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Either way, the Whisperers, as savage and primal as they are, definitely feel like they're going to bring some scares back to the show. And I imagine for those fans who were completely in the dark, it was a fairly shocking moment.
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That moment when the "walker" ducked Jesus' attack and struck back with a fatal stabbing blow was pretty well done. The break was nice, and it makes sense for the show to take time off given the holidays and the Super Bowl and whatnot, but it feels like the beginning of something, rather than the end of something.Whether or not you knew who the Whisperers were ahead of time, from the comics or from reading up on some spoilers, there's still some horror-movie merit in seeing them make their debut. That’s the major problem with the divided season episode eight felt like a season finale and episode nine is stuck trying to rebuild everything from scratch. There’s still a lot of room to grow, even though it feels like the season is about over. (Unless we get an all-Carol episode, of course that I’m totally on board for.) The sooner the group gets back together and the season kicks back into gear, the better off I think we’ll be. I think that kind of slow reunion, even spread across the seven episodes that remain in the season, would really be a detriment to the show’s momentum-as if the long delay between episodes eight and nine didn’t already do a number on that. There are still a lot of characters out there in this big, scary, zombie-infested world, and hopefully the show won’t parcel them out two groups at a time for the remainder of the season. Of course, this is only two of the many characters we’ve lost touch with during the fall of the Ricktopia. Unlike Carl, everyone likes Michonne, so I think the B story will be solid enough to anchor the episode, especially as it gives us a lot of details on Michonne’s life prepocalypse and it answers some questions that fans have been speculating on since her first appearance. Of course, if you’re one of the many, many people who hate Carl and everything he stands for, you won’t like the A plot of this storyline I think he’s pulling it off, but I know a lot of people are not fans of him or his angsty behavior. Carl still does dumb things for dumb reasons, but it’s more like typical teenage rebellious stupidness and misdirected anger rather than poor scriptwriting. Giving the two basically an entire episode to carry is something of a gamble, but it really ends up paying off, due to Robert Kirkman’s script.
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That’s going to be hard on a kid, growing up in a zombie apocalypse with a father who doesn’t want you to know how to survive on your own has to be doubly difficult.
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Carl’s obnoxious and a borderline sociopath, but I can’t help but feel like that’s on purpose, since he’s a moody teenage boy and the only girl he’s met that’s close to his age was locked in a barn full of zombies and executed by his own father. It’s hard for kids to emote on screen and have it come off well, but Nicotero helps Riggs come through with a really good performance. I trust Danai Gurira to give a good performance, but it’s difficult to get good work out of younger actors, particularly in emotionally heavy scenes. However, the most impressive thing about the directing this episode is the way that Greg Nicotero handles his actors, in particular Chandler Riggs. (Michonne’s killing frenzy was also spectacular, while we’re on the subject of wandering around with a sword.) The opening crane shot is a thing of beauty, and just the staging of when Michonne goes wandering through the crowds of walkers back towards the prison is stunning to behold.
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Nicotero has a great sense for the visual, and he frames some great shots, particularly of Carl when he’s leading some walkers down a deserted street and when Rick and Carl go house-to-house looking for food and a safe place to settle down for a rest. As he gets more and more comfortable in the chair, he’s showing more of a willingness to think big and to think small at the same time. As a director, he’s improved by leaps and bounds from the very first webisodes he directed this season. Greg Nicotero has grown into a real weapon for The Walking Dead.