This season’s all about running around dark passages in the jail and the fa la la of (what you know is not a) Happy Town. Too many zombies being bludgeoned and seeing the body pieces separating out via cgi. 

Then there’s the tiresome Rick ignoring Lori all season long – boring – until she’s in trouble?! Please, not even a yelling match?  Not that I liked her character much, but she always had to back down and he always won their arguments. These characters need to deal with how to channel their emotions in this new zombie world. Other than pure anger and rage.  Daryl’s character has got it right, nuanced.  Trying not to love Carol, but not giving up on Sophia until the barn scene.  Being slightly distant, but showing, through token gestures like the rose, how he holds out for something better than what is.

So I wonder, is Rick’s time as leader done? Is the kinder, gentler Daryl the leader the dwindling group needs?

I gotta say, if they do something like that, I’m done with it. Although it be fun to watch a show go from “anyone can die” cutting edge to jumping the shark in 3 episodes.

A) Stop whining about “spoilers” and grow up. 

2. Did the Zombie eat her clothes?

– Don’t phones need electricity (event if they are made of bakelite)?

It lacked any emotional impact other than eye-rolling at the waste of three seasons of a quite talented actor. Likewise with Michonne, they seem to feel that hostile black people who don’t talk much are the way to go, and it’s both insensitive and pretty darned silly. 

Lori’s death had impact because, love her or hate her, we knew a lot about her, and were to some degree invested in her (Don’t get me started on how she was doomed to die the moment she considered the A word! Not to mention *gasp* having sex!) while T-dog was the literal personification of a token black character, who even went out heroically saving a white woman. His death, even exactly as was, would have been entirely different if he hadn’t been walking around with ‘Expendable’ written on his forehead. They might as well have given him a red shirt. :P

I also feel like the only person on the planet who’d only ever seen Michonne’s name in type, and defaults to a K sound for CH. It took me a bit to work out who ‘Mishon’ was, I was expecting Mikon. So what do I know? ;)

I know (from reading posts like these on the Internet, not from first-hand knowledge) that the Governor is supposed to be this season’s Big Bad, but I’m just not feeling it at all. I don’t know if it’s casting, writing, directing, or what, but he just seems like a wimpy boy to me. Demented but not oozing danger. Yeah, sure, if he’s in charge of the settlement, and has soldiers who will do any dirty deed he commands them to do, then he could be serious trouble. I just don’t care one way or the other about him.

And after a star-making entrance, Michonne (sp?) isn’t really turning out to be all that interesting, either. If she did more than just scowl at everyone, it might help, but there’s really not much of a character there. Rather one-note so far. Hoping that changes, though.

Now here’s my big whammy — brace yourselves — while the character of T-Dog seemed like a super nice guy, gallant fella, and good fighter, I sort of shrugged when he was offed. What have they shown us of him to get the audience to root for him, let alone get to know him at all? Not much. A few bones here and there, but the only person more expendable than T-Dog would have been that young blonde girl who Carl is sweet on.

At least with Lori, there was a lot of history there, and whether or not she’s been a superbitch from time to time, there’s no denying that was a kickass death scene. And hell, if there are more episodes like the last several, I might even start not wanting Carl to die.

Bottom line is, I don’t know the comics, and I really don’t even care about them. I only know what I see on the show, and that’s what’s led me to my (no doubt unpopular) opinions. YMMV.

The “break the gates and use a live animal to lure walkers in, then activate the sirens” was a well considered plan to potentially take out a large number of enemies.  To follow that up with “and wait in the room where the sirens are turned off, with just an axe, to be one man against a probably much larger group who will almost certainly head there” was… not.  Seems like two different thinking styles at work, the latter being Andrew’s (impulsive and not very bright), the former slower and methodical (whoever was, I think, spying on Carol from afar). 

Maybe I’m wrong, but without this assumption, you’re left to wonder “Why hasn’t Carol shown up in some way?”  If she’s just dead, it would be easy enough to show it and confirm.  If she’s not, she probably should have found her way back to the group relatively easily.  To me, what makes most sense is, she’s being held prisoner by another living person.  The one spying on her earlier, who probably set the whole Walker-Prison-Ambush in motion, with Andrew’s help. 

Also, for somebody who’s JUST learned about the details of the zombie apocalypse (because he was locked in the cafeteria for the year), to the point that they had to be taught things like ‘go for the head’ and ‘a bite or a scratch turns you into one of them’, Andrew would have had to get up to speed REALLY fast with respect to how to lure a whole bunch of Walkers into the prison while avoiding them chomping on him.

So, still my guess.