WARNING: I GIVE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE!
No prologue
paragraph, I am getting strait to the characters. I will start with Rick. The
prison gets attacked and he freaks out. I think it somewhat scares him. Later
in the episode, he has dialogue with Daryl in whom Daryl tells him that they
need Rick, the real zombie-killing leader Rick, to step up and help them. Then,
the amazing scene with the pigs happens. He has to feed to the pigs to the
Walkers so they will not knock down the gates, and because the pigs are
starting to get infected and spread the infection. Great acting in that scene
by Andrew Lincoln as you can see Rick is struggling in doing this. Later, in
what can be argued the most important scene in the episode, Rick burns down his
little pig farm, gives Carl his gun, and puts his gun on himself. I like that Rick
is back to being the Rick I know now, but that was hard for his character. It
was like the character was reborn and redeveloped. That was a spectacular scene
and I hope for more like it. The writing behind that scene is perfect. Not that
it does everything right for what it was, but we really needed that for this
storyline. I love the direction they are going with Rick’s character.
Next, I will
be talking about Carl. He is now asking for his gun back, because he needs his
gun. The stocking thing about that is, though, that when his dad basically said
that that is ridiculous, Carl actually treats his dad with respect. Then, when
Michonne gets in some trouble, he has to save her by using another gun. That
seems to freak him out, which is realistic and understandable for the fact that
he probably has not used a gun in months. Then, when his dad gives him his gun
back, he is shocked, but still likes it. Carl understands that he needs to be
able to use a gun, but not on everything he sees now. I really like the
direction they are going in with his character.
Now we have
Carol, the one that we do not remember. Her character is now much more tough
and hardcore than she has ever been. She is now like the go-to-girl to get your
kids to be afraid of walkers, but in that way that they really want to kill the
walkers. The very sad scene when the girl’s dad is dying shows them what the
world is really like with an amazingly well written scene. Carol really took a
lot in when she dad to kill the father. When the older of the girls decides to
do it, I almost yelled “Yes!” at my television because that needs to happen.
Though, I did not like when she chickened out. Though, she made up for it when
she took Carol’s knife later. I then really started to like the direction they
are going in with those girls. Those girls are not the greatest actresses in
the world now, but I am pretty sure throughout the season they will improve. I
also almost love the direction they are going in with Carol. She is now a very
strong female character.
Now I will
get to the short time we have with Tyreese. I will mostly talk about the scene
at the end when Karen died. Though, earlier when she showed symptoms of being
infected with the virus, I did not think what they should do with her. But
someone took it into their own hands… Or so we think. It was very shocking and
very unpredictable that she died, and how she died. It did, of course,
obviously look like someone when into her cell, grabbed her, and they might
have had some trouble so they had to knock her out, then gotten her outside to
burn her. Though, she could have turned into a walker and attacked someone, so
that is just the way they killed her. The scene where we see that she died was
more shocking than sad to me. It really did not have enough time to be sad,
because we get two half-a-second shots of her dead body, and one of Tyreese
somewhat freaking out. I do like that the next episode could be a who-done-it episode,
and I liked how unpredictable that event was.
It is now
time to talk about this episode in general. If you have not already noticed, I
thought that this episode was great. It had some action and some great
character development. I have already talked about the character development,
so now it is time to get to the action. The first sequence when the prison is
under attack, while intense, was not riveting or incredibly thrilling. It did have
some good walker kills, but nothing terribly special. Of course it was very
enjoyable, but I believe it definitely could have been better. Though, the
sequence with the falling fence was unexpected to me, and was very intense. I
am not going to say that it is thrilling, because it does not try to be. It did
what it set out to do and I that is basically all I can say about it. I will
mention some flaws I had with the episode, though. When the shower walker
walked into the block, he walked past some of the cells and picked one in
particular. Then, after walking around when everyone is asleep, making noise, with
no one hearing him. He walks into a cell, and starts eating that guy, being
even louder, and still not being heard. Then, him and the new walker walk
outside the cell to go to another one without anyone hearing them. Other than
that, all I have to say is that the action sequences had a somewhat large area
for improvement and the episode was not spectacular.
On the
grading rating scale, I give this episode an A-.
On the out-of-10 scale, I give the episode a 9.0/10.
On the out-of-10 scale, I give the episode a 9.0/10.
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