurred to them. *slaps forehead with palm* I totally understand Rick's sentiment that these are the luckiest people on the planet!
Abraham wakes up beside Rosita, but when he washes his face and looks at himself in the mirror, he appears disturbed by something. We don't know what.
Meanwhile, Glenn, Tara, Noah, Nicholas, Aiden, and Eugene are preparing to go on a run. Normally Eugene wouldn't go, but they want to take him because he's the only one who knows the "right stuff" to get. He's not keen on going, but they insist so they don't get the wrong stuff and waste their time. Apparently Eugene needs equipment to get some kind of solar panel up and running. Everyone seems to be getting along, and they're a little too happy. While watching it, I told my family this definitely didn't bode well. Everyone's in such a good mood, things are bound to go terribly wrong. Glen says goodbye to Maggie and the van drives off, blasting music on the speakers. Yet more evidence of how little the Alexandrians understand the outside world. Granted, if they drive fast enough any walkers the music attracts will be too slow to be a threat, but still. The music is not something Team Family would ever do.
Rick, doing rounds of Alexandria, finds Jessie in her garage, cleaning up a mess. The same statue thing Rick knocked over two episodes ago, an owl Jessie is making with her boys, is in pieces on the ground. She says she doesn't know who did it, but it must have been done maliciously. Rick says he'll investigate (mostly because he's bored). She says he doesn't have to, but he gives her the Broken Window Theory: if you keep the windows in tact, you keep society in tact. I wondered if Rick really did it as an excuse to come see Jessie again. My brother wondered the opposite: if she did it to reel Rick in. After that kiss at the party, she's obviously kind of intrigued by him.
At the warehouse, Glen's group is getting ready to enter. Aiden and Nicholas don't have much of an escape plan for if things go wrong. (Really, guys? And you wonder why you've lost so many people?) Glen tells them they should know all the exits before going in. (Dur!) They all walk the perimeter.
Eugene goes with Tara, insisting that he'll be useless if the situation turns to combat with walkers. She tells him he has to pull his weight. He tells her he's pulled his weight by getting them to D.C. (and Alexandria) and they argue about it. He re-asserts that he is a coward. Glen and Noah talk while they walk separately. They've obviously bonded somewhat and are friends. They notice a huge pack of walkers out in front of the warehouse. A fence protects them from the pack, but going out the front won't be an option if things go bad.
They finally enter the warehouse, pounding on the door to draw out any walkers inside, as is standard practice, but none come. They enter stealthily, weapons drawn, and eventually they hear walker noises. Glen says the walkers must be stuck behind something. Eventually they find a chain-link fence that acts as a room divider with a gate (a common setup in warehouses like this) and there are walkers on the other side of it. Luckily, the area Glen and co are in is walker free and relatively safe from the ones on the other side of the fence.
They case the warehouse, looking for the supplies they've come for. Eventually Eugene finds the right box, labeled Micro Inverters. Of course nothing can ever be that simple. A single walker, covered in body armor shows up. Aiden shoots it in the leg, and Glen realizes there are explosives (a grenade, I think) on the walker. He shouts at Aiden to stop shooting, but it's too late, and the explosives blow.
When the group comes to, Aiden has been knocked backward and impaled on metal stakes. Nicholas pronounces him dead. Tara has also been hurt and is bleeding from the head. And, (Of course!) the cage holding the other walkers back has been blown wide open. Eugene fights with a walker, though Glen and Noah save him. They take the unconscious Tara to an office of the warehouse that has a door.
Back at Alexandria, Carol comes downstairs to investigate a strange noise. Sam, the same boy that saw her steal the guns and she creepily threatened, is hiding in the closet. He says there's no power at his house and his owl statue is broken. He wants more cookies. Carol angrily says she doesn't care for his problems and pushes him out the front door. He says maybe if she shows him how to make the cookies, he can do it himself. She says he'll have to steal the chocolate, including extra for her, and if he tells anyone or gets caught, he won't like what happens. Then she slams the door in his face.
Carol is being extra nasty to this kid, and I think it's two different things. Number one is just her own suspicion. It did occur to that this kid could be a spy. People have speculated that, despite Carol's brilliant act of sweet grandma lady, people at Alexandria may not buy it. They may know better but are just letting her continue with the ruse. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but it occurs to me that most kids would be terrified of Carol after what she said to him before, and this kid isn't. He showed up the next day hiding in her closet. What if his parents or Deanna have sent him to befriend Carol and find out what she's up to? Again, not sure if I even think that's what's happening, especially given what Sam tells her later in the episode, but it crossed my mind.
The other thing is that I don't think Carol wants to get close to another kid. The last time she cooked with children (Lizzie and Meeka in that house with Tyrese and Judith) it led to disaster. In fact, other than Carol, only Judith of that group is still alive. I think Carol wants to firmly discourage this kid from getting attached to her because she wouldn't be able to stand getting close to another kids and possibly having the worst happen again.
But I gotta say, I can already see this happening to her again. I think we're already seeing the beginning part of this pattern with Carol again. Rick and Jessie may hook up, but I don't get the sense it will be a long term relationship. In fact, I think Jessie will die pretty quick. If not this season then early next season. And by the end of the episode, not only is Carol really caring about what happens to Sam, but she and Rick are openly talking about killing Pete. (More on that below.) So, they're very likely to end up with orphans on their hands yet again. Just sayin'. Poor Carol and the children she ends up loving!
At the warehouse, Glen and co have gotten Tara into the office, but a desperate voice makes them realize Aiden is actually still alive. (Apparently Nicholas--and the Alexandrians at large--can't even be trusted to tell if someone is dead or not.) They briefly debate whether to help Aiden. He's hurt badly enough that his survival is by no means assured, and Tara desperately needs a doctor. Eugene tells them to go save Aiden. Tara would want them to. Once they have Aiden they can focus on getting her back to Alexandria.
Meanwhile, Abraham has joined the construction crew. Outside the walls, they gather materials from the nearby shopping mall that Deanna mentioned to Rick when he first arrived. It was being built before the apocalypse and now the Alexandrians obviously pillage from the site to expand the wall. While there, a pack of walkers show up. A woman, Francine, who was standing watch is knocked from her perch in the fight and right into the midst of the walkers. The man in charge of the construction crew (it's Tobin, who we saw offer to teach Carol about guns) tells everyone to fall back. Abraham says what about Francine, but Tobin says she's lost. Abraham runs into the midst of the walkers by himself to save her. He gets her into the cab of a nearby backhoe and turns to fight the walkers. Long story short: he and Francine prevail, but not due to any help from her fellow Alexandrians. Go Abraham! Loving him more and more.
Back inside the walls, Pete, Jessie's husband, visits Rick and offers him a beer. An awkward conversation ensues in which Pete really wants Rick to drink and says something along the lines of "I saw you at Deanna's party." He is presumably talking about Rick's drinking, but perhaps not. He asks quite insensitively about Rick losing his wife. He says the Alexandrians have lost things too, and now there are other things they're fighting to hold on to. There's a tension in this conversation that makes it unclear what Pete is actually talking about. Rick drinking, or Rick ogling Jessie? What things are they fighting to hold on to? Is he talking about his wife and marriage? Or perhaps something more sinister we have no idea of yet? Then he tells Rick to bring Carl and Judith in for a check up. He steps up a little too close to Rick and says "Let's be friends." It's all pretty creepy and very awkward. Also, I'm going to play the alcoholic card one more time. We've never seen Pete without a drink in his hand, and it's pretty clear that Alexandria's only doctor is pretty wasted mid morning. Very professional, dude. Pete leaves Rick staring after him and twisting his wedding ring.
Back in the warehouse, Eugene tells the unconscious Tara that he takes no responsibility for her condition. That he told her up front what he was (a coward). Then, despite that, he throws her over his shoulder and takes her out of the office, shooting walkers along the way. Can't help but think Abraham would be proud.
Glen and Nicholas make it to Aiden, who is conscious. They tell him to try and stay quiet while they take him off the stakes. Nicholas says they can't help him, to which Aiden begs his friend not to leave him. Every time they try to lift Aiden off the stakes, he screams (understandable) bringing more walkers. Nicholas says to Aiden, "You left them. We both did. That's who we are." Then he runs away. So this twice in the same episode that we've seen the people of Alexandria leave their comrades behind. How have they survived this long with no loyalty to one another? Glen won't leave Aiden, and Noah is keeping the walkers at bay, but they're coming in waves. Aiden tells Glen it was the Alexandrians' fault the others on the supply run crew before didn't make it. Noah pulls Glen away as Aiden is swarmed by walkers, who commence chowing down on him. Yeah, seriously gross death. The dude was a tool bag, but I still felt sorry for him with this kind of pain.
After Francine and Abraham get rid of the walkers at the construction site, the rest of the crew want to call it a day after the trauma that's transpired, but Abraham won't let them. He takes charge, assigning lookouts and saying they have hours of daylight left. They have a wall to build and they aren't stopping early. This is a good job for Abraham, I think. You can already see his I-have-a-very-important-mission mentality coming out, which means he'll be relentless and unstoppable until the job is done.
Tobin goes to Deanna (Maggie and Reg are also present) and says that Abraham should be running the construction crew. He says Abraham saved Francine's life and can lead better than Tobin ever could. Deanna is obviously reluctant, but agrees to make it official. Tobin says she won't regret it. Not sure what to think about this. He seems sincere, which just means that the Alexandrians do have some inkling of how weak they are and that they need stronger people to be in charge. But if that's true, why is Deanna so worried? Wouldn't she be happy that Tobin is recommending a leader he trusts and believes in? Maybe it's just too much suspicion on my part, but I couldn't help but wonder if this whole scenario was worked out by Deanna and Tobin in advance to put Abraham in charge, the same as she did with Rick and Michonne. Of course, that would beg the question, why? To what end? Don't know, but it seemed strange to me. Tobin and Reg leave, and Deanna expresses doubts about putting more of Rick's people in charge. Maggie assures her it's the right thing to do. She says her people know what they're doing, which is why Deanna brought them into Alexandria in the first place.
Back at the warehouse, Glen, Noah, and Nicholas try to find a way out. They're at the front entrance (which is covered in walkers). They end up one hundred and eighty degrees apart on opposite sides of a revolving door. Nicholas is in one compartment with Noah and Glen across from him and walkers on both sides. If the door swings either way, one of the two compartments will be exposed to their deaths. Good job, guys. Good job.
Sam shows up at Carol's place again with two bars of stolen chocolate. She helps him make the cookies but warns it's the last time she will, still being nasty to him. He asks if she was always a good cook, but she says they aren't talking. She doesn't want to be friends. He keeps asking her questions, saying they don't have to be friends, but they can still talk. She says that before the apocalypse, she was good at cooking, and it helped her when she was sad, but not that she necessarily liked it. Sam responds that when he's sad, he breaks stuff. She asks what kind of stuff and whether it was him that broke the owl statue. He nods but when she asks why and why he keeps coming to her, he deflects, asking why she stole the guns. Then he asks if he can have a gun. When she asks why, he says it's not for him, but won't tell her who it's for, instead running from the kitchen. Suddenly Carol's much more interested in him. His asking questions made me again wonder if he was spying. Especially when he deflected her question with one of his own. Most kids don't have that kind of foresight when conversing with an adult. Especially one who recently threaten to tie him to a tree and leave him as walker chow. If he's not a spy, my next thought was that this kid is dang smart. (I'm still a bit suspicious of his motives, but I also kind of like him.) But then, maybe I'm over thinking it. He wants a gun, and Carol obviously suspects abuse. This is why she now is so concerned about Sam's welfare, where only minutes before she was pushing him away as hard as she could.
At the warehouse, Glen and Nicholas shout at one another through the glass. Nicholas doesn't have a gun, but Glen and Noah's are out of ammo. Suddenly Eugene shows up in the van outside the revolving door, playing music and honking the horn, leading the outside walkers away. The inside ones are, of course, still a problem. Glen tells Nicholas to hold the door steady so they can break the glass and all escape outward. That way no one dies. The glass is hard to break, though, and Nicholas panics, pushing the door out so he can escape himself. This opens Glen and Noah's side to walkers. They grab Noah's leg and drag him outward. Noah grabs Glen's arm saying, "Don't let go," but Glen can't hold on. He's forced to watch Noah be torn apart from inches away on the other side of the glass. On The Talking Dead, Tyler James Williams said he thought Noah's "don't let go" was less about him wanting Glen to physically hold on to him, and more about him telling Glen not to lose his ideals or humanity. Of course, in the adrenaline of the moment, Glen probably isn't thinking in this vein at all. He only sees that Noah pleaded, "don't let go" and then Glen did, though through no fault of his own. Poor Glen. This was seriously traumatic for him.
Noah's death might have been the most gruesome they've ever had on the show. Of course there was the normal blood spurting, etc., but he was still screaming as the walkers kind of ripped his jaw apart. I generally don't look away from the gore on this show, but I did a little at this part. It just kept going and was super-gross.
Now, I've said before that I wasn't sure how I felt about Noah's character. This is the episode where I would probably have started to like him more. He was making plans for the long term protection of Alexandria, which I respect. He was chummy with Glen, and I tend to like people when my favorite characters do, and not like them when those characters don't. So, I probably would have started to feel really favorable toward Noah after this episode. Annnnddd...he's gone. Aw man!
Scumba--uh, I mean Nicholas runs to Eugene's van, saying that they're leaving. Eugene turns off the van and gets out, asking where the others are. They scuffle and Nicholas knocks Eugene down. He jumps in the van to leave, but then Glen shows up. He yanks Nicholas from the van and knocks him out. When Eugene asks where Noah is, Glen just cries. On the way back, Glen drives while Eugene points his gun at the unconscious Nicholas and looks worriedly at the still-unconscious Tara. The notebook Noah got from Reg lies on the seat with a single line written in it: This is the beginning. Tragic irony at its best.
At Alexandria, Carol knocks on Jessie and Pete's door, asking if Sam is okay. Pete answers the door, acting weird. He says, "Why wouldn't [Sam] be (okay)?" He won't let her talk to Sam or Jessie, and slams the door in her face. Carol goes to see Rick, telling him she believes Pete is abusing Jessie, and perhaps Sam. He asks if Sam told her and she replies that Sam didn't have to. She says he's probably going to have to kill Pete. This worries me. I feel like it's a David and Bathsheba situation. Rick likes Jessie and may be gleefully looking for a way to get rid of her husband. I don't know if Carol knows how Rick feels about Jessie. No one in the group seems to have taken notice of that dynamic, but the way Carol says, "Pete is hitting Jessie", with Sam as more of an afterthought made me think maybe she knows how Rick feels.
Also, I'm not convinced abuse is what is happening here. Maybe, but it's the obvious conclusion. Specifically because Carol thinks that's what's going on, I think it's not. It's something else that just comes across that way. Besides, Jessie doesn't strike me as the victim type. She's not quiet and introverted as Carol was in season 1. Her relationship with her husband is definitely rocky in some way, but she's outgoing and confident, not at all the way most abuse domestic violence victims are. Also, when Carol went to their house, Pete wouldn't let her in saying it "wasn't a good time." It almost seemed to me that Sam had run home to talk to his parents and maybe they were in there discussing something as a family. But if abuse were the problem, Sam wouldn't have run home to tell his dad what he'd told Carol. I don't know. I just think there's more to this than what Carol and now Rick think. Of course that begs the question, what is this kid so scared of that he would want a gun. What's he afraid of that's worse than Carol? And what do his parents know about it?
Finally, Father Gabriel goes to see Deanna. He says Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. He says Alexandria is a paradise and he (Gabriel) is happy to be there, but that she shouldn't have let Rick's group in. (What the freak, Gabriel!?!) He says they aren't good people and that they've done unspeakable things. Deanna says that to make it as long as they have, she's sure they had to do things to survive, but Gabriel says she's wrong. They're dangerous and can't be trusted. He says the day will come when Rick's group will destroy Alexandria. When Deanna asks why he's only now coming to her, he says he wishes he would have come earlier, but that Rick's group (who he names the apostles of Satan) don't deserve this paradise. She says she'll think on his words. This was seriously a messed up thing to do. Not only has Team Family saved Gabriels' life, kept him alive, and gotten him to Alexandria, but who was it who left his entire flock to die while he cowered indoors? Even upon learning that Team Family didn't kick him out, call him a minion of Satan or judge him too harshly. Okay, maybe they judged him a coward and weak, but they still took care of him and weren't cruel to him about it. I don't know what Gabriel's motivations for this are, whta he hopes to accomplish, but where before I just apathetic about his character, I'm now starting to truly hate him.
Meanwhile, Maggie eavesdrops from the stairs, hearing the entire exchange. (Rick's gonna be pissed!)
Then, randomly, we hear a voice from outside call for help. We don't see in this episode who it is, but I'm assuming it's Glen and Eugene returning. No way to be sure because we don't see it either way.
Okay, so.
Glen and co are on their way back (or maybe back already) and they're going to have to break the news to Deanna and Reg that their son is dead, and to the rest of the group that Noah is gone too. I'm envisioning drama on the horizon.
Also, in the trailer for next week we see Rick and Deanna glaring at one another over three fresh graves. I really hope this doesn't mean Tara dies too. I thought maybe it was just a graveyard with other graves in it, but they look pretty fresh. Of course neither Noah or Aiden's bodies were brought back, so I suppose it could mean anything. It just worried me a little bit.
And of course I'm worried that Rick and Carol are going to kill Pete, then find out there was no such thing as abuse. Whatever they think they know probably isn't real, unfortunately. Again, major drama to come, I think. Also, it looks like Daryl is out roaming and may find some people. (He sees what looks like a fire in the distance.) Maybe he'll run into Morgan or--dare I type it?--Beth?
Overall, I really liked this episode and all it's developments. I love it when they leave us anticipating drama! :D
How did everyone else like this episode?
I totally loved all the developments in this episode!
As the episode starts, Gabriel (who's been noticeably absent the past two episodes) walks into what looks like a garage that has been set up like a church: pulpit, chairs, desk, bible, etc. On the table is a bowl of fresh strawberries and a welcome note from someone named Rosemary. Gabriel opens the bible, but after a moment, begins tearing out pages, eventually ripping the bible to shreds. This was pretty disturbing. Gabriel is obviously losing it on some level. How would you feel if you walked in on your priest/pastor/bishop/etc desecrating the bible? Also, let's talk about the strawberries. Apparently they can represent righteousness and spiritual merit in Christian art, but the first thing I thought of was that the last time we saw them in TWD was back at Grady Memorial Hospital, when Beth used them as bribes to get wards of the hospital to help her steal medicine. Not sure if they're being used the same way here, but my first thought was that they were a bribe on the Alexandrians' part to make Father Gabriel like them or something. Thoughts?
Everyone seems to be preparing to do something. Daryl and (I assume) Aaron head out to recruit. Daryl has already rebuilt his motorcycle (that was fast! :D) and this is all we see of him in this episode.
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Abraham wakes up beside Rosita, but when he washes his face and looks at himself in the mirror, he appears disturbed by something. We don't know what.
Meanwhile, Glenn, Tara, Noah, Nicholas, Aiden, and Eugene are preparing to go on a run. Normally Eugene wouldn't go, but they want to take him because he's the only one who knows the "right stuff" to get. He's not keen on going, but they insist so they don't get the wrong stuff and waste their time. Apparently Eugene needs equipment to get some kind of solar panel up and running. Everyone seems to be getting along, and they're a little too happy. While watching it, I told my family this definitely didn't bode well. Everyone's in such a good mood, things are bound to go terribly wrong. Glen says goodbye to Maggie and the van drives off, blasting music on the speakers. Yet more evidence of how little the Alexandrians understand the outside world. Granted, if they drive fast enough any walkers the music attracts will be too slow to be a threat, but still. The music is not something Team Family would ever do.
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Eugene goes with Tara, insisting that he'll be useless if the situation turns to combat with walkers. She tells him he has to pull his weight. He tells her he's pulled his weight by getting them to D.C. (and Alexandria) and they argue about it. He re-asserts that he is a coward. Glen and Noah talk while they walk separately. They've obviously bonded somewhat and are friends. They notice a huge pack of walkers out in front of the warehouse. A fence protects them from the pack, but going out the front won't be an option if things go bad.
They finally enter the warehouse, pounding on the door to draw out any walkers inside, as is standard practice, but none come. They enter stealthily, weapons drawn, and eventually they hear walker noises. Glen says the walkers must be stuck behind something. Eventually they find a chain-link fence that acts as a room divider with a gate (a common setup in warehouses like this) and there are walkers on the other side of it. Luckily, the area Glen and co are in is walker free and relatively safe from the ones on the other side of the fence.
They case the warehouse, looking for the supplies they've come for. Eventually Eugene finds the right box, labeled Micro Inverters. Of course nothing can ever be that simple. A single walker, covered in body armor shows up. Aiden shoots it in the leg, and Glen realizes there are explosives (a grenade, I think) on the walker. He shouts at Aiden to stop shooting, but it's too late, and the explosives blow.
When the group comes to, Aiden has been knocked backward and impaled on metal stakes. Nicholas pronounces him dead. Tara has also been hurt and is bleeding from the head. And, (Of course!) the cage holding the other walkers back has been blown wide open. Eugene fights with a walker, though Glen and Noah save him. They take the unconscious Tara to an office of the warehouse that has a door.
Back at Alexandria, Carol comes downstairs to investigate a strange noise. Sam, the same boy that saw her steal the guns and she creepily threatened, is hiding in the closet. He says there's no power at his house and his owl statue is broken. He wants more cookies. Carol angrily says she doesn't care for his problems and pushes him out the front door. He says maybe if she shows him how to make the cookies, he can do it himself. She says he'll have to steal the chocolate, including extra for her, and if he tells anyone or gets caught, he won't like what happens. Then she slams the door in his face.
Carol is being extra nasty to this kid, and I think it's two different things. Number one is just her own suspicion. It did occur to that this kid could be a spy. People have speculated that, despite Carol's brilliant act of sweet grandma lady, people at Alexandria may not buy it. They may know better but are just letting her continue with the ruse. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but it occurs to me that most kids would be terrified of Carol after what she said to him before, and this kid isn't. He showed up the next day hiding in her closet. What if his parents or Deanna have sent him to befriend Carol and find out what she's up to? Again, not sure if I even think that's what's happening, especially given what Sam tells her later in the episode, but it crossed my mind.
The other thing is that I don't think Carol wants to get close to another kid. The last time she cooked with children (Lizzie and Meeka in that house with Tyrese and Judith) it led to disaster. In fact, other than Carol, only Judith of that group is still alive. I think Carol wants to firmly discourage this kid from getting attached to her because she wouldn't be able to stand getting close to another kids and possibly having the worst happen again.
But I gotta say, I can already see this happening to her again. I think we're already seeing the beginning part of this pattern with Carol again. Rick and Jessie may hook up, but I don't get the sense it will be a long term relationship. In fact, I think Jessie will die pretty quick. If not this season then early next season. And by the end of the episode, not only is Carol really caring about what happens to Sam, but she and Rick are openly talking about killing Pete. (More on that below.) So, they're very likely to end up with orphans on their hands yet again. Just sayin'. Poor Carol and the children she ends up loving!
At the warehouse, Glen and co have gotten Tara into the office, but a desperate voice makes them realize Aiden is actually still alive. (Apparently Nicholas--and the Alexandrians at large--can't even be trusted to tell if someone is dead or not.) They briefly debate whether to help Aiden. He's hurt badly enough that his survival is by no means assured, and Tara desperately needs a doctor. Eugene tells them to go save Aiden. Tara would want them to. Once they have Aiden they can focus on getting her back to Alexandria.
Meanwhile, Abraham has joined the construction crew. Outside the walls, they gather materials from the nearby shopping mall that Deanna mentioned to Rick when he first arrived. It was being built before the apocalypse and now the Alexandrians obviously pillage from the site to expand the wall. While there, a pack of walkers show up. A woman, Francine, who was standing watch is knocked from her perch in the fight and right into the midst of the walkers. The man in charge of the construction crew (it's Tobin, who we saw offer to teach Carol about guns) tells everyone to fall back. Abraham says what about Francine, but Tobin says she's lost. Abraham runs into the midst of the walkers by himself to save her. He gets her into the cab of a nearby backhoe and turns to fight the walkers. Long story short: he and Francine prevail, but not due to any help from her fellow Alexandrians. Go Abraham! Loving him more and more.
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Back in the warehouse, Eugene tells the unconscious Tara that he takes no responsibility for her condition. That he told her up front what he was (a coward). Then, despite that, he throws her over his shoulder and takes her out of the office, shooting walkers along the way. Can't help but think Abraham would be proud.
Glen and Nicholas make it to Aiden, who is conscious. They tell him to try and stay quiet while they take him off the stakes. Nicholas says they can't help him, to which Aiden begs his friend not to leave him. Every time they try to lift Aiden off the stakes, he screams (understandable) bringing more walkers. Nicholas says to Aiden, "You left them. We both did. That's who we are." Then he runs away. So this twice in the same episode that we've seen the people of Alexandria leave their comrades behind. How have they survived this long with no loyalty to one another? Glen won't leave Aiden, and Noah is keeping the walkers at bay, but they're coming in waves. Aiden tells Glen it was the Alexandrians' fault the others on the supply run crew before didn't make it. Noah pulls Glen away as Aiden is swarmed by walkers, who commence chowing down on him. Yeah, seriously gross death. The dude was a tool bag, but I still felt sorry for him with this kind of pain.
After Francine and Abraham get rid of the walkers at the construction site, the rest of the crew want to call it a day after the trauma that's transpired, but Abraham won't let them. He takes charge, assigning lookouts and saying they have hours of daylight left. They have a wall to build and they aren't stopping early. This is a good job for Abraham, I think. You can already see his I-have-a-very-important-mission mentality coming out, which means he'll be relentless and unstoppable until the job is done.
Tobin goes to Deanna (Maggie and Reg are also present) and says that Abraham should be running the construction crew. He says Abraham saved Francine's life and can lead better than Tobin ever could. Deanna is obviously reluctant, but agrees to make it official. Tobin says she won't regret it. Not sure what to think about this. He seems sincere, which just means that the Alexandrians do have some inkling of how weak they are and that they need stronger people to be in charge. But if that's true, why is Deanna so worried? Wouldn't she be happy that Tobin is recommending a leader he trusts and believes in? Maybe it's just too much suspicion on my part, but I couldn't help but wonder if this whole scenario was worked out by Deanna and Tobin in advance to put Abraham in charge, the same as she did with Rick and Michonne. Of course, that would beg the question, why? To what end? Don't know, but it seemed strange to me. Tobin and Reg leave, and Deanna expresses doubts about putting more of Rick's people in charge. Maggie assures her it's the right thing to do. She says her people know what they're doing, which is why Deanna brought them into Alexandria in the first place.
Back at the warehouse, Glen, Noah, and Nicholas try to find a way out. They're at the front entrance (which is covered in walkers). They end up one hundred and eighty degrees apart on opposite sides of a revolving door. Nicholas is in one compartment with Noah and Glen across from him and walkers on both sides. If the door swings either way, one of the two compartments will be exposed to their deaths. Good job, guys. Good job.
Sam shows up at Carol's place again with two bars of stolen chocolate. She helps him make the cookies but warns it's the last time she will, still being nasty to him. He asks if she was always a good cook, but she says they aren't talking. She doesn't want to be friends. He keeps asking her questions, saying they don't have to be friends, but they can still talk. She says that before the apocalypse, she was good at cooking, and it helped her when she was sad, but not that she necessarily liked it. Sam responds that when he's sad, he breaks stuff. She asks what kind of stuff and whether it was him that broke the owl statue. He nods but when she asks why and why he keeps coming to her, he deflects, asking why she stole the guns. Then he asks if he can have a gun. When she asks why, he says it's not for him, but won't tell her who it's for, instead running from the kitchen. Suddenly Carol's much more interested in him. His asking questions made me again wonder if he was spying. Especially when he deflected her question with one of his own. Most kids don't have that kind of foresight when conversing with an adult. Especially one who recently threaten to tie him to a tree and leave him as walker chow. If he's not a spy, my next thought was that this kid is dang smart. (I'm still a bit suspicious of his motives, but I also kind of like him.) But then, maybe I'm over thinking it. He wants a gun, and Carol obviously suspects abuse. This is why she now is so concerned about Sam's welfare, where only minutes before she was pushing him away as hard as she could.
At the warehouse, Glen and Nicholas shout at one another through the glass. Nicholas doesn't have a gun, but Glen and Noah's are out of ammo. Suddenly Eugene shows up in the van outside the revolving door, playing music and honking the horn, leading the outside walkers away. The inside ones are, of course, still a problem. Glen tells Nicholas to hold the door steady so they can break the glass and all escape outward. That way no one dies. The glass is hard to break, though, and Nicholas panics, pushing the door out so he can escape himself. This opens Glen and Noah's side to walkers. They grab Noah's leg and drag him outward. Noah grabs Glen's arm saying, "Don't let go," but Glen can't hold on. He's forced to watch Noah be torn apart from inches away on the other side of the glass. On The Talking Dead, Tyler James Williams said he thought Noah's "don't let go" was less about him wanting Glen to physically hold on to him, and more about him telling Glen not to lose his ideals or humanity. Of course, in the adrenaline of the moment, Glen probably isn't thinking in this vein at all. He only sees that Noah pleaded, "don't let go" and then Glen did, though through no fault of his own. Poor Glen. This was seriously traumatic for him.
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Scumba--uh, I mean Nicholas runs to Eugene's van, saying that they're leaving. Eugene turns off the van and gets out, asking where the others are. They scuffle and Nicholas knocks Eugene down. He jumps in the van to leave, but then Glen shows up. He yanks Nicholas from the van and knocks him out. When Eugene asks where Noah is, Glen just cries. On the way back, Glen drives while Eugene points his gun at the unconscious Nicholas and looks worriedly at the still-unconscious Tara. The notebook Noah got from Reg lies on the seat with a single line written in it: This is the beginning. Tragic irony at its best.
At Alexandria, Carol knocks on Jessie and Pete's door, asking if Sam is okay. Pete answers the door, acting weird. He says, "Why wouldn't [Sam] be (okay)?" He won't let her talk to Sam or Jessie, and slams the door in her face. Carol goes to see Rick, telling him she believes Pete is abusing Jessie, and perhaps Sam. He asks if Sam told her and she replies that Sam didn't have to. She says he's probably going to have to kill Pete. This worries me. I feel like it's a David and Bathsheba situation. Rick likes Jessie and may be gleefully looking for a way to get rid of her husband. I don't know if Carol knows how Rick feels about Jessie. No one in the group seems to have taken notice of that dynamic, but the way Carol says, "Pete is hitting Jessie", with Sam as more of an afterthought made me think maybe she knows how Rick feels.
Also, I'm not convinced abuse is what is happening here. Maybe, but it's the obvious conclusion. Specifically because Carol thinks that's what's going on, I think it's not. It's something else that just comes across that way. Besides, Jessie doesn't strike me as the victim type. She's not quiet and introverted as Carol was in season 1. Her relationship with her husband is definitely rocky in some way, but she's outgoing and confident, not at all the way most abuse domestic violence victims are. Also, when Carol went to their house, Pete wouldn't let her in saying it "wasn't a good time." It almost seemed to me that Sam had run home to talk to his parents and maybe they were in there discussing something as a family. But if abuse were the problem, Sam wouldn't have run home to tell his dad what he'd told Carol. I don't know. I just think there's more to this than what Carol and now Rick think. Of course that begs the question, what is this kid so scared of that he would want a gun. What's he afraid of that's worse than Carol? And what do his parents know about it?
Finally, Father Gabriel goes to see Deanna. He says Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. He says Alexandria is a paradise and he (Gabriel) is happy to be there, but that she shouldn't have let Rick's group in. (What the freak, Gabriel!?!) He says they aren't good people and that they've done unspeakable things. Deanna says that to make it as long as they have, she's sure they had to do things to survive, but Gabriel says she's wrong. They're dangerous and can't be trusted. He says the day will come when Rick's group will destroy Alexandria. When Deanna asks why he's only now coming to her, he says he wishes he would have come earlier, but that Rick's group (who he names the apostles of Satan) don't deserve this paradise. She says she'll think on his words. This was seriously a messed up thing to do. Not only has Team Family saved Gabriels' life, kept him alive, and gotten him to Alexandria, but who was it who left his entire flock to die while he cowered indoors? Even upon learning that Team Family didn't kick him out, call him a minion of Satan or judge him too harshly. Okay, maybe they judged him a coward and weak, but they still took care of him and weren't cruel to him about it. I don't know what Gabriel's motivations for this are, whta he hopes to accomplish, but where before I just apathetic about his character, I'm now starting to truly hate him.
Meanwhile, Maggie eavesdrops from the stairs, hearing the entire exchange. (Rick's gonna be pissed!)
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Okay, so.
Glen and co are on their way back (or maybe back already) and they're going to have to break the news to Deanna and Reg that their son is dead, and to the rest of the group that Noah is gone too. I'm envisioning drama on the horizon.
Also, in the trailer for next week we see Rick and Deanna glaring at one another over three fresh graves. I really hope this doesn't mean Tara dies too. I thought maybe it was just a graveyard with other graves in it, but they look pretty fresh. Of course neither Noah or Aiden's bodies were brought back, so I suppose it could mean anything. It just worried me a little bit.
And of course I'm worried that Rick and Carol are going to kill Pete, then find out there was no such thing as abuse. Whatever they think they know probably isn't real, unfortunately. Again, major drama to come, I think. Also, it looks like Daryl is out roaming and may find some people. (He sees what looks like a fire in the distance.) Maybe he'll run into Morgan or--dare I type it?--Beth?
Overall, I really liked this episode and all it's developments. I love it when they leave us anticipating drama! :D
How did everyone else like this episode?
Monday, March 9, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.13: Forget
Episode 13: Forget
These recaps are just a discussion tool and a chance for me to geek out about my favorite show and do some over-analyzing. Maybe throw out a few theories. Remember, spoilers run rampant below. Don't read if you haven't watched!
This post is going up late for a couple of reasons. (All moved into my house and made it through the weekend, but not unpacked yet.:D) Part of it was that I really didn't know how I felt about this episode. I had to think about it a while before I wrote the post.
This episode begins with Sasha. She's lying in bed, supposed to be sleeping, but instead looking at the pictures on the walls. They're all of happy people, and they obviously disturb her. In the morning she goes to see a woman named Olivia who keeps the community's inventory of guns and food. Sasha takes a gun and the photos and goes outside the walls. There, she uses the photos for target practice. And she freaks out a little bit. It's unclear at this point why. It's almost like she wants walkers to converge on her, but none do. She's obviously not quite right in the head yet.
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Also out in the woods, Rick, Daryl, and Carol meet at the little wood cabin where Rick originally hid a gun in the blender, which subsequently disappeared. They hatch a plan to secretly arm themselves without Deanna and the rest of the community knowing. Carol will get into the gun locker (Olivia's place again) and open the window latch. She doubts anyone will notice. Rick says the Alexandrians are ridiculously lucky (because with as little security as they have, they're still around).
A walker staggers up and Carol kills it. She shoots it a handful of times first. Apparently the cover story for the meeting was that they were taking Carol shooting, so she didn't want to come back with a full clip. After killing it, they notice a W carved into its forehead. (W for wolves, perhaps?)
Monday, March 2, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 12: Remember
Episode 12: Remember
These recaps are just a discussion tool and a chance for me to geek out about my favorite show and do some over-analyzing. Maybe throw out a few theories. Remember, spoilers run rampant below. Don't read if you haven't watched!
These recaps are just a discussion tool and a chance for me to geek out about my favorite show and do some over-analyzing. Maybe throw out a few theories. Remember, spoilers run rampant below. Don't read if you haven't watched!
The episode begins right where the last one left off, with the group at the gates of Alexandria, preparing to enter. As they do, Karl sees a strange girl in a nearby window, but she's there and gone, and he doesn't say anything about it. As the door slides open, Daryl hears something and turns and kills a possum. He picks it up, announcing they've brought dinner. This obviously unnerves Aaron and another guy who meets them at the gate named Nicholas, who both look vaguely panicked.
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The group enters, the door closing behind them, and are immediately asked to surrender their weapons, which they refuse to do. Rick says they aren't sure if they're staying, and Aaron tells Nicholas to let them keep their weapons for now, until they've spoken to Deanna, who is apparently their leader.
Next we see Rick looking around a very clean, pre-zombie-apocalypse-looking house. Deanna is a middle-aged woman with a very calm, no-drama presence. She asks Rick if she can film their talk. Seems a little creepy to me, but she tells him that she films everyone who comes in, in the interest of transparency. Rick agrees. Actually, I think he just doesn't care one way or the other. On film, he sticks out against the backdrop of the house as very grubby. Almost rougher in appearance than Daryl, like a caveman in a modern mansion.
Monday, February 23, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.11: The Distance
Episode 11: The Distance
We start right after Aaron showed up in the last episode. Everyone else is in the barn and Maggie and Sasha bring him into the barn to meet the others, having already taken his weapons and gear from him. Of course everyone goes into full suspicious-eyes mode. Aaron starts to give his shpiel about how he has a community he wants them to "audition" for. He has pictures and tells them that he's been following them and his job is to bring people into the community. Unfortunately, this sounds a whole lot like a memorized speech, almost like he's selling them a vacation or something. Rick punches him in the face. Okay, assuming this Aaron is being truthful, he's got the most dangerous job ever! If he's going around approaching people who've all obviously been through hell, you gotta know they're going to be paranoid, and you're probably going to get punched in the face. Just sayin'.
Monday, February 16, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.10: Them
Episode 10: Them
This was a great episode! Somewhat transitional, and though the episode itself was pretty sad and dark, I really liked it and it made me very happy and excited for what's to come. More on that later. WARNING: Spoilers about below. Don't read until you've watched!
We learn that it's now been three weeks since Beth was shot in Atlanta. They're sixty miles from their target of Washington D.C., and they're having a very hard time finding food and water.
We start with Maggie crying by herself in the woods. Obviously she's still in a state of heavy mourning. She kills a walker that comes at her, but she does it robotically. She can't summon any passion at all. Then we see Daryl digging in the dirt. He finds a worm buried deep. I was really hoping he was gonna go fishing. Nope. He ate it. Sasha is also looking for water, digging in the dirt of a now-dry river or stream bed, but there's no moisture at all. Then she starts seeing dead frogs. Presumably it's so hot and dry that even the wild life is dying. The three of them meet up and head back to the rest of the group, who Maggie says hasn't found any water or food either. Sasha asks how much longer they have. Maggie replies, "Sixty miles." Sasha says, "that's not what I was talking about." It starts with these three characters, and you know that this episode is going to focus on them and their grief.
Monday, February 9, 2015
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.9: What Happened and What is Going On
Episode 9: What Happened and What is Going On
Another pretty brutal episode. Spoilers abound below so don't read if you haven't watched yet.
So after Beth's apparent death (we'll talk about the 'apparent' part below) Team Family are all very depressed and having a rough time emotionally. In the beginning of the episode, we see a weird series of flashes; images all spliced together. We see trees moving by a car--from the point of view of someone in the car--dirt being shoveled, part of a funeral service, a picture of a small house with blood dripping on it, and finally Lizzie and Mikka, the two young girls whose deaths were both notorious and brutal last season. Then it goes to the opening credits without explaining what's going on. (Of course it did. :D) We also saw Noah telling Rick that his home was just outside of Richmond Virginia, and that Beth was going to go with him. (I know lots of people online had a problem with this. Never, that we saw, did Beth promise to go with him. She wanted him to be able to go home if he wanted, but she never said she'd go. When the first 2 minutes of this episode were released, people immediately went all suspicious about Noah and his motives. Myself, I don't think he's evil or anything. I think it's more likely that he just told a little fib to get Rick to take him home. He wanted to go, but of course no one wants to go off on their own in the world. It would be interesting if his motives turned out to be less than honorable, though, as no one suspects that at all right now.) We also see Rick talking to the group about taking Noah home.
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Monday, December 1, 2014
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.8: Coda
Episode 8: Coda
Okay, so I'm SO depressed about this episode! This is exactly what I DIDN'T want to have happen and I'm really sad about it. So, sorry if this recap is a bit superficial and shorter than usual. I'm too depressed to do an in-depth analysis.
So we left of last week with one of the hostages, Lambston, rushing Sasha and getting away. We start with him running, still cuffed, and Rick chasing him. Rick gets in one of the cop cars, orders Lambston to stop and when he doesn't, Rick runs him down. This was seriously gross. His back was supposed to be broken, and it looked like it was. Ew.
Monday, November 24, 2014
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.7: Crossed
Episode 7: Crossed
So, we start out seeing Sasha splitting wood. With a vengeance. She's using an ax to cut up the wooden pews in the church, and attacking them as though they're wild animals. Tyrese and Daryl watch her from a distance. Daryl asks if she's okay, to which Ty replies that she's not. (We actually don't see Noah come out of the woods after Daryl, or the two of them swap stories with Rick and co. Understandable, given how little time they have in each episode, but it still would have been nice to see.) They're using the wood and the pipe organs to fortify the church. Rick, Daryl, Noah, Sasha, and Ty will go to Atlanta while Michonne will stay behind with Carl, Judith, and Father Gabriel. (Grhh! I wanted Michonne to go!)
Michonne actually volunteers to go, letting Rick stay with his kids, but Rick says he wants to go. He feels like he owes Carol more than the rest of the group does. After they leave, Michonne and Carl bar the door, and Father Gabriel starts scratching at the blood on the floor. First with his fingernails (ew) and then with rags and such, as though trying to scrub it out.
As they travel back to the city, Ty tries to talk to Sasha, telling her that he of all people knows what she's going through, and Bob wouldn't want her to be unhappy. His words fall on deaf ears, as Sasha clearly isn't ready to hear them yet.
In the hospital, Beth checks on Carol.
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In the hospital, Beth checks on Carol.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 5.6: Consumed
Episode 6: Consumed
This was an awesome episode! I loved it!
We start off with a flashback of Carol last season when Rick banished her. She drives around, cries, yells at zombies, finds a place to hole up, spends lots of quality time with herself, and eventually comes back to the prison in time to see the tail-end of its fall.
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Meanwhile, in present-day, she and Daryl are following the car identical to the one that abducted Beth. Daryl tells Carol about what happened with Beth. (I was thinking he'd have to. Because she wasn't in the train car at Terminus when he told the others, she doesn't even know that he and Beth were alone on the road together, or that she was taken or anything. I really loved that he was praising Beth here, saying how tough she was. My reaction: awww!)
Monday, November 3, 2014
The Walking Dead Recap, Episode 4: Slabtown + Halloween Pics
Below is my recap of this week's TWD episode. But first, I wanted to share some Halloween photos. I didn't do anything epic for Halloween--just went to my dad's and took my brothers and niece out trick-or-treating. I had to be up early to work the next day, so I wasn't interested in staying out all night or going to any late parties.
I thought it would be appropriate for this post, though. Check out the photos and you'll understand why.
Me as a walker! Think I'm ready for my walk-on role on The Walking Dead?
Okay, on to this week's amazing episode!
I thought it would be appropriate for this post, though. Check out the photos and you'll understand why.
Me as a walker! Think I'm ready for my walk-on role on The Walking Dead?
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| My brother, Isaac, who is also my look-alike. Yes, he went as Daryl Dixon. |
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| My brother Abram (as himself) pretending to kill me. That knife is real, btw, which kind of freaked me out. |
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| Pretending to eat my niece, who is Elsa from Frozen, btw. |
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| My brother Josh as a demon. It doesn't register in the picture, but he put in contacts that made his eyes black with a red outline around the irises. Seriously creepy! His eyes are really light blue. |
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| My brother Micah, as Chelsea Grin (the band). |
Okay, on to this week's amazing episode!
Episode 4: Slabtown
I was SO excited for this episode. Couldn't wait to find out about Beth!
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