Yea I freaking love this episode. I don't know if you realized this, but last night was the episode focused around Carl and Rick and then Michonne. Next week's episode will focus on what happened to everyone else. I mean, for the love of god, when the entire group is completely split, you can't have 1 episode that focused on what everyone did and is doing.

Next week we'll see what happened to everyone else....

 

I like episodes like this. I'm not a fan of switching back and forth between a bunch of characters in different places anyways.

Only thing I didn't really like was the Michonne dream, but I can live with it. It was really humorous doe. Comic relief. They tried something different and it didn't turn out oh well.

The rest of the episode was amazing. Hershels head, Rick and Carl jawing back and forth, Michonne slaughtering a billion walkers, Carl bringing up Shane and how Rick couldn't protect anyone including Lori, Carl thinking Rick was a Walker, and dat ENDING mmmmmm I loved it.

Imo though, for as much attention Riggs is getting this episode, I think Andy ****ing nailed this one. He was brilliant. His accent was so sexy and the way he grunted his voice, I could really feel the pain and how beat up he was after the prison.

 

Sigh. I just cringed and wanted to throw my shoe at the TV when poor Rick said, *Carl, you're a man* (*in that lovely Georgian accent), when all I could think of was Carl[FONT=&quot] sulking like a 5 year old kid eating pudding on the roof. Doesn't exactly conjure images of a man, or a grown up for that matter.[/FONT]

 

I would've rather they touched on where/what everyone was doing in this episode and then finished it off on next weeks episode, each episode doesn't necessarily need to have a beginning and ending...kind of leaving us wanting more...than we already do LOL

 

Agreed - but, I think that Carl realized that now also. He *has* grown up. But now he realizes that doesn't mean he *is* grown up. I was waiting for him to admit something to that effect, when his dad said he was a man...but I guess that's part of him that's still not quite grown up yet.

 

There's 7 episodes left. It's not like we need to know where everyone is at every single moment of time. They have time to show that in upcoming episodes.

 

I liked this episode, it would of been way too busy going back and forth between several characters. Plus this followed the comic pretty good, had a nice blend of comic story line with a good amount of newness added. I thought Carl did good, he was funny and acted exactly how a teen his age would act, just because its a zombie apocalypse doesnt change the fact he's a teen and is going to act like that. He was trying to cope with alot of loss, being essentially alone for the first time, since his Father was out of commission and facing the fact his father is not invincible and without the safety of the group he could very well be left all alone. This episode was dealing with the emotions people would go through while facing this sort of scenario alone. And do they withdraw into themselves , do they seek out others, or do they just give up. We saw a little of all that. In the end we are reminded that you cant survive alone.

 

I prefer it like this. More concrete arcs, more time to really delve into them instead of dealing with a bunch at the same time and having them dragged out to the point where we may not care anymore. I like how it began, wrapped up and made sense in the same episode.

 

Good epidode but i understand u i liked it but just knowing we
have to wait another week makes u want more . is normal

 

I wonder how the Daryl fangirlz survived the episode..

 

Hopefully they didn't :Grin:

 

It sounded like your enjoyed the episode yet I glanced at your little rating system and you have it as a 3/10? What could possibly make you say that but then make you completely hate the episode?

 

Oh. LOL

I was having a little fun yesterday. Forgot to change it. I'll change it now.

 

He did a great job. I really liked the scenes between Carl and Rick on the road, where not too much was said, but you still got a strong feel of where each character was. You could see Carl's anger and disgust as he walked ahead of his father, and Rick was so exhausted he could only plead with Carl to slow down.

 

I didn't see Carl as sulking when he was up on the roof eating the pudding. It was more of a momentary escape from a world where his home was just destroyed and he was unsure if his father was going to live or die.

His admission of Carl being a man was more of a hurdle Rick had to clear himself. He'd been trying to put the genie back in the bottle for a couple of seasons of the show now, wanting Carl to return to being a kid. Yet with everything his son has experienced in the ZA world, all the death and putting down his own mother it's clear he's not a kid anymore. He's somewhere inbetween. But Rick's acknowledgement was all about him coming to terms with reality.

 

I thought this was a great episode. Yeah, I wanted to see what happened to everyone to, but I think the build up for them to (hopefully) be reunited will be worth it. I think it was just a lot of built up anger and resentment in Carl and they had to let it play out, for him to attempt to rise by himself then crash and burn back to reality.