The Walking Dead 3.4: “Killer Within”
Carly: Also doesn’t hurt the Governor to have a fancy pants Southern accent instead of Merle’s redneck slang…. definitely no commentary to be had there… Every time the Governor speaks it makes me think of Colonel Angus.
Ken: Lori’s baby…will it be a zombie? One can only hope…
Joe: I don’t think my eyesight could recover from seeing something like that.
Jeannie: Gross. I do not want to see this birth at all.
Kiki: If poor Carl has to witness this, oh boy. He has this look of WTF is happening?
Joe: Funny, birth is potentially still gross to people who wade through corpses on a daily basis.
Ken: Zombie baby… it’ll be a standing birth a la Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.
Joe: T-Dog exits and Baby Grimes enters… circle of life… yadda yadda. So original.
Ken: T-Dog, you didn’t say much but you sure did die in style..RIP.
Jenn: No, this is BS. Total and utter BS. The writers really screwed us over with this. I am legitimately ANGRY about how they treated T-Dog. After over two seasons of absolutely no character development, I held onto hope that T-Dog, one of the ONLY characters of color on this damn TV show, would have his opportunity to share his story. Now the writers have essentialized T-Dog to the mystical black man whose destiny was fulfilled when he guided the white woman to safety. Bull. Sh*t. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get over this.
Joe: Could they have at least given him an arc before his exit? It just seems unfair to the character, as well as the audience. T-Dog really was the writers’ afterthought to the very end.
Kiki: Really T-Dog? I had a glimmer of hope that since it was just your shoulder, you’d be okay. Then… you save her? Valient and all, but seriously writers? Is this because the PoC prisoner is now joining them, we have to get rid of the other? And absolutely no character development or much of a story with T-Dog had come out yet. Le sigh.
Jeannie: This is outrageous. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: what is the point of keeping T-Dog alive this long without giving us any insight into his character? This one act of his will be the only notable thing we know of his character. Killing him off like this after so long is just… Yep, you said it, Jenn. B.S.
Kiki: Agreed.
Jeannie: I also keep thinking about Carol’s evolution and how she has shown an incredible amount of personal growth after last season. I love that the show is giving her a chance to develop past her role as the battered woman into what I’m seeing as a strong, female character. This could have been her moment to pull a Lori and chase after some zombies with her a gun of her own. But noooo, she had to be saved. T-Dog had to be sacrificed. For what?
Carly: I really appreciate what they’ve done with Carol. I have a big problem with shows and stories that make female characters who have a pivot point of being the victim and not giving them anything else. It’s good to see her be a full productive human, not just a battered woman. That being said, I hate that we can now view that scene and have the audience associate her with what was an obscene waste of a character they clearly had no plans for at any point.
Kiki: I can agree with you on both counts. She is one character that is slowly, but surely becoming something of substance. Supremely unfortunate that she was saved in that matter.
Ken: Andrea says, “Tag you’re it Gu’vnah”. As in, yes Gu’vnah you can tag it, just keep feeding me delicious aged peaty whisky and doing manly things in front of me.”. (Until I see your wonky zombie skull collection that is…)
Jeannie: Sorry, I keep thinking about this everytime they say “what I’m/you’re looking for.” Really changes the way you view this scene..
Kiki: Hahaha. Oh, man. Too funny, Jeannie…
Carly: This sudden turn of a psychopath turning into a gentleman and a (formerly?) bitter warrior woman turning into a sweet as pie flirt is just… weird? Maybe it’s that push of the traditional town that was discussed before?
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