On this week’s The Walking Dead, violence occurs and people act unreasonably in every day conversation. In other words, it’s another week on the farm!
Check out my five thoughts on last night’s episode, titled “Triggerfinger.”
1. They remixed the formula this week
Good news guys! There were things that happened of interest before the very ending this week in The Walking Dead. In fact, the opening 20 or so minutes were gripping, edge-of-your-seat action. It was a blast to watch. Only problem? The characters started talking, which meant all of the interesting things went away and were replaced by forced drama and horribleness, culminating in the…whatever the hell that last scene was.
2. Daryl takes and gives tough love, starts his come back
At this point, I’d give anything for this show to just be Daryl Dixon running around playing Survivorman in a world overrun by the zombie apocalypse. I think it would be somewhere on a scale of 6.3 to 10.5 million times better than what we get (1x for every person who watches the show). In this episode, he has a couple showdowns with Carol in which ultimately his rage tied to Sophia’s death starts to come out. Later on, he shows back up to the farm for the pow wow about the farm’s new friend, seemingly starting to try and integrate back with the group. It’s about damn time – the show suffers when he’s not involved.
3. The characters are diverging more and more from the comics
Shane being around predictably has been a major fork in the active roles of most of the cast. Namely, Dale and Andrea have suffered in comparison to their roles in the comics, diverging from powerful, engaging near leads to one-note harbingers of doom and gloom. Dale seems mostly to be there to tell everyone how Shane is crazy, and Andrea seems like she’s mostly there to tell Shane he’s right. Then, you have Glenn in this episode, hot off making a near emotional breakthrough with Maggie the last episode, completely shelling up and acting unlike either comic Glenn or TV Glenn. Personally, I don’t want the show to be just like the comic. I like a lot of the divergences they’ve made. But man, you have great characters tailor made for the screen, and instead of using them, they’re diluting them.
4. Shane is still an exceptional crazy person
At the core of all of the problems on this show is Shane. One of the best parts of this episode outside of the opening segment was when Andrea pulled Shane off to the side and said that he makes the right decisions, but the way he presents them are wrong. Just like last week, this provided a moment where a character basically speaks for the audience. Shane is like a bull in a china shop, acting like a mad man when the situation asks for care and sensitivity. Does it inspire more drama? Sure. Does it feel forced and make him seem one-dimensional and impossible to like? Definitely. The good news is…
5. Lori is trying to get Rick to kill Shane!
Yeah! Shane acted all crazy on Lori, and it’s inspired her to go all Shakespearean on their asses by trying to manipulate Rick into killing him. Aww yeah! The end is nigh, my friends. They are at a point of no return now, and it is looking like Shane is going to be dead sooner rather than later. Quite possibly by Rick’s hand. I don’t care who kills Shane. Rick. Lori. Carl. The catatonic girl on Herschel’s bed. The horse that ditched Daryl last season. A double zombie Sophia. Batman. Omni-Man. At this point, I just want him dead.
