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The first episode the
long (well a few months) awaited season 3 of The Walking Dead finally aired
earlier this week and with it we revisited a few of our favourite friends:
suspense, darkness and gore.
Like everyone with
eyes, I was blown away by the first season of TWD, in every respect; the edge,
the story, the impeccable effects and the fact that underlying everything was
the sense of dread that sooner or later they will all become “walkers”.
Season two, which I’ve
dubbed Zombie Farm, took place on… a farm full of herding zombies grazing on
the human meat situation that held up there. What pissed me off about season 2
was that they killed off Shane, which was basically fifty percent of its edge.
I didn’t want S3 to become another series about the crusade of keeping “humanity” alive. I wanted a Shane-style kill or be killed attitude to engulf the group. I wanted death to rain down on them and for it to become the norm to slaughter zombies, as one would casually flick dust from one’s jacket.
So did I get what I
wanted? Or has TWD S3 done the inevitable thing of laming down to cater to its
increasing audience?
I’ll break it down pro
and con for ya’ll.
Con:
They changed the title
credits. One of the creepiest parts of the show was seeing the photos of people
and being reminded of their lives before the dead walked. Now the credits
features this, and gives away that the whole season will be heavily
set in a prison, which may cause me to name this season’s show Zombie Prison
Break.
Pro:
Carl now shoots stuff,
and he’s good at it.
Con:
Carl’s new (and only since he's three years old) love
interest is Hershel's daughter Beth. Boring.
Pro:
The show is set after a
presumably slow winter, since no one died, and Lori is now about to pop with a
baby (possibly the now dead Shane’s).
Pro:
This badass needs
to feature more than the two seconds they gave her this week. She and Andrea are now BFFs.
She has a samurai sword and keeps walkers as pets.
Pro:
The gang perform mass
murder on some walkers after finding a prison that could be a safe place for
Lori to birth. Not only do they slaughter the walkers but also on occasion you
actually think they’re getting off on it.
Pro:
This face
Pro:
Zombies wearing
helmets. This kind of feels like we’ve just entered a new level of a videogame
where the zombies are now harder to kill.
Pro:
Rick pulls the face off
a walker. Gore. Classic. Faceless chic.
Con:
Rick and Carl are now
angry with Lori for reasons that aren’t clear. Either they’re really slow and
have just realised the baby may not be Ricks, or something has happened during
the winter. Anyway there’s tension.
Pro:
Lori might have a
zombie walker baby inside her that wants to eat its way out. This would be
awesome. MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
Con:
Weird back rub time between Daryl and Carol.
Obviously there will be some exploration of these two hooking up. Clearly
things are desperate.
Pro:
The gang decides to
enter the creepy prison for reasons.
Pro:
Hershel gets his leg chewed by a walker. Side note: He makes
his girls sing to him and represents wholesomeness. I WANT HIM DEAD.
Pro:
Rick hacks off Hershel's leg with an axe to try and stop the walker infection from spreading. Rick is
almost dead inside. I love it.
Con:
Then the gang are trapped in the prison surrounded by walkers. Will they escape? The first
two seasons were done in such a way that we just didn’t know whether Rick would
survive and it was intense. Now I have no doubt he will survive, which kind of
makes this pointless.
Con:
Then these people show
up. Prisoners still alive. Not more people with ambiguous intentions, I hope? Also, how have they survived?
The end.
So, darker than the
inside of a pig’s belly, but do we care about these people anymore?
I Can’t wait for next week to see if old man pray-a-lot
dies and whether Lori needs to perform a Prometheus style c-section. So I guess
I’m hooked already.
Check back for next week's TWD Series Dissect.
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