AMC's The Walking Dead

At the beginning? Just rewatched it. There is absolutely no frame of reference as to how high the flashlight is.

 

I'll have to watch it again, but it looked as if it was being held above the line of walkers.

 

The girl makes sense as the flashlight holder. She began naming them. Couldn't stab the dad. Sounds logical enough to me.

I was thinking it was Glen who made the kills and dragged the bodies. Something about him was off in that episode and we've seen him wanting to step up as a leader. Could make for some good top dog tension with Rick.

This was a great episode. I thought it really brought home everyone's struggle to maintain their humanity. Rick had to dial things back because he saw himself and his son becoming unremorseful monsters. So he took their guns away, took time off from decision-making and got back to his roots (literally and figuratively).

I think the moment he put his belt back on was well earned and showed he has had time to contemplate who he is and who he wants to be as a leader of these people. He was on the edge for awhile, willing to kill anyone - walkers and the living - to protect his group. He now knows that surviving is not living. He's got to help these people carve out a life and he can't do that sitting on the sidelines and playing in pig shit.

Carol is thinking back to how weak she was before Andrea helped her gain strength. She's teaching the kids to use weapons and be strong the way she had to learn. But you get the feeling she could be on the edge of losing who she is as a person, perhaps becoming too hardened. Telling a 12-year-old she's weak because she wouldn't stab her dad in the head is pretty harsh.

The biggest moment, to me, was Michonne with the baby. I don't know if they've been planning this for two seasons, but Michonne hasn't been anything but a cold-blooded, stone-faced killer in just about any scene until tonight. She had built up major walls, trying not to care about anyone for however long the zombie apocalypse has been going, but they were shattered tonight. I thought her show of emotion with the baby was quite powerful, and wouldn't have been nearly as effective if she hadn't been a complete Terminator until this point in the show.

 

Didn't she show some emotion when they were saying farewells to Andrea?

 

That was one of the show's most powerful scenes, IMHO, from Michonne asking "does she always cry like that?" and trying not to cry then, to her holding the baby and finally losing it.

 

She did, but not as much as this time.

But we didn't see anything after the others left the room, only hearing the gunshot, so she might've shown more emotion then.

 

Oh, this week's scene was much more of an emotional reaction. Just thinking that she had shown cracks in the armor before. Then and when she went back to get that family picture for Carl.

Perhaps that is a hint of what she lost when everything went to hell. I don't think we've heard anything about her life before that in the show. (Nothing was said about her "pet" walkers , right? I can't remember for sure.)

 

I may be misremembering, but weren't her first two pet walkers family members?

I agree we've seen some underlying hints of emotion before - another example would be her jealousy of The Governor for capturing Andrea's attention - but basically she's just been a hard-ass bitch from day 1. I thought this scene really showed how difficult it has been for her to maintain that hard exterior.

 

I don't think we were ever told who the pets were or their connection to her.

 

I'm thinking Herschel burned the bodies. He seemed much more resolute about how serious this virus threat was and more willing to meet it head on than Rick and others.

 

How exactly would he do that on one leg?

 

That's what I'm trying to remember. They were identified in the comics, but I don't remember it happening on the show.

Herschel is a possibility, but you would think they would have to be dead or near it for him to pull it off. Can't imagine he's that strong on his feet even with the prosthetic.