The Walking Dead Midseason Finale Review!

There have now been more episodes of season 2 of AMC’s The Walking Dead than all of season 1, and yet it feels like a lot less has gotten accomplished. This week’s episode was the mid season finale, and sadly, we won’t be seeing any new episodes until February. Even though the first half of the season has been so slow a sloth would have lapped it on the track, I still find myself coming back for more. Although, I’m not sure how much more I can take. I mean good grief! I was having a conversation with a friend before the episode, and we figured out all we had to do was print out a picture of a zombie and set it beside us and talk about the same thing for an hour and we could make our own episode of The Walking Dead.

So why do I keep coming back? There have been some small character turns that are mighty intriguing and every now and then a zombie shows up. It’s just enough of a teaser to make you see the potential of the show. The mid-season finale, in particular, was a major zombie-tease. The whole episode was all talking up until the end where it whipped out a fantastic last 10 minutes. A couple of things actually happened! Zombies showed up, and I’m not going to lie, they got blown away and it was fun. Everything else in the episode was just fluff leading up to the last 10 minutes. So once again, they have managed to hook me with just that 10 minute bit, and I will definitely be back in February for some more blah blah and the occasional zombie. Oh, and for more Dale.

Action Chick, not to be off-topic or anything, but have you seen my prostate medicine? I saw Carl givin’ a handful of pills to some chickens and I worry it was my bottle of Zomponorf. If I don’t get m’dang pills my prostates gonna swell on up like a blowfish in heat.

Thanks Dale. Also, I’d like to add (in a spoiler-free way) that the Sophia issue was finally dealt with, and I was glad to finally have closure on that chapter, plus it was just awesome.

Beware Spoilers Below!

Here’s what happens:

Seriously, Glenn! He can’t keep a secret. Glenn (Steven Yeun) busts out to the whole group that there’s walkers in the barn. Then everyone argues about what to do: move on or stay for Sophia.

Maggie (Lauren Cohan) gets mad at Glenn for telling everyone and smashes an egg on his head. Then they talk again later and make up. Maggie starts to think that the walkers aren’t people.

Daryl (Norman Reedus) starts to saddle up a horse to go out looking for Sophia (Madison Lintz) and then Carol (Melissa Suzanne McBride) tells him not to and that she knows they may never find her. Then Carl and Lori talk. Carl and Shane talk. Shane and Rick talk, and Shane finds out Lori’s (Sarah Wayne Callies) pregnant. Maggie and Herschel talk. You see the pattern.

Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) tells Andrea (Laurie Holden) she doesn’t know Shane (Jon Bernthal) and she should be careful. Andrea says “I’m fine, leave me alone.”

Rick (Andrew Lincoln) talks to Herschel (Scott Wilson) to convince him to let the group stay. Herschel thinks about it after hearing that Lori’s pregnant and makes a bargain with Rick. If they are going to stay then they have to start treating the walkers like people and not kill anymore of them. He then takes Rick out where some walkers are trapped in the mud and they “rescue” them.

Shane tells Lori Rick isn’t built for this world and starts pointing out all the times he saved her and how Rick hasn’t saved her one single time. Lori tells him it’s not his child and even if it was his, it would never be his child. It belongs to Rick no matter what, and he can’t change it. He said he didn’t want to.

Dale hides the guns from everyone, mostly Shane, who finds them easily because Dale is old and can’t hide things worth a crap. They have a stand off and Dale gives Shane the guns back. Things got pretty tense, and for a second I thought we were going to be getting updates from a Ghost Dale. However, like the rest of the season, nothing happened.

Everyone comes together in the last 10 minutes. Shane hands out the guns telling everyone to protect themselves, and it’s ridiculous that they “aren’t allowed” to carry guns. Everyone starts to agree. Then Rick and Herschel walk up with zombies on a stick. Shane goes ballistic screaming at everyone to grow up, that this is a time of survival and that the walkers aren’t people. He pumps bullets into one zombie and points out how a human wouldn’t be able to keep on going after three shots to the chest. Then he opens the barn and everyone starts unloading on the zombies killing them while Herschel sinks to the ground in shock. After the heard of zombies have come out of the barn, one more zombie comes out…it’s Sophia! Yay! I guess they did manage to find her! Everyone stares in sadness/disbelief so then Rick finally takes out his gun and shoots her in the head. The end. And the end of the Sophia search! Let the rejoicing begin!

Likes:

• Obviously, the last 10 minutes.
• Shane’s survival speech!
• Shane’s badass slow-mo zombie headshot
• The line of everyone but Rick, Lori, and Dale shooting a big group of zombies!
• They found Sophia!

Dislikes:

• The sound- Did it keep getting quieter for everyone or was it just my tv?
• All the blah blah that didn’t lead to anything.
• Lori and her Lori-ness
• Herschel being a blind old poot