Actually, the best fantasy scenario I've seen so far is Lori's baby somehow dying before birth, turing into a lil'zombie and then eating its way out. We can only dream.
Just as long as she isn't played by Devon Aoki. IF she is, I'll go all ninja on her, the producers and the casting agent.
The is to be played by Danai Gurira, but she was not yet in the season finale. That was a stand-in. And there is little similar - beyond the Katana - between Michonne and Deadly Little Miho, thankfully.
Lori-worst Mom ever. Carl-worst kid ever. She does not keep track of him. He wonders off into the woods last episode and gets Dale killed. Rick and Lori find out and no repercussions for Carl. So he wonders off into the woods again, following Rick. Lori does not know where he is when the heard arrives, which delays leaving the farm house, which gets Patricia killed. That kid is an effing albatross, with Lori being an enabler by never laying down the law and telling him to keep his SS close or blistering his SS if he does not.
I like how the women are only there to tell the men that they should be boss or someone else is limiting them. I'm guessing that the combo of Michonne and Andrea will rock some worlds. Maybe with Dale gone, she'll gravitate towards Herschel to fulfill her latent geriatric lust.
I could ramble for paragraphs but ill just leave it like this. FUCK Lori. Carl needs to die. Rick's a boss. Cant wait till season 3
It's been consistent with her behavior throughout the show. She makes everything about herself, and no one can do anything right.
Don't watch Top Shot before watching any of that footage. You see how near impossible any of the shots in the series actually are. I made that mistake yesterday, it was fun watching anyway.
I read a review in which they made fun of that. How Shane's shooting lessons must have been pretty great to make 'em all dead-eye shooters, even when they shoot moving targets from inside a moving vehicle.
That was waay over the top. Delta force snipers, which apparently is what Herschel must have been before vet school, would be laughing their asses off at that kind of shooting. Think about it, it would be difficult to get even a laser pointer on one head after another under those conditions.
C'mon guys, they're zombies. They move really slow so it wouldn't be hard. It took them months to get to the farm from downtown Atlanta, they're even more tired by now and even slower. Well except for that one zombie that pounced on Patricia. He was like a panther the way he pounced on her, he came outta nowhere.
I don't know why they were driving around so fast. Daryl had the right idea on the motorcycle- shoot some zeds, move a little, stop and shoot some more. The other clowns don't know what they're doing. I was surprised they didn't have a predetermined rendezvous point when the farm was overrun. Patricia: "Otis! Wait, you're not Otis..."
Actually, Carl has become the most interesting character in the show. He's the only one, other than Rick or Hershel, who's not a caricature, and he's the only character that is really changing. And he's got the "defect" of having Lori for a mother. I think it was Belgian Guy who mentioned that we are getting to see the birth of a sociopath in Carl, which should leave the Carl-Rick dynamic as the most interesting for future seasons. Yeah, I was hooting at that as it happened. One of my favorite plot points in Shawn of the Dead is the fact that Shawn can't hit the broad side of a barn, and yet these guys, who can't have been practicing much due to ammo conservation, are great shots. Even Carl drops Shane whose head is just over his father's shoulder. OK. So Michonne (?) is one awesome character/cliffhanger. Care to give us a small preview, Dante or Belgian Guy? Without saying too much, but I have to admit great curiousity about the two armless walkers strung on a leash behind her????
All that time arguing about ethics and morals, and they didn't once discuss an escape plan or rendezvous point. Also, driving back and forth and shooting out the window? Wow. What a brilliant strategy. And why did that one dude stop his van right next to the barn? Why didn't he start driving away as soon as Rick and Carl were on the roof? Speaking of Rick, I think setting on fire a barn that you are inside is my favorite awesome idea he's had so far. These people would be long since dead, if they weren't miraculously good shots.
It would be interesting if they properly explored the "Carl the nascent sociopath" angle, but so far they have done a poor/half-assed job at it. Even the few times they tried to hint at it, it felt wrong. Like Lori's response to his reaction when Sophia was shot by Rick. I think the writers wanted to use that as a way to showcase his callousness, but someone on here rightly pointed out that it could just as easily be interpreted as Carl understanding that Walker-Sophia was no longer really Sophia. Can't really say much about Michonne that wouldn't be terribly spoilerish. She's a complex character who - beyond dishing out an awful lot of hurt and being taking through the wringer herself - could help the writers explore the mental effects of living and surviving in such a world. Speaking of, if they wanted to spend that much of season 2 on introspection, that would have been a far more interesting topic than all the Rick-Shane drama and Lost-wannabe-ism.
This. So much could be said about her, but it woud spoil a lot. I'll just say this... She's very badass. Very badass.
There's already a well fleshed out psychopathic kid on another series. He is also named Carl, nothing like psychos sharing the same name. He's on Shameless.
As a fan of the comic book, happy with the short first season (like Breaking Bad's first season, just kept getting better), loved the first 30 minutes of season 2.0 - as season 2.5 ends I can't wait for season 3 but half due to the general disappointment with season 2. I felt less connected to all of them at the end. I just wanted to see more zombie action. They did okay considering the budget was cut and there was a shake-up in leadership. But everything felt disjointed and full of inconsistencies.
I'm pretty certain this show is now a bonafied fantasy story defeating the purpose of what the genre entails as a putrid and lazy character study against a zombie apocalypse backdrop. I've never seen character tone shifts so quickly and lazily. I can put up with Rick being overacted as comical as it becomes when he needs to have one of his awkward soliloquies but my God, if archetypical character trajectories weren't force fed to us by mainstream film all of us would be in utter awe at how Rick is being treated by the writers. Someone here said they are less attached to the characters. That's what happens when you try to 'grow' characters in this medium and don't really follow the rules or at least use them to guide you to make better writing decisions. Rick's despot-talk at the end felt incredibly off-tone considering he was really the moral barometer of the show. All of a sudden we are expected to believe he's become a monster because he did the deed that was set up for him to do. Moreover his schizophrenic wife was sold to use as his emotional check but her actions don't reflect that. The only interesting arc I was slightly excited about was Andrea being deserted. I'm sure we are meant to believe her little trek will have bolstered her new masculinity - making her the warrior that she always doubted she was, yada yada. Yet this incident took maybe only 2 minutes of screen-time. This perfectly illustrates how the writers are treating these characters. Let's not really develop them through action but instead suggest character growth, display some archetypical behavior and let the audience's subconscious piece the growth together. What we are left is not affirmed development and characters we understand but mere impressions of what we believe to be characters who are supposed to be developed.
http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6743808/10-reasons-why-the-walking-dead-should-just-kill-carl hard to argue...