***This Will Contain Spoilers, It's a Freakin' Recap***
Welcome players (again the name for you fans of TFL out there) to the new weekly recap of America's favorite zombie-tastic T.V. show, The Walking Dead. Yes like a lot of America I am a fan of TWD, and have been on board since day one. I even watched the first episode when it leaked online a few days before it aired, so I've been a fan of the show since before day one. Fore those of you who have followed my New Book Wednesday posts, my weekly comic review, you also know I have been a fan of the comics for a while now too. So lets get started with a look at the first episode of season 3 of The Walking Dead, Seed.
Season 2 left our survivors on the run and desperate. With the fall of The Farm our group is essentially homeless and on the road again, on the run from ever encroaching hordes of 'walkers'. This is where season 3 starts. We see Rick, Laurie, Daryl, & the others charge into a house and begin to clear out whatever zombies are still in there. Almost as soon as they finish the see the beginnings of a horde they have been out running, so its time to go. Laurie is very pregnant and the weight of leading this group is getting to Rick in a big bad way. While on a small break from traveling Rick and Daryl go out to hunt for food and that is when they see it, The Prison. The survivors high-tail-it there and commence to clear out the outer yard, everyone seems happy with the new space and content to stay in the open field for a while, everyone except for Rick. He is dead set on getting to inner buildings of the prison where they can hopefully find ammo, food, and medicine, medicine that can help with the impending birth of his and Laurie's child. While all this is going on we get our first glimpse of Michonne, the shadowy hooded katana carrying character we got a very brief look at during the season 2 finale. She is slicing and dicing her way through a pharmacy in search of aspirin. Back to the prison and our group has gotten into an inner cell block and have started to set up camp but their still not done. Rick is dead set on pushing forward and finding the cafeteria and infirmary. We come back to Michonne and see that the aspirin is for a sick Andrea whom Michonne rescued last season. Andrea is pretty bad off and asking Michonne to leave her behind as an impending zombie wave is descending on the town where they are holed up. Michonne will have none of that and the two take off into the woods away from the town. Back in the prison the exploration has gone awry and in the end Hershel gets bit in the ankle. They finally find the cafeteria and Rick, in an attempt to save Hershel from 'walker-ism', quickly cuts off the bitten leg. As we pan up from that amputation we see a group of prisoners looking on, and then we hear one say "Holy shit." Fade to black, end of episode one.
The one word I would use to describe this episode is quiet. The entire opening scene is done completely without dialogue and in that scene we get to see just how far the group has come together over this past winter. The biggest difference we see off the bat is Carl. He charges into the house carrying a gun almost as big as he is and is an integral part of the zombie killing team. Even without a single word for those first few minutes you get a complete sense of how hard life has become and how each person is fitting into this new group dynamic. Now when I say this show was quiet that doesn't mean it was 'quiet'. There's plenty of action and some great zombie kills but for me this show lives in the quiet and small moments between characters; a song by a campfire, a loving couple checking each other for zombie scratches, even a fight between a married couple without yelling these are the things that I feel define the episode. These parts are done so soft and that when there the gears shift and there is a legitimate cacophony it really stands out. A couple other cool little moments in the show include the small flirtations between Beth and Carl, which even though she may be like four years older than him, seem to be sweet and adorable. The other maybe couple on the horizon is Carol and Daryl ( I love the rhyming names, I don't know why I just do). The moment they have atop the over turned prison bus was playful and gives you a glimpse into the evolution of a relationship, a relationship whose seeds were planted last season. In the end this was a pretty solid season premiere. While not quite as epic as I like my premieres it was strong and set a great tone for the upcoming season and in true TWD fashion the ending left you cursing at the television for just a few minutes more of episode.Best Walker Moment: When a zombie wearing a gas-mask gets the mask ripped off his face gets ripped off with it...I love this show.
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