Monday, 29 October 2012

Series Dissect: The Walking Dead S03E02 – Sick


If Sex and the City was set in a prison with zombies and the girls were all dudes, sexy Latin guy would so be Carry

Okay, so I know this one is late… and I’m sorry. I had a really bad few days trying to stop my clammy fingers impairing the use of my new Samsung Galaxy S3. It was a really stressful time for me, so I know you understand.

So by now you’ve probably watched episode 3 of the new walking dead. Well I haven’t so it doesn’t exist yet. You’re going to get episode 2’s dissect and you will like it.

Imma do it Pro and Con style, as is my way.

So EAT IT!

Pro:

We immediately establish that the prison people clearly have no idea of the hell that is going on outside, as they’ve been locked up for months. Also they are not even trying to pretend to be friends, which is good. Also this guy seems like a serial killer, therefore I think he’s hot.


Pro:

Prison guys are all “This is my prison” and Rick is all “No, this is my prison”. They decide to each take a separate cell block, and in exchange for half the food supplies the prisoners have been hoarding, Rick offers to help de-walker their new cell block home.

Pro:

Rick gives the prisoners a lesson in killing walkers, e.g. aim for the head. It doesn’t take, leading to this mess:


Pro: 

Rick knows it would be easier and safer to just kill the prisoners, rather than try to live with them, as sexy Latin guy has classic serial killer looks and long hair. Lori lets him know that if he thinks he should kill them, she will support him. Super dark.

Con:

Hershel, left legless from last week’s episode, is touch and go on the death front. Also we still don’t know if he’s infected. Just die, already!


Pro:

With Hershel unable to deliver Lori's demon baby, Carol knows it will fall to her to perform a c-section (why a c-section?)when she goes into labour (or if the thing starts to eat her from the inside out), so she asks Glenn to help her catch a female walker she can practice cutting up, which leads to this necrophiliac's wetdream:


Pro:

Maggie has a touching moment where she tells her Pa that it’s okay for him to let go. She knows he’d be better off dead. Yes, Hershel, let go. Let go!

Pro:

As suspected, the prisoners are a rebellious bunch and don’t do anything Rick tells them, which leads to walker madness.One of the prisoners gets bitten and sexy Latin guy smashes his head in without hesitation, showing Rick he is a killer like his hair suggests. Sexy.

Con:

Also, this guy gets this amount screen time. Who is he again? 


Con:

Sexy Latin guy is trying to bump Rick off on the down low. Not cool sexy Latin guy.


Pro: 

Which leads to sexy eyefucking...


Pro: 

Which leads to Rick doing this. This was basically the entire point of the episode, so that we knows Rick no longer has qualms about killing his fellow man in order to survive. Shane would be so proud. Bye sexy Latin guy.


Pro: 

Rick runs after another of the prisoners and traps him outside with the walkers to feast on him. Who is this Rick? I like him. Remember when Shane would do shit like this and Rick would be the one to then save him. No one's saving this one...


Con:

Annoying kid (Lori's brat) goes to get medical supplies for Hershel on his own. Lori cares that he could have gotten hurt for some reason. 

Con:

We think Hershel might die. Alas, he doesn’t. Lori saves him.


Pro: 

Rick decides the other prisoners are good enough to live because his judgment scale is super sensitive, so he sets them up in the other cell block. 

Con:

More marriage estrangement confusion.


The end.

So we saw none of black ninja badass and her bff Andrea this week and the episode moved the story on so that we now know the group are living under a Ricktatorship. Things are still dark, but where is the intensity?

More of Zombie Prison Break next week.

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