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This is why I like it when an adaptation moves away from the source material. I like being surprised like this.
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This is why I like it when an adaptation moves away from the source material. I like being surprised like this.
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Wow, yeah. I honestly didn't see that coming.
This has been a tough year, because I don't see any way that they're lives are getting better, they're just being winnowed down and falling apart. It hasn't been that much fun.
The last scene was really interesting, because it opens a lot of stuff. I hadn't expected they'd find Sophia there, and it must make them wonder how she got there--and why no one thought to mention it.
About the time the walker split in half and fell into the well, after all that work that could've been thought out better, I was thinking the despair was getting to be too much. But I'll definitely be back to see what happens next, and I guess that's all they can ask.
It would be nice if something went right before season's end.
-- MSA
I don't know if I agree entirely. Herschel being a doctor -- even a vet -- was pretty lucky for Carl. Honestly at the farm, my perceptions are almost the exact opposite of yours. Things have been pretty easy for the group for the last few weeks, and it's about time for things to start going horribly wrong again.
Oh, and as for why no one mentioned Sophia being in the barn, apparently no one knew. Herschel mentions at the creek that Otis was the one who'd catch the walkers, and he went off with Shane (and died) before anyone mentioned they were looking for a little girl. So if no one saw him bring her in -- which seems unlikely, but possible -- people may not have known she was in the barn at all.
It's not a great explanation, but it's the one Kirkman offered on The Talking Dead after the show.
Plus, they were trying to keep the barn secret. "You're looking for a little girl? Say, Otis, isn't there a little girl in the barn with the other sick people?" By the time the secret of the barn was revealed to everyone, things moved at a pretty fast clip.
Things have been pretty easy for the group for the last few weeks, and it's about time for things to start going horribly wrong again.
Yeah, our mileage on that varies. They've spent a half-season looking for a little girl who'd been turned into a zombie and locked up in the barn near them all that time, leading Darryl to nearly die twice while searching (and Carl DID get shot and came close to dying while searching), Lori is pregnant, which, as she points out, most likely is a death sentence for at least one of them if not more, Shane has let his survival mode lead him to justify killing those weaker than him, which isn't quite like having a Walker living with them but is damn close, especially for Dale, and Glenn learned he's mostly considered zombie-bait. I don't even count Glenn smashing in the head of the Walker in the drugstore or the other Walker attacks, because that's just everyday life.
It's true, only two people have died so far and they haven't yet been kicked off the Farm thanks to Rick's pleas for mercy. If that's the new standard for a good day, then that's a pretty low bar. That effort to pull the Walker out of the well was an example--a lot of badly thought out effort that nearly got someone killed that ended up worse than it started. But nobody died, which I guess makes it a good day..
It's hard to believe that Otis locked up a little-girl Walker nobody had seen before without telling anyone he'd done it, so when a group nobody had seen before showed up and starting breaching security by going out into the woods to look for a little girl, nobody thought to mention it.
But if Kirkman is saying they weren't keeping that fact secret, maybe there won't be any repercussions. OTOH, maybe Shane will kill them all in retribution. Herschel's look and resignation at the killing was interesting, so I'm definitely hoping something comes from all that. (I haven't read the comics, so I'm not sure if it's apparent where this is going from those.)
-- MSA