Friday, 2 November 2012
Sunday, 28 October 2012
8:30 - heya!
do you like the walking dead?
and hallowe'en?
and super scary gory fun?
will then hot diggity, do we have an hour of fun for you.
(eww, we said hot diggity. we're sorry.)
this week on the walking dead:
will rick slay more people for fun?
will everyone just kill for fun?
hey, michonne. what's up with her?
helicopters?
merle?
join us after the cut for all this and more, on episode 3: walk with me.
8:45 - anywho, as we sit around and wonder what everyone's favourite zombie thriller has in store for us, we're somewhat worried about the [fuck you, it's not a spoiler if you watched the end of last week's episode] return of merle will mean to the citizens of this crazy walking world.
do you like the walking dead?
and hallowe'en?
and super scary gory fun?
will then hot diggity, do we have an hour of fun for you.
(eww, we said hot diggity. we're sorry.)
this week on the walking dead:
will rick slay more people for fun?
will everyone just kill for fun?
hey, michonne. what's up with her?
helicopters?
merle?
join us after the cut for all this and more, on episode 3: walk with me.
neil young is always appropriate.
8:35 - well, you're early. that shows enthusiasm! we like enthusiasm. unforunately, there are very few ways for us to reward that. but grab a seat and say hi, and maybe we can make some friends.
(ed. note: the staff of prettymuchamovie liveblogs, reviews and party planning in no way seek to establish actual friendships.)
8:45 - anywho, as we sit around and wonder what everyone's favourite zombie thriller has in store for us, we're somewhat worried about the [fuck you, it's not a spoiler if you watched the end of last week's episode] return of merle will mean to the citizens of this crazy walking world.
i hope he's like... inspector gadget, and has appendages for different situations. maybe even like, a crack pipe, for his crazy crack-headed racist-ass rants. also, he makes that face a lot.
8:50 - in the usual rundown we'll remind you that today's episode is brought to you by james ready beer, hakutsuru sake, and david's teas. yum yum, so little of this would still be around.
these two are a real team now. very communicative.
oh, hey. it's a commercial. aren't we lucky.
or maybe there's still liquor.
9:00 - hey, do you remember last week? or hell, even the part where merle went missing?
andrea went missing too, but she met michonne.
we start with the sound of a helicopter fading in. it's whiskey 12. but it's a helicopter. that's pretty neat. the sound is quite nice.
these guys are obviously army, cause they're loaded up and wearing fatigues. they're encountering problems and going down.
"mayday, mayday, mayday," the pilot says.
everyone braces for impact as the chopper goes down smoking.
"we're going in hard!"
aaand then the chopper smacks up a tree.
(seriously, this shit is bad.)
9:02 -so andrea, michonne and the boys saw this.
andrea gives michonne a look, and in that direction they go, michonne dragging her walkers and others following along.
these two are a real team now. very communicative.
oh, hey. it's a commercial. aren't we lucky.
9:05 - and we're back. the ladies come upon the wreckage and andrea's still real sick, vomiting all over the place.
michonne chains her mules up to the tree and takes a closer look at the crash site.
we get a good look at her character here.
woooow.
one of the army fellows is cut properly in half, presumably by the blades.
he's on the outskits.
oh boy.
a few cars have pulled up!
michonne runs back to andrea as even more cars arrive.
gee. wonder who this is.
9:07 - armed men survey the scene.
their leader barks
"fan out."
there's a really nice music cue.
walkers are close, but the leader of this group urges his men to "save those rounds 'til you you need them."
here we meet another dude with a bow and arrow.
there's some slow and steady walker clean up as michonne and andrea hide.
andrea looks reeeeally sick.
9:09 - it appears andrea and michonne are safe, they're happened upon by a walker, but it passes by.
"over here, chomper!" one of the governor's crew remarks (yeah, it's him). they arrow it.
andrea wants them to show themselves, but michonne seems interested in hiding.
dude that was cut in half on the ground gets loud, and he's turned. the governor gets his first (to us) kill here, snapping a blade through his skull.
9:10 - these people are methodical and equipped.
michonne's walkers grunt and pull, and andrea coughs as the men check the chopper.
the sounds of michonne's walkers unforunantely draw them over, and she beheads them herself, likely knowing the fate they faced.
everything gets quiet, and the crew at this crash seemingly doesn't suspect them.
"let's roll out, " the governor says.
9:11 - "uh-uh-uh, easy does it girl. mine's a lot bigger than yours."
ohhhh, fuck. it's merle. and he recognizes andrea.
drink for merle, and knifey spooney
"oh oh oh, blondie. and you look good."
he kills a walker that comes upon him with a stump bayonette.
"how's about a hug for your old buddy merle?"
9:13 - there's some interesting dialogue on the radio about infirmary space required for andrea and michonne as they drive through woods filled with hanged walkers. nice spooky music cues, and creepy shots.
"michonne?" andrea asks
"right here," michonne responds.
we go to commercial with merle making one of his quiet. shhh faces.
9:16 - well, now andrea is being treated by a nurse. her and michonne want to leave, but can't.
told so pretty cryptically. but hey, here's merle to prove that he's real and whatnot.
"i guess this old world gets a little smaller at the end, right?" he asks.
he explains he was near bled out and starving, near suicide when these folks found him. he mentions daryl, and asks about him.
andrea says she hasn't seen him for a long time.
but she tells him rick and daryl went back, and he was already gone.
then he laughs and says, "not all of me" and flashes his stump.
"yeah, rick. he's that prick that cuffed me to the rooftop," he says, fastening his bayo-fist back on.
there's conversations about who's tried, and who's dead. jim, dale, jackie, sofia, amy.
"your sister?" merle asks
"she was a good kid. i'm sorry to hear it."
this feels genuine.
andrea gets all nostalgic and talks about the farm and daryl's leadership there.
how she got left behind after.
"i know what it feels like," she says.
"i doubt that," merle says.
michonne hasn't spoken yet.
andrea wants to know what they want, and merle wants a thanks.
"there she sits, four walls around her, roof over her head, medicine in her veins, and she wants to know what i want from her."
he calls michonne mutie before she says "you had a gun on us."
she's ferocious. we love her.
merle asks who hasn't had a gun on them in the last year, says he'd be pissing his pants at the hypothetical guy that comes ambling up with his hands in his pockets.
"thank you," andrea says.
michonne is pissed.
the governor walks in, authoritatively shuts the door, and silences merle.
9:22 - the women want their weapons back.
the governor says they can have them back when they're done.
oh, shit. andrea and michonne don't know people turn regardless.
they have a lot to learn.
the governor is keeping their weapons to protect his people.
"it doesn't matter. however we die, we all turn. i put them out of their misery."
he explains this must be hard to take.
he explains they're guests, not prisoners, and they're free to leave later.
they simply don't open the doors after dusk.
he offers food, extra ammo, their weapons back, and extra food for the road (so to speak).
... all in the morning.
he leads them down a hallway and opens a door.
this is all very a boy and his dog
9:23 - "welcome to woodbury," the governor says.
he then tells them to come with him.
they walk through the streets of this city/town to a wall.
"are you military?" andrea asks
"hardly," he tells her " a couple of vets, but by and large we're self trained."
there's a lot of heavy artillery here.
the whole town is blocked up that way.
ooop, now they call them creepers here.
merle wants this one.
"governor? they call you that?" andrea asks.
he explains some nicknames just stick.
more walkers/creepers are dispersed, and we learn this 'burg has a population.
9:26 - the governor welcomes them to a nice room, with water and clothes. but he still isn't giving back that sword.
andrea is asking about the pilot of the helicopter, but the governor is done. he has work to do.
"my man will be outside the door if you need anything else," he tells them, and leaves.
then we go to commercial.
9:30 - we're back and it's morning.
their guide is quite proud of their city. discussing their lack of casualties and amount of commodities.
andrea wants to know why dead ones are strung up like ornaments.
"...everybody copes in their own way... " the lady explains it away, or attempts to.
the guard from outside the door is trailing behind.
9:32 - the pilot is with the governor, and he's telling a horrible tale of infection spreading quickly through their base and ranks.
his group was small, but well equipped. they still didn't make it though.
"my guys?" the pilot asks.
the governor offers to go find the rest, bring them back and make them safe.
"they're out there. waiting for you, exposed. tell me where they are, and i promise you. i'll bring them back alive."
well, they sure do want you to think this governor fellow is a legit nice guy.
9:33 - and just on time he kicks his way into some laboratory/garage thing, where merle is being made fun of by scientists. or, a scientist.
governor wants info on "the girl"
clearly that can't be michonne, because, you know, racism.
he explains they're from the atlanta group that left him on a roof, and "forced him to mutiliate himself". merle wants him to talk to her again.
he wants to know about daryl.
9:35 - it turns out the scientist was dissecting/analyzing michonne's walkers/lurkers/creepers. apparently her mods are great. they don't want to eat if they have no jaws, because not eating decreases their appetite. but their heads are still alive! pretty unnerving.
the governor thinks they're camouflage.
"walk with biter, they think you're a biter."
it's interesting, how many questions, and how inquisitive these people are about the walkers and whatnot. and how smart michonne obviously is. that logic works very well with both the basic canon of the z-word, and even more specifically with that of this show in particular.
"they are starving. they just do it slower than us."
9:36 - they discuss that letting merle go speak to the women alone could be a bad idea as the governor looks over a cardboard model of the town. huh. interesting.
9:37 - now we're eating at the governor's house. michonne, andrea, the governor and his scientist. i love andrea and her consistent challenging of sexism!
they discuss walkers and how they'd like to be offed while plating food.
michonne sees her sword.
"no one believes there might be a trace of the person they were, trapped inside" they governor says.
the scientist won't use gendered pronouns, and only refers to walkers as it.
then he asks about michonne's friends.
"you did know them, didn't you?"
"let them eat," the governer commands.
9:38 - andrea asks if this place can hold up against a herd. does she not realize the internet has been calling it a "horde?" jeez louise, andrea!
"what's your secret?"
"really big walls."
she points out the soldiers had walls.
"the real secret is what goes on within these walls. getting back to what we were. who we were."
apparently they have schools, and jobs, etc. structure.
"with a lot of guns and ammunition."
obviously the governor has appointed himself head of this whole deal.
"looks like you're sitting pretty at the end of the world," andrea says.
"do i strike you as the kind of man that sits pretty?" he asks.
he says people are the earth's seed, blah blah blah, and it's time to harvest, and they will rise again, and blah blah blah they won't eat each other. christian dominionist thinking is reeeeeeally scary.
nobody acknowledges michonne.
9:41 - governor is excused, a man appears to discuss something.
the scientist asks how andrea's tea is. clearly there is something going on with this beverage.
"we want our weapons back," michonne replies/demands, like a boss.
the governor reiterates they can have their weapons back when they leave.
"but you should relax... take a look around, who knows... you might like what you see."
and at that we're being told about hyundai, and presidents, and ewww
hey, as a point. the walking dead social media facebook game is dumb. like all facebook games.
9:46 - michonne and andrea are walking.
"i don't trust him," michonne says.
"why not? have you ever trusted anybody?"
"...yeah!"
"then give him a day or two, some time to get our shit together."
"my shit never stopped being together."
hahaha i love them
i need a romantic buddy comedy starring these two in the seven or eight months we didn't get to see.
okay, andrea wants to know a bunch more about michonne. because they've been together for 7 months and blah blah.
wait, no blah blah! tonight's bloggers disagree, because i am all over this shit.
"we were with those walkers all winter and you just took them out."
"it was easier than you think," michonne retorts. because she is awesome.
she walks off, and that guy follows them in the distance.
9:48 - an army base appears... it's approached by the governor, waving a white flag from the driver's window of his car.
"we found your guy! wells. lt. wells? his chopper went down."
he says he's hurt, and the other guys didn't make it.
the men are happy.
"they got wells, they found him."
"sure did," the governor says. "and we found you too!"
then he shoots the front officer, starting off a brutal ambush wherein this entire group of men is murdered. the last one living (whom the governor shot first) is beaten to death with his own weapon after the governor cuts it off of him, terrifying spit dripping from his chin.
"never waste a bullet, son," the governor informs a young underling, as they begin taking weapons from the dead (at the governor's command).
the subtle music cues underneath are awesomely tense.
a straggling soldier runs off in the distance... the governor takes aim and shoots him, then hands a knife to the man he spoke to earlier and says "go put a merciful end to that young man's days."
he turns and addresses the rest of his ambush team, who've emerged from the surrounding woods.
"let's see what uncle sam brought us."
commercial time.
this split up between groups for episodes is pretty awesome.
so are these trailers for life of pi. we should probably review one, no?
9:54 - back at woodbury, the gang returns from their raid. merle's stump is lacking blade at the moment.
the whole town gathers around, excitement in the air.
"we brought in three new people yesterday,"
the governor begins.
"i promised i'd bring them back here alive. but they didn't have our walls, or our fences. biters got there before we did. now, the men had trucks, and the trucks had weapons, food, medicines, things we need..."
ha! he tells the people to honour the men's sacrifices, and that dark is coming, so go to bed. be thankful for what you have (ie, the governor himself).
andrea is eating this shit up. first shane and now the governor? andrea! you are terrible at detecting egomaniacal bullshit!
...also, i can't keep letting this go. when did andrea take the time to stylishly slash the back of her shirt like that? it is ridiculous, and also cool-looking - and so distracting on two fronts.
she and the governor have a bullshit conversation (see?!), and she asks for his real name.
"i never tell," he says.
"never say never," she responds.
he stops smiling and takes three, menacing steps toward her. "never."
9:59 - later reveal to his house.
brown-haired tour guide from earlier is naked in his bed.
he was once married to someone else though, and had a daughter? there's a picture of a family with him?
he pours himself and goes to sit in a room with fishtanks full of walker/biter/lurker/creeper/people heads. michonne's friends where there, as was the pilot it would seem. this reveal was very slow, and very, very creepy. and some of them are alive maybe? wow!!
that's it for this week's episode.
this tension in the andrea/michonne dynamic is interesting, given how new and relatively fresh it is to the show. they've established the governor and woodbury to be a very frightening place with relative ease, and merle himself is pretty darned scary... but compared in no way to the governor. throw in a helicopter crash and some fun kills, and this continues the run of awesome episodes. next week looks great though. will the two groups finally meet up? i miss daryl... and umm, well, maybe none of the other characters, which is a little off-putting.
michonne chains her mules up to the tree and takes a closer look at the crash site.
we get a good look at her character here.
woooow.
one of the army fellows is cut properly in half, presumably by the blades.
he's on the outskits.
oh boy.
a few cars have pulled up!
michonne runs back to andrea as even more cars arrive.
gee. wonder who this is.
9:07 - armed men survey the scene.
their leader barks
"fan out."
there's a really nice music cue.
walkers are close, but the leader of this group urges his men to "save those rounds 'til you you need them."
here we meet another dude with a bow and arrow.
there's some slow and steady walker clean up as michonne and andrea hide.
andrea looks reeeeally sick.
9:09 - it appears andrea and michonne are safe, they're happened upon by a walker, but it passes by.
"over here, chomper!" one of the governor's crew remarks (yeah, it's him). they arrow it.
andrea wants them to show themselves, but michonne seems interested in hiding.
dude that was cut in half on the ground gets loud, and he's turned. the governor gets his first (to us) kill here, snapping a blade through his skull.
9:10 - these people are methodical and equipped.
michonne's walkers grunt and pull, and andrea coughs as the men check the chopper.
the sounds of michonne's walkers unforunantely draw them over, and she beheads them herself, likely knowing the fate they faced.
everything gets quiet, and the crew at this crash seemingly doesn't suspect them.
"let's roll out, " the governor says.
9:11 - "uh-uh-uh, easy does it girl. mine's a lot bigger than yours."
ohhhh, fuck. it's merle. and he recognizes andrea.
drink for merle, and knifey spooney
"oh oh oh, blondie. and you look good."
he kills a walker that comes upon him with a stump bayonette.
give him time, he'll get there.
(link)
"how's about a hug for your old buddy merle?"
9:13 - there's some interesting dialogue on the radio about infirmary space required for andrea and michonne as they drive through woods filled with hanged walkers. nice spooky music cues, and creepy shots.
"michonne?" andrea asks
"right here," michonne responds.
we go to commercial with merle making one of his quiet. shhh faces.
9:16 - well, now andrea is being treated by a nurse. her and michonne want to leave, but can't.
told so pretty cryptically. but hey, here's merle to prove that he's real and whatnot.
"i guess this old world gets a little smaller at the end, right?" he asks.
he explains he was near bled out and starving, near suicide when these folks found him. he mentions daryl, and asks about him.
andrea says she hasn't seen him for a long time.
but she tells him rick and daryl went back, and he was already gone.
then he laughs and says, "not all of me" and flashes his stump.
"yeah, rick. he's that prick that cuffed me to the rooftop," he says, fastening his bayo-fist back on.
there's conversations about who's tried, and who's dead. jim, dale, jackie, sofia, amy.
"your sister?" merle asks
"she was a good kid. i'm sorry to hear it."
this feels genuine.
andrea gets all nostalgic and talks about the farm and daryl's leadership there.
how she got left behind after.
"i know what it feels like," she says.
"i doubt that," merle says.
michonne hasn't spoken yet.
andrea wants to know what they want, and merle wants a thanks.
"there she sits, four walls around her, roof over her head, medicine in her veins, and she wants to know what i want from her."
he calls michonne mutie before she says "you had a gun on us."
she's ferocious. we love her.
merle asks who hasn't had a gun on them in the last year, says he'd be pissing his pants at the hypothetical guy that comes ambling up with his hands in his pockets.
"thank you," andrea says.
michonne is pissed.
the governor walks in, authoritatively shuts the door, and silences merle.
9:22 - the women want their weapons back.
the governor says they can have them back when they're done.
oh, shit. andrea and michonne don't know people turn regardless.
they have a lot to learn.
the governor is keeping their weapons to protect his people.
"it doesn't matter. however we die, we all turn. i put them out of their misery."
he explains this must be hard to take.
he explains they're guests, not prisoners, and they're free to leave later.
they simply don't open the doors after dusk.
he offers food, extra ammo, their weapons back, and extra food for the road (so to speak).
... all in the morning.
he leads them down a hallway and opens a door.
this is all very a boy and his dog
9:23 - "welcome to woodbury," the governor says.
he then tells them to come with him.
they walk through the streets of this city/town to a wall.
"are you military?" andrea asks
"hardly," he tells her " a couple of vets, but by and large we're self trained."
there's a lot of heavy artillery here.
the whole town is blocked up that way.
ooop, now they call them creepers here.
merle wants this one.
"governor? they call you that?" andrea asks.
he explains some nicknames just stick.
freshen your drink, guv'na?
more walkers/creepers are dispersed, and we learn this 'burg has a population.
9:26 - the governor welcomes them to a nice room, with water and clothes. but he still isn't giving back that sword.
andrea is asking about the pilot of the helicopter, but the governor is done. he has work to do.
"my man will be outside the door if you need anything else," he tells them, and leaves.
then we go to commercial.
9:30 - we're back and it's morning.
their guide is quite proud of their city. discussing their lack of casualties and amount of commodities.
andrea wants to know why dead ones are strung up like ornaments.
"...everybody copes in their own way... " the lady explains it away, or attempts to.
the guard from outside the door is trailing behind.
9:32 - the pilot is with the governor, and he's telling a horrible tale of infection spreading quickly through their base and ranks.
his group was small, but well equipped. they still didn't make it though.
"my guys?" the pilot asks.
the governor offers to go find the rest, bring them back and make them safe.
"they're out there. waiting for you, exposed. tell me where they are, and i promise you. i'll bring them back alive."
well, they sure do want you to think this governor fellow is a legit nice guy.
9:33 - and just on time he kicks his way into some laboratory/garage thing, where merle is being made fun of by scientists. or, a scientist.
governor wants info on "the girl"
clearly that can't be michonne, because, you know, racism.
he explains they're from the atlanta group that left him on a roof, and "forced him to mutiliate himself". merle wants him to talk to her again.
he wants to know about daryl.
9:35 - it turns out the scientist was dissecting/analyzing michonne's walkers/lurkers/creepers. apparently her mods are great. they don't want to eat if they have no jaws, because not eating decreases their appetite. but their heads are still alive! pretty unnerving.
the governor thinks they're camouflage.
"walk with biter, they think you're a biter."
it's interesting, how many questions, and how inquisitive these people are about the walkers and whatnot. and how smart michonne obviously is. that logic works very well with both the basic canon of the z-word, and even more specifically with that of this show in particular.
"they are starving. they just do it slower than us."
9:36 - they discuss that letting merle go speak to the women alone could be a bad idea as the governor looks over a cardboard model of the town. huh. interesting.
9:37 - now we're eating at the governor's house. michonne, andrea, the governor and his scientist. i love andrea and her consistent challenging of sexism!
they discuss walkers and how they'd like to be offed while plating food.
michonne sees her sword.
"no one believes there might be a trace of the person they were, trapped inside" they governor says.
the scientist won't use gendered pronouns, and only refers to walkers as it.
then he asks about michonne's friends.
"you did know them, didn't you?"
"let them eat," the governer commands.
9:38 - andrea asks if this place can hold up against a herd. does she not realize the internet has been calling it a "horde?" jeez louise, andrea!
"what's your secret?"
"really big walls."
she points out the soldiers had walls.
"the real secret is what goes on within these walls. getting back to what we were. who we were."
apparently they have schools, and jobs, etc. structure.
(link)
"with a lot of guns and ammunition."
obviously the governor has appointed himself head of this whole deal.
"looks like you're sitting pretty at the end of the world," andrea says.
"do i strike you as the kind of man that sits pretty?" he asks.
he says people are the earth's seed, blah blah blah, and it's time to harvest, and they will rise again, and blah blah blah they won't eat each other. christian dominionist thinking is reeeeeeally scary.
nobody acknowledges michonne.
9:41 - governor is excused, a man appears to discuss something.
the scientist asks how andrea's tea is. clearly there is something going on with this beverage.
"we want our weapons back," michonne replies/demands, like a boss.
(link)
the governor reiterates they can have their weapons back when they leave.
"but you should relax... take a look around, who knows... you might like what you see."
and at that we're being told about hyundai, and presidents, and ewww
hey, as a point. the walking dead social media facebook game is dumb. like all facebook games.
9:46 - michonne and andrea are walking.
"i don't trust him," michonne says.
"why not? have you ever trusted anybody?"
"...yeah!"
"then give him a day or two, some time to get our shit together."
"my shit never stopped being together."
hahaha i love them
i need a romantic buddy comedy starring these two in the seven or eight months we didn't get to see.
but less racist than this! i mean, it is 2012.
okay, andrea wants to know a bunch more about michonne. because they've been together for 7 months and blah blah.
wait, no blah blah! tonight's bloggers disagree, because i am all over this shit.
"we were with those walkers all winter and you just took them out."
"it was easier than you think," michonne retorts. because she is awesome.
she walks off, and that guy follows them in the distance.
9:48 - an army base appears... it's approached by the governor, waving a white flag from the driver's window of his car.
"we found your guy! wells. lt. wells? his chopper went down."
he says he's hurt, and the other guys didn't make it.
the men are happy.
"they got wells, they found him."
"sure did," the governor says. "and we found you too!"
then he shoots the front officer, starting off a brutal ambush wherein this entire group of men is murdered. the last one living (whom the governor shot first) is beaten to death with his own weapon after the governor cuts it off of him, terrifying spit dripping from his chin.
"never waste a bullet, son," the governor informs a young underling, as they begin taking weapons from the dead (at the governor's command).
the subtle music cues underneath are awesomely tense.
a straggling soldier runs off in the distance... the governor takes aim and shoots him, then hands a knife to the man he spoke to earlier and says "go put a merciful end to that young man's days."
he turns and addresses the rest of his ambush team, who've emerged from the surrounding woods.
"let's see what uncle sam brought us."
commercial time.
this split up between groups for episodes is pretty awesome.
so are these trailers for life of pi. we should probably review one, no?
9:54 - back at woodbury, the gang returns from their raid. merle's stump is lacking blade at the moment.
the whole town gathers around, excitement in the air.
"we brought in three new people yesterday,"
the governor begins.
"i promised i'd bring them back here alive. but they didn't have our walls, or our fences. biters got there before we did. now, the men had trucks, and the trucks had weapons, food, medicines, things we need..."
ha! he tells the people to honour the men's sacrifices, and that dark is coming, so go to bed. be thankful for what you have (ie, the governor himself).
andrea is eating this shit up. first shane and now the governor? andrea! you are terrible at detecting egomaniacal bullshit!
...also, i can't keep letting this go. when did andrea take the time to stylishly slash the back of her shirt like that? it is ridiculous, and also cool-looking - and so distracting on two fronts.
she and the governor have a bullshit conversation (see?!), and she asks for his real name.
"i never tell," he says.
"never say never," she responds.
he stops smiling and takes three, menacing steps toward her. "never."
9:59 - later reveal to his house.
brown-haired tour guide from earlier is naked in his bed.
he was once married to someone else though, and had a daughter? there's a picture of a family with him?
he pours himself and goes to sit in a room with fishtanks full of walker/biter/lurker/creeper/people heads. michonne's friends where there, as was the pilot it would seem. this reveal was very slow, and very, very creepy. and some of them are alive maybe? wow!!
that's it for this week's episode.
this tension in the andrea/michonne dynamic is interesting, given how new and relatively fresh it is to the show. they've established the governor and woodbury to be a very frightening place with relative ease, and merle himself is pretty darned scary... but compared in no way to the governor. throw in a helicopter crash and some fun kills, and this continues the run of awesome episodes. next week looks great though. will the two groups finally meet up? i miss daryl... and umm, well, maybe none of the other characters, which is a little off-putting.
Sunday, 21 October 2012
8:40 - welcome back!
we're here for episode 2 of season 3, and it promises to be an exciting one!
will the group strengthen their hold on the prison?
will hershel's leg lead to infection, or worse?
will lori's baby be a walker?
will andrea's medication help?
join us beyond the cut for the answers to these (yeah, right) and loads more important questions!
8:40 - you're a little bit early! excited, no doubt, to learn all of the wisdom that this episode is sure to impart! well, grab a drink and sit tight, excitement is around the corner.
8:50 - just a reminder that tonight's festivities are brought to use by james ready beer, strongbow cider, fruli strawberry flavoured beer, and grand river brewing high baller pumpkin ale. oooh, and david's teas. we love liquid during liveblogs. and allllliteration!
9:00 - we get the typical rundown of last week. it was gruesome. check out our recap.
we pick up exactly where we left off, with daryl eyeballing some survivors
"who the hell are you?"
hershel might be bleeding out, and we have a mexican standoff (or something less nationality-specific, i guess). guns vs crossbows, and some walkers are pushing the doors.
t-dog and glenn seal the room up, and the team is wheeling hershel out of the morgue.
9:02 - t-dog lets some walkers in, and the group takes off, leaving the survivors (stunned and confused) and hershel's leg behind.
boom! credits, then commericals.
9:05 - back in, the group wheels hershel through dark hallways and daryl picks off walkers. the inhabitants of the prison hesitantly follow along.
the group sees them following along, but makes little of it.
9:06 - they make it back the the cell block they're hiding out in, and it's time for first aid to help hershel. they're trying to stop him from bleeding out. the show has greeeeeat makeup and prosthetics.
9:07 - meanwhile daryl takes aim, looking for walkers and survivors.
the survivors find their way in.
"cell four, that's mine, gringo."
9:08 - daryl tells them they've gotten a pardon, and that they can leave. the inmates are pretty hesitant to leave, but t-dog and daryl are pretty pleased to point guns at them and yell.
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9:08 - it's okay though - here comes rick to make the peace. he tells glenn to stay behind with hershel and take care of maggie.
9:08 - rick runs out and carl locks the door behind, rick tells them to lower their weapons.
"how many of you are in there?" an inmate asks.
"too many of you to handle," rick tells them.
apparently they've been locked in the cafeteria for 10 months, "hearing about guys going cannibal, then coming back." they have no idea what happened, what's gone down.
a guard locked them in with a weapon for protection, but he never came back.
9:09 - rick breaks the bad news to the inmates "there's no army, no government, no hospitals, no police... it's all gone."
9:10 - the inmates ask for a cell phone to call their families.
"you don't get it, do you? no phones, no computers. as far as we can see it, half the population's been wiped out, maybe more," rick tells them.
9:11 - rick leads the inmates out to the yard to see the sun... and the gruesome stacks of bodies.
9:11 - "so what is this, a disease?"
"yeah, and we're all infected."
9:12 - daryl explains the whole dying and reanimation thing to them, rather simply
9:12 - now there's talk of plans, and destinations. the inmates want them to leave, but rick says it ain't happening.
"ain't no way this robin hood guy took out all these freaks," one of the inmates says.
things are getting tense.
you feel bad for these guys, locked up in a prison, learning the world is over.
the inmates claim the prison is theirs.
rick says it's not. the group has spilled blood and set the prisoners free.
things get tense and weapons are drawn again.
the inmates want their cell block back (fun game! drink every time we say "cell block").
"you can leave, there are other cell blocks."
daryl offers them the road to try their luck on, if they're so inclined.
"you can leave, try your luck on the road."
9:13 - the inmates decide they'll take over their own cell block, and rick will help clear out a cell block in exchange for half their food.
"you pay, we'll play. we'll clear out a block for you and you keep to it. let's be clear, if i see you out here, near any of our people, if i so much as catch a whiff of your scent, i will kill you," rick tells the inmate leader (whose name i have determined is tomas).
and with that, more commercials.
9:16 - back in the cell, the women are working on hershel, and discussing his various medical needs.
this apparently leads to carol and lori discussing the delivering of the baby.
lori says they'll get through this, and carol seems apprehensive. have i mentioned that carol's really growing on me this season?
9:17 - the inmates give the group a tour of the kitchen, showing them how well it's fortified.
it seems there is indeed a bunch of food. nothing fancy, but they can make due. and it certainly beats owl and dog food - not that i've sampled either of those before.
9:18 - daryl is angry about how the amount food was misrepresented. but i suppose the group has been surviving on very little, and thus they have an understanding of how far such an amount could stretch.
rick opens a door. it turns out to be what the prisoners were using as a bathroom. pretty gross.
9:19 - glenn and maggie reunite, and have a cute moment. she wonders what they'll do without hershel, but glenn says there's no need to consider that. they're both very attractive, and not letting the apocalypse and lack of showers interfere with this. does glenn ever need to shave? not to mention maggie's armpits - she sure does wear a lot of tank tops.
um, i didn't see that movie. what colour were the tank tops?
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"if he does wake up, then what? he can't even walk. all we do is run," maggie says. she's concerned how hershel will make it through the future.
glenn tells maggie to check on beth and takes a turn watching hershel.
9:20 - beth finds maggie, and she's tailoring all of hershel's pants to have one leg. the sisters have a tense talk about whether or not hershel's going to make it. beth is feeling positive, 'cause they have carol. and possibly because sweetness and positivity are her only defining character traits.
9:21 - t-dog, daryl and rick return with food from the cafeteria.
lori fills them in that hershel's vitals are poor.
rick gives glenn handcuffs, just in case hershel becomes a walker. yikes.
9:22 - rick fills lori in about his peace agreement. she asks if the other men have guns.
"what are your other options?"
"kill them."
"well, if that's your only option."
lori's getting pretty hard too. she knows rick isn't a killer (but is that really true anymore?), and can't ask him to become one. but she knows he'll do whatever he needs to do to keep the group safe too, and tells him to do so without fear of judgement.
lori calls all the shots, a lot like lucille bluth.
"ain't got to tell us how to take out a man," the inmate leader says.
"they ain't men," t-dog tells them. yay, dialogue for t-dog! double-yay, a rhyme!
9:24 - meanwhile, glenn handcuffs hershel to the bedframe. carol and maggie don't like this. perhaps it's getting a bit too oedipal.
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9:25 - maggie asks for some alone time with hershel.... he's clearly not faring so well, and still not conscious.
maggie has a cute little scene here where she tells him he doesn't have to fight anymore, or worry about her and beth. she tells him he can let go, and i marvel at how i consistently forget that this actress is not even american. her accent is even more impressive than her nose (and that is one adorable nose)!
it seems pretty likely hershel dies here, and of course that takes us to a commercial.
9:30 - back from commercial, and the inmates/group are heading into the cell block.
it's dark. daryl leads the way.
(why are all these men [and walkers] so clean shaven)
the inmates ignore daryl's lead, charge in and don't aim for heads. t-dog, daryl and rick watch as they hack and maim up walkers... presumably to success? lots of chest-shots.
9:31 - everyone's hanging out in hershel's cell. carl comes back, and instead of having organized food, he's gone and gotten medical supplies for hershel. he killed 2 walkers and everything!
lori is pissed that he went off alone.
carl tells lori "get off my back!"
beth tells him not to talk to his mom that way (which hilariously undercuts the notion of "white-girling" one's parents)
sometimes, i wish i could "white girl" my mom.
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the score this season is very sparse, and while i suppose it suits the show's narrative intentions, we want more bear mcreary!
we want chilly willy!
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9:33 - back at the cell block, rick and the gang teach the inmates how to take out walkers.
"stay tight and go for the head. no more of that prison riot crap."
as they're learning, big tiny (the big inmate) creeps away on his own, but some walkers corner him. one breaks out of its cuffs (losing a hand in the process, and clawing big tiny with the exposed bone. wow!). rick goes in the break up the walkers attacking tiny, but the lead inmate (tomas) blasts the walkers away.
is everyone okay?
9:34 - who knows? 'cause we're back with hershel.
carol needs glenn's help with something, but he won't leave hershel.
9:35 - big tiny is scratched/clawed/gored/scored, so it seems he's fucked. yuck!
"look at me, i'm fine! i'm not changing or anything," big tiny says.
before big tiny has a chance to turn, or run, or anything, tomas pretty much crushes his head. it's gross.
it seeeeeeeeems rick and co. may be in over their heads.
oh, a commercial?
9:41 - out in the yard, carol and glenn are walking the fence. as are many walkers.
carol points one out, and it seems to be the only former female.
"that one," she says.
she wants to use a walker for practice?
not sure what type.
she's apparently practicing c-sections, so she knows what she's doing to get lori's baby out. apparently lori has never delivered vaginally, so carol thinks this is the best choice when delivering the potential zombaby. i am skeptical that adding an invasive surgery to the mix won't just kill them both, but whatevs!
anyway, carol needs glenn to stand watch as she kills and dissects her practice-walker.
gross.
9:42 - back in the cell block, the group/inmates trundle along, with tomas being all crazy-looking and bloody.
rick and daryl discuss how dangerous he is.
"if he makes one move," rick says.
"just give me the signal," says daryl.
aww - rick's his (daryl's) new merle! and daryl's his (rick's) new shane! but with less abuse and betrayal on both sides.
in the prison laundry room they seem to have hit a midpoint between cell blocks.
rick tosses tomas the keys to open the door.
"i ain't openin' that," tomas replies.
rick makes him anyway. is anyone else feeling really creeped out by the whole "white cop/inmates of colour" power dynamic here?
"one door," rick tells him.
(because jim morrison was one door right)
9:43 - tomas pulls the doors open (both of 'em!) and all hell breaks loose. this inmate guy is a problem.
the gang hacks and arrows and now tomas is throwing walkers at rick and causing yet more problems.
"i told you one door!"
"shit happens."
the walkers are done (thanks, daryl!), but now there's an awkward showdown between leaders (that is, between rick and tomas).
"yeah, i get it. shit happens," rick says.
then he cuts tomas' head in half.
that'll learn him.
but rick's not a killer, or anything.
one of the remaining inmates takes off, and rick chases him. daryl and t-dog hold the other two.
the one inmate (andrew, maybe?) makes it out the the yard, and tries to come back, but rick locks him out, and closing the door as we hear him getting ripped apart. but you know, still not a killer.
9:46 - turns out that hershel is still holding on? he's still breathing and maggie's there.
oh, maybe now he stopped?
beth and carl stand watch.
9:47 - okay, beth is freaking out. maybe now hershel is gone.
lori jumps in to do cpr (which seems like kind of a terrible idea?), and carl stands watch.
there's a super scary scene in which hershel grabs lori as she performs resucitation, seemingly having turned! but it was a false alarm.
we cut to commercial with a shot carl standing in the cell doorway, gun drawn on hershel.
(wait, there's a contest where AMC is giving away a car from the show? cause there are somehow new cars in the zombie apocalypse? yay, corporate tie-ins and placement deals, there's no end to 'em!)
9:52 - wow, rick is back with t-dog and daryl. he's threatening the remaining two inmates. they're pleading for their lives. they were friends with big tiny.
wow, rick is fucked. zombies really make you weird.
one guy's tearing up (damn, what are their names?), so rick turns the gun on the other and says
"what about you?"
"i ain't never pleaded for my life," the guy says "and i ain't starting now, so you do what you gotta do."
9:53 - inside the cell block, all the inmates have been executed while lying down with their hands tied, using single bullets. it's pretty chilling. rick decides to lock in the remaining two survivors.
"this is sick," they tell rick and daryl.
"this isn't sick. you ain't seen what's outside," daryl tells them.
"a word of advice," t-dog says. "take those bodies outside and burn 'em."
and thus the settlement of two inmates came to be.
(psst! did you guys catch the episode title just now? that's another drink!)
9:54 - rick, daryl and t-dog return to the cell block, and carol fills them in.
9:55 - "still no fever," lori tells rick.
they all file into the cell, and watch over hershel who is making noises, labouredly and moving his mouth. now he's opened his eyes.
"daddy?" maggie asks, followed by beth.
rick unlocks him.
he seems to have his facilities and mental capabilities relatively intact.
he holds his hand out to rick, not his daughters'. odd.
9:56 - everyone cries a bit. not carl though. he just smiles. he's haaaaaaard.
9:57 - rick leads the girls in to huddle around hershel.
9:58 - outside, carol is beginning her attempts at surgery, on a walker cadaver.
walker pantyshots ensue, and then additional grossness. i think i would have much rather had that shot be of carol's face as she lift's the walker's dress, as opposed to focusing on the walker's dead body.
but wait! speaking of camera directions, somebody is watching carol from the bushes, and the outside of the prison! oh no! what if they think carol's a walker and kill her? wait, that's not too likely.
anyway, the watcher moves around, and we don't see them.
9:58 - rick and lori hang out in a guard's perch.
"we'll start cleaning tomorrow," rick says.
"yeah, we'll give carl a safe place to... do whatever he does these days," lori says.
now rick discusses how lori isn't a bad mother, in contrast to what she said earlier. however, he doesn't speak to her performance as a wife, which she comments on with a rueful laugh.
they allude to divorces, but there are no lawyers or assets in the zombie-apocalypse. weird.
now there's a circlejerk over the fact that hershel is still alive.
"i thought maybe you were coming out here to talk about us," lori says. "maybe there's nothing to talk about anymore."
crows caw, and then rick puts his hand on lori's shoulder.
"we're awful grateful for what you did," rick tells her.
lori puts her head on said shoulder after rick takes his hand back and walks away, and we pan out. finally, more reasonable characterization of lori! i'd pretty much given up on her character after last season. guess that means she won't make it through the rest of this one!
9:59 - now we see clips of next week! shit! the governor is coming! shit!
so this was a pretty good follow-up to last week. they kept the pace close and progressed a couple of stories. some new characters were introduced, and hey! they were people. not bad. all in all, we approve.
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Sunday, 14 October 2012
8:45 - willkommen! bienvenue! welcome!
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haha, psych! we're not reviewing dexter - this liveblog is for the season premiere of the walking dead!
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we're here starting our first full season of liveblogging the walking dead. be excited - we kicked things off doing the season finale last year, and we're very excited about the developments of this season. stay tuned with us as we learn all about what directions the characters head in this year! will the writers follow the comics? will (rick make) lori keep the baby? will anyone miss shane? will carl stay in the damn house?
why won't this boy stay in the house?
8:55 - turn off your phone! dim the lights! get the umm, whatever you drink or eat! tonite's episode is brought to you by Muskoka Mad Tom India Pale Ale, Maudite and various David's Teas. Yes. Beer and Tea. We're like that. and we're excited! Hit the jump to watch the episode with us!
9:00 - Remember last season? Wasn't it awesome? Everyone's infected! Lori's pregnant! Shane's dead! Uh Oh! Walkers!
9:01 - awesome opening shot on a walker's eye. the group busts in, t-dog and daryl, then carl and rick. walkers are dead and they search the house. it's tense, and nerve-wracking! rick and daryl almost have a showdown, and carl runs into an old walker that he wastes, no questions asked. he's haaard now.
9:02 - t-dog goes upstairs alone, cause that's always the best idea! daryl follows him and finds an owl. sadly, it seems to be dinner.
9:03 - ascertaining the house is safe and clear, the group moves in. it's obviously a decent amount of time later. carl has a gun and hershel is oooold.
9:04 - carl gathers dog food, everyone settles in. huzzah. hershel is sad. everyone is quiet. the scene is rather heavy as people prepare to eat owl and dog food.
9:05 - out the window there is a tonne of walkers. the entire group empties out, weapons in hand. including t-dog's spear? maggie gets an axe. everyone hops in their cars as some bear mcreary tunes drop and the show kicks up, walkers in tow!
9:09 - the group is plotting their route. carl is hard. rick wants to go west. hershel hassles him, 'cause it seems lori is going to give birth any day now.
9:10 - rick and daryl walking along happen upon the prison. drink. rick's police instincts are so happy. so am i, watching inmate walkers.
lori really is pregnant.
they rip through some fence, and they're between fences and walkers. it's rough, and a little daunting.
9:11 - rick is super happy. he thinks they can wipe out these few walkers and make this prison his own. he sends daryl, hershel, carol and carl to towers to snipe them as glen, t-dog, maggie and beth fight them through the fences. rick and lori run through the yard.
9:12 - lots of gore here, and walkers killed in various fashions. notable mention to carl's cool, accurate shooting, and rick's badass walker-running. good ol' poppa cop.
very night of the living dead '90s remake, with lori just pushing them off.
9:14 - the group is having very little problem disposing of these walkers. everyone seems to have improved a great deal at shooting, and there's tons of ammo to go around. even lori can shoot! she's more than just a mother. rick's gun is great.
9:15 - they survey their kills, and everyone is happy. these people get super content with killing. especially glen, taking out the fucker on the ground. any way, everyone is suuuper happy to have a home now. commercials, yay.
9:18 - it's nighttime now, and the group is camping out in the yard out front of the prison.
"mmm, just like mom used to make," says glen at the camp fire.
t-dog is more interested in moving bodies away from water.
hershel is more interested in planting some tomatoes.
rick is more interested in patrolling the fence to make sure no walkers can get in.
"this'll be a good place to have the baby. safe." beth says.
it seem's they're willing to hold out in the yard?
9:20 - daryl and carol discuss rick and his leadership vis-a-vis his killing of shane before daryl gives her shoulder a massage. interesting i guess.
"that's pretty romatic. wanna screw around?" carol asks daryl.
i think he shoots her down.
that's umm, kinda wimpy of the writing. i for one (we for two?) would like to see that happen.
9:22 - now it's family sing-a-long time around the fire, and carol and daryl return. boourns.
of course maggie joins in, singing nicely.
rick returns to the fire and a super grown-up carl. this kid's a good actor, i guess.
9:23 - this song's religious, isn't it? forgive my ignorance.
the walkers doing circuits along the fence is spooky. like ragdoll kitties, only dead! it's a pretty sharp contrast to how healthy everyone in the group still looks. but i guess that's consistent inattention to detail?
9:24 - the girls stop singing and rick decides to tell everyone to go to bed, because they have a "big day tomorrow." he plans on getting inside.
"most of the walkers are dressed as guards and prisoners..."
he thinks supplies, and maybe rations would be inside. weapons. food. medicine. he thinks the place could be a gold mine. hershel says they're low on ammo, and i wonder why they shot the fuck out of so many walkers earlier?
"these assholes don't stand a chance." rick says... of the walkers i think? what a jerk. would you call a lion or a shark an asshole?
9:25 - lori corners rick. she thinks they should hang out in the yard for a while, and let people recuperate. they have a heated conversation about the baby, and birthing, etc. rick seems pretty ignorant to like, y'know the safety of his wife and unborn child. he tells her to talk to hershel. yeah, you guys know hershel - the veterinarian that barely saved his son's life last season? yeah. that dude.
9:30 - inside a store, some walkers lurk. so some lurkers lurk? anyway, michonne cuts the shit out of the three out of them, decapitating all, and gets her medicine.
9:30 - the group tears open the gate and makes a run for it.
oh my shit! walker riot cops! so scary! oh, wow.
glen figures it out.
what do you do? they have extra armour!!
any way, the group is getting cornered, but they continue to hack stab and kill away.
maggie gets a nice stab on one of the SWAT Walkers, and she gets super happy.
"see that?" she asks
anyway, shit is getting hectic.
there are some pretty cool melee kills in this scene in general. knives, spears, tire irons, woo!
9:32 - bodies everywhere. holy shit.
seems like everyone made it, safely.
they discuss the safety of the prison inside, noting some of the walkers were clearly civilian.
rick decides they've gone to far to hole up, and must press on to the inside.
9:34 - they get in and things are eerily quiet, and quite nicely shot.
the group makes the rounds and finds some grizzly scenes, and some keys, but few walkers this early on.
9:35 - they press on, finding more and more dead guards, and inmates. it's super creepy and quiet... i dig the lack of score, and yet... where's bear?
9:36 - they find some cells with walkers locked up. interesting.
daryl and t-dog take care of it.
9:36 - they decide they can move into this cell block for now. in the morning they'll seek out the cafeteria and infirmary. tonight they'll sleep in cells. except daryl.
"i won't sleep in no cage. i'll be up on the perch."
9:37 - some weird moments between carl, beth and hershel.
then glen is checking maggie for scratches.
daryl gets comfy on his perch, and rick walks around.
everyone is all bloody.
what the shit. that can't be sanitary.
9:38 - rick sits in the hallway, seemingly lost... commercialz!
9:43 - we're back with michonne. she's entering sportsman's deer cooler with her two confidants, who well, we've met before. she runs to the back where she's stashed andrea.
"what are you doing out here?" she asks andrea.
apparently the meds from earlier were for andrea.
we approve of the michonne casting.
andrea's pretty sick it seems.
"how is it out there," she asks michonne.
"same, it's quiet." michonne says.
"you're lying."
"we should be gone in a few days."
she goes on to tell michonne she should leave, but michonne won't.
andrea doesn't want michonne dying for her. they have some terse words.
9:46 - outback the deer cooler, they walk through some lumber and out into the woods.
9:47 - back in prison, the gang rounds up weapons and, umm, gross riot gear from walkers they've offed. carol's calling hershel off now, because lori is worried about the baby. she thinks the baby is infected, and dead and a walker in there. that's pretty terrifying.
9:48 - "if i come back, what if i attack it?" she asks. she's concerned about being a mother in this world. this poor woman. this is the shit rick told her to discuss with hershel. this lady is hard. so is herhsel. these people are so tough.
anyway, she tells hershel to kill her or rick, or anyone that goes walker and gets at the baby.
now she's complaing about carl's incoming adolescent rage. blah blah blah. then she's sad about rick, and shane, and the way it all played out.
9:49 - back downstairs, the men suit up with riot gear.
rick tells carl to stay back.
"you're kidding," carl says.
there's some more weird carl/beth shipping, and rick tells carl that "if anything happens, you'll be the last man standing."
then they go to commercial, 'cause, well, y'know.
9:55 - so we're back, and everyone has a flashlight, and it's like, classic zombie movie meets cartoon flashlight scene.
they paint directions on the walls.
9:56 - as they continue painting arrows on the wall to find the way back we find many, many dismembered bodies.
ooh no! around the corner, there's like, a mini-horde, and they're hungry. hungry, hungry prisoners.
the group makes a run for it and gets back to a door for safety, but they may have trapped themselves.
9:57 - rick decides they must go back! but which way?!
...isn't this why they painted arrows? and wouldn't the corpses provide landmarks?
oh now - maggie and glen and are seperated from thr group! so is hershel!
9:58 - hershel walks past a sitting walker... it awakens and bites his ankle! he blasts it away, but he's too late! the noise reconnects everyone, but hershel is certainly bitten!
9:59 - the group manages to drag him out, and t-dog is holding the door.
9:59 - woooow! rick decides that the only way to stop the infecting is the cut off the bottom of hershel's leg.
holy shit! holy shit, that's what a dude says, because some people saw this happen! right after rick finishes turning hershel's leg into a stump, some people who appear to be inmates rise up from the back of the scene.
"holy shit"
yep, that's what the dude said.
that's the end of it.
a pretty good opener, but a little slow and not really establishing too, too much. however, it wasn't terrible, so we enjoyed it almost as much as rick now seems to enjoy killing. plus hey! t-dog had more than one line this episode! maybe they're learning after all.
9:00 - Remember last season? Wasn't it awesome? Everyone's infected! Lori's pregnant! Shane's dead! Uh Oh! Walkers!
9:01 - awesome opening shot on a walker's eye. the group busts in, t-dog and daryl, then carl and rick. walkers are dead and they search the house. it's tense, and nerve-wracking! rick and daryl almost have a showdown, and carl runs into an old walker that he wastes, no questions asked. he's haaard now.
9:02 - t-dog goes upstairs alone, cause that's always the best idea! daryl follows him and finds an owl. sadly, it seems to be dinner.
9:03 - ascertaining the house is safe and clear, the group moves in. it's obviously a decent amount of time later. carl has a gun and hershel is oooold.
9:04 - carl gathers dog food, everyone settles in. huzzah. hershel is sad. everyone is quiet. the scene is rather heavy as people prepare to eat owl and dog food.
9:05 - out the window there is a tonne of walkers. the entire group empties out, weapons in hand. including t-dog's spear? maggie gets an axe. everyone hops in their cars as some bear mcreary tunes drop and the show kicks up, walkers in tow!
9:09 - the group is plotting their route. carl is hard. rick wants to go west. hershel hassles him, 'cause it seems lori is going to give birth any day now.
9:10 - rick and daryl walking along happen upon the prison. drink. rick's police instincts are so happy. so am i, watching inmate walkers.
lori really is pregnant.
they rip through some fence, and they're between fences and walkers. it's rough, and a little daunting.
9:11 - rick is super happy. he thinks they can wipe out these few walkers and make this prison his own. he sends daryl, hershel, carol and carl to towers to snipe them as glen, t-dog, maggie and beth fight them through the fences. rick and lori run through the yard.
9:12 - lots of gore here, and walkers killed in various fashions. notable mention to carl's cool, accurate shooting, and rick's badass walker-running. good ol' poppa cop.
very night of the living dead '90s remake, with lori just pushing them off.
9:14 - the group is having very little problem disposing of these walkers. everyone seems to have improved a great deal at shooting, and there's tons of ammo to go around. even lori can shoot! she's more than just a mother. rick's gun is great.
9:15 - they survey their kills, and everyone is happy. these people get super content with killing. especially glen, taking out the fucker on the ground. any way, everyone is suuuper happy to have a home now. commercials, yay.
9:18 - it's nighttime now, and the group is camping out in the yard out front of the prison.
"mmm, just like mom used to make," says glen at the camp fire.
t-dog is more interested in moving bodies away from water.
hershel is more interested in planting some tomatoes.
rick is more interested in patrolling the fence to make sure no walkers can get in.
"this'll be a good place to have the baby. safe." beth says.
it seem's they're willing to hold out in the yard?
9:20 - daryl and carol discuss rick and his leadership vis-a-vis his killing of shane before daryl gives her shoulder a massage. interesting i guess.
"that's pretty romatic. wanna screw around?" carol asks daryl.
i think he shoots her down.
that's umm, kinda wimpy of the writing. i for one (we for two?) would like to see that happen.
9:22 - now it's family sing-a-long time around the fire, and carol and daryl return. boourns.
of course maggie joins in, singing nicely.
rick returns to the fire and a super grown-up carl. this kid's a good actor, i guess.
9:23 - this song's religious, isn't it? forgive my ignorance.
the walkers doing circuits along the fence is spooky. like ragdoll kitties, only dead! it's a pretty sharp contrast to how healthy everyone in the group still looks. but i guess that's consistent inattention to detail?
9:24 - the girls stop singing and rick decides to tell everyone to go to bed, because they have a "big day tomorrow." he plans on getting inside.
"most of the walkers are dressed as guards and prisoners..."
he thinks supplies, and maybe rations would be inside. weapons. food. medicine. he thinks the place could be a gold mine. hershel says they're low on ammo, and i wonder why they shot the fuck out of so many walkers earlier?
"these assholes don't stand a chance." rick says... of the walkers i think? what a jerk. would you call a lion or a shark an asshole?
9:25 - lori corners rick. she thinks they should hang out in the yard for a while, and let people recuperate. they have a heated conversation about the baby, and birthing, etc. rick seems pretty ignorant to like, y'know the safety of his wife and unborn child. he tells her to talk to hershel. yeah, you guys know hershel - the veterinarian that barely saved his son's life last season? yeah. that dude.
9:30 - the group tears open the gate and makes a run for it.
oh my shit! walker riot cops! so scary! oh, wow.
glen figures it out.
what do you do? they have extra armour!!
any way, the group is getting cornered, but they continue to hack stab and kill away.
maggie gets a nice stab on one of the SWAT Walkers, and she gets super happy.
perry! perry! i got the bloodlust.
"see that?" she asks
anyway, shit is getting hectic.
there are some pretty cool melee kills in this scene in general. knives, spears, tire irons, woo!
9:32 - bodies everywhere. holy shit.
seems like everyone made it, safely.
they discuss the safety of the prison inside, noting some of the walkers were clearly civilian.
rick decides they've gone to far to hole up, and must press on to the inside.
9:34 - they get in and things are eerily quiet, and quite nicely shot.
the group makes the rounds and finds some grizzly scenes, and some keys, but few walkers this early on.
9:35 - they press on, finding more and more dead guards, and inmates. it's super creepy and quiet... i dig the lack of score, and yet... where's bear?
9:36 - they find some cells with walkers locked up. interesting.
daryl and t-dog take care of it.
9:36 - they decide they can move into this cell block for now. in the morning they'll seek out the cafeteria and infirmary. tonight they'll sleep in cells. except daryl.
"i won't sleep in no cage. i'll be up on the perch."
9:37 - some weird moments between carl, beth and hershel.
then glen is checking maggie for scratches.
daryl gets comfy on his perch, and rick walks around.
everyone is all bloody.
what the shit. that can't be sanitary.
9:38 - rick sits in the hallway, seemingly lost... commercialz!
9:43 - we're back with michonne. she's entering sportsman's deer cooler with her two confidants, who well, we've met before. she runs to the back where she's stashed andrea.
"what are you doing out here?" she asks andrea.
apparently the meds from earlier were for andrea.
we approve of the michonne casting.
andrea's pretty sick it seems.
"how is it out there," she asks michonne.
"same, it's quiet." michonne says.
"you're lying."
"we should be gone in a few days."
she goes on to tell michonne she should leave, but michonne won't.
andrea doesn't want michonne dying for her. they have some terse words.
michonne is kind though, and willing to wait a few days for andrea.
why can't those two happen? why?
9:46 - outback the deer cooler, they walk through some lumber and out into the woods.
9:47 - back in prison, the gang rounds up weapons and, umm, gross riot gear from walkers they've offed. carol's calling hershel off now, because lori is worried about the baby. she thinks the baby is infected, and dead and a walker in there. that's pretty terrifying.
9:48 - "if i come back, what if i attack it?" she asks. she's concerned about being a mother in this world. this poor woman. this is the shit rick told her to discuss with hershel. this lady is hard. so is herhsel. these people are so tough.
anyway, she tells hershel to kill her or rick, or anyone that goes walker and gets at the baby.
now she's complaing about carl's incoming adolescent rage. blah blah blah. then she's sad about rick, and shane, and the way it all played out.
9:49 - back downstairs, the men suit up with riot gear.
rick tells carl to stay back.
"you're kidding," carl says.
there's some more weird carl/beth shipping, and rick tells carl that "if anything happens, you'll be the last man standing."
then they go to commercial, 'cause, well, y'know.
9:55 - so we're back, and everyone has a flashlight, and it's like, classic zombie movie meets cartoon flashlight scene.
they paint directions on the walls.
9:56 - as they continue painting arrows on the wall to find the way back we find many, many dismembered bodies.
ooh no! around the corner, there's like, a mini-horde, and they're hungry. hungry, hungry prisoners.
the group makes a run for it and gets back to a door for safety, but they may have trapped themselves.
9:57 - rick decides they must go back! but which way?!
...isn't this why they painted arrows? and wouldn't the corpses provide landmarks?
oh now - maggie and glen and are seperated from thr group! so is hershel!
9:58 - hershel walks past a sitting walker... it awakens and bites his ankle! he blasts it away, but he's too late! the noise reconnects everyone, but hershel is certainly bitten!
9:59 - the group manages to drag him out, and t-dog is holding the door.
9:59 - woooow! rick decides that the only way to stop the infecting is the cut off the bottom of hershel's leg.
holy shit! holy shit, that's what a dude says, because some people saw this happen! right after rick finishes turning hershel's leg into a stump, some people who appear to be inmates rise up from the back of the scene.
"holy shit"
yep, that's what the dude said.
that's the end of it.
a pretty good opener, but a little slow and not really establishing too, too much. however, it wasn't terrible, so we enjoyed it almost as much as rick now seems to enjoy killing. plus hey! t-dog had more than one line this episode! maybe they're learning after all.
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