warning incoming walls o' text, so I put some in spoilers, but there aren't any spoilers in them, so don't worry
That episode wasn't as good as the 2 prior IMO. I can see Tyreese having second thoughts about it as well, though they don't seem as strong as Milton's.
I wasn't a very big fan of this episode. IMO this is one of the worst this season. Lot of logical flaws, cliches, and absurdities. The only things I liked were Tyreese and Allen's interactions, Rick's silent cameo, and Milton burning the walkers.
I'll have to disagree with you walt. I thought this episode was really cheesy and poorly written. It reminded me of Scream sequels. Some of the decisions made didn't make any sense and how the Governor would always find Andrea anywhere didn't make sense neither..
I do agree that it is still the best show on air right now... until Breaking Bad comes back.
You guys are crazy. Prey (aka the one where Andrea gets stalked slasher movie style by the Governor) was great. Much better than the one preceding it (aka the one where Rick meets with the Governor and nothing of import happens). I mean, this episode actually made me care about Andrea! That's quite a feat! The chase sequence was really well shot and directed, and incredibly tense. Plus, that opening scene of the Governor sorting through his tools was the final piece of puzzle to his insanity. Once he pulled out that vaginal speculum? Yeah. That was him crossing the Rubicon. Very effective, and impressive to have been conveyed using a single prop and no dialogue.
The only downsides to this episode, IMO, were Allen's random conflict with Tyrese that we were supposed to care about. We had no attachment to any of Tyrese's group, so it feels really out of place and Allen's whole presence in this season could've been dropped without any issue. He and his son were so unimportant that there wasn't even a second devoted to Allen reacting to his son's death in the following episode. But yeah, other than that, it was great. You guys are crazy. Totally crazy. >:[
Spoiler: This Sorrowful Life (aka: See You, Space Merle) (click to see content)
This was a great episode for Merle's character if you ignore nearly everything about his character as shown in previous episodes. If he was a bit more consistent it would be much more powerful (not that it wasn't powerful). Merle's character has been very inconsistent (remember when he was a stupid crazy racist in season one, to the point of it being nonsensical?), and it's only been due to Michael Rooker's acting that his character has made any kind of sense. I bought his change of heart in the episode itself, but I don't think it made sense for the character as represented in the show as a whole. I just wish this episode's version of Merle was in more episodes.
Also the opening 10 minutes was pretty terrible, Rick's sudden decision to throw logic to the wind and believe that the Governor's peace offering was serious is idiotic and only seems to exist to place Merle and Michonne on the road. They could've accomplished the same goal by having Merle overhear the possibilty of peace with Woodbury by him spying on Rick and Herschel's conversation from a few weeks ago or something like that. It just makes Rick as a character look bad.
This is all a sympton of The Walking Dead's big problem: it sucks at characters. Developing them, having them act in rational ways, having them be likeable, having them not be Andrea, it just fails at this. I mean, there are certainly moments when they pull it off, but as a whole it's not been very good. But it is very good at establishing tension and being scary, and of course is aces with the zombies themselves and gore. When things are focused on plot movement and/or zombie action, the show runs on all cylinders. But when it's focused on dull conversations like the Rick/Governor peace talk episode, it falls flat. And that's why Prey was good; it didn't have a lot of dumb character momements but was pretty much a long, super tense chase scene out of a slasher movie. It was an episode that played to its strengths, even if in the long run it was pretty wheel-spinny.
I really dislike Glenn's character right now, honestly. He actually cut off a wedding ring from a walker, I thought that was kind of sick.
Where else was he supposed to get one from? Also, it's not like that zombie was using it anymore!
Can they stop killing people I like?
'Cause seriously it's getting to the point where I start liking people ten minutes before they die.
Spoiler: http://www.avclub.com/articles/this-sorrowful-life,95348/#comment-841288771 (click to see content)
Hi, I'm Michael Rooker. I played Merle on The Walking Dead. You know, we had a lot of fun here tonight, what with the shotgun wedding proposal, and me shooting those guys. But one thing that's never fun: Character development.
Every season, handfuls of Walking Dead characters contract character development, and in most cases, it's fatal.
*Pulls up photo of Lew Temple*
This was Axel. He started deepening his relationship with other characters and defining himself to the audience as something more than a stock archetype...and he was shot twelve seconds later for it.
The fine people running The Walking Dead have done their best to keep the cast stuck in stasis for 16 episodes, while AMC bleeds this pig dry for all it's worth. But it's not enough. So please, like us on Facebook, play the mercenary cash-in of a video game we just released, and by the soundtrack for a show that only started using music when it was decided a CD would sell really well.
With your help, we can ride this cash cow into the ground for, like, at least three more seasons."
*Chris Hardwick's face streaks by, leaving a rainbow in the wake of his unctuous plastic smile*
Idk, I feel like you should've always been a fan of T-Dogg, I certainly was.
...why? He could've been replaced with a cardboard cutout for pretty much every episode pre-season 3 and literally nothing would've changed. He was not even a character, he nothing. For him to have been the only black character in season 2, going several episodes without even having a token line? It's ridiculous. He was an awful waste and I'm glad they killed him off.
Seriously, T-Dog was awful. He's so bad he almost died because he sat down wrong!
Spoiler: Welcome to the Tombs (aka ding dong the wicked Andrea is dead) (click to see content)
Wow, I actually felt moved when Andrea died. Good job! But I'm glad they got rid of her. Her character had become so mangled that she was actively unpleasant and no amount of development would've fixed that.
As for the finale itself, I am actually pretty glad that things didn't go the predictable, explosive finale route. I mean besides the explosions at the start. The direction they're going is very interesting; a very intriguing departure from the comics. Plus, Carl is turning into a psychopath, that's gonna be cool to see develop.
