FROM DEATH COMES LIFE, A REVIEW OF AMC’S THE WALKING DEAD

FROM DEATH COMES LIFE, A REVIEW OF AMC’S THE WALKING DEAD

I am sure that fans of AMC’s series The Walking Dead were just ass surprise at the death of T-Bone and Lori and I was. T-Bone a long time character of the series had started a minor one who evolved into a superhero at the time of his death when he sacrificed himself to save his friend Carol. Yet, did he? Yes, T-Bone is gone forever but what of Carol’s fate? She was last seen escaping the zombie filled corridor after one last reluctant look at her savior. However, no one has seen her since. What is her true fate?

Moreover, the death of Lori was unexpected. Sure, I thought she would deliverer her child, but I did not think that she too would be a sacrifice. That she died during the delivery in which the infant was cut from her womb was not surprising because there was no way to close her wound or stop her massive blood loss. 

Despite the death of these two long time character, the most heart breaking moment was when  Carl has to put the bullet in his mother’s head  so that she would not returned as a zombie. The somber and blank look in the young boy (who had no other choice but to leave childhood things behind and take a role as a man) gave an unhappy glimpse into what a real live threatening toll surviving is a very danger world would be for even the children. This train of thought is punctuated with Rick’s utter breakdown after searched Carl’s for the truth to Lori’s death. In that moment of confirmation, Rick understood very painfully that he had not only lost his wife but that his son was forever changed. 

 

So, what does the future hold for Rick and his ever-diminishing band of survivors? And what of the infant? How will it fare in a world more suited for death than raising new life?