great analysis Bigmoe, you completely nailed the theme of the walking dead!! very excited for sunday, BTW!!
please continue to post in the thread!! i'm sure [MENTION=116]TeachDown[/MENTION] would agree..
A little pre read for tonite that I found
That funeral......... I have stated numerous times the funeral we see in the previews won't be for who casual viewers would think! Hopefully, I've been right. -Prime
"Sunday night's episode finds them on the road, taking a detour to get newcomer Noah (Tyler James Williams) back to his home in Richmond, Virginia. A little part of everybody is where Hershel was at his lowest point, sitting in front of an open bottle of whiskey.
Titled "What Happened and What's Going On," the episode opens with a montage of scenes. Pay strict attention. It's important.
One of those scenes is of Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) preaching a graveside eulogy, speaking words of faith and hope. Around him are faces of despair.
Think you know what's going on? Think again. And keep watching.
The performances are superb. The payoff is powerful.
Rick (Andrew Lincoln) is leading the group toward an uncertain future. Remember these lines from this episode: "The last long trip we have to make." "Then we keep going." "Got to hold on." "Then what?"
Each takes on incredible resonance by the time the final credits are rolling, not to music, but to an eerily distinctive sound.
Welcome to the dance. Or, as Tyreese (Chad Coleman) says, remembering how he listened to disturbing headlines reported on the radio, it was the "kind of horror I couldn't wrap my head around."
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason we've always needed horror stories. They give us the metaphoric means of wrapping our heads around the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the unendurable.
That's why "The Walking Dead" has worked so well on so many levels, and that's why it continues to work. Does it take the occasional storytelling stumble? Of course, but it gets up and it keeps on going. For fans, it's a matter of faith, and of faith generally being rewarded."
