The Walking Dead finale

[maystone]

Because you can't do spoiler cuts on freakin' FaceBook. I'm just going to paste something I wrote to my brother earlier. He thought the Rick/Joe ending was unrealistic. So my response follows. Feel free to jump in and comment. And I hope I do this right. It's been years since I've done a cut.

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My Two Bits

[travestine]

Do you watch Talking Dead? Andrew Lincoln had some interesting things to say about Rick's progression over the past four seasons

Re: My Two Bits

[maystone]

Yup, I saw the meat. If they end up not being cannibals, a lot of fans are going to be shocked. I think the candles are all memorials; they all had names written by them. Past meals? The first thing I thought of was that the candles were made from the fat of the victims themselves. Otherwise one of the Terminus guys has stumbled across a candle warehouse somewhere.

I watch Talking Dead religiously. I'd seen Andrew Lincoln in taped segments, so I knew he was gracious; I never got how funny he was until TD though. He kept cracking me up.

I really have to rewatch the finale so I can pick up on the Hershel stuff. Oh, they did have horses. Michonne had one, remember, and I saw another one in the background early in the season during one of the farming segments.

Re: My Two Bits

[bringbackzack]

I haven't used Live Journal much, and so, if I screw up, please forgive me :-)

Those chunks of meat appeared to be human remains. If you blow it up, you can make out spinal cords and human skulls. This seemed to somewhat support the cannibalism theory. However, a screenshot from a deleted scene was posted after the finale that showed Rick and Co. locked in a room (or possibly one of those train cars) with walkers chained to the walls. There were similar piles of meat on the floor. This could imply they are feeding people to walkers (and, don't ask me why they would do that. I couldn't even begin to answer that).

As for the room with candles, I think Kirkman said that was supposed to be a memorial room, and so, the names on the floor are probably names of people that they have lost. On the wall was also written, "Never again. Never trust. We first, always". This makes it sound like something horrible happened to these people, and this could explain why they are the way they are today.

BTW, Lee, this is Mary Powers :-)

[maystone]

See, I never found morally-conflicted Rick to be boring. Annoying? Hell yes. But they've been showing this dark side since he killed Shane. I was really taken by how he started yelling at Shane's corpse, "This is you! This isn't me! This is on you!" He was rationalizing it to himself immediately. And later he blamed it on Lori, of course. He beat the shit out Tyreese (and rightfully so), and he went waaaay the hell overboard in his reaction to Carol. Now that's the reunion I want to see. I want him to see that it was Carol who kept Judith alive, and it was Carol who did the unimaginably hard thing of killing Lizzie - because it had to be done. I think Rick bansihed Carol because she scared the hell out of him by reflecting back to him the brutal reality he was hiding from

[travestine]

What I really loved about AL on TD was how deeply he thinks about his character, the storylines and the WD world. He is sooo into it. I think it's great that he (and I imagine the others) are so into their characters - who they are, the changes they are going through, how the changes in their world are affecting them and their relationships

[maystone]

I can see where Daryl was coming from, though. He was brought up with that kind of casual violence. Remember the story he told Beth about almost getting killed by the meth-head? And the scars on his back from his dad beating the crap out of him? Before he hooked up with Rick, that was what he would consider normal: someone crosses you, you take him down. But these guys weren't just mean; they were depraved. I don't believe Daryl saw that in them until it was too late.