The Walking Dead - Infected
*** / ****
So I'm currently working through the fourth season of The Walking Dead, where Rick has decided to farm at the correctional facility instead of use his gun...until he has no choice. This world of the flesh-eating undead just won't let him farm. He wants Carl to farm, too. Carl wants to use the gun while Rick doesn't want that for him. Well, keeping the zombies outside the gates has become an increasingly tense situation but when a flu outbreak within starts to infiltrate those not yet bitten, it gets a hell of a lot worse. Zombies inside and outside the gates after the flu takes Patrick, turning into the undead, literally going for the jugular of a sleeping man, later also rising from his bed one of the newly walking dead, which just continues an outbreak soon to cause panic and chaos. So those are the breaks. It was a nice idea, Rick abandoning the gun for a garden. Too bad the flu and zombies become the gum in the works.
Second episode of the fourth season, Infected.
Of course by episode's end, Rick buckles the gunbelt back on, giving over another gun to his son. Survival at stake, gotta forgo certain pacifistic desires. When it came to the swine or the zombies crashing the gates, gotta give up the pigs.
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So Infected featured one of my personal pet peeves of The Walking Dead... introducing a secondary romance certain to be doomed just when the characters receive decent development. Karen and Tyreece are holding hands, kissy-face, and affectionate. Tyreece even sings Sinatra to her for heaven's sake! I knew when they were lovey-dovey and just holding hands Karen was dead meat. If you are a red shirt, you are shit outta luck. Someone among the prison community actually kills Karen and another sick member, leaving behind burning bodies Tyreece discovers. Yikes!
Bodies to be buried once Daryl, Rick, and Tyreece clean up the zombie mess started by Patrick on a certain cell block, there is the inevitable quarantine that I think is nonsense. This flu would have spread to everyone as Patrick was all around the place. Granted this flu is a new way to get rid of excess folks needing trimmed from the show to focus on the cast desired for more attention. Those that try to shed zombies building en masse on an area of fence are the characters considered *the crew* while the Patricks, Karens, and Kyles (Kyle gets bitten on the arm and neck with Carol having to knife him in the head, while his little girls look away) get whittled down episode to episode. Just when a sense of normalcy seems possible, the zombies, looking for more rat to eat as one of Kyle's girls was feeding them (!), are coming, the zombies are coming. And all the infected swine, just squealing as Rick cuts them with his knife while riding in a truck driven by Daryl, serve as a distraction. The feast is on!
And Carol promises to take care of Kyle's girls, but what awaits them could not end well. Meanwhile you have Rick and Beth taking care of baby, as Michonne wants none of it. But my favorite scene has Michonne taking the baby from Beth, at first not willing, tearing up and eventually holding the child with greater serenity. Good stuff there.
So I'm currently working through the fourth season of The Walking Dead, where Rick has decided to farm at the correctional facility instead of use his gun...until he has no choice. This world of the flesh-eating undead just won't let him farm. He wants Carl to farm, too. Carl wants to use the gun while Rick doesn't want that for him. Well, keeping the zombies outside the gates has become an increasingly tense situation but when a flu outbreak within starts to infiltrate those not yet bitten, it gets a hell of a lot worse. Zombies inside and outside the gates after the flu takes Patrick, turning into the undead, literally going for the jugular of a sleeping man, later also rising from his bed one of the newly walking dead, which just continues an outbreak soon to cause panic and chaos. So those are the breaks. It was a nice idea, Rick abandoning the gun for a garden. Too bad the flu and zombies become the gum in the works.
Second episode of the fourth season, Infected.
Of course by episode's end, Rick buckles the gunbelt back on, giving over another gun to his son. Survival at stake, gotta forgo certain pacifistic desires. When it came to the swine or the zombies crashing the gates, gotta give up the pigs.
____________________________________________________
So Infected featured one of my personal pet peeves of The Walking Dead... introducing a secondary romance certain to be doomed just when the characters receive decent development. Karen and Tyreece are holding hands, kissy-face, and affectionate. Tyreece even sings Sinatra to her for heaven's sake! I knew when they were lovey-dovey and just holding hands Karen was dead meat. If you are a red shirt, you are shit outta luck. Someone among the prison community actually kills Karen and another sick member, leaving behind burning bodies Tyreece discovers. Yikes!
Bodies to be buried once Daryl, Rick, and Tyreece clean up the zombie mess started by Patrick on a certain cell block, there is the inevitable quarantine that I think is nonsense. This flu would have spread to everyone as Patrick was all around the place. Granted this flu is a new way to get rid of excess folks needing trimmed from the show to focus on the cast desired for more attention. Those that try to shed zombies building en masse on an area of fence are the characters considered *the crew* while the Patricks, Karens, and Kyles (Kyle gets bitten on the arm and neck with Carol having to knife him in the head, while his little girls look away) get whittled down episode to episode. Just when a sense of normalcy seems possible, the zombies, looking for more rat to eat as one of Kyle's girls was feeding them (!), are coming, the zombies are coming. And all the infected swine, just squealing as Rick cuts them with his knife while riding in a truck driven by Daryl, serve as a distraction. The feast is on!
And Carol promises to take care of Kyle's girls, but what awaits them could not end well. Meanwhile you have Rick and Beth taking care of baby, as Michonne wants none of it. But my favorite scene has Michonne taking the baby from Beth, at first not willing, tearing up and eventually holding the child with greater serenity. Good stuff there.
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