AMC's The Walking Dead

Andrew Lincoln absolutely owned that closing scene. I'm getting chills just typing it. Wow.

 

Doesn't this create a whole new set of problems? You have an absolutely helpless infant to care for. And it seems unlikely they'll find any formula in the prison ....

 

Plus, its crying will attract walkers. I was almost expecting a cliffhanger scene in the boiler room where the baby is fine, but it starts crying and a bunch of walkers beat down the door to trap Maggie and Carl in there.

 

You're damn right it does. And that's why it's awesome!

 

Meh. I was most struck by Carl's stare. Certainly didn't give me chills or anything, but I was more drawn to him than Rick. They had Rick react to emotionally, I thought, considering he and Lori's interactions this season. Yeah, I'm sure he was still sad that she died, but still. It was a little much.

 

No way. That's an immensely natural human emotion. Not only did his wife (estranged as the relationship may be) just die, but he knows his son is the one who put her down. Everything that has boiled inside that guy since the moment he woke up in the hospital just finally and completely overtook him. It's not an overreaction at all.

 

Moreover, even if he doesn't think the world of Lori anymore, he's spent the entire zombie apocalypse doing everything to protect her and Carl. Now he finds out he failed.

 

Then maybe he should take his own advice to Carl. People are going to die. You can't stop that. Or whatever it was he said. They flashed back to it before he killed the biggest annoyance on that show.

Like I said, I get why he was upset. Anyone would be. I just think it was a tad overdone. Not WILDLY overdone. Just a tad. Certainly not enough to debate. It was still a great scene, made better, in my opinion, by Carl's ....stare?

 

Carl has pulled his balls out this season. Every interview I read (Hollywood Reporter has a great interview with Mazzara and Kirkman) indicates they have big plans for Carl. It's exciting.

 

I can understand Rick's reaction, but what struck me most about that final scene was a 13-year-old boy who just put down his mother staring off into the distance alone, while his father cries on the ground. That father-son dynamic will never be the same. Interesting to watch how that relationship plays out going forward.

 

Wow. Just...wow.
They are hitting 3-run shots with everything on this show. Maybe even a few grand slams.
Just fantastic TV.

Don't over-think it. It's already been said on the show that everyone has the virus...and you can't "catch" it by being bitten. I don't think this is a "28 Day Later" type of virus that if you swallow the blood of a zombie, you turn...it's only when you die.
When Jim got bit, the way he got sick wasn't because he was bit, it was he got attacked by dirty, festering dead things...that would make anyone sick IMHO.
To review:
Scratches, small cuts, zombie blood on you ≠ instant zombie
Dying, any way possible = turn into zombie
Dying, but someone cutting off your head or shooting you in the head = afterlife, no coming back.

 

Then why was it necessary to immediately lop Herschel's leg off?