Season finale thoughts -
- The last line was lame as shit, but supposedly it's from a big moment in the comics where Rick says, "They're fucking with the wrong people" which would have been 100 times better.
- I liked this half of season 4 more than seasons 2 and 3 and 4.5. I still don't trust the show. I wouldn't be surprised to see the first four episodes of next season involving conversations inside the train car.
- What the hell was the point of the farming scenes? Just to show that they're the good guys? I was waiting for a big reveal with Carl's hat. Like the hat fell off because Carl had a grenade hidden inside and it was going to be the escape plan for season 5 episode 1. But no. Just a weak attempt at deep dialogue.
Basically what Kaos said:
You could tell that they wanted to say "fucking with". Obvious as shoot. It would have been pretty dramatic.
The farming scene was why Herschel had to die. Herschel was always the pacifist. Always Rick's conscience. Herschel was old and wanted to be settled down again. Thought he'd be safe behind the fence. Thought Glenn and Maggie could pop out some little half breed kids and he could dandle them on his one good knee. After all they had been through, Rick wanted so much to believe. He had Judith to think about, and was wanting to connect with Carl again, and keep him from turning into the psycho serial killer we all know is coming. He knows the Gov is still out there, but is gonna leave that to Michonne.
So they put away their swords and picked up their plowshares and commenced to farmin'. They form an HOA. And lo, for a while, it was good.
Then Herschel gets Rick to bring in the pigs. And the pigs get the flu and people get the flu and half the group dies and it all starts to unravel. And Carol kills two people. And Lizzie is torturing rats. And another string unravels. And the fences cave in, and more people get eaten and the thread is unraveling on its own at a pretty fast clip, and Rick is helpless. He doesn't want stone cold Rick to come back. He's worried about Carl.
And then the Gov shows up and blows up the prison and whacks off Herschel's head. All the happy little farmers are scattered to the four winds and those who aren't shot or eaten are on the run and desperate again. Rick feels the demon coming again, and when the deliverance crew shows up, Rick feeds the demon. That was some desperate sick shit right there, and it was absolutely perfect. When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you - so when faced with losing his son in the most heinous way possible, Rick goes full on zombie. I loved the fact that he sat there for a while and had a long conversation with Daryl without cleaning the blood off his entire face. Pretty awesome. Honey Badger Rick don't give a shit.
And the people in Terminus are not going to know what hit them. With the redheaded Sergeant and Daryl by his side, I believe the time for conversating is over. Rick is gonna do what the censors wouldn't let him say, and fuck some shit up. Carol and Tyrese are still loose, as far as we know, so there's a wild card right there. I'd feel better if Daryl was on the outside looking in, but Carol is looking into the abyss too.
I think next season should be epic.
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