But just when he is about to explain the situation to Carl, the rest of the group, minus Andrea, arrives. The group divided, Rick drives back to the same highway where the season began and in order to save Carl, begrudgingly decides to abandon Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), not knowing whether she is dead or alive. The rest of the group manages to escape, but Hershel's family takes another hit (RIP Jimmy and Patricia, we hardly knew ya), and Andrea is left to fend for herself after saving Carol. Of course, nothing goes right, and he manages to escape with only Carl and Hershel (Scott Wilson), who is blasting Walkers to pieces with a shotgun, the farmer ready to go down with the, uh, farm. After making the heartwrenching decision to kill Shane (Jon Bernthal) during the penultimate episode, in one of the best scenes of the season, he's forced to quickly pull himself together to save Carl (Chandler Riggs) and the others. Once again, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) is at the center of it all. It's great writing, but I'm really not looking forward to the zombie apocalypse. Likewise, the audience is constantly challenged to imagine how they would react in similar situations. The characters are constantly faced with brutal choices in a world with no laws, no government, no society, no iPads. Is that right or wrong? Who knows? And that's what continues to make the show great. Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) summed it up nicely before his horrendous death two episodes earlier, “The world we know is gone, but keeping our humanity? That's a choice.” Well, saving the ones you care about is also a choice, but when you are being swarmed by Walkers, sometimes you have to save yourself and hope everyone else gets out alive. Hard choices are made by all, once more reinforcing the major themes of survival and sacrifice. But I'm getting ahead of myself.įor those craving a good old fashioned zombie shoot-'em-up, this episode delivered in full as we witnessed Walker heads exploding left and right as everyone is separated in the chaos of a full scale invasion. Who is the hooded figure that saves Andrea (Laurie Holden), and is that a prison in the last shot? From the looks of things, it's only going to get worse for our merry band of survivors. The zombie herd returns in a satisfying season finale that brings the story full circle and teases what's in store, like any good finale should do.
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