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Merle and Daryl are forced to fight. Merle seems to be winning, but tells Daryl to follow his lead to get out of there.
Rick and Maggie show up to rescue Daryl, Merle comes with them.
Glenn and Michone hate Merle. Merle is a huge jerk. Rick knocks him out. Daryl, Rick, Glenn, and Maggie discuss what do to with Merle and Michone. They don’t want either in the group, but Michone is too injured to send off yet. Daryl and Merle go off on their own.
Woodbury is in a panic, residents want to leave. Some zombies get in through the hole our heroes left in the fence and attack some people. The governor is pretty distant to the townspeople. Andrea makes a speech to them to get them to stay. At some point the governor comes clean about her old group being alive and Glenn and Maggie being there.
Ben’s dad wants to take on who is left at the prison, but Tyrese and his daughter show they are decent people by preventing that. Rick and co. return, lots of lamenting the loss of Daryl. Maggie and Glenn aren’t speaking. Glenn wants the governor dead. Rick doesn’t want Tyrese and co. to stay, Herschel thinks they should trust more people, but then Rick sees Lori and flips out. [/spoiler]
I would have loved to have seen the two new folks try to take out the ‘woman and the boy’. Ty and his wife weren’t going to play along, but even if they had - I don’t think think I’d bet against Carl or Carol.
I think Daryl and Merle will show up at the prison. Too many walking dead are walking around and there really is no other secure place to be in the area at this point. They can’t be in the woods killing 24/7. Daryl has to return. Also, he is in love with Carol, and he isn’t going to forget that long term over his knee jerk reaction to the reunion with Merle.
Rick needs Michonne’s fighting skills and I think the herds are going to force Tyrese back into the prison.
God, I want Andrea to die so fucking bad. Her character is completely pointless at this point, and clueless as well.
“Oh, the woman that kept me alive for several months is fighting with some guy I’ve known for two weeks. Oh yeah, he also had a room full of zombie heads in fish tanks, and is crying while cradling what can only be his double-dead zombie daughter…but no, I’m going to go ahead and stay with him, never questioning him about the incident, even after he admits to kidnapping a couple friends of mine.”
Of course, Michonne is a close second, since she didn’t bother to tell Andrea all this useful info she has about the shit The Governor was up to. I mean…he told Andrea he had Glenn and Maggie, and Michonne could have at least told her that Glenn was beaten to within an inch of his life, and Merle tried to kill him with a walker. Oh, and The Governor sexually assaulted Maggie, and killed that national Guard members in cold blood.
Drama that only arises from lazy writing and bad characters isn’t good. It would have been interesting for Andrea to actually get the whole story, but still decide to stay be cause she feels Woodbury is safer, and it’s all for “the greater good,” and she slowly turns into a kind of “ends justify the means” kind of person.
But nope, instead she’ll just give a God-awful cliched speech. :rolleyes:
Well last night it was clear to me why she died in childbirth. Good lord, no woman could have pushed that thing out without splitting herself in half.
It’s actually his daughter. But I thought it was kind of contrived that there’s always people in the group who want to kill everyone. I guess they might be dying soon? Getting set up as assholes so we won’t feel so bad about their deaths. I hope so. I’m not really feeling the father/son characters.
I agree that overall it was a pretty mediocre episode. Andrea is already driving me nuts for the reasons mentioned. I mean, ffs Andrea. The sex can’t be that good. I was a bit upset about Daryl leaving but, like someone else said, it was completely in character. Actually, for a bit I was certain that Rick was gonna cave and let Merle join the group, though maybe lock him up or something. I’m wondering how they’re going to get Daryl back without Merle.
I’m particularly irritated by the way the show has treated the residents of Woodbury. They are somehow both soft and spoiled by a barbecue and picnic filled life inside the walls, ignorant of the real dangers of the post-zombie world; and crave bloodsport and brutal capital punishment like mindless, leering savages. There is no connection between the Woodbury people we see on the town streets and the way others speak of them, and the lynch mob slavering over human pain in the gladiator pit, when they are supposedly the same group.
I liked this episode. It was talky but the story needed an episode like this because so much was happening.
Michonne as a character is ridiculous and needs to be fixed or abandoned.
Rick being crazy feels like it will get old fast.
I felt bad for Darryl. He has indeed grown but Merle is such a huge personality, it is easy for him to backslide. I don’t expect it to last long though. As soon as they have moral choices to make Daryl will realize his mistake and move on without his brother.
Daryl leaving (love the internal conflict, the realistic in-character portrayal)
Governor preparing for war, telling Andrea to fuck off
Glenn stepping up instead of being at everyone’s beck and call, showing toughness
Hershel replacing Dale as the soul of the group, but with less “holier-than-thou” attitude
Tyreese’s group and their inter-group conflict
Conflict between the Woodbury residents
Stuff I didn’t like:
Ghost Lori. Just let Rick be himself again, stop fucking with him from beyond the grave
The odd Becky kiss on Rick’s cheek. Please NO god damn romantic subplot
Michonne still not talking
Andrea’s Stockholm Syndrome is wearing a bit thin
The strange way Glenn was distancing himself from Maggie after almost giving up his life to save her. He should be grabbing and kissing her and holding her at every chance, not be so wracked with self-conflict that he’s driving her away
