Well, things didn't stay happy & safe for long, did they?
I'm enjoying how this series (the writers) has done an excellent job with developing more and more characters this and last season. Even though it's based on a comic book, the characters in the series are not at all two dimensional now. It's also great to see at least a couple of the better actors from The Wire (the guy who played D'Angelo Barksdale and the guy who played Cutty) showing up. Whether he was playing a quasi-pacifist or not, it did stretch believability to think that scrawny-ass Rick could take out Tyreese/Cutty (played by man-mountain Chad Coleman) with one or even a dozen punches - especially when they later show the same character mowing through dozens of zombies like a buzz saw, with nothing but a hammer and a head full of anger. From the very beginning, I've thought that casting Andrew Lincoln as Sheriff Rick was a bad idea - especially when his English accent sometimes slips out with certain words or phrases. Being from the south, it's easy as hell for me to pick up that whatever this guy is, he ain't no southerner. The same is true of the girl who plays Maggie (something Cohan or Cohen). Her English accent slips out even more than Lincoln's does and her southern accent REALLY sounds fake as hell. IMO, her only good scene so far was the "hand-bra" abuse scene she did last season. Even for cable, that was pretty edgy stuff. But anyway, I really like where this show is going and how well they've developed it over the past couple of seasons.
Saddest part last night: the girl with the bum leg. She thought that she could still run
just fast enough. Looks like she was wrong.
I thought that was a really sad scene.
P.S. I watched last week's episode of Talking Dead with Marilyn Manson as one of the guests. The other (non show) guest was Ozzy Osbourne's ne'er–do–well offspring, Jack Osbourne (who is known for nothing but being a loser celebrity kid and drug addict). But anyway, I had no idea that Marilyn Manson was a complete moron. I thought that maybe he was just quirky, but fairly sharp or witty (like Russell Brand). I was wrong. That guy was either drunk, on drugs or just naturally spaced out and really,
really stupid. What a
maroon!