The Walking Dead 3.3: “Welcome To Stepford”
Joe: LOL. I agree. Michonne has fantastic form. I always feel like I’m watching a ceremony or a demonstration or something. And I’d like to think the writers are reading our comments, even though this episode was written and filmed before we even started…
The powers that be must have seen the two zombies in the first episode and said “And these guys just follow her around, in chains…all season?” That, or someone actually had a moment of awareness…on a show who has a character like T-Dog.
Jeannie: But look, other PoC! Yay! Who are these guys!
Joe: Villains, probably…
Oh…You’re Back. Sigh.
Kiki: Oh Merle, the racist douche we never wanted to but knew would return.
Joe: I thought the way the mysterious voice over said “girl” sounded a little pre-Civil Rights. I hope that Michonne delivers a verbal beatdown Merle can’t ever recover from before the season is over. Writers, can you hear me!? I want a “Big Mistake. Huge.” to his “It’s verrry expensive.”
Jeannie: As much as he is a racist douche, I actually eagerly anticipated his return. He was a total racist but I liked the tension he added in the beginning of the show. Writing the lines of a racist character, and being able to handle those scenes, says much more about the show’s integrity than simply writing off the character altogether. I want to see how this plays out.
Jenn: I agree that Merle has the potential to bring back interesting new tensions to the show, particularly regarding his relationship with Daryl (and T-Dog!). But a part of me has always felt that a blatantly racist character like Merle gives the other white characters reason to be self-congratulatory for their less obvious racist actions and sentiments.
Ken: Is it just me or does the only other Asian dude on the show look and act just like the main Asian dude? Maybe he’s only supposed to be a teenage boy, but put a little extra thought into making him multi-dimensional or something….Or maybe Steve Yeun’s stunt double wanted a non-speaking part…tsk tsk…
Joe: I dunno, it looks like they’re T-Dogging (Am I coining a word here? Here’s hoping!) these henchmen so far. All of them seem pretty one dimensional to me. “Here’s a big scary black guy looking at Michonne and Andrea all rapey, cause that’s what! Isn’t he scary?” Also, I’m sorry Merle… “Wait for my brother on the other side”? You’re talking about the same brother you didn’t notice wander off into the woods for nine days?
Kiki: Seriously. And his attitude toward him when they were together wasn’t exactly all roses either.
Ken: Wow, Merle went all cybernetic on us and is as dislikeable as ever. This is gonna be an interesting backstory.
Joe: How can anyone in the universe be comfortable talking to a man with an icepick prosthetic? Zombie apocalypse or not. What if he accidentally brushes past you? Or swings at you for “not knowing your place” (’cause you just know he says things like that)?
Kiki: I know Michonne is trying keep with appearances and all with her mysterious physique and stuff, but she seriously needs to speak up and say something more than “go” or “where are our weapons?”
Joe: They’re definitely selling her as the mysterious new person, who thinks that words are useless in this new world. But sometimes, you need to express a thought, right? Like Tom and Lorenzo said in their review:
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