The Walking Dead 3.4: “Killer Within”

Hosted By Fashion and Entertainment Editor Joe Lamour

The best and the worst thing about the zombie genre is that anyone can become a casualty at a moments notice. This doesn’t particularly matter to me (usually) because I feel zombie movie characters are secondary to the carnage packed into an hour and a half flick.

With a show like The Walking Dead, however, character building is as important as the carnage. We grow to love (or hate) characters over seasons full of episodes. This makes for great drama, and a more real feeling of sadness when a death occurs. At least, that’s what should happen…

Carly Neely, Kiki Smith, Kenneth Hwynn, Jeannie Chan, Jenn Kim and I mull over this week’s plusses and its many, many minuses.

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Jeannie: Whoohoo! That guy survived! It seems wrong that I’m keeping a count of POC characters, but… +1!

Joe: Someone has to keep count, Jeannie! And I think we all do it.

Kiki: I know! Took me a minute to remember who he was, but that’s cool.

Ken: Welp, this episode opens with a bang- with Glenn & Maggie… literally… you get the idea.

Jenn: Hey-o! Thank you, The Walking Dead, for reminding the world that Asian American men are hot, sexual beings. And thank you, Daryl, for your beautiful double entendre: “Glenn, you coming?”

Kiki: I’m going to agree with Jenn on her last comment. Especially the Daryl comments.

Jeannie: Thirded!

Ken: I got a little worried after last week’s episode…

Ken: Wow, Rick is turning into Shane. I like.

Joe: I feel Rick has been turning Shane insane (inShane?) for a while… definitely after he killed Shane last season.

Kiki: Sort of. I mean it looks like he grew a pair but at this point he’s just trying to prove to everyone else that he sort of knows what he’s doing. Only sort of.

Jenn: It is interesting, isn’t it? Without Shane, Rick has no direct foil to reason his morality with.

Joe: And Shane was the way he was because he didn’t really care about other people’s opinions. With Rick’s “What I Say Goes” edict, he cleared the way for himself to be like Shane. Irony!

Carly: And without Lori having any footing with him now, no one can get him ‘talking.’ I forget often that he’s supposed to have issues with expressing his emotions because he seems pretty on with his aggression these days.

Jeannie: OMG T-Dog is having a meaningful conversation with the group! (Shit, he’s going to be dead at the end of this episode, isn’t he?)

Joe: Dale had a lot to say the episode he died…

Ken: I’m a little surprised that T-Dog is actually the voice of sympathy and reason here. The most T-Dog’s said in 3 episodes: Fact.

Jenn: Agreed. Though it is nice to see T-Dog remind the group that they were all newcomers once! (Do I smell an analogy to immigration here? *Sniff, sniff.)

Jeannie: I really like these two prisoners. This guy is rocking a pretty awesome mustache. I hope they last a while.

Carly: It’s refreshing seeing people who are genuinely scared and want help and aren’t suspicious. It makes them so very human!

Kiki: Seriously. I was really excited about that. Maybe he’ll convince Rick (only a slight maybe here) and we’ll have some more potentially interesting characters to contend with?

Kiki: Anyone else as excited as I am that in addition to T-Dog saying more than 2 words that Michonne just had a full on conversation in the first ten minutes of this episode as well? Double points, Walking Dead writers, double points.

Joe: Either they read reviews in the WD writers room, or someone on set had another epiphany. Whatever it is, I hope it keeps happening.

Ken: Aww poor Herschel, life just get’s progressively worse for him. He loses his leg and now he slowly and involuntarily morphs into hippy Santa Clause.

Jenn: Herschel is kicking ass! I definitely joined Glenn in yelling, “Woo, go Herschel!”

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