As we return to zombie ridden Georgia this week on The Walking Dead we catch up with the glory that is Eugene’s sweet, sweet mullet. Oh yeah, and Glenn, Tara, Rosita, and Abraham are there too. They, like everyone else have decided to head for Terminus and the hope that they may find family and friends along the tracks. These feelings are of course solidified by the perverbial carrot that Maggie dangles out on the road signs. Abraham isn’t buying it and continuously repeats his mission of taking Eugene to Washington to save the world. The way I see it, the only way Eugene is going to save the world is by shaving off the worlds last party in the back.
While I’m on the subject of my least favorite scientist, what is with this guy? Seriously, he claims that he can save the world but, it seems like all he really wants to do is look at Rosita’s “hypnotic tits” and talk video games and zombie dinosaurs with Tara… Oh my god he’s every annoying fan boy from comic con! Between you and me I don’t really think that someone whose catch phrase is “Trust me, I’m smarter than you,” deserves my trust or is actually smarter than me. I honestly believe that he is a geek that has clung on to Abraham to help get him through the conditions that on his own, he is clearly ignorant of how to survive. Still Abraham believes and as long as he does he will fallow Eugene, at least until they find a car right?
Zombie kill of the week: I have to say that this episode was one of the most awesome Zombie kills since the Shane double tap of season 2. Essentially, one of the walkers has a “trust fall” moment that goes horribly wrong from a train over pass. He decides, sure zombies can fly and lands in the worst splat noise I’ve heard form this show in a long while. All I could think of “It’s raining men.”
Taking a break from goobers walking along the tracks we segway to douches sleeping in the woods as we catch up with Daryl and the pack of wandering ruffians. This included my second favorite effect of the show, a walker who rubs his face across a strand of barbed wire. For special effects geeks like myself watching the wire tare through his check was awesome. What isn’t awesome? Try the rule of “claim,” according to Joe all you have to do is yell claim before any other man. Claim applies to everything from a rabbit to a woman. Disgusted yet? So apparently these supposed rules come with very strict consequences based on the offense and situation, as Daryl quickly finds out with the help of a little weasle named Len.
Len is one of these assholes that go around calling claim on every little thing, you know like your annoying cousin that calls shotgun the moment you get up to go somewhere. These are the kind of guys that feel like they can pick on anyone new, and with Daryl provides an object of obsession for his outright doucheyness. Len wants to beat Daryl to a pulp, and in his determination attempts to set him up with a stolen rabbit head but, as we have all learned again and again, you never mess with Daryl and Len learns exactly what that means.
Back on the tracks the small team comes upon a tunnel and it’s clear that this is the gateway to dark damp walker hell. Abraham has no intention of walking the worlds savior through hell and decides that it is here where the group will part ways, having Abraham and his crew head to Washing ton as Glenn and Tara plan to enter the mouth of walker hell. Walker hell is just what they find as some where in the last few days a large portion of the ceiling has caved in and the rubble is speckled with embedded zombies. Glenn begins his search for either bodies or a Maggie Zombie and finds neither but does manage to find a way into the roof as a chance of getting over the rubble. The albatross in this scenario is Tara who gets caught in a crevasse of the wall. Theres always something isn’t there?
The end of the episode brought reunions, discovery and revelations of a new location for a few of our friends. The long awaited reunion of Glenn and Maggie is added by Abraham and crew, not that I saw too much… My cheers pissed of my dog. Nothing like a frenchie that hates a round of applause. In a tender moment Maggie burns the picture Glenn kept of her and tells him that he will never need one again. I’ll take this as the couple resolving to never leave each other again.
Meanwhile back on the road Daryl learns about Terminus and Joe explains they are heading that way after Rick and his family for attacking one of their men. Relieved that they may still be alive, Daryl attempts to swallow it down and use the group to get to Terminus to find his “people.”
So, what is this Terminus? Well when the first wave arrives they come upon unlocked gates and sign of peace amongst gardens of flowers and vegetables. It’s beautiful in comparison to the tunnel but still, something is very quiet and off about this settlement. They find a woman grilling huge slabs of meat and with an eerie smile she welcomes them and offers to “make them a plate.”
What do I think this place is? Well my theory runs along the line that this is some kind of doomsday cult that offers a “end of the line,” which is what Terminus means, in the form of last rights. Im thinking cannibals or human sacrifice, either way if it were me… I’m not stopping.
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