Walking Dead - "Beside The Dying Fire"

It's been long enough I think to post what I think of the second season finale of The Walking Dead, "Besides the Dying Fire". Folks around my next of the woods of Facebook have been heated in regards to spoilers, so if you haven't seen it by now, I'm not sure you can complain. Yet, I still feel compelled to warn you, 

SPOILERS AHEAD!

This was simply put an amazing episode. Yet even amazing things have their flaws. The amazing zombie battle, where we see the ends of Jimmy and Patricia, and Herschel taking out zombies one by one with amazingly placed shotgun blasts. The debut of Michonne as she saves Andrea from a walker. The reveal of what Jenner told Rick at the end of season 1, that we are ALL infected and the reveal at the very end of the episode of the prison. If you read the comics you know what an important part of the story the prison will play. And Rick's speech at the end where he confirms that from now on, its a Ricktatorship. This episode really helped the season end strongly despite its kind of slow start. 

That being said, there were bits of this episode that really kind of threw me for a loop. 

- Why is no one watching Carl?

You've killed off Sophia, you'd think that the group would be keen to keep an eye on the only remaining child. The "last hope of humanity" if you want to get dramatic. No, Carl roams the farm like a lost cow. Hell, he got Dale killed. 

- Why was Lori so upset at Rick?

When Rick reveals to Lori that he is the person who killed Shane, she goes cold on him. Acting as if she wasn't the one who really put these things into motion to begin with. I'm sorry but if my wife was upset that I killed a guy who was trying to kill me and put our entire group in danger, I think its time for post apocalypse divorce court. 

- Everyone Hates Rick

Okay, so hate may be a strong term, but it fits here. Everyone in the group seems to have their own idea of what they should be doing, but Rick is the only one who seems to know what NEEDS to be done. A friend of mine said it best, to put it bluntly, "These people need to be told when to shit, and when they're told it's time to shit, they don't wanna shit". The only person, if any of them, that seemed to agree with Rick is Herschel. 

- T-Dog

Why is he still here? Is there a bigger purpose for him? They dispatched of Jimmy and Patricia, why not him as well? Are they keeping him around for the return of Merle to created some just add water drama to the situation? Please tell me that they are better than that.

I'm sure you've heard all of these gripes before, and I'm sure you'll hear them again from other folks, but these are my thoughts on the season finale. An amazing episode with it's own little demons that we had to over come.