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Tonight's episode started out with Rick's gang all outside hanging out eating breakfast. When tonight's episode started I was cleaning up and only paid half attention, that's how boring it started out. Again Glenn is stuck in the cross hairs. On one hand he looks and sees Maggie, his lover, shaking her head "no". But he looks to his left and Dale is nodding his head yes. (Of course it's the Meddling Millie of the bunch who's urging Glenn to tell everyone.) Glenn tells everyone that the barn is full of walkers
Daryl talks with Sophia's Mom again he tells her they'll find Sophia. They have a moment and seem about ready to get together. I know the options are limited in the Zombie Apocalypse, but that pairing still seems a little strange to me.
Rick, thinking he's still the leader, goes and talks to Hershel about what's in the barn. This leads to Hershel telling Rick he wants Rick and his people off his farm by the end of the week. I think Shane has a point about Rick not being made for this world. Rick begs Hershel for his people to stay on the farm. He also tells Hershel that his wife is pregnant. If I was Hershel I'd be skeptical about that, the timing seems too convenient. Rick tells Hershel about how it is really out in the world and that his farm is protected. I'm sorry that's just so hard to believe that his farm has been safe from zombies.
Hershel only saw the zombies on the TV, he has no idea how dangerous they are. It still seems it's highly unlikely that he wouldn't want to kill them. Zombies only have one purpose, that is to eat and infect people. Why would you want to save someone like that? Hershel would say because they are his family. Except there's no proof that they are still family.
Hershel and Maggie later talk about how she wants them to stick around and quotes Jesus. It's not just for Glenn either. It seems like she's believing in the safety in numbers idea. Of Hershel's people she seems to be the one most in touch with reality. Maybe that's why she's reaching out to Glenn, maybe it's not sex she's looking for.
Glenn and Maggie have a fight. She smashes an egg over his head. He asks her why would she destroy a precious egg? She responds that she thinks it's a rotten egg. That obviously is a pointed comment at Glenn. It's that kind of small detail that has kept me watching this show so far. The egg being smashed over Glenn's head leads to the most disgusting moment of the whole show: Glenn putting on Dale's hat. Why would he want to wear that grimy, nasty thing.
Later Glenn explains to her why he told the others about the walkers in the barns. He'd rather have her mad at him and safe rather than dead and happy with him. He says "no more secrets". Those are some of the sweetest words of dialogue in this season. It's because of all the secrets that we've had so much dissatisfying story telling. Of course, it's these secrets that have been giving this season it's stories. If there hadn't been secrets what would have been the story lines. Without those secrets propping up the story, the writers and producers would have had to be creative in coming up with the story.
Later Shane confronts Lori about about how many times he's saved her life. He's obviously still wanting to be with Lori. Lori seems to be conflicted between Rick and Shane. I'm not even sure why we have the Shane and Lori scene. It seems completely pointless to the rest of the episode. That scene gives the two biggest over actors in the show a chance to even kill the show more. It seems the more the show strays from the graphic novel the worse it becomes. Remember in the graphic novel Shane dies fairly early on. I can see why the producers kept him on in the show though. Without him and Daryl who would be able to protect everyone.
For the second consecutive episode Shane and the annoying Dale have another confrontation. Again Dale remains one of this show's most worthless characters. Dale has a brilliant idea: he's going to take all the guns and dispose of them. Yeah that's a good idea in the zombie apocalypse. I have no idea what's the upside to his plan. If Dale wants to maintain his humanity, he should have swallowed a bullet a long time ago. Again just another stupid story line from the show.
Love him or hate him at least Shane is a man of action. Of course Dale can't prevent Shane from getting the guns back. Then Dale whines about how he may not be long for this world but at least he has his humanity or some such pretentious bullshit. "Yawn" The drivel these characters are forced to say. There's a difference between hating a character and not caring about a character. I don't care about Dale or his fate. What do the producers plan on doing with him and T-Dog. For the most part now they are just taking up space. I was hoping that the zombies would take out T-Dog or Dale at the end of this episode.
Then Hershel wants Rick to help him and they have those poles with a loop at the end and Hershel gets Rick to help him to take these two walkers back to the barn. I understand Rick wanting to stay at Hershel's farm and getting along so that he can. But he's seen what these walkers can do and he knows how dangerous they are. He just lays down and goes against all of his hard earned knowledge just to get along?
Meanwhile Shane is outside of Hershel's house trying to start a revolution to kill the zombies in the barn. The guns he took back from Dale, he starts handing out candy. He's obviously knows what he wants to do and nothing is going to get in his way. He's going to give a gun to Carl but Mom Grimes says that it's not Shane's call. More overacting from Sarah Wayne Callies. She's brutally bad.
Rick, Hershel and son? come back. Shane demonstrates how these walkers aren't people. He continues shooting one of the zombies in holder. The zombie keeps on coming until he finally shoots it in the head. That's one of the hard earned things that Rick and gang learned out in the real world.
Shane continues his temper tantrum and breaks the locks on the barn. Of course no one else in this lifeless bunch stops him. The only one who would stop him is Daryl and I think Daryl quite likes shooting zombies. He's the Woody Harrelson of this zombie show. This leads to the big conclusion. The zombies come shuffling out of the barn. Shane, Daryl, Andrea and the suddenly awake T-Dog line up in firing range style and kill all the zombies. Then at the end a teenage female zombie comes out of the barn. This of course is the long lost Sophia. The character this show has wasted 7 hours of my life trying to find. And she's been in the barn the whole time.
I'm incredulous beyond belief about this story line. Again in the superior graphic novels Sophia is still very much alive. How long was Sophia in the barn? Who was the one that put her in the barn? How did they do it and keep it a secret from Rick's crew. If Hershel wants to get rid of Rick and his people so bad why didn't he tell Rick? How did they keep the other zombies in the barn while putting Sophia in there?
Hershel could just watch helplessly as his precious zombies were mowed down. Again in the graphic novel this scene is so much more realistic. The zombies get out and they actually kill some of Hershel's family. That leads to Rick's group leaving the Hershel's damn boring farm.
From the previews it looks like when the show resumes again on February 12th they will still be on Hershel's farm. Why? I love how one of the previews shows something about Hershel going missing. The way the preview is cut it looks like that Rick is going after him. Again John Locke, Sayid, Sawyer, Jack, Kate, Ana Lucia please report to "The Walking Dead" stat.
It's 2.5 months until the second half of season two starts. Will I continue watching it then? I'm not sure. With how dumb the story lines have been and with how slow the pace has been I could have forgot about it by then. Of course in the mean time "Mad Men" is going to have it's start. And AMC likes to run to death it's previews for upcoming shows so I'll probably receive many reminders for it.
Other than "Mad Men" I've pretty much given up on AMC at this point. From how average "The Walking Dead" has been to how lame "The Killing" ended to how bad and boring the first episode of "Hell On Wheels" was. I had set "Hell on Wheels" to record, but last night I went through and deleted all of the episodes from my DVR. AMC should change their advertising slogan to the worst original stories.
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