The Walking Dead returns...

Dale is dead, Dale is dead, whoopy kyay, Dale is dead!

Bit disappointing that Rick went from modern day Clint Eastwood in the bar and now all of a sudden couldn't put out Randall or at least be the one to put Dale out of his misery. If Hershel had any sense, he'd know operating on Dale would be futile for the simple fact he'd just turn, regardless of the outcome. Why risk infecting himself, too?

As for Randall, thought the episode dragging on to decide his fate was a bit pointless. If you tied me up, beat me and showed all intentions to kill me, if I got loose, I'd probably head straight back to round up the group. As others said, he would have spilled his guts without requiring torture if he was truly innocent.

The deer in the first season was shot with an arrow by Darell. You can see it sticking out. He'd been tracking it but the zombie found it first. Rather curious how a single zombie in an open field tackled a cow. I think Herschel said it broke through a fence but I could be wrong. Maybe it sustained some injury.

Complete and utter spoils have been posted for the next episode. Come from the same accurate source in the past.

One word.

Delightful

Oh, then there's this.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaamn

Holy O.O wow.

I had an inkling of what Jenners whispered to Rick, now I know for sure. Makes me wonder how Lori's baby will come out.

In the words of George Takei....link

And next week I imagine they all will be forced to abandon the farm along with most of their supplies and drive right into laps of Randell's crew.

And where are the damn lookouts. And smart move Shane, wander around with Rick and end up a stone's throw away from the farm house.

What was he purpose of Shane removing Randell's blindfold and gag just to have him walk ten more steps then kill him, unless Shane just wasn't sure what he was about to do.

He found out the last known location of the gang. Assuming he had killed Rick, he'd probably take control of the group and go after them. Randall also solidified his place not as an unwilling participant of the gang but happy to be a part of it with his last words.

Also, Carl is one helluva good shot.

As for abandoning the farm...ya. That's why you always keep an emergency stash of supplies in your bug-out vehicle.

I sooo much prefer the comic version of Shane's death better- this one felt like a .... letdown....

Solid episode, with a powerful final 10 minutes.

What on earth did Lori think she was doing, going to talk to Shane like that? That was guaranteed to push him over the edge.

Seems that Dale is out so Herschel can take over as the conscience of the group.

T-Dog had more lines this week than the last... what six episodes?

Daryl is coming off more and more like the genius in the group. (Though why he couldn't find anything to track when it was daylight and then could track at night bugged me...)

It was nice to see Shane struggling with his decisions at the end. He couldn't make his mind up to take Randall, then couldn't decide what to do with him, then had to work up the nerve to come out of the woods, then took forever to get around to confronting Rick, and even then couldn't put his friend down. The aching struggle was pretty evident, yet all on the direct march to his tragic end. As an actor, that had to be fun role for these 18 episodes.

Shane's end was nicely staged. But, yeah, should have been Carl.
But when I was talking about it with my wife afterwards (who hasn't read any of it) she pointed out that on TV they may have had some issues with a child-as-killer... so I can accept the change from that standpoint. And Carl jumping in to save his Dad was a nice touch.

The only real problem I have with the way the TV show has "revealed" the idea that people who die under any circumstances can come back as zombies is that there's almost no way that could have been a mystery to any of the characters. How is it that the group is just now figuring that out?

Back during the first critical weeks when most of the world was falling apart it should have been obvious to practically any of the last survivors that at least SOME of the people who were becoming zombies were becoming zombies without having been attacked by another zombie. Surely there were people killing each other during the panic and collaspe of law and order. Heck there must have even been at least a few people who died of natural causes like heart attacks who just instantly sat back up as zombies. It simply seems impossible to believe that none of the characters of this show were aware that zombies could just "happen" like that.

The comic book handled this critical bit of knowledge in a more up-front way. If you've read the comics you knew pretty much from the very beginning that EVERYONE was fated to wake up as a zombie regardless. They may have not have known -why- it was happening, but it was a preestablished fact that it -would- happen.

I realize the makers of the TV show decided to make this aspect of zombies be something of a mystery to the audience. But it simply doesn't make any sense that this would have been a mystery to the characters as well. I mean Rick had an excuse being in a coma for several weeks - surely the rest of them saw what happened to the rest of the world.

I just have to say Laurie is the worst mother on TV. One would think that in a world infested with Zombies she'd keep better track of her son. Every time we turn around Carl is getting into something he shouldn't be, and she wants to have another child... geez!