![]() The major exception has been Daryl, one of the few characters not from the comics and, perhaps not surprisingly, the character the writers seem to take the most pleasure in crafting and growing. Carol is a pushover, Dale wise but also a busybody, etc. Andrea resents Dale for making her stay alive. Rick feels burdened by leadership and the difficulty of doing the right thing in this strange new world. The characters aren’t getting deeper they’re just more familiar. The problem is, for the most part, we haven’t learned anything new about any of them. This period of relative peace has allowed the show to spend some more time letting us get to know the characters. But it does give me an opportunity to talk about the show’s storytelling philosophy in general. I’m not going to speculate on why Hershel’s keeping the walkers in there, given that this is presumably the show returning to the source material in the comics – and I’m going to remind everybody (as is spelled out more thoroughly down below) that it is not acceptable to discuss material from the comics that hasn’t been presented on the TV show yet. And we begin to see the seeds of that in what Glen discovers in the barn. But it’s also given Rick and company some hope for the first time since Jenner told them the CDC was going to self-destruct, and when characters on a show like this get hope, it’s only so it can be taken away later. This almost idyllic respite has definitely sucked some of the tension out of the show (though two of the Hershel episodes involved Shane and Otis being chased through the high school by dozens of walkers). ![]() Outside of the too-brief respite at the CDC, this is the first time since Rick got out of the hospital that he hasn’t had to live in constant fear of zombie attack, nor concern about adequate food and shelter. ![]() The farm is relatively isolated/protected, it has a generator and fresh water and apparently abundant food supplies. Some or all of Rick’s weary band of travelers have been staying at Hershel’s farm for four episodes now, and these installments have been a marked contrast to what came before. A review of tonight’s “The Walking Dead” coming up just as soon as I’m wearing ears…
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