The Walking Dead 2.13 - Besides the Dying Fire (season finale - SPOILERS)

Now I've seen the whole episode:

1) Everyone is turning into a damn good shot.

2) I'm sorry, but to my eye, the Hooded One's appearance (with "entourage") screamed "COMIC BOOK!" to me, and not in a good way.*

3) Nice horde/herd!

* Yes, I know the TV show is based on a comic book, and this is one of the characters from it.

Well at least she didn't look like she carried a katana around..

That said it wasn't too bad an episode, though Lori's flip-flop about Shane is kinda.. urgh woman didn't you want him to be dead earlier?
 

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I'm SO happy that Rick finally found his balls. I would go into the details of why I think democracy is a sham and unworkable but the last time I did that, I got into trouble for saying that people are too dumb to make intelligent decisions to save themselves and need to be led; so I won't be saying that again!
 

I'm pretty sure the cast camped out at High Falls State Park. I've hiked there. No, there's not a prison just across the lake, but there is a pretty awesome waterfall (that was bone dry when I went), and a gas station with really good beef jerky.

It does strain credulity a bit that Michonne didn't have to run up to get Andrea's walker. Better if she'd attacked from behind Andrea's shoulder or something, or if Andrea had been heading toward a shed for safety.

Still, aside from that and the splendid marksmanship of the PCs, tonight's session was top notch.
 


I'm pretty sure the cast camped out at High Falls State Park. I've hiked there. No, there's not a prison just across the lake, but there is a pretty awesome waterfall (that was bone dry when I went), and a gas station with really good beef jerky.

It does strain credulity a bit that Michonne didn't have to run up to get Andrea's walker. Better if she'd attacked from behind Andrea's shoulder or something, or if Andrea had been heading toward a shed for safety.

Still, aside from that and the splendid marksmanship of the PCs, tonight's session was top notch.

The walkers that are chained to her have no arms and no jaws/teeth. Also, she keeps them close to her so she can move through groups of walkers and not be detected - sort of like how Rick & Glen covered themselves in zombie guts in season 1, or how they've pulled the bodies of freshly killed walkers on top of them for camouflage.
 

Using rotting guts to pass through zombies makes sense.

Using tethered zombies to pass through zombies makes ZERO sense. We've seen their "herding instinct", for one. Besides that, even sans arms & jaws, they'd still try to attack, they'd still crowd her physically...and as a human who is at this very moment tethered to a puppy while typing on a mobile device, I can attest that my movement is impaired.
 

Using rotting guts to pass through zombies makes sense.

Using tethered zombies to pass through zombies makes ZERO sense. We've seen their "herding instinct", for one. Besides that, even sans arms & jaws, they'd still try to attack, they'd still crowd her physically...and as a human who is at this very moment tethered to a puppy while typing on a mobile device, I can attest that my movement is impaired.

Well, we only see Michonne in that one scene on the TV show, so we don't know how much of a struggle it's been for her to move about before coming across Andrea. ( I kept expecting her to say, "come with me if you want to live" a al Arnold in Terminator 2.)

In the comics, the two "chained" walkers
are almost immediately executed, but I'm also pretty sure there was no rescue of anybody in Michonne's introduction.

I'll wait till October to see if they give us anything more in depth on how she got where she is.
 
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In the comics, the two "chained" walkers are almost immediately executed, but I'm also pretty sure there was no rescue of anybody in Michonne's introduction.


That probably could have used spoiler tags. :) Probably true of anything that wasn't revealed in the episode but that might come in the next season due to being in the print version.
 

Yeah, some spoiler tags would be nice for those of us that haven't read the comic.

Good episode, I thought, although I too noted how it seemed like everyone had suddenly become master marksmen. The only thing that bugged me (aside from what is the purpose of having zombie "pets") is, who the heck was the kid in the camper that got eaten while rescuing Rick & Carl? I guess he was one of the people on the farm, but I don't recall ever seeing him before the scene of him getting eaten.
 


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