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The Walking Dead season 4

This episode should have been great, but it was only good? I mean if it had been last season's finale it would have been great. I still don't see why they delayed it. Some of the action was fun (but Daryl using a zombie as a human shield happened before, didn't it, and we all said "why is the zombie bulletproof?") I think this is a case where reading the comic ruined it a bit as I knew Hershel's death was coming (well, it was a different character who died in the comic but in the same way.) Also the way the baby died in the book was better too sorry.
 
Best show yet.

Still, we're only 99.9% sure the Gov is deceased.

poor Herschel.
 
Oh, so the baby did die? I thought it'd turn out she was on the bus and the blood was a red herring. I'd say they left that open. Who was meant to be looking after her anyway? Who forgets a baby?

It was an ok episode, but it did feel like I was watching last year's finale, but delayed so long that all the tension had been sucked out. Pretty much everything that happened was how myself and some friends speculated it would over the weekend. And I don't take any credit for that. It's just because it was really obvious (I haven't read the comics btw).

Darryl was awesome as usual, so I'm glad he survived.

That little girl's death couldn't have felt more forced. Oh, she just happens to be playing on the exact spot where a zombie got stuck in the mud. Of course.
 
Mud Zombies lol. My wife slept thru that shit, if you can believe that! I'ma make her watch it tonight.
 
The people watching the baby were those psychotic little girls and I could see them just leaving her while they went hunting. The same weirdo that created the splayed rabbit corpse art.

I was expecting Herschel to die but I still wasn't expecting to see his freakin' head cut off. I was glad to see that smug dough head Governor finally get his just desserts. I hated that guy.
 
I didn't think he was all that whiny. He portrayed 'sullen teenager' pretty perfectly. And his rant about Rick's inaction had a number of very valid points. Rick has been, for all intents and purposes, a shitty leader. Yeah he's come through a couple of times, but his desperate desire to hold on to outdated concepts has gotten people killed. His stubborn gardener phase and refusal to let Carl or himself have a weapon was plain stupid. The scene with Carl in the teenager's room was brilliant acting IMO. He sees the high tech video game setup, takes a second to gawk at it and laughs at how useless it is, then strips the HDMI cord so he can use it to prevent real zombies from getting inside. Shit, realistically speaking in a zombie apocalypse angry teenage boys are the FIRST ones you give guns to. Them little bastards have all the reflexes and practice in the world killing hordes of undead. That bit with the TV was genius storytelling driving home the point Rick comes to later: the world ain't ever coming back.
 
I really appreciated all the Carl stuff. It was interesting to play out how a teenager like any of us might've acted in a town deserted but for zombies, and I think they captured it pretty well. I was less sure about Mischonne's side of things. While I love the character and I'm happy with any time devoted to her, we didn't really learn anything that hadn't previously been delicately inferred using glances and half finished sentences. I thought the dream sequence was a little too on the nose.
 
Guess I was the only one reminded of Carl taunting the zombie stuck in the mud that later went on to kill Dale with his little act of walking slowly backwards very closely followed by zombies with only a few cursory glances over his shoulder. That was just stupid.
 
Reading this part of the thread makes me feel like I missed something. was there another episode?
 
Walking backwards is a stupid staple of horror movies, bit I guess Carl hasn't seen many, so he can be forgiven a little.
 
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