A Couple Of Venus de Milos: The Racialicious Roundtable For The Walking Dead 3.1
Carly: I’m starting to wonder, are Rick’s decisions now choices of convenience that the group no longer has the option to make? Compare this to the way some may push veganism on the world, disregarding environments that just could not grow and provide the volume of food and supplements needed to make that kind of diet sustainable. Or the issue of wartime killings to protect one’s own. People who have food and peace (and no zombie apocalypse) can choose any diet or moral high ground they please!
Joe: I can eat an owl if I want to!
Jeannie: I didn’t really see it as Rick making that call for the whole group (maybe I was only selectively paying attention) but more like that was him drawing the line of how far beyond the scope of healthy and normal he will make his child live?
Carly: I like this toeing the line with that needs hierarchy…when does starving conquer putting on airs? Or the life or death of others vs the pursuit of the ideal of civility?
Joe: Seriously. I wonder what would have happened if someone just walked over and started eating the other can of dog food. Would Rick have pistol-whipped them or something? Or are they so scared of him now they just don’t?
Ken: Can someone remind Daryl that chopper-riding makes everyone at home extremely nervous? Also, Carl ripping into zombies with his revolver from 80 yards away…yeah…not quite believable yet, kid.
Jeannie: Can I just say that the silence that pervaded these first 8 minutes was super intense? Granted, nobody’s going to be chatting up a storm while they patrol but, given how tense things were at the end of the last season, I couldn’t help but feel the whole weight of that carry over from the “Previously.” And I’m sure we’re meant to. But seriously. The silence is a very effective tool for making viewers think about the relationships and the tone of the show. The show has used silence pretty effectively before and I like that they’ve kept it up. (I may or may not also enjoy looking at the ways in which silence is used… )
Joe: The first eight minutes were definitely improved by Lori not saying anything. That’s what I think.
At Least Casting Is Up On The Atlanta Prison Census
Joe: “He couldn’t even stay alive after I shot him in the face to be here for you and that baby!” I think that he meant he didn’t brand her a brazen hussy or high-tailed it outta there.
Carly: Joe and I were talking before the show, and he mentioned this version of Atlanta had so few people of color in the past seasons we could count them on two hands… looks like they’re definitely adding a high representation here in the prison…
Joe: Yeah, I meant important characters, but this is now extending to extras as well. I definitely started writing down “Where are all the black people in this Atlanta prison? Is this a 1920s jail for horse and buggy cri–” and deleted it when I found all the actors of color there in the killing field. While on the killing-field subject, it looks like some of these guys are starting to enjoy the impaling now. The only person who didn’t seem at all giddy to me was Lori. It might be that her feet are tired though…
Jeannie: Haha, yeah, this is what my wise-cracking brain said when we first see the prison again – “Given the disproportionate incarceration rate of people in color, where are all the young black zombies? God, can’t the casting director get anything righ– Oh, there they are. Well, isn’t that interesting.”
Joe: LOL
Jeannie: Also, Darryl and Carol? Not digging this vibe.
Ken: Carol, getting saucy with Darryl, indeed…somewhat cringeworthy, but hey in a zombie apocalypse single moms and crossbow donning country folk need lovin’, too.
Jeannie: I’m just going to leave this right here …
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