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Friday, November 29, 2013

The Walking Dead: Season 4 Episode 7 WDF Review

Episode Synopsis and Review:

Section 4.7.1
The opening sequence flips back and forth between a conversation between “Brian” and Megan and the turn of events at the walker pit where episode 6 left off. Brian is washing clothes in a tub while Megan is playing chess. She is thinking about what move to make next in the game. Back at the walker pit, Martinez and Brian help Megan out of the pit where she then runs to her mother. Martinez stands there for a moment looking at Brian before throwing a rope down to help him. Back at the chess game Brian is coaxing Megan to make her move in the game while he hangs the laundry on the clothes line. Megan comments that he never lets her win anyway. He replies that it wouldn’t be winning and that is what his father used to say and that his father used to beat him at chess too, along with everything else. Back at the walker pit, Brian climbs out with the help of Martinez. It’s evident that they know each other. Back to the chess game Megan asks Brian if his dad was mean and if it was because he was bad. He replies “sometimes” to both questions.  Back at the walker pit Martinez is asking him if he’s been on the run all that time. Back at the chess game, Megan asks if she is bad because her dad was always mean to her. Brian reassures her she is good. Back at the walker pit, Martinez says they have a camp and If they want to join the camp they need to know that Martinez is in charge and no dead weight. Contribute or be cast out. He asks “Brian” if he can live with that. Back at the chess game Brian is reassuring Megan that they were all going to be ok. Megan asks if it’s because they are all good. Brian doesn’t reply. He goes back to his laundry. Megan makes her move and says it’s his turn. Brian says he’s thinking. The scene pan out to a shot of the Governor standing at the clothesline to reveal a tank beside their trailer as the title music begins to play.


  • Gen: They are hinting heavily that there is going to be a struggle between good and bad this episode based on the conversation he was having with Megan. I was really hoping that he had turned over a new leaf and that he wouldn’t be making the same mistakes that he made with Woodbury. At this point I thought it was a possibility… until I saw the tank. That definitely implies that we haven’t seen the last of the good ol’ Governor. I also liked that we got a bit more insight into the Governor’s background from the discussion about his father.

Section 4.7.2
Brian and Lilly are talking in their trailer. She’s asking if he is going out today and he says on a supply run with Martinez, Pete & Mitch. Lilly is going to set up a nurse’s station for the camp. Brian apologizes and says he wanted something better for them as he eyes the leak in the roof of their trailer. Out on the supply run they are following a map to a cabin that might contain supplies. They come across a decapitated body tied to a tree that has a sign on it that reads: “Liar”. They move on. Back at the camp Lilly is patching up a cut on Alisha’s finger. Tara starts up a conversation with her about weapons. Back on the supply run, they come across another body tied to a chair in a field, also decapitated with a sign on his chest: “rapist”. They keep walking. They make it to the cabin where they find a man with a sign around his neck “murderer”. He shot himself in the head, leading the men to believe he was the one responsible for the dead men they found on their way there. They proceed into the cabin where they hear a noise in the back and figure it is a walker that has gotten stuck and can’t get out. Brian goes in first.  Slowly they make their way to the back of the cabin where a walker jumps out and attacks Pete. Brian beats the walker to death. They find the heads of the 2 dead men they saw on the way there. Another walker comes out and Brian beats him to death as well with his flashlight.


  • Gen: The first thing I thought of when I saw the first decapitated body was Crazy Clara’s husband! After all, she was just carrying around his head in a sack. Obviously it wasn’t him since we see the 2 walker heads on the floor in the cabin. I think this is where we first start to see that the Gov doesn’t have faith in Martinez’s ability to lead the camp. He was the one who had to step up and kill the walkers.

Section 4.7.3
Later at the cabin Martinez admits to Brian that if it was just him in the pit and not for the people he was with, he wouldn’t have taken him into the camp. He says that he seems different now, asks him if he has changed. Brian says yes. The other guys come back with a box full of canned goods and beer that they found in the cabin. They briefly discuss their back stories. Back at the camp after they returned, Martinez and Alisha are having dinner with Brian, Lilly, Megan and Tara. Lilly says being at the camp is the first time she has felt safe since the beginning of the apocalypse. The women start asking about their previous “camp” and that it sounded pretty sweet. Lilly wants to hear about it but says Brian won’t talk about it. The party breaks up as Tara and Alisha leave, followed by Martinez. Megan tells Brian that the roof is leaking again and Martinez tells him he should fix it. Brian is in the trailer with duct tape about to patch the hole when there is a knock on the door. Martinez says he has a surprise for him. They are now up on a trailer hitting golf balls into the walker pits and drinking. We find out that Shumpert is dead. He got killed by a walker and martinez was the one to put him down afterwards. Martinez says they should share the power in the camp. Brian then hits Martinez over the head with a golf club, pushes him off of the roof and drags him to a walker pit. The Governor keeps saying “I don’t want it!” as he holds martinez over a pit of walkers, where he is eaten alive.
  • Gen: Welcome back Governor! Thank you, writers, for shattering my hopes that he could actually turn out to be a half decent guy. He couldn't just beat him to death either; he had to go and feed him to the walkers. Do you think that was a little bit of revenge for Martinez ditching him or just purely to get him to shut up?

Section 4.7.4
Back in the trailer Brian is upset as LiIly and Megan come home. Lilly asks Brian what is wrong and he says he had a bad dream. She asks him what it was and he says he can’t remember. Next morning they come together in a group to say they found Martinez in the pit. They blame the alcohol and that he fell in. Pete says he’s taking over leadership of the camp. The other’s want a vote. They are going to vote in the next couple of days but for now it’s business as usual. Pete and Mitch take Brian out on a hunt. Pete asks Brian for help with leading the camp. They come across another camp of survivors in the woods, living in tents. They guess there are maybe 10 people and a lot of supplies. Pete suggests they take them in and his brother says they don’t have enough to go around as it is. Mitch suggest that they rob them. Pete refuses and says they need to find their own supplies. Brian stays quiet.  After finding some squirrels and condensed milk, Brian wanders off to find to find the camp they were previously at has been ransacked and the people all killed, supplies taken. Mitch is angry because they could have had the supplies. He stabs a survivor in the head that was coming to on the ground. Pete is angry and says he might have lived. Again, brian stays quiet. Back at the camp Lilly and megan are in the trailer when Brian comes in and tells them to pack their stuff and that they need to leave because it’s not safe anymore. Megan begins to pack immediately while Lilly says they can’t leave because she’s the only nurse and now Tara has Alisha. Brian says things are going to go bad and he can’t put them through that “again” and asks her if she trusts him. They are out on the road in a car and Alisha is questioning what they are doing. Suddenly the car stops. Brian gets out. We see a group of walkers stuck waist deep in the mud, blocking the road. Brian stands and watches them for a moment and turns back to look at a frightened LiIly and Megan in the car.
  • Gen: I bet the Gov was wishing he had that tank right about then! I think he was really struggling with his demons. He was trying so hard to resist the urge to be The Governor again and the only thing left that he could think to do was run. Personally I think it was too late the moment he killed Martinez. There was no turning back for him after that.

Section 4.7.5
The next morning the car is back at camp and Brian is getting ready. Lilly is waking up with Tara and Alisha beside her. She asks him what he is doing to which he replies “surviving”.
He walks over to Pete’s trailer and knocks on the door. Pete thinks he is there to talk about Mitch. After inviting him in, Brian stabs Pete and chokes him to death. Next he goes to Mitch’s trailer. Mitch answers and Brian is holding a gun to him. They sit down at the table and Mitch asks where Pete is. Brian says he’s dead. Mitch gets up and asks if he’s going to kill him too. Brian holds his gun on him and motions for him to sit down. Mitch asks why he killed Pete and his reply was that Mitch was right and that they should have taken the supplies at the other camp and that he didn’t care that he killed the man who had survived.  Brian says that he is running things now and that he will do whatever it takes to protect the camp. He wants Mitch on his side. Mitch goes along with it. Brian dumps Pete’s body in the pond, weighted down so he sinks to the bottom. Mitch asks what they should tell everyone about Pete and he says to say that he died on a supply run protecting them.
  • Gen: I wasn’t surprised Mitch went along with him even after the Gov killed his brother. Also, I don’t think he went along because he is afraid of the Gov, but because he agrees with him. He sees an opportunity to run things the way he thinks they should be run and not by doing what is necessarily right.

Section 4.7.6
Back at the camp Brian is organizing the “troops”.  They are having a conversation about their supplies and that they need to conserve their ammo because they need to be ready not just to protect themselves against the biters but also other humans. If they encounter anyone on a run they are to make themselves scarce and report back to the Governor about where they saw them.  The Governor is back in his trailer looking over a map and circles a location. LiIly gets out of bed and he says maybe they can find a better place if they are willing to fight for it. She says they don’t need to find a better place, that the camp is home. The next morning Megan is out playing tag with Tara. Megan thinks she has found Tara behind a sheet hanging on the line but it is a walker who then goes after her as she tries to crawl under the trailer. Tara is trying to pull the walker away from Megan but the skin on his leg just slides off instead.  There is gun shot and the Gov has shot the walker in the head and saves Megan. He is then standing on the dock where he dumped Petes body looking down into the water where Pete has now turned into a walker. He is then driving his truck in the forest when he gets out and we see he has driven to the prison and is watching Rick and Carl in the garden. He then comes upon Michonne and Hershel outside the fence. He sees Michonne smiling and raises his gun to shoot.
  • Gen: Poor Pete. The Gov could have at least stabbed him in the head first or something. Is the pond now going to turn into his new walker garden? No fish tanks for the heads so I guess the pond will do! I think it’s safe to say that “Brian” is no more and we are back to full on Governor. He’s always wanted to take that prison and now that he has his power back and a new group of troops, he can try. I love how they ended the episode with him raising his gun to shoot Michonne. They did a good job of filling in the blanks in the last 2 episodes to bring us full circle to where we last left the prison group. Although, I did feel that there was  A LOT of info crammed into the last 2 episodes. Needless to say, I’m super excited for the mid-season finale!

Monday, November 18, 2013

The Walking Dead: Season 4 Episode 6 WDF Review

Episode Synopsis and Review:

Section 4.6.1
Flash back to The Governor having just mowed down his troops on the roadside.  We watch the trio driving off into the distance, then see them that night at a campfire with three tents in a row.  The Governor is unaffected as a walker crawls toward him, so Martinez shoots her for him.  We are shown The Governor emerging from his tent the next morning, alone, the other tents (and Shumpert and Martinez) now gone.  We see The Governor drive a truck through the gates of Woodbury, and then we see him standing in front of the town hall that is now on fire, as the camera pans around to show the whole town on fire.  We are shown images of The Governor on the road, with a long beard, as a conversation is heard between him and two women, where he's explaining he's been on the road for two months after being the sole survivor of a town where the man in charge "lost it", saying he barely got out alive.  He passes a barn on the side of which is written notes to missing loved ones, one of which is named "Brian Heriot".  He collapses on the street in a small town, spots a girl (Megan) in a window of a nearby building and hobbles in to find her.  He's greeted at the door by a woman with a bat (Lily, Megan's mother), and then a younger woman pushes the door open holding a gun.  The Governor drops his weapon and backpack as the title music begins to play.
  • Sooz:  I will try to be objective in my review but must admit that prior to seeing the episode, I read a spoiler that gave pretty much a spot-on play-by-play of this episode... so none of it was a surprise.  I'm glad to see that Shumpert and Martinez ditched The Governor.  He needed that ego check (and a good flogging) after what he did.  I'm a little surprised that they watered down the backstory so much (from the comics) and had him pick up the name "Brian" from the side of a barn.  That's a sentence I never thought I'd say... hey you, where'd you get your name?  From the side of a BARN.  Heh.
  • Gen: First thing, when the Gov wakes up the next morning and Shumpert and Martinez had just left him there, I laughed. I did really like how they took us back to where we last saw those guys though. Wish they had done that with some of the other characters in the past like Andrea & Michonne!
Section 4.6.2
The two women are grilling The Governor.  Tara, the younger woman, claims to have been Atlanta police, threatening him if he tries to hurt them.  When asked his name, he gives them the name he saw on the barn, Brian Heriot.  He says he only plans to stay in the building for the night, and finds another apartment in the building to stay in.  The older of the two women bring him a plate of Spaghetti-Os which he dumps out the window after she leaves.  The little girl is shown playing backgammon with homemade game pieces with an old man with an oxygen tank; this is her grandfather.  The girls hear The Governor outside the door bringing the plate back and is brought into the apartment, offered a seat and some coffee.  They explain that their father used to drive for a food company and had a truck full of jerky and canned goods the day the zombie apocalypse broke out.  The Governor helps them move their father to bed, who explains that Tara has been to the upper floors of the apartment building to kill the walkers but they just keep getting back up; he requests The Governor go upstairs and retrieve a backgammon set his friend had left under his bed for Megan.  The Governor complies and finds an amputee walker in a bathtub that Tara has shot in the chest, who he kills and takes a gun off of.
  • Sooz:  I'm not sure how I feel about The Gov being so blindly willing to go out on a limb for these people who were just shoving guns in his face.  Are we trying to establish that he's really a good guy that would do anything to protect a kid and just got a little out of control for a while?  Not sure I buy that, but that seems to be what they're eluding toward here.  He'll be losing it again sometime soon I'm sure.  But hey, if you weren't sold on jerky in the pre-apocalyptic world, just know that you can survive just by snapping into those slimjims.
  • Gen: At this point, I'm not too sure what to think of "Brian". Could he really be that down and out that he's a changed man? Have we seen the last of the "Evil Governor"? Maybe that scene at he end of episode 4 where he was standing in the bushes and the creepy Governor music was there just to throw us off. Maybe it will turn out to be something we're not expecting?
Section 4.6.3
The Governor brings the game back and goes back to his apartment alone.  He takes out a picture of his wife, Penny, and himself, but folds the picture over to hide himself.  In the morning, Lily comes in and sees the picture as The Governor awakes.  She offers him some food for the road and tries to give him his gun back, but he tells her to keep it (showing her the one he found the night before).  He explains that the walkers have to be shot in the head.  She tells him that her father is dying of cancer and needs more oxygen.  She asks if he will go raid a closeby retirement home for more before he leaves, and he does.  He escapes with two full tanks.  Lily follows him to his apartment to play nurse and clean up his battle wounds from the trip to the home.  The two bond as she explains that Megan thought The Governor was her father coming home when she saw him on the street.  When Lily leaves to get supplies, Megan asks The Governor about what happened to his eye.  The pair bond over a vague version of the story of his losing his eye trying to protect Penny.
  • Sooz:  Ahhh, finding new love in the ZA.  I suppose of all the possible Gov story lines that were speculated about, him finding a replacement family was not even suggested... so good job writers for throwing us a new one there.  Just a little trivia tidbit... his wife in that picture is actually one of the producers.
  • Gen: A new family for the Gov! Who saw that one coming? 
Section 4.6.4
The Governor and Megan are setting up a chess set while The Governor is watching the girls tend to their father in through the doorway of the bedroom behind Megan.  After a time, Lily comes out to retrieve Megan, giving her the understanding look that her grandfather has passed.  The Governor tries to get the women to leave his room, knowing he would turn, but they refuse.  In very short order the man reanimates and The Governor has to put him down by bashing him in the head with the tank.  The Governor is shown out in a yard digging a grave as Lily approaches and helps drop the man's body in.  Back in the apartment, The Governor and Lily come in, but Megan hides from him, now afraid of him.  Tara explains that she understands now that everyone will turn and that her father would've wanted him to stop him from hurting them.  The Governor returns to his apartment and sets his family photo on fire.  He gathers his things and goes to say goodbye, but Lily says they're going to come with him.
  • Sooz:  The Gov is creepily creepin' on Lily.  I felt a little dirty watching that and I'm not sure why... is it because he's creepin' or that we're watching him creepin' (any time I've ever done that the last thing I wanted was for anyone to catch me doing it).  You've done it too, you know you have, so you can't say he's a creep for doing it, can ya?  But that escalated quickly, huh?  And on top of that he creepily burns his family photo just in case we didn't get that he's picked them out as his new wifey and daughter.  The fist bump between Tara and The Gov had to be the most awkward thing I've seen in a while.  Morrissey just doesn't seem like the 'fist bump' type, but I guess there was a point to showing how wrong any type of attraction to her would've been so Lily was a natural fit of the two.  Of course they establish later that she's a lesbian anyway, again, seemingly overstating another point.
  • Gen: The last thing I think we would have expected "Crazy Phil" from season 3 to do would be to take 2 women and a little girl with him on the road. I'm starting to think that maybe he is a changed man and he had to hit rock bottom first. He has a new purpose and it's to keep Megan safe. He's making up for what happened to Penny. Or maybe I'm just a sucker! 
Section 4.6.5
The Governor is driving the girls to an unknown destination in their father's delivery truck.  Tara explains that she's not really a cop, but was in the academy.  They stop to set up camp by a pond.  That night, the four are sleeping in the back of the truck with Lily lying next to The Governor.  She turns toward him and they begin sexy times while Megan and Tara sleep nearby.  The next day they are unable to get the truck running, so they take off on foot assuming they'll find another vehicle on the road.  Coming around the bend, they come across a small horde and take off into the woods, dropping their bags on the road to flee.  Megan shows that she has regained her trust in The Governor by jumping into his arms and the group runs away.  The Governor, still carrying Megan, falls into a pit with walkers in it.  The Governor kills the walkers as rapid gunfire is heard overhead.  He consoles Megan but looks up as Martinez looks down into the pit to see him.
  • Sooz:  Welp, I guess Lily was feeling The Gov more than she seemed to be at first.  This is the second time we've seen a couple gettin' it on with the kid nearby (think Carl asleep in the tent with Lori and Rick, Season 1) so I guess it's just a reality of the ZA though I think I'd be a little more discreet about it since that's just embarrassing for everyone if they were caught.  So who exactly was Martinez shooting at?  If it was Lily and Tara, he missed... they're in the preview for next week.  Maybe they ran up into a situation happening at Martinez's camp that we'll see next week.
  • Gen: Martinez is back and with a whole new crew! Didn't see that one coming! Also, way to go Phil with the hands on zombie kills. Looking forward to seeing how this will play out next week!

Final Thoughts


  • Sooz:  While I've never been all yippy skippy about episodes that focus too much on one character, I thought this one was done very well in order to give The Gov back a little humanity.  If we move forward with a battle between him and Team Prison, that can only serve to inject more drama and emotion.  Clearly in the "current day" he's camped out in the woods still planning to attack them, and we'll likely spend all of next week's episode finding out the rest of the story that leads him there.  But remember, there are only TWO episodes left before the winter hiatus... most speculation has the fall of the prison happening as the mid-season finale but at the current pace I can't see that happening.  We've got a lot of ground left to cover before that can happen, and with only two episodes left I feel like it's not going to get there yet.  Is it possible they will just use the first half to set us up for the conflict, and the last half to actually execute it?  That seems like a very slow pace to me but so far I can't complain about the execution.  Last season just didn't have enough progression to it; there was a lot of waffling over the same points over and over.  Yes, we get that Andrea is torn between the two, Michonne is angry, The Gov is crazy, and that life at the prison sucks... we didn't need 16 episodes reviewing those few points.  So far in season four we've crammed a lot of different points in and see a lot more coming.  I'm pleased with Scott Gimple's job so far and hope they keep him as show runner moving forward.  That said, is it any wonder that this guy's middle name is Milhouse?



*Snort*  Poor kid.




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Monday, November 11, 2013

The Walking Dead: Season 4 Episode 5 WDF Review

Episode Synopsis and Review:

Section 4.5.1
Rick is driving back to the prison alone, reflecting on his decision to ban Carol as he drives.  Back at the prison, Hershel is intubating a struggling patient with a very sick Sasha and Glenn helping.  He leaves Sasha to work with the patient as he and Glenn go on the rounds.  They make the decision to wheel the dead out of the ward before putting them down so the other patients don't see.
  • Sooz:  It's obvious how bad it's getting at the prison now with the sickness, and how weak and exposed they are.  We're primed for an attack of some sort!
Section 4.5.2
Hershel goes to visit Maggie through the glass of the isolation ward.  He gives her a Greene family pep-talk.  Glenn is out in the hall listening but hiding so she doesn't see how sick he is.  Maggie is out at the fence killing off what she can of a horde there when Rick pulls in the gates.  Maggie asks where Carol is and Rick tells her what happened but tells her not to say anything.  Rick goes in to check on Carl and Judith, giving him the food he and Carol found.  Hershel goes to check on Dr. S, but his condition has deteriorated and he is now bleeding from his mouth and eyes.  Dr. S. reveals a gun an ammo he's kept by him.  He tells Hershel to make sure the doors are kept shut to the cells of the sick.
  • Sooz:  Well, Dr. S made it longer than I thought he would.  I'm glad Rick told the truth, but with the surprise in Maggie's voice when she asked if Carol said she did it, it makes me wonder if Carol wasn't covering for someone and Maggie knew the truth.
  • Gen:   I just got the impression that Maggie was shocked by what Rick just told her. I am also glad he told the truth and didn't try to hide anything. By asking Maggie if she would have done the same, he was also looking for approval for what he'd done. To me, he seemed to be fighinting off some guilt. I would have to agree with Rick's decision. Things would be way worse for Carol had she come back to the prison.
Section 4.5.3
Hershel is closing cell doors as another victim emerges and dies in the center of the cell block.  Hershel removes his body and finally makes his first walker kill (evar!).  Rick approaches and after Hershel gives him an update about what's been going on while he was gone, just before Rick tells him about what happened with Carol.  Hershel finds a passed-out Sasha and starts working on her as another victim dies and turns in a nearby cell.
  • Sooz:  Hershel is trying to hold onto his humanity still but I still smell doom for him, I feel like this episode focusing on him might be his swan song.  If it is, it's certainly a good job Scott is doing laying out his legacy in the show.
  • Gen:  The whole time you can sense things are about to get worse but just don't know how much. The way we get to see Hershel take charge was fantastic. 
Section 4.5.4
Maggie and Rick are trying to fortify the fence against the walker horde with cut tree limbs.  Sasha wakes back up wish Hershel's aid.  Glenn tries to revive a newly departed ill person but Glenn begins to cough up blood and collapses.  Hershel continues to close cell doors and check on people.  Meanwhile Lizzy has found Glenn about the same time as the patient he was tending to turns.  Lizzy leads him away from Glenn.  Hershel fires a shot which, when heard outside, has Rick sending Maggie in to help. 
  • Sooz:  Lizzy still thinks the walkers are people.  She's so creepy I wouldn't put it past her to be doing the Governor's bidding/feeding the walkers.
  • Gen: You already know things are about to go bad and fast but holy cow! Talk about edge-of-your-seat.
Section 4.5.5
Rick goes to get Carl to help him finish fortifying the fence.  Back inside the isolation ward, Lizzy falls and Hershel saves her from the walker she was leading away from Glenn.  Hershel finds Glenn, but has to get the bag still attached to the patient that has become a walker to resuscitate him.  Back outside, Team Grimes (Carl and Rick) are working on the fence when it gives way and walkers pour inside the fence.  The two make a run for it and escape just in time for the horde to make their way to the fence leading into the yard.  Inside Hershel is arming himself with Dr. S's gun.  Team Grimes is arming up, too, just in time for the horde to break through the fence and start to enter the yard.  They begin mowing them down with gunfire.  Maggie breaks into the isolation ward and makes it to Hershel just as he's trying to get the bag off the walker, which she shoots and kills.  They both rush to Glenn who is now turning blue and begin to work on him to clear his airway.  He stabilizes and it appears that the conflict inside is now at an end.  Outside, Rick and Carl are putting down any walkers left moving in the pile they mowed down with gunfire.  Daryl and crew return with the medicine in the van they picked up on their run.  Hershel begins to dispense the medicine, starting with Glenn.  Hershel goes to rest and we see him sitting alone, breaking down.
  • Sooz: Wow, way to take Glenn to the brink!  I think he's another one whose death this soon might make some riot, but this was the perfect way to play that.  Quite the satisfying dose of character drama.  Rick and Carl working together make it seem like Carl is going to be his little deputy from here on out, but it is just the resolution the little family needed coming off of last season's Full-Shane Carl.
  • Gen: Part of me knew they weren't going to kill off Glenn just yet, but I did have my doubts for a few minutes there! I love how Rick finally lets Carl help with protecting the prison. I think Carl has grown up a lot since we last saw him in Season 3 and I'm glad he's getting the chance to prove to Rick that he can handle himself without going overboard.
Section 4.5.6
Morning of the following day, Michonne is clearing the bodies of the walkers from the night before.  Rick is on his way to tell Daryl about Carol but decides to have some one-on-one time with Carl instead.  Hershel reports to Tyreese and Daryl that Glenn is breathing on his own now.  Hershel tells Daryl that Carol is okay but he needs to ask Rick about her.  Michonne and Hershel head out on a short run.  Rick and Carl are tending to the crop as the viewer is shown the Governor watching from the edge of the woods just outside of the fence.
  • What perfect timing to reintroduce the governor!  Although this was quite adequately predicted by a lot of fans on forums, the timing after such an intense walker/disease issue inside the prison didn't feel forced or rushed.  And I'm very hard to impress so the fact that these last two episodes have me this happy is a surprise.  I can only guess that the rest of season four will be this well paced... for the past two episodes no beat has been missed or hit at the wrong time.  If it's going to be predictable (and even this wasn't THAT predictable, everyone thought Hershel was going to bite it in episode 5), then playing every note in tune is exactly the way it needs to be done.  Well done!
  • Gen: Wow! I just need to say that Scott Wilson was consistantly knocking my socks off this entire episode. What a great job. I just wanted to give him a big ol' hug at the end. I think this was my favourite episode to date of Season 4. So well done!

Sunday, November 3, 2013

The Walking Dead: Season 4 Episode 4 WDF Review

We'll have our episode synopsis and review online shortly, but in the meantime...

Holy moly!  I, personally being very hard to impress, have not yet been floored by anything that has been done this season until now.  My grades:  Acting, A+!  Character development, A+!  Plot twists, A+!  GOOD JOB GUYS!!!  You make us proud!

Honestly I kept waiting for something to drag me out of the story... whether that be someone using a not-quite-accurate accent or someone over-acting.  But it never came.  I live in the South, so I was wondering when Kudzu was going to make it into the story as almost a character in itself... that was perfectly done.  And how Carol's decision to take it upon herself to "play god" was going to end... maybe this isn't the end but holy cow... nobody saw that coming, not even the sneakiest of the sneaky spoiler seekers saw that coming!

Everything was presented in a real, hard core way.  In a "if this was your life this might be what you'd really do" kind of way.  And that's exactly what we've been waiting for.

Bravo.  This is what we've been waiting for.