I have a lot of concerns about this TV series. After watching the first season during broadcast, I found that I liked the show much more when I watched it on Blu-ray. With this season, I couldn't finish watching it during broadcast. I've picked up the Blu-ray, and I'm hoping that it'll be better this time through, and compel me to finish watching the season.
This episode was a real mix. I love the first half of the episode. Stopping on the road, letting the dead wander by, even the scene with T-Dog getting cut was really good. Then, once Sophia gets lost, the episode starts to lose the edge it had.
There's a long scene between Andrea and Dale, which exemplifies a lot of what I don't like about this show. In the comic, both of these characters are excellent. Some of my favorites. In this, their personalities are just a mess. Andrea is far more pushy, and…she's just not the same character. Dale isn't the same either. In this, he's much more weak-willed, and when he talks up, he's annoying.
I liked the scene in the church, but then they have to give people monologues where they talk to God. That seemed like a cheap shortcut to developing characters more fully.
And the episode ends on a nice cliffhanger, with Carl getting shot. This happens in the comic as well, and it's a pretty good device to introducing Herschel and his group.
I often think that this episode represents what Darabont had started to achieve in his work on the second season, and it indicates that AMC made a massive mistake by letting him go.
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