The Walking Dead Season 2 Returns!

The Walking Dead returns after a several month break with episode eight, titled “Nebraska.” It started off well, slumped down into boring land, and then took a sharp right back into interesting town for the end, bookending the episode with goodness to make viewers want to come back for more and forget about all the filler crap in the middle. Let’s see what Dale has to say.

Action Chick, I ever tell you I can play the Sousaphone? It’s been a while, but if we find one lying around I bet I could squirt out a few notes. Y’think we’ll find a sousaphone lying around here?

Thanks, Dale. Now for what happened:

Beware Spoilers From Here on Out

Here’s What Happened:

Sophia (Madison Lintz) has finally been found and yep, she’s a zombie. Rick (Andrew Lincoln) blows her brains out as everyone stops to process what’s happening. All right, maybe this half of season 2 is gonna be all about kicking ass! Wait, no, we’re back to the talking. Hershel (Scott Wilson) demands that the group leaves his property at once. Shane (Jon Bernthal) goes a little crazy with power and rants  to Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) about how he’s a hero because he saved Carl (Chandler Riggs) and how great it was that he opened the barn door and found Sophia.

The group then holds a service for their lost loved ones before loading the rest of the walker corpses to be burned. Everyone argues over whether or not opening the barn was the right thing to do while Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Glenn (Steven Yeun) discuss him having to leave soon.

Herschel disappears and Rick just has to go after him partly because he feels responsible, partly because he’s a busybody, and partly because he needs Hershel’s help to deliver Lori’s baby. So he and Glenn are off to town while Carol (Melissa Suzanne McBride) walks around aimlessly depressed about Sophia. Shane shows a little bit of compassion by telling her he didn’t know Sophia was in the barn and that he was just trying to protect everyone.

Dale tells Lori that he thinks Shane sacrificed Otis to save himself, revealing the one big secret he knew and reducing his immediate usefulness to almost nil. Hey, Dale, every time you open your mouth, you’re chipping away at your chances of survival, buddy.

One of Herschel’s group, the “barely has a name and isn’t an important character” girl, goes into shock after the barn incident, so Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) decides Hershel would know what to do. She asks Daryl to go after Rick who went after Hershel and bring them all back. Daryl (Norman Reedus), who actually has some sense, yells at Lori that he isn’t their gopher boy anymore and she should go get them herself. She calls him selfish, and he says he took a bullet and an arrow looking for Sophia and that he has done his part. Go, Daryl!

However, Lori being the dumb dumb that she is, takes off in a car by herself to go get Rick – which raises the question: Why does anyone have to “go get Rick?” He said he’d come back when he found Hershel. It’s not like they’re going to go out for lunch and go shopping all day, so just be patient, woman! While driving, she hits a zombie and flips her car over several times before coming to a stop.

Nice driving, Lori. Way to make us women drivers look good.

Rick and Glenn find Hershel in a bar and they talk about what a fool he was/still is. They just about come to the conclusion that there is no hope for any of them when two unknown people walk in. The group’s population was getting rather thin, so they just had to introduce some new characters…not.

The two new guys tell them there is no way out of the mess and all the “safe places” are overrun by zombies. They ask to stay at the farm and Rick says no, and that there’s no room. Hmm… sounds like Rick’s being a little bit of a hypocrite. Regardless, tensions rise as the two newcomers don’t care for being turned away. Now, if it had been Shane instead of Rick having this conversation, those two guys would have bullet holes—OMG! He did shoot them!!!! Rick! He kills the two sleazy guys rather than be forced to share the farm with them. And poor Glenn is stuck with another secret!

Likes:

• The return of Dale face 3.0.
• Andrea earning her keep by impaling a zombie through the head with a scythe.
• Daryl yelling at Lori to go get Rick herself because he was done being their errand boy.
• Lori crashing the car because it took her out of the rest of the episode.
• Rick growing some balls and shooting two guys!

Dislikes:

• The Walking Dead never fails to fail in the action department. The whole episode is spent talking about what happened last episode. Yes, we know what happened last episode, we saw it all last episode.
• Lori tends to be annoying and a little dim-witted, but this episode took the cake with her whole ‘driving after Rick even though he was coming back’ routine.
• Dale being a gossip.
• What’s-her-face being melodramatic and going into shock. No-one cares if you’re in shock, lady! You’ve barely been in the show!

This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!

If you missed this episode, you can watch it online for free at AMC:
http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/episode-208-the-walking-dead