Best. Premiere. Ever.
OMG, Wow! That opening part with the cattle/people slaughter was really heavy to watch. Man, that was terrifying. I was so tense the whole first 10 minutes...and then Carol came. Her badass level has gone up by like 8 points. The whole propane-tank-go-boom and employing the walker camouflage from season 1 and then of course walking straight through the front door...Carol is now like #4 on the bad ass survivors list (behind Daryl, Michonne and Rick who are constantly jockeying for top position in terms of who is the ultimate badass on the show). She rocked it.
Tyrese, OTOH, lost like all of his cool points by waiting so long to get rid of that guy who just wouldn't shut the hell up. I was like, okay please kill this guy now. And then he goes for Judith...*sigh* Well we're assuming Tyrese beat the guy to death, in which case he gained like 2 points back, but if he didn't that could come back to bite everyone. Let's just assume he's dead for now.
Thank goodness someone finally asked Eugene about the whole "I have the cure" thing he's been proclaiming. I always wondered why Glenn and Tara never asked him anything about it but when I think about it, Glenn wasn't concerned with the how; he was just trying to get to Maggie. Once everyone was together Sasha finally had the sense to ask about it. His reasoning behind curing it makes a certain amount of sense if you buy into the whole government conspiracy theories pertaining to certain diseases and the ability to weaponize them...still, I hope they dig a little deeper into that.
It's interesting to see the reason behind why the people in Terminus are so @#$%#! up; I guess they're trying to protect themselves but their methods are completely jacked up. Glad that place is off of the map.
I was really happy with the Daryl/Carol reunion. Awwwww! So sweet. I wonder if anything at all is going them this season? And yay for Judith with Rick & Carl and Tyrese & Sasha...all of the reunions were great. Even Carol and Rick. It was like all was forgiven. I think Rick understands why Carol did what she did...I'm sure there will be a certain level of awkwardness there eventually but for now, it's just great to see everyone back together. Well everyone except for Beth
. The fact that even her own sister wasn't terribly concerned about her should let you know where she stands. I mean, Maggie was "Glenn! Glenn! I gotta find Glenn!" Did she even mention Beth once?
IDK, I'm just not that concerned with Beth. I never was. Kudos to her for living so long but it's like, so what? She needs to amass oodles of badass points in order for me to care about her. I feel like the majority of one episode will be spent on what happened to her and where she is...IDK if I'm looking forward to that.
Great opening episode. So excited to see where everything is going this season. We know that Gareth isn't dead and that eventually he will catch up to the gang. I for one was in total agreement with Rick's plan to go back and make sure everyone was dead. In this world you don't want to leave loose ends b/c they always come back to bite you: Rick didn't kill Andrew (the prisoner) and he came back and Lori and T-Dog ended up dying; they didn't kill the Governor and he came back and killed Hershel and blew up the prison; Rick didn't take out the Claimers and they came after him...loose ends are a major liability in this world.
Can't wait for next episode!
ETA: I forgot about Morgan at the end!! It looks like he's shaken his crazy phase and is out and about. My theory is Rick is leaving the marks for Morgan. We never got to see the end of the conversation with Rick...I'm thinking maybe b/c they didn't have the walkie talkies anymore that they came up with another method of communicating. Just my theory.
Carol will save Rick. I hope she kicks him in the balls after she saves his ass.
