In continuing what has been a superb first half of the
season, ‘When the Dead Come Knocking’ was filled with solid action and plenty
of character moments that have amped up the intensity even further headed into
the mid-season finale where we’ll undoubtedly get our first taste of Rick and
the gang versus The Governor and Merle.
This episode had plenty of terror in it and very little came
from zombies and Merle and The Governor play a game of bad cop/insanely creepy
cop to the captive Glen and Maggie. I’d hate to get interrogated by normal
Merle, but a Merle with a knife-hand and hit pet attack zombie? Yikes. Glen is
somehow able to man-up and battle way his through it all, showing how tough he
has become since the outbreak. The Governor uses different techniques on Maggie
as he continues to show us that we shouldn’t assume he reached a mentally
unstable, absolutely psychotic low until he actually dies.
Back at the prison, Michonne meets our survivors for the
first time while bearing the gift of baby food. After Rick decides to help her
and lets her in to recover from her injuries, Michonne informs them that Glen
and Maggie have been taken hostage in the town of Woodbury. After receiving
some apparent miracle potion, Michonne is ready to go and she, Rick, Darryl,
and Oscar embark on a rescue mission to get their group back. After getting
swarmed by a hundred zombies in the woods surrounding Woodbury, they make their
way into the cabin of some guy who had been apparently sleeping for the past
408 days as he was unaware of what zombies are. Michonne shuts him up quickly
and, in true The Walking Dead fashion,
he gets to become a nice meal for us all to watch.
Also, Andrea and Milton get to watch an old man die and
become a zombie.
What did everyone else
think? Are you excited for the mid-season finale? Comments are always welcome.
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