Tuesday, 13 March 2012

The Walking Dead mega shocker!!!

Last night was the second to last episode of AMC's hit show "The Walking Dead."  Seriously, this show is so popular that it has a half hour show devoted to talking about it.  This season will have a total of thirteen episodes, which is a vast expansion from the six that the first season features.  Once again, fans will have to wait till October to see their favorite zombie apocalypse survivors in action again.
The show has remained relatively faithful to the comic, keeping most of the important characters and plot points (the CDC explosion in the finale of season one was a deviation).  Perhaps the reason for this is that Robert Kirkman is a driving force behind both of them.  One event unsecured loans that I have been looking forward to, but that was different in the show than in the comic, was Shane's death.  I have been against Shane ever since I read in the comic that he started a relationship with Lori.  Even if he honestly thought Rick was dead, sex is not something that should be on your mind in a zombie apocalypse.  The relationship stops when Rick miraculously comes out of his coma, and ends up finding the group that Lori, Shane, and Rick's son Carl are a part of.  In the show, Shane slowly starts to go crazy after Rick's return, and especially after he finds out that Lori is pregnant.  I personally think the baby is his, but he keeps pestering her about it and about them being a "family," despite her repeated talks with him about how there is nothing between them.
At the start of the episode, Shane sneaks into the barn, bad credit loans presumably to mess with or torture Randall, who the group has been keeping captive.  We are shown glimpses of Shane's inner thoughts, which are definitely the inner thoughts of a crazy person.  He ends up killing Randall and pretending that Randall attacked him and ran into the woods.  Thus a majority of the men in the group split into small groups and go searching for Randall.  Rick and Shane are teamed up, and they end up in the meadow just outside the barn's fence, where Shane pulls his gun on Rick.  He goes on about how much better he is in every respect than Rick, and when Rick refuses to pull his gun on him, Shane lunges at him.  He shoots, but it misses and Rick stabs him in the heart, killing him.
Carl arrives shortly after, and clearly sees that Rick killed Shane.  Meanwhile, we are being shown intermittent clips of zombie mouths and faces, with gruesome zombie noises.  Carl raises his gun, seemingly at Rick, but then shoots Shane, who has risen back up as a zombie, or walker as the series calls them.  The episode ends with a horde of zombies running out of the woods, and Rick and Carl hauling it back to the barn, to get ready for the big showdown in the season finale.  See you then!

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