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Originally Posted by NewChief
One of the other interesting touches I noticed:
They made Shane make zombie-like noises quite a few times throughout that episode prior to turning. They made him very zombieish before he even died. When he comes in to sort of talk to the kid in the barn, he sounds like a zombie. He also does when he smashes his face into the tree.
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I was wondering that at the end, thinking back over the season and the series. It's like they've been slowly de-humanizing him. But that could just be him cracking up after the end of the world.
I'm going to go against the grain here and say Dale was the much bigger death and loss to the show. Shane had basically turned into a cliche by the end and I don't think they could continue to stretch out the Shane versus Rick thing indefinitely. I think in the end this is a great opportunity for the show's crew to get some of the secondary characters back into the picture more prominantly, particularly Daryl. But Dale was like the conscience of the group, basically the last thread holding them to the world that was, and I don't see how they replace that. Maybe they shouldn't. Maybe Rick killing Shane is the last straw, the thing that finally turns him into who he needs to be (if his humanity is really a weakness).
Next week looks like chaos. Somehow they have to top the last two weeks. I'm guessing we might even have a drastically altered cast going into season 3, and not just be down by 2.