Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 2
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moonwiseHusband and I watched the second episode of The Walking Dead last night. As much as I want to watch it live, there are so many damn commercials that DVR'ing it is better.
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xi_feng has already gone on at length about the Awesomeness of Daryl, and damn but if there is a zombie invasion you will definitely want to take a badass redneck hick with you. It is impossible not to like him. Dude is prepared. For everything. And his crossbow is a pretty good zombie weapon.
Am I alone in thinking that Otis (the guy who shoots Carl) is toast? How's Shane going to carry all that stuff back?
We can't decide whether these walkers are slow or fast zombies. In the ZSM, we are told that zombies can't run, climb, or do anything that requires anything more than gross motor skill. They overwhelm with relentless motion and numbers rather than chasing you down. The walkers seem like half and half - not as terrifyingly fast or coordinated as the Infected, but not slow either. From the preview, it looks like Shane and Otis get treed in the high school; it will be interesting to see whether the walkers can figure out how to climb to get up to them.
Hershel's farmhouse is a nice nod to the original Night of the Living Dead.
Rick is going to have to eat a lot of red meat and take some iron supplements before he's going anywhere, after giving 2 units of blood.
Lori didn't completely annoy me in this episode. Only a little.
On a more serious note...
This episode demonstrated to me how completely being a parent changes you. There was a scene where T-Dogg and Dale are ransacking crashed cars looking for antibiotics. In the backseat of one of the cars is a baby seat, stuffed baby toy still attached, all spattered with blood. The old, pre-JP me would have been sorry but largely unaffected. The new me burst into inconsolable tears. (because, you see, JP is about that age.) My husband, who was himself not doing all that great with the image, had to lean over to me and console me that as real as it looked, the show was all made up and zombies weren't going to tear my baby out of the back of my car. Then the camera cut to Hershel doing surgery on a screaming Carl, and husband promptly lost it himself. We had to turn off the show, go upstairs together and give the sleeping baby a pat, and then do a little fast-forwarding. Yeesh.
xi_feng has already gone on at length about the Awesomeness of Daryl, and damn but if there is a zombie invasion you will definitely want to take a badass redneck hick with you. It is impossible not to like him. Dude is prepared. For everything. And his crossbow is a pretty good zombie weapon. Am I alone in thinking that Otis (the guy who shoots Carl) is toast? How's Shane going to carry all that stuff back?
We can't decide whether these walkers are slow or fast zombies. In the ZSM, we are told that zombies can't run, climb, or do anything that requires anything more than gross motor skill. They overwhelm with relentless motion and numbers rather than chasing you down. The walkers seem like half and half - not as terrifyingly fast or coordinated as the Infected, but not slow either. From the preview, it looks like Shane and Otis get treed in the high school; it will be interesting to see whether the walkers can figure out how to climb to get up to them.
Hershel's farmhouse is a nice nod to the original Night of the Living Dead.
Rick is going to have to eat a lot of red meat and take some iron supplements before he's going anywhere, after giving 2 units of blood.
Lori didn't completely annoy me in this episode. Only a little.
On a more serious note...
This episode demonstrated to me how completely being a parent changes you. There was a scene where T-Dogg and Dale are ransacking crashed cars looking for antibiotics. In the backseat of one of the cars is a baby seat, stuffed baby toy still attached, all spattered with blood. The old, pre-JP me would have been sorry but largely unaffected. The new me burst into inconsolable tears. (because, you see, JP is about that age.) My husband, who was himself not doing all that great with the image, had to lean over to me and console me that as real as it looked, the show was all made up and zombies weren't going to tear my baby out of the back of my car. Then the camera cut to Hershel doing surgery on a screaming Carl, and husband promptly lost it himself. We had to turn off the show, go upstairs together and give the sleeping baby a pat, and then do a little fast-forwarding. Yeesh.
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Date: 2011-10-26 07:47 am (UTC)I wonder if this is a further categorisation that's evolved from the comics: there we had 'roamers' and 'lurkers', but perhaps within the 'roamer' category of zombies there are 'runners' and 'shufflers': those who will slowly walk along behind you when they see you, like the one who nearly got Andrea, and those who'll run after you like the two who went after Sophia or a good chunk of those Rick ran into in Atlanta?
Poor Otis, he doesn't exactly have the right body-type to be sprinting away from a crowd of zombies, does he? Shane's going to have a lot on his hands keeping them both safe in the high school, if he can!
Very interesting to hear about how your perspective has changed upon becoming a parent too - I imagine that was quite surprising to see the way you both reacted to the baby seat and then Carl's operation... hopefully that sort of thing won't put you and your husband off from watching, though!
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Date: 2011-11-01 12:35 am (UTC)I knew with the baby seat that they wouldn't dare show anything more, so I just didn't let my mind go there. Carl screaming as they were trying to get the bullet out of him just wrecked me though. I can't even handle it when Adam gets shots, so ... yeah. Didn't like that. :(
I loved season one, but even the "children in peril" stuff aside, I'm not crazy about season two so far. Greater analysis, maybe, after a few more eps have passed.