During a commercial break, I flicked over to AMC, where I saw a saw a barn bunring to ground.
Immediately I said this looks like the the scene in "Gone With The Wind" when Scarlett O'Hara watched her beloved home tarta burn to the ground.
It was as as if, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up to shoot this episode instead of Spike Lee's former cinematographer turned great TV director Earnest Dickerson, (in some ways the last night's did have a "Dusk till Dawn" feel because it was two different shows in one.)
Although this week's episode was wasn't as good as last week's epic confrontation between Rick and Shane, The Walking Dead's season finale answered a lot questions including:
Who would die?
How did this army of walkers end up on the farm?
Why are people turning into zombies without being bit?
(For those who didn't see the episode, I'm not going to spoil it for you)
My two quotes of the night, first came from Herschel when he said “Christ promised a resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something a little different in mind.”
Here's a religious man who followed the word of God, but now everything he believed in has shaken him to his core. I think we have all been there, where you believe in something, but its meaning is drastically different when it becomes real.
My second favorite quote came from Rick when he told the group " this isn't a democracy anymore."
Throughout the first two seasons, Rick was being the rational nice guy who tried to give everyone a voice; But after awhile, I think he felt that people took his niceness for weakness.
Sometimes to be an effective leader, you have to be d*ck. Rick's former best friend turned enemy Shane was great in that way.
Shane clearly saw that the old world was dead and to survive in the new one, you had to kill or be killed.
This kind of kick ass take names later thinking is good for awhile, but long term you end up putting yourself and others you are protecting in danger.
Realizing that to hold this group together, Rick had to become of a survivor and more like his former sheriff self, where his word is the law. The question now is will they follow his "Rick-tatorship" or will some try to challenge him like Shane did unsuccessfully.
Another surprise of the night was the appearance of Michonne. Unlike a lot of fans, I only read a few pages of the the graphic novel, mainly because I want to be surprised each week.
I thought the character was pretty cool, since you don't have too many African American heroines (or heroes) in media nowadays. So imagine my surprise when a hooded Michonne (who will be played by Treme's Danai Gurira) appeared on the show with her signature blade and two chained zombies in tow, saving one of the women I would marry in during zombie apocalypse Andrea (Laurie Holden).
(That scene was like when Alexis was first appered on Dynasty, wearing a veil because they didn't cast Joan Collins in the role yet.)
Moving forward, since the farm is full of zombies, the location of season three will be set in a prison.
Now at least on the farm you can run away from a walker (sorry Jimmy) but the prisons are made to stop people from escaping. Throw in a chick with a sword and a fractured group who might not follow Rick's lead and you have the makings of an even darker, deadlier season three.
See you next fall zombie filled Atlanta! I'm spending my summer with True Blood's Stackhouse clan in Bon Temps Louisiana, where there is less killin and more suckin...blood that is.
Read: 'The Walking Dead's' Robert Kirkman Tells 'Michonne's Story' (Hollywood Reporter)
Read: 'The Walking Dead's' Robert Kirkman on the Casting of Danai Gurira as Michonn
Read: Which Shootout Trailer is Better: Walking Dead/ Truck Turner /Hard Boiled/Dusk Till Dawn/Coffy /Machete?
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