Speaking of raining gross things, I’ve been fighting a wicked sinus infection for the past few weeks. I’ve just been laying about and being lazy (and not blogging). While being lazy I did happen to watch last week’s Walking (and Talking) Dead. If you watched it too, then stay for a bit and enjoy my review. If you didn’t watch it, then you best leave now. Unless you like spoilers then, by all means, stay. You score even more points if you watched the Talking Dead with Chris Hardwick and Nathan Fillion afterwards.
The episode started out slow, they’re at the prison, livin’ the zombie as usual. They’ve adapted to the fact that hordes of zombies live right outside the fence. They’ve come up with crafty ways of keeping them out; like stabbing their faces or pushing them into the spikes with the gates. Hershel has a cute little garden. Carol has story time/ let’s teach kids about knives times. All is well in the little prison community. [Also, apparently Carol and Daryl are an item now? I don’t remember that finally happening, but I’m excited it did!]
Then Darryl’s gang goes out to get supplies. This is where it starts to get interesting. They find an abandon store, kill a couple of zombies, and think they are in the clear and begin their shopping. La la la la. Little do they know there’s a zombie helicopter rave happening on the roof. That’s when the bodies start a’ rainin’! Did anyone else automatically start singing “It’s Raining Men” in their head when that started happening? I know I did. [and so did Nathan Fillion]. This rainging scene was a bit chaotic. I thought for a second that Glen and Daryl were goners! [If They would have died I would have quit the show!] After slaying all the zombies that fell [and losing that one guy, who was what’s her name’s boyfriend], they finally made it out of the zombie storm. And with the black guy too! [The black always dies first. Not with this show. T-Dog lasted til season 3. Let’s see how long this guy will last. Racist? Not a bit. It’s only fact.]
Back at Prison Camp, Carl is still being a douche. What else is new? First he won’t let the kids name the zombies, then he’s going to be a little snitch about Carol’s Fight Club. Meanwhile, Papa Rick is out following Crazy Clara [was that her name?] to the middle of the forest, alone, to find a bag of zombie head [which I totally knew was gonna happen] and to watch her kill herself. Seriously, what was the whole point of that part of the story? Maybe it means something later.
And finally, the episode ends with Harry Potter look a like coughing on the clean water, dying and then becoming a zombie. All while everyone is asleep and thinking they are safe. Dun dun dun!!!
So if you are cool like me and watched the Talking Dead afterwards, you will have enjoyed Nathan Fillion, Chris Hardwick and that Walking Dead writer guy talk about the episode afterwards. If you were lame and went to bed right after Walking Dead, then you might want to sit tight for a moment longer.
They said the reason this first episode was slow and uneventful was because it’s going to escalate quite quickly in the next few episodes. Gasp! Okay that’s really the gist of what you missed from not watching the TD. Of course you also missed out on fun times too, but the didn’t really explain much more. Like why did Harry Potter guy (and that pig) die? We still don’t know yet. Or why did Daryl and what’s her name share an extra long hug? That’s still to come. Or who name’s their baby Judith? That’s the first time I heard them call her that. That’s not a baby’s name, that’s an old lady’s name. [Sorry if your name is Judith and your young.]
Well maybe some of these questions will be answered in this week’s episode. I also hope they explain why Carl is still a douche. I don’t think we’ll ever know the answer to that one.
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