Better Angels Air Date 3-11-12
I liked the zombie hunting squad at the beginning of the show, it was a good way to show characters grieving and working through their anger while still being productive. But more importantly they were all finally using weapons wisely. Everyone was armed with a gun in case of emergency, but was using a blunt or bladed weapon to dispose of the walkers they came across. It's about time they started acting like they need to conserve ammo and also make as little noise as possible.
Shane wants Carl to keep the gun so that he can protect himself when Shane is not around. If this wasn't major foreshadowing I don't know what is.
Lori can't keep her mouth shut. What good did it do telling Shane any of that. She knows he's border line psychotic. She was the one warning Rick that Shane thinks the baby is his, and now she's telling Shane she doesn't know for sure that it isn't his. Talk about sending mixed messages.
They know that Randell went to high school with Maggie, so he has to be a local kid and at least somewhat familiar with the area. That being said, what good is it really to drive Randell a hour away and dump him? Just thinking about it if you took me to my home town, blindfolded me, and drove me in any direction for an hour, it wouldn't take me long to figure out where I was and how to get back home. It's not like they are going to black out all the road signs along the way. The only reasoning they could be trying to use is Randell might decide it's not worth going back or he might not make it back.
The way Randell is talking to Shane after Shane says he wants to join Randell's people makes me think that Randell isn't as lily white as he was making himself out to be.
Killing Randell so soon makes Dale's death even more meaningless.
It is very interesting to watch Shane's decent into madness.
Okay, lets say for arguments sake that Shane is telling the truth. the four guys go looking for Randell and split off into teams of two. What happens when one of the teams find him? How do they get in contact with the other team? Were the others just supposed to search all night until they found the first team? Again I say they need to find some Walkie Talkies, and while they are at it they should probably teach everyone how to hot wire a car.
During the final scenes the producers did an amazing job of using the environment and onset of night. The change from dusk to moonlight and the use of the fog in the background was just perfect. ( A funny side note: I watched this last night, and then I rewatched some parts of it right before I started to write this. After I finished watching the ending for the second time, I got up to close an open window and when I look out the window the sun had just set and there was the same level of dusk and the same general coloring on my lawn as in the last scene. It kind of freaked me out a little.)
I think it's pretty safe to say that the whole ending of this episode is Lori's fault. They are making her much more unlikable in the show than she ever was in the comics.
I wonder when Rick knew what Shane was planning on doing. I think it was pretty early on and Rick knew he had to see it through because if he didn't the whole situation would just continue to creep back up. I also think Shane was trying to bait Rick into doing something first so that Shane could justify his action to himself.
I found the scenes with the quick cuts and the zombiefication of Shane to be weird. Are we supposed to believe that when you become a zombie the first thing you see is other zombies eating stuff and that is what gives you the driving force to go out and kill? It just came across as odd.
I've watched the scene twice and I still can't tell if Carl drew his gun on Rick or if he only pointed it after Shane started to stir. Also did Carl ever have any training with a gun? That was a pretty great shot for a kid with little or no training.
Man things have ramped into high gear. It looks like the walkers are coming out of the wood work next week. Add to that they have basically figured out what the show has been hinting at for the whole second half of the season, that when you die no matter if you were bitten or not you become a zombie, and that really in all essence it is the living that are truly The Walking Dead.
Recording 3-12-12:
Monday Night Raw
Alcatraz
Being Human
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