Me too Phyllis. The supermarket sequence was cool but that was the highlight. I'm afraid changing show runners every year might be catching up with them.
They don't have any choice now but to leave the prison, which is good. They need to keep moving to keep the show from getting stale. I'm really hoping that now this means they'll run into Carol, who I've been missing.
I was kind of bummed that Carol killed Lizzie without first asking what she meant when she said she could hear them. Some of her ramblings about the walkers caught my ear and I was wondering if it was just the ramblings of a psychopath or if she was on to something that the rest of them haven't noticed. I'm sure it was nothing, but now we'll never know.
This weeks episode is why The Walking Dead is the best series since LOST when it comes to characters.
Carol did the worst thing a human being could do, but we understand why she did it and and, most of us, would have done the same thing. I admire her strength.
This episode was the most heart wrenching. We all knew Carol had to do what she did, but there was that doubt. Of course I was screaming DO IT! DO IT!. I hated that little b*tch since she tried suffocating Judith. I'm so glad Carol is back. She's always been my favorite. Her character really has grown since we first met her as an abused, battered wife. She went from fearful to fearless. Oh Carol! I'm so in love with you!
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This was a better episode than most of the rest of the season, even if everything that was going to happen was telegraphed from a mile away. I just can't really get on board with this season. I'm hoping the final episodes are going to remind me what I like about the show, but I've just found this season tedious and dull and I'm not sure I'm going to continue on at the rate it's going. I'm with this Vulture article.
I suppose life in the zombie apocalypse isn't all excitement all the time. There must be dull moments too. The first half of this season wasn't boring for me. I liked it when they went on a tangent and followed the Governor around. I do think that they devoted one episode too many to him though. On the other hand, I didn't mind the Rick/Carl/Michonne-centric episodes of the second half. However, I found the Daryl/Beth episode to be the low point of the season. And it's hard to imagine that given that Daryl was in it. I wish they had followed the comic-books closer post-prison where they found each other again relatively quickly.
I don't need all excitement all the time, but it just seems to have ceased to be about anything. I'm hoping the this build up to Terminus might be something to keep watching for, but I liked this show a lot better when it was more about trying to figure out what was going on (like when they wound up at the CDS in Season 1) than it just just moving from place to place and fighting and dying.