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Originally Posted by Aries Walker
Well, even though I was ready to throw in the towel on this show last week, I caved and watched this week . . . and now I'm definitely ready to throw in the towel. Don't get me wrong; it was a superior episode to the last few weeks, Melissa McBride was outstanding, and Brighton Sharbino might be the next Dakota Fanning.
The problem I have is with the subject matter. I don't feel comfortable with children being killed - innocent ones murdered, even - in movies and TV. It wasn't always acceptable - Jurassic Park took a fair bit of pre-release criticism because of a rumor that one of the kids would get eaten, for example; now we have Hunger Games, and no one seems to mind. Yes, the plot of this episode made sense for the setting, it was dramatically and thematically justified, and well done, but I don't think that story needed to be told. It's not doing anyone any good.
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Definitely see what you're saying. My wife could barely watch the episode last night (DVR'd), and she said she thought Sophia was bad but at least
she was a zombie. But my thought is, it's true to how hard life would be in an environment like they are in. It's just them, no police, no psychiatric hospital they can take her to, just them. She was a danger to Tyrese, Carol, and Judith not to mention everybody else they may come in contact with. She was beyond help and they knew it.
That said, don't get me wrong, it was very difficult to watch.