The Walking Dead
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My skepticism meter was off the charts as the opening scenes of this episode unfolded.
Theres Gabe and A-Aaron, out here in these woods covering grasshoppers and all manner of flora with plasma.
(Blood on a Dandelion sounds like the title of one of Betas albums.)
Theyre in search of food and coming up empty in the worst way.
There are plenty of signs early on that something grim is ahead.
(Gotta love a fortuitous flash storm to wash away all that grime.
Father Gabe is cleansed, amen!)
But otherwise, its one depressing tableau after the next.
Gabe isnt interested in detective work (at least not yet).
Theyve been on the road for two weeks now with nothing to show for it.
Gabe opens one and sees a passage from Samuel with a hand-written annotation about mourning.
You know that a night of card playing and hootch-swilling is not going to end well.
Its talking to people one on one, on their own terms.
Continuing with the gloom-and-doom theme, Gabe doesnt have much faith in whats left of humanity.
Evil people arent the exception to the rule, he says.
They are the rule.
Worse than a whiskey hangover is realizing your friend with the very useful spiked mace hand is missing.
Even worse is seeing that the guy who probably took him is the Terminator.
Termy replies that he did and thats why he does.
Say what you will about his rather in-your-face blasphemy, but Im starting to like this guys moxie.
Thats about when any hint of rugged individualist charm takes a hard turn toward serial-killer scary.
Termy handled it, he says, and gained something that day, which seems to be insanity.
Gabe seems to put his ministry to good use as he somehow talks Termy down from his homicidal ledge.
Its precisely this moment when Gabe goes full Mike Trout with Aarons club hand and crushes the guys skull.
Mays isnt the exception to the rule.
Hes a rabid dog that needs to be put down.
(This begs for a crime procedural spinoff,CSI: Alexandria.)
Aaron was probably relieved to find Gabe was right.
He made me play, the man mumbles over and over.
Earlier, they debated whether to go off course and investigate a water tower.
Now, theres no argument.
Might as well, right?
Whats the worst that could happen?
