I had originally decided to wait on watching the third season until the Blu-ray version was released. The things I've been hearing suggested that the third season was doing much better than the first two seasons. So I decided to give it a chance.
This episode picks up with the same level of quality that we saw at the end of the second season. This episode is a little more action-heavy, which is a serious benefit. I find that I have an aversion to most of the dialogue in this show. Everyone is overly dramatic, and there's too much that stems from people being unreasonable.
The opening sequence is very satisfying. The group raids an abandoned house, looking for supplies. They are mostly silent, and they work in a coordinated way. They're a team. They've also moved into a method that is both careful, but very calm and collected.
When they clear out the prison yard, they handle the situation wonderfully. They plan out their steps in advance, and everyone comes out alive. It's so pleasing to see them behaving rationally.
And I don't think that anyone screams during the episode! Screaming is appropriate as an alarm, but I think most of them would realize that screaming when you see a dead isn't going to help.
They even handled the character building moments a little better than they have in the past.
Of course, we get a nice contrast to the effective teamwork a little later, when their efforts to work together fall apart. Still, Hershel's injury was his own fault.
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