Like American Horror Story, The The Walking Dead is back! After last year's season, we all had high hopes for the new one. Now that the the premiere has aired, I think it's safe to say that four is gonna be a great season. In the beginning of the episode we see Rick busy tending to the prison's crops. Rick acts strangely towards to the walkers and you immediately notice that he is different. Carl comes down to Rick and they both walk to a pig's sty where they look at a sickly pig. Hershel approaches Rick and tells him that the "counsel" wants him to take his gun with him when going outside and Rick agrees reluctantly, again showing Rick has changed a lot.
Later that day when Rick is outside the prison, he comes across a woman who begs for help and says that her husband urgently needs food. Rick hands her some food and they start to speak about the camp. Rick says that before they can come to the prison they have to answer three questions. The Woman agrees and starts to lead Rick to her and her husband's camp. When they finally get there, the woman tries to kill Rick but fails. She then decides to take her own life instead... Rick looks at the husband's severed head, covered with a dirty cloth, and leaves without disturbing the couple.
At the same time, Daryl and his team (consisting of Glenn, Michonne, Tyresse, and two other disposable characters) make a run to for supplies. They go to a huge store and at first, everything is fine but little do they know that the store's roof was immensely weakened by a military chopper and that it's also infested with walkers. Before they can get away, walkers start dropping through the roof. They take them all out but in the posses lose Zach, Beth's boyfriend.
The episode ended with a scene of a young man falling down and coming back to life as a walker, without ever being bitten...
I really loved this episode. It was great to see how the main characters have changed over the past seasons. Especially Rick who seems to be tired of all the violence and killing. All he wants is to raise his kids and help other people. To me, Rick's new attitude towards the walkers and his gun, is his way of not accepting his reality, he wants to live a happy, normal life. But, by meeting the woman in the woods and going through what happened he realizes that what he wants, he will never truly have. He will never escape the horror that the world has become and he will never be safe, no-one will. This fits in perfectly with the overall theme of the episode, even if there are "30 Days Without An Accident" the chances are that there will be one soon...
What happened to Daryl and his crew also fits perfectly with the theme. They started to get too cocky, they thought they had everything under control but as we saw, they didn't. Anything can go wrong at any time, with anyone.I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks this, but it really seems like Glen's time is up. After he was almost killed in the store, spoke about what it means to be alive with Maggie and the fact that he only appeared once in the "this season on" trailer I would not be surprised if he dies in the next few episodes.
And now I have to speak about something we all knew was coming, yes, the zombie virus is evolving! It had to happen sometime. I don't think that there has ever been a movie or a series in which we see the zombie virus evolve so that it can spread though other mediums. To see how the characters will react, is going to be awesome. I'm also looking forward to seeing how exactly it spreads and if the pig had anything to do with it.
For the next episode I hope we see a lot of blood and violence (which is a given) but also to see them explore the future of the series and where they want to go, once the prison is uninhabitable.
All in all, this was a great episode and a great start to a new season. Tell me, what did you guys think?
Rating: 8.5/10
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