Do n’t let the newspaper headline lead you wide — we actually enjoyed this week ’s instalment of The Walking Dead , just as Glenn and Maggie enjoy each other ’s vulgar body in the prison ’s newly anointed Sex Tower .
But the show did something absolutely unforgivable last night , with a plot twist that drive the thumbscrew through my pump . Or shall I say , “ heartscrews . ” So yes . Screw you and your screwy , screw-loose heartscrews , walk Dead . spoiler blooming on .
About a million things find last night in “ Killer Within , ” most of which made for rive television receiver . Michonne was overtake investigating The Governor ’s National Guard shootout , and it was fun to see two obviously crazy people courteously plan to kill each other while“Powerhouse”began dally inside their respective skulls . Also , Michonne want to reenact the ending of the Shawshank Redemption with Andrea . How nice !
Also , the show finally figured out that Michael Rooker is a proficient actor and gave Merle some depth . The ugly scoundrel warm our hearts when he prove to drop everything and search for Daryl . He also made our genitalia wasting away when he hit on Andrea . ( Remember , he ’s putting the move on Andrea after accuse her of being a lesbian in a pill - addled fury ! That ’s some Level 10 Mystery Method diddly-squat right there . )
So yeah , good caper , walk stagnant — you ’ve made several million people imagine relation with the show ’s nonmigratory screaming yokel . ( Incidentally , lovemaking with Merle Dixon does not occur in a normal seam — it takes place on a coleslaw - stained spruce bench , with Slim Whitman on a staticky AM radio for ambiance and hush puppy in place where hush puppies do not belong to . )
Heck , even Lori ’s left - theatre of operations death by Caesarean section in the 4th freaking instalment of this season was brute and worked up and sad and Carl will never be justly again . That last hug . Oof . In the span of ten second , Carl view his female parent give birth , splayed her like a pimento loaf , and then put a bullet in her psyche so she would n’t endeavor to devour him likeSaturn the Titan . Even in neolithic times , this would be astoundingly depressing . Seriously , an unfortunate event like this in cave man day would be cause for the entire clan to lie facedown under a wobbly standing stone or a nearby auroch stampede .
Note that we do n’t see Carl shoot Lori . Of course , that would be entirely love up if The Walking Dead gave us zombie Lori with a umbilical lasso . But hey , we did n’t see Andrew break two sequence ago , and he return to destroy everybody ’s Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . Also , Merle disappeared for a season to work on his night moves . In the zombie Book of Revelation , you must die on camera or you did n’t die at all . ( Also , I question where The Governor ’s daughter is ? Are they survive to confuse us a loop here , comic book fans ? )
Uh , did The Walking Dead just redeem its best episode yet ?
When Rick take heed that his son has moonlighting as an obstetrician / divorcement lawyer without the right credentials , Sheriff Grimes does the “ Stupid , dazed , stupid , I locked my keys in my Camry ” dance . He ’s so shocked he scarcely seems upset . And who can fault him , when THE WALKING DEAD kill GODDAMN T - DOG . T - DOG . T - DOG . T - DOG .
T-DOG, THE UNANSWERED PROMISE. T-DOG, THE NEWLY MINTED MUSCLE. T-DOG, THE SILENT FRIEND. T-DOG, THE BODHISATTVA OF SORT OF BEING ONSCREEN. T-DOG, THE RELIGIOUS GUY WHO WE DIDN’T KNOW WAS RELIGIOUS UNTIL 30 SECONDS UNTIL HE DIED BECAUSE SOMEONE ACTUALLY TALKED TO HIM. T-DOG, THE GUY WHOSE THREE SEASONS WORTH OF DIALOGUE COULD COMFORTABLY FIT ON A CAMPBELL’S SOUP CAN. T-DOG, WHOSE ONLY WEAKNESS IS CAR DOORS. T-DOG, THE MUTE BACKBONE OF THIS SHOW.
I ’m too overwrought to really discuss T - Dog ’s overtaking , so I ’ve turned to art therapy to describe his dying . notice that he and Lori are represented by elk , prancing free through the holograph glades of Elysian Fields .
Lori ’s death was some rent - jerking stuff , but as a main fiber , her heartstring - labor croaking makes common sense . But T - Dog ? That just smarts . It was like watching Shakespeare ’s Julius Caesar , only to have the handwriting rewritten such that Brutus jumps off - stage and stabs the hombre sell Jujubes in the lobby .
We ’ve been wait so long for T - Dog to become a fully rounded case . This seemed like an extremely tangible possibility with this time of year ’s first two sequence , until the writer ’s room just Gumball 3000ed him into a shallow grave for cheap thrills . Rassum and frassum . Well , Oscar and Axel have gained the survivors ’ trustingness . May each of them deliver a 30 - minute , commercial - breakout - annihilating pean at T - Dog ’s funeral next sequence . If T - Dog ca n’t get a biography ( or lines ) in life , he may as well make them in last .
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