The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 9: Triggerfinger
A bit of an uneven episode. The first half of this episode as just pure adrenaline, whether it was Lori's struggles with the car window zombie (who had a spectacular makeup job, by the way), or the tense shoot-off between Team Rick with the buddies of the two bar douchebags. Of course they're going to avenge their dead buddies, wouldn't you? One of them ends up falling and eaten by walkers, and the other is left behind with a spike stabbed through his leg, and Rick and Hershel, nice people that they are, amputated Randall, blindfolded him and brought him back to the farm. Stupidity? Yeah, as Shane pointed out, it's stupid to think that this won't end well for the rest of their small community.
We get some rather human moments as Glenn is just panicky and froze up at one point during the action, Hershel just going all 'too hell with it' and slicing the dude's leg off, Shane telling a determined Lori that 'Rick is back' in order to stop the pregnant woman from going all Resident Evil single-player mode... and then Shane just had to keep talking on and on and insisting that Lori and Shane had a 'thing' despite solid rebuffs from Lori. And their affair isn't even a secret anymore to Rick, so Shane doesn't have that wall to hide behind. And as Lori notes to Rick, and how Shane doesn't give a shit about Dale or Hershel, and how Shane lied to her this episode... Shane is unstable. He's the only pragmatic one in the group, but he's a borderline psychopath and he needs to go. This, plus the whole Randall thing, seems to be building up to a decent conflict. We'll see where this goes from there.
Daryl and Carol have a bit of an argument that's just honestly whatever. Glenn also had an idiotic argument with Maggie. Blaming the girl's love confession for you freezing up? Man, Glenn, and before this you were cool.
A bit of a shorter review, but then there really isn't much to say. A couple of action scenes (shot in the dark which is realistic and all but makes telling the action kinda hard at times) that resolve themselves, while building up for potentially larger ones.
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