WD - Season Finale Musings: FIRST THREE MINUTES: Comments, Questions & More! - Part 1
So, I finally decided to get off my duff and get to that episode analysis I kept blabbering about all week but never got around to doing. I have decided to do it in parts to save my brain and in order to really discuss the part/scene in detail as I go. --- Please feel free to discuss the shit out of the part I put up as I go. Anything and everything is up for grabs, even if you disagree with something I say, I love discussion! - I will Probably do one a day until I get bored or my ovaries overheat and I am reduced to flailing around the room making high pitched squealing noises.
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THIS. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS.
The first three minutes: Inspired. Truly. - What a way to begin an episode! I loved that sequence with the helicopter from the zombies perspective. It was fascinating, overdue, and a great stylistic choice for the writers and producers to use in the finale. It really gave you an insight into life outside of the Hershel farm during the period they were staying there. And I think this is a subtle, of not important definition. Because as Hershel and Rick have mentioned up until the finale, the farm has been 'special'. The Green family and later our survivors have been largely safe there, shielded in many ways from the horrors and trials of life on the road in the middle of the ZA. (Heck it is even arguable that if they'd continued on their way to that Fort they were trying to get too after the CDC they could have met Randle's gang...which probably have have been bad news for everyone involved considering the comments during the bar scene in episode eight.)
But meanwhile, life or 'unlife' has been marching on around them, and dare I say getting a titch worse. The Atlanta zombie herd is a good indication of this. It took them weeks to march from Atlanta to the woods near the Green farm. Think of it, they have probably been walking since the second episode unless this helicopter (which we saw at the end of season 1, episode 1) has a mate. The walkers are leaving the cities. Bum luck for our rag-tag band, and for all the other people still surviving out there too boot. - Times are changing. Being out of the cities and somewhat off the beaten path isn't going to be enough anymore. Not unless you want to go commune with nature on the top of a mountain somewhere. (Which ironically might not be that bad of an idea all else considered.)
Stuff I liked about this scene:
*I loved the shit out of those road trippin' lamebrains. It's official. I loved how in this scene you could really see the attention to detail by the make-up artists, costume designers, and directors. I was thrilled to see a "Doctor Zombie" in the mix, a woman in bare feet and a white night dress, and a younger female zombie in a trendy short dress and coat.
- To channel Spock: Fascinating! = I loved the detail that went into creating their costumes. Their clothing was washed out, dirty, ripped, and threadbare. Really giving you the impression that even before these walkers hit the road, they had been wandering around in the elements for a long time. It definitely provided a bit of chilling realism to the picture that's for sure.
*Why do I love this? DETAIL. This is the kind of stuff that makes me stop and think about those zombies/peoples individual stories. For instance the 'Doctor zombie'. He was still wearing his scrubs and coat, with only one visible wound on his neck that indicated where he'd gotten infected. This made my brain implode with all manner of imagination type hooha. It got me thinking, did he work till the bitter end, leaning over some patient to check his vitals and the zombie!patient lurched up and nabbed him? Or did he get surprised in the corridor on call? SO MANY THINGS TO CONSIDER. --- (SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A FIC ABOUT HIM. JUST SAYIN').
*That hilarious fence sign: "Trespass and it's your ass." - Anyone else think Property A'la Dixon? LOL.
One question I had about this scene: (Particularly in the first minute and a half)
Yes this one.
* They ignored a fresh kill. The dog, thing they were chowing down on still had all it's skin and junk yet they ignored it and started walking in favor of the noise of the helicopter. - WAIT WHAT. In season 1, episode 2: "Guts", the whole premise behind Rick's escape from the tank was that the walkers were distracted when they were feeding. What do you think about this?
= I had a long and probably very misguided conversation with my mister on this question. Where he ended up reminding me of Glenn's later line: "Like dogs, they hear sound and they come." > To which I responded, but surely the impulse to feed should negate that? I mean, hello food versus no food. They live to eat yo'.
-> Instead I also said something like this: Couldn't it possibly be base memory at work? Like we saw in the pilot with the little girl and the stuffed animal? I mean stuffed animals are important to children and we saw her pick it up specifically. Indicating that in some cases perhaps some small bit of memory remains, enough to recognize said stuffed animal or in the case of the helicopter, that as well? - In fact I even said that perhaps those zombies remember the helicopter sound due to the events that occurred in the last few moments/days of their lives? It reminded me of something the WEB EPISODES brought up. Telling people through megaphone from a helicopter to try and make it to the park in that neighborhood for rescue. (The one where Bike girl was later found by Rick in the pilot.) Perhaps some of these peoples last thoughts were of trying to make it to rescue forces in similar manners? And some part of their bad ass zombie selves remotely recognized the sight/sound of that copper in the sky? - Or maybe I am just blowing smoke out of my arse?
(Too which he then slowly wandered away bored, saying I was looking too much into this. PROBABLY.)
GIVE ME ALL YOUR THOUGHTS PEOPLE.
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And to the undeniable fact that I have sold my soul to a show that breaks my heart and makes my lady boner go rawr all at the same time, I have only this to say:
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THIS. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS.
The first three minutes: Inspired. Truly. - What a way to begin an episode! I loved that sequence with the helicopter from the zombies perspective. It was fascinating, overdue, and a great stylistic choice for the writers and producers to use in the finale. It really gave you an insight into life outside of the Hershel farm during the period they were staying there. And I think this is a subtle, of not important definition. Because as Hershel and Rick have mentioned up until the finale, the farm has been 'special'. The Green family and later our survivors have been largely safe there, shielded in many ways from the horrors and trials of life on the road in the middle of the ZA. (Heck it is even arguable that if they'd continued on their way to that Fort they were trying to get too after the CDC they could have met Randle's gang...which probably have have been bad news for everyone involved considering the comments during the bar scene in episode eight.)
But meanwhile, life or 'unlife' has been marching on around them, and dare I say getting a titch worse. The Atlanta zombie herd is a good indication of this. It took them weeks to march from Atlanta to the woods near the Green farm. Think of it, they have probably been walking since the second episode unless this helicopter (which we saw at the end of season 1, episode 1) has a mate. The walkers are leaving the cities. Bum luck for our rag-tag band, and for all the other people still surviving out there too boot. - Times are changing. Being out of the cities and somewhat off the beaten path isn't going to be enough anymore. Not unless you want to go commune with nature on the top of a mountain somewhere. (Which ironically might not be that bad of an idea all else considered.)
Stuff I liked about this scene:
*I loved the shit out of those road trippin' lamebrains. It's official. I loved how in this scene you could really see the attention to detail by the make-up artists, costume designers, and directors. I was thrilled to see a "Doctor Zombie" in the mix, a woman in bare feet and a white night dress, and a younger female zombie in a trendy short dress and coat.
- To channel Spock: Fascinating! = I loved the detail that went into creating their costumes. Their clothing was washed out, dirty, ripped, and threadbare. Really giving you the impression that even before these walkers hit the road, they had been wandering around in the elements for a long time. It definitely provided a bit of chilling realism to the picture that's for sure.
*Why do I love this? DETAIL. This is the kind of stuff that makes me stop and think about those zombies/peoples individual stories. For instance the 'Doctor zombie'. He was still wearing his scrubs and coat, with only one visible wound on his neck that indicated where he'd gotten infected. This made my brain implode with all manner of imagination type hooha. It got me thinking, did he work till the bitter end, leaning over some patient to check his vitals and the zombie!patient lurched up and nabbed him? Or did he get surprised in the corridor on call? SO MANY THINGS TO CONSIDER. --- (SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A FIC ABOUT HIM. JUST SAYIN').
*That hilarious fence sign: "Trespass and it's your ass." - Anyone else think Property A'la Dixon? LOL.
One question I had about this scene: (Particularly in the first minute and a half)
Yes this one.
* They ignored a fresh kill. The dog, thing they were chowing down on still had all it's skin and junk yet they ignored it and started walking in favor of the noise of the helicopter. - WAIT WHAT. In season 1, episode 2: "Guts", the whole premise behind Rick's escape from the tank was that the walkers were distracted when they were feeding. What do you think about this?
= I had a long and probably very misguided conversation with my mister on this question. Where he ended up reminding me of Glenn's later line: "Like dogs, they hear sound and they come." > To which I responded, but surely the impulse to feed should negate that? I mean, hello food versus no food. They live to eat yo'.
-> Instead I also said something like this: Couldn't it possibly be base memory at work? Like we saw in the pilot with the little girl and the stuffed animal? I mean stuffed animals are important to children and we saw her pick it up specifically. Indicating that in some cases perhaps some small bit of memory remains, enough to recognize said stuffed animal or in the case of the helicopter, that as well? - In fact I even said that perhaps those zombies remember the helicopter sound due to the events that occurred in the last few moments/days of their lives? It reminded me of something the WEB EPISODES brought up. Telling people through megaphone from a helicopter to try and make it to the park in that neighborhood for rescue. (The one where Bike girl was later found by Rick in the pilot.) Perhaps some of these peoples last thoughts were of trying to make it to rescue forces in similar manners? And some part of their bad ass zombie selves remotely recognized the sight/sound of that copper in the sky? - Or maybe I am just blowing smoke out of my arse?
(Too which he then slowly wandered away bored, saying I was looking too much into this. PROBABLY.)
GIVE ME ALL YOUR THOUGHTS PEOPLE.
_________________
And to the undeniable fact that I have sold my soul to a show that breaks my heart and makes my lady boner go rawr all at the same time, I have only this to say: