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Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic
I read in this thread all the time how people think slow, seemingly wasted episodes or scenes are ruining this show, but they are wrong. Episodes that focus on the subtleties in character development are just as important as any other type of episode. This is a show about people, and if people don’t change, or grow, or regress, then it is not authentic. And if you don't love or hate characters like Lori or Andrea or Shane, what's the point?
Norman Reedus provided me with the best moment of the entire series. All the other characters in the group had lost something, or had been torn away from something, but Daryl had found something. He had found a group of people who loved and cared for him, respected him, gave him validation, and had filled in all the things that had been missing from his life before the end of the world. And he desperately wanted Merle to be a part of that. The look of anguish and loss on his face as he sees Walker Merle was heartbreaking. Daryl was devastated, and then he broke down to tears, and then transitioned from pushing Walker Merle away, to taking all his pent up frustration out on Walker Merle while in tears, brought me to tears.
And Michael Rooker gave a virtuoso performance. The writing was superb because it not only carried Merle through an internal debate, spurred on by his conversations with Rick and Daryl, but the dialogue between Merle and Michonne revealed insight into Michonne's character, and the audience didn't even realize it.
For me, this will always be one of the best episodes of the series.
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me too.
goddamned allergies.
next week should be pretty friggin' epic.
stop reading right now if you haven't seen sunday's episode........
......did anyone else notice how brutally, or maybe animalistic is a word to use, on how the gov retaliated against merle.
i mean, completely unhinged, like a wild animal.
this is why he is such a dangerous man.
next week will be a bloodbath.