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'The Walking Dead' Season 2, Episode 6 Recap
by Mike Ryan, posted Nov 20th 2011 10:00PM
['The Walking Dead' - 'Secrets']
Somewhat surprisingly, Hershel makes some decent points about keeping a stable of barn zombies. I mean, if it were your loved ones, would you have it in you to kill someone who meant something to you? Even though he or she is still standing up and walking around? Sure, your loved one would now love to eat your thigh, but, still, maybe there is a cure? OK, as we learned at the C.D.C. last season, there's probably not a cure. But I can say that it would totally be my luck that as soon as I made the gut-wrenching decision to end the life of a former-loved-one-walker, the next day a cure would be announced. So, hey, as long as Hershel has enough chickens to feed them... eh, why not keep them around? OK, there's always the chance that they will escape, which would be bad. And I'm sure that will eventually happen, but not this week.
Yep, this will now be known as 'The Walking Dead''s abortion episode (which probably would have been controversial if this episode had premiered before 'Maude'). Glenn goes out of his way to emphasize the word "choice" more than once. Maggie makes sure to emphasize the word "abortion." Then again, perhaps it's not fair to assume that's what she meant, considering that she was almost eaten by a zombie on the mission to retrieve Lori's morning after pills, which may or may not even work at this point anyway. So that's going to make anyone surly. (Also, would a pharmacy in a small town in Georgia carry this item? I honestly have no idea, but I've read about rural pharmacists having, let's say, issues.) Lori takes the pills, then changes her mind and regurgitates them. Then, later, explains the entire story to Rick who is not at all good at reading facial cues. I don't know, I felt the episode was trying to deliver some sort of equal sides moral conundrum -- almost beating us over the head with it at times -- when, considering the world that these characters live in, it probably wasn't needed. I mean, we already know that there's a lot to consider here. Anyway, moving on!
Oh, also, guns. Andrea has a gun. Carl has a gun. Actually, hold that thought for a second... So, let me get this straight: Since Sophia's been missing, Carl has been shot in the chest, needed a blood transfusion, nearly died, was operated on by a veterinarian ... but now is running around with a pistol like nothing happened. OK? I mean, that is quite the recovery from just a couple of episodes ago.
OK, back to the guns. I did really enjoy Andrea and Shane's little side adventure though some nearby subdivisions. (Though, I'm not actually sure where this "tip" on Sophia's location came from.) Regardless, that was a fun scene. Probably for no other reason than that it wasn't at Hershel's farm. But, yes, we really have no idea what Shane's capable of these days. After what he did to poor Otis, maybe he would have let a zombie eat Andrea as some sort of twisted lesson. I mean, that zombie was really close. But then Andrea started to like the taste of blood, apparently.
Andrea's actions brought up a couple of questions for me. First, how many bullets does the group have, collectively? I know that they try not to use guns very often because of the noise, but poor Daryl is out there using the same arrow over and over (good lord, I hope he's cleaning that thing) while Andrea and Shane are out there plowing through dozens of bullets. I mean, they even have enough for multiple target practice sessions. But if they have unlimited bullets, why not kill as many walkers as possible? There has to be a finite number of them, right? I know that number is really high, but I'm assuming they can't reproduce. Once they are gone, they're gone. Why not kill as many as possible? Especially in a relatively safe situation like the one that Shane and Andrea were in – just picking them off one by one.
One quick word about Dale, because I never talk about Dale. Does anyone do the "I'm scared for my life after someone just cryptically threatened me" face better than Dale? Honestly, if I'm Jeffery DeMunn, when Emmy voting comes around, I would just send a montage of myself doing that face.
Oh, one last thing: we are now through six episodes – as many episodes that were in the first season -- and the group is still searching for a character that no one really cares about. Considering that next week's episode is the last until February, I assume there will be some resolution to Sophia's situation one way or another. At least, I really hope.
You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.
Somewhat surprisingly, Hershel makes some decent points about keeping a stable of barn zombies. I mean, if it were your loved ones, would you have it in you to kill someone who meant something to you? Even though he or she is still standing up and walking around? Sure, your loved one would now love to eat your thigh, but, still, maybe there is a cure? OK, as we learned at the C.D.C. last season, there's probably not a cure. But I can say that it would totally be my luck that as soon as I made the gut-wrenching decision to end the life of a former-loved-one-walker, the next day a cure would be announced. So, hey, as long as Hershel has enough chickens to feed them... eh, why not keep them around? OK, there's always the chance that they will escape, which would be bad. And I'm sure that will eventually happen, but not this week.
Yep, this will now be known as 'The Walking Dead''s abortion episode (which probably would have been controversial if this episode had premiered before 'Maude'). Glenn goes out of his way to emphasize the word "choice" more than once. Maggie makes sure to emphasize the word "abortion." Then again, perhaps it's not fair to assume that's what she meant, considering that she was almost eaten by a zombie on the mission to retrieve Lori's morning after pills, which may or may not even work at this point anyway. So that's going to make anyone surly. (Also, would a pharmacy in a small town in Georgia carry this item? I honestly have no idea, but I've read about rural pharmacists having, let's say, issues.) Lori takes the pills, then changes her mind and regurgitates them. Then, later, explains the entire story to Rick who is not at all good at reading facial cues. I don't know, I felt the episode was trying to deliver some sort of equal sides moral conundrum -- almost beating us over the head with it at times -- when, considering the world that these characters live in, it probably wasn't needed. I mean, we already know that there's a lot to consider here. Anyway, moving on!
Oh, also, guns. Andrea has a gun. Carl has a gun. Actually, hold that thought for a second... So, let me get this straight: Since Sophia's been missing, Carl has been shot in the chest, needed a blood transfusion, nearly died, was operated on by a veterinarian ... but now is running around with a pistol like nothing happened. OK? I mean, that is quite the recovery from just a couple of episodes ago.
OK, back to the guns. I did really enjoy Andrea and Shane's little side adventure though some nearby subdivisions. (Though, I'm not actually sure where this "tip" on Sophia's location came from.) Regardless, that was a fun scene. Probably for no other reason than that it wasn't at Hershel's farm. But, yes, we really have no idea what Shane's capable of these days. After what he did to poor Otis, maybe he would have let a zombie eat Andrea as some sort of twisted lesson. I mean, that zombie was really close. But then Andrea started to like the taste of blood, apparently.
Andrea's actions brought up a couple of questions for me. First, how many bullets does the group have, collectively? I know that they try not to use guns very often because of the noise, but poor Daryl is out there using the same arrow over and over (good lord, I hope he's cleaning that thing) while Andrea and Shane are out there plowing through dozens of bullets. I mean, they even have enough for multiple target practice sessions. But if they have unlimited bullets, why not kill as many walkers as possible? There has to be a finite number of them, right? I know that number is really high, but I'm assuming they can't reproduce. Once they are gone, they're gone. Why not kill as many as possible? Especially in a relatively safe situation like the one that Shane and Andrea were in – just picking them off one by one.
One quick word about Dale, because I never talk about Dale. Does anyone do the "I'm scared for my life after someone just cryptically threatened me" face better than Dale? Honestly, if I'm Jeffery DeMunn, when Emmy voting comes around, I would just send a montage of myself doing that face.
Oh, one last thing: we are now through six episodes – as many episodes that were in the first season -- and the group is still searching for a character that no one really cares about. Considering that next week's episode is the last until February, I assume there will be some resolution to Sophia's situation one way or another. At least, I really hope.
You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.
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