On this installment (my first!) of Chris Hardwick’s The Walking Dead post-mortem, he is joined by Jon Heder (Napolean Dynamite) and Felicia Day (who has been in a bunch of shit I can’t be bothered to look up right now), self-proclaimed zombie aficionados. Naturally, the big discussion is about Shane and how he up and totally murdered Otis that one time. Or, if you’re Felicia, maybe Shane’s state of shirtlessness because, as Chris points out for us, the real guns have totally been under that shirt this whole time. Which… valid.
The question on the table — Wait: Speaking of the table… why are there doll hands on the coffee table?! Five doll arms, stuck to this piece of wood thingy, reaching skyward. They’re at the bottom of the screen, and every time there’s a shot of Felicia Day, there are these hands! What kind of WTFuckery is this shit?!
Okay, okay, so Jon Heder thinks that Shane was totally justified, that Otis had it coming. Oh, not for shooting Carl. Don’t be silly. It’s because he’s fat, and fat people ain’t got no beez being around for the zombie apocalypse. Frankly, Jon, I think this episode demonstrated perfectly well just exactly why we DO need fat people in the zombie apocalypse. Do you think Lori’s scrawny ass would have slowed those zombies up for more than a nanosecond? Nuh-uh. You want to throw a smorgasbord out there to give yourself time to get away. And what if shit really goes south, and there’s no food left and you need to throw yourselves a Donner party? You want someone who’s going to feed the whole group, maybe have some leftovers, not a couple of bitter little strings of meat on bone. Big picture here, Jon. Big picture. (No pun intended.)
Felicia says that it was a bad bro-moment, and… Jesus, you guys. I just can’t with these doll hands. Chris Hardwick, what is the deal with this shit? I want an explanation. (bonus points if it involves Kevin Pereira)
Felicia thinks that it was inevitable (the Otis-cide, not the doll hands), and is looking forward to a scene wherein Shane tells Rick about it, because while Rick has a more rigid morality than Shane, Shane was trying to save Rick’s son, so how will Rick process that?
Chris points out that this is a new world which will require perhaps a more fluid morality, and questions whether maybe Shane’s approach is more realistic and more sustainable than Rick’s, whether Shane is perhaps the better provider for Lori and Carl, because God forbid a woman on this show figure out how to provide for herself or anything… uh, sorry. Separate rant. In order to survive in this new world, will the humans who are left become emotional zombies?
This week’s In Memoriam: Tree Hanging Walker, Window Walker, Watch Your Back Walker, and Otis (Out of Breath Walker?). In all, the Kill Count for the episode was 20 Walkers, 1 Human. Chris points out that, as showrunner Mazzara says, for the show to work, we need to be convinced that the zombies are winning. ”Otis is now convinced.”
Included in this episode was a short behind-the-scenes piece with Greg Nicotero, the man responsible for giving us such realistic-looking, gory zombies. New contact lenses for Season Two, prosthetics, etc. The crawling zombie at the school? An actual double amputee. AMC’s The Walking Dead: Kicking Diversity’s ass. Even if all of its hire-ees can’t. (rimshot)
Finally, Gale Anne Hurd, one of the show’s Executive Producers, joins the gang (and the doll hands) to intro the clip for next week, in which Timmy’s Glenn’s in the well! With a zombie! Will Lassie save him in time? Dun-dun-DUN! Oh, and for the record, Gale would totally have shot Otis, although 61% of those who voted in the viewer poll said they would have taken their chances and run with Otis, rather than leaving him for zombie fodder. Pish. It’s okay, folks. The poll is anonymous. It’s okay to admit that you totally would have left his ass there to be eaten. No one’s judging!
How about you? Would you have shot Otis? Tell us! We’re totally not judging either.
Tags: By Dayna, Talking Dead
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