The Walking Dead Season 2 Premier

It is finally upon us, season two of The Walking Dead!! I have been waiting for this for a long time. I had to wait until now to watch it since I have been busy.

Synopsis: We last left the group after the CDC exploded. The group is now heading towards Fort Benning. The RV breaks down on a freeway and the group looks through what is left behind for supplies they need. A heard of zombies comes through and the groups hides under the cars for safety. A few close calls,but everyone makes it. Sofia is chased by a walker and gets lost in the woods. The group keeps busying looking through the cars and moving cars off the road, while Rick, Daryl, and Glenn go looking for Sofia.

Shane tells Lori that he plans on leaving the group, which only complicates their relationship even more. We see even more issues with the group with Andrea, Dale and Shane over her gun and who is allowed to have a gun. The next day most of the group goes looking for Sofia, with Daryl leading. While looking the hear church bells, the make their way towards a church, and find zombies inside. The guys kill them quick and once again they hear bells, which is a speaker on a timer.

Andrea overhears Lori and Shane talking about Shane leaving. She asks Shane to allow her to come with him, because neither one of them belongs in the group. Rick seems to loose faith in himself after loosing Sofia. The group splits up and Lori confronts them all for blaming Rick for the outcomes and that they can go on their own if they want to.

The episode ends, when someone fires a gun at a deer Rick, Shane and Carl and goes through the deer and into Carl.

Opinion: For a season opening, it wasn't too bad. It really wasn't anything special, but I did like that Daryl had some decent moments/lines. He's stepping up to the plate you could say. There's probably more backstory to him going to come out is my guess, with what I noticed. While the beginning was great, the middle was just flat and the ending a crappy cliffhanger. I forgot the problems members of the group were having with each other so when they came up in this episode I had to remind myself. So they could have done more, I have to say 30 minutes looking for Sofia seemed a bit much. I hope they're not going to be looking for her the rest of the season, that would just be a drag.

Overall, it was decent.

By the way this is my 100th post!!!

Supernatural Season Seven Premiere

Cas, Dean and Death

This past Friday was the premiere episode for season seven of Supernatural. Now, for me, things in this show is getting a bit confusing. There's is a lot going on and most of it I have never heard of. So I will try my best to explain things to you all so you won't be confused.

Synopsis: God has been missing for some time and Castiel has taken over as being God. He tells Dean, Sam and Bobby that because they went against him (season six will explain this all) that he could smite them, but he's not. They are lucky to escape his wrath, but he will get them later. The boys and Bobby return to the junkyard where Dean is once again trying to fix their chevy impala and Sam is having memories of Hell coming back to haunt him. There is no sign of Cas (this is what they call him) anywhere until there are signs of mass murders of church leaders and others. They describe the man as a young man wearing a trench coat, which is the exact description of Cas.

I love that Death has a thing for crappy food

So the boys and Bobby summon Crowely, a demon who once was king of hell, to help them kill Cas. The only way to do this is to bound Death and make him kill Cas. In order to do this they need a very old spell, which Crowely is willing to give them. They need a crystal that was made when lightening hit sand for the spell. They preform the spell and Death appears. Death by now is tried of the boys and isn't exactly happy about them binding him. Cas appears looking really bad, he has burns and wounds. We learn that he not only has lots of souls inside of him, but beasts all Leviathans (the first creatures God made).

So after all of this Cas, tries to show that he is a just God, but kills a lot of people and comes to the boys and Bobby for help. Death had told them that if they got Cas, to the gates of purgatory, then they could be rid of him. So they get everything set up, when Lucifer appears to Sam telling him, he's still in Hell and that it was his greatest torture ever. The gate opens and what was inside of Cas, gets sucked in. Cas, survives, but he's taken over by the Leviathans.


My Opinion: This episode was okay. I like this show, but I enjoy the older episodes. For those of you who haven't seen the first several seasons there was no heaven, hell, or angels. It was about the two boys looking for the dad and hunting spirits, demons and other creatures. Things were more simplistic and were pretty good. Now with all this angel business I find myself confused a lot and having to look a lot of the stuff up, because my 10 years of Catholic school has taught me nothing that helps.

I also have been thinking about looking up the Latin they use in their spells. I take Latin, though I am not good at it and I wonder if they are saying anything that makes sense.

I will say that this show has great music. If you are a fan of classic rock like Journey or Led Zeppelin, then you will love the music they use in this show. I personally am not a fan of that genre, I'm a rockabilly/punk fan, but even I like the music.

Other than that I am not sure where this season is going. I really wish they would get back to the boys hunting spirits or bigfoot. I miss those old days. So I will keep watching just to see where this is all going.

The Walking Dead Season One Episode One Recap

Episode One:  This episode shows us the aftermath of whatever madness has happen to this small town in Georgia. We meet Rick Grimes and his best friend and partner Shane. We see the desperation people went through trying to escape and survive. Rick wakes up after being critically injured after being shoot twice while trying to capture a car full of suspects, to find things are not how they use to be.

The hospital is empty and what he does find is tons of bodies. Unsure of what has happen Rick flees uneasily towards his home to look for his wife and son. While trying to understand what is going on when his wife and son are not home he meets two survivors, a man and his son. They treat him hostilely, since they are unsure if a walker or something else wounded him. Once he has convinced them he just woke up and have no idea what has happen he realized things are very wrong.

He learns that lights and loud noises attract the walkers and not to let any of their blood get on his face. He takes the man and his son to the sheriff’s station where they take a shower and load up on guns. They part ways, Rick heads towards Atlanta, where there is suppose to be safe refuge and the CDC, and the man and his son go back to the home where he tries to cut ties with his wife who became a walker.

We meet other survivors who are outside of Atlanta with Shane. They receive a radio transmission, but are unable to communicate with Rick, neither Shane nor Rick’s wife recognize his voice due to static. There is a fight between Lorie and Shane about putting signs up to let people know that the city is not safe. Lorie and Shane obviously have a romance going on, but it seems to be out of need rather than love.

Rick comes across an abandon home, where he finds a grim situation; it appears that the homeowners killed themselves so they would not turn into walkers. Rick finds a horse at this house and uses it when he is out of gas in his cruiser. As he approaches Atlanta everything seems deserted like the town he just left, but of course the town is full of walkers. 

Seeing a chopper in the air Rick rides through the city trying to find it and let them see him, when he rides right into a huge crowd of walkers. He becomes surrounded and is knocked off his horse. He retreats under a tank, where he is cornered and has to shoot to give him a way out. As he seems to attempt a quick suicide he climbs through a hatch into the tank, where he kills a walker and because of the close quarters starts to go deaf from the bullet bouncing off the walls and creating a ringing noise. Now that his bag full of guns is in the middle of the walkers Rick is stuck in the tank. Again suicide seems to be his only option, when a voice comes over the radio. Who is this mysterious person?

My Opinions:   It is easy to see that while this is the first episode, it is not that exciting compared to the rest of the season. The reason is it has to set up the madness and what Rick goes through as he first finds out what happens while he was in a coma. With that said the walkers in the episode are still pretty cool, bicycle girl and the little girl are two that stand out in the episode. If you have the DVDs for season one watch the special features, they show you how they did bicycle girl. You will be impressed. 

What I liked about this episode that it did take it's time, as does this season explaining things to you. Some shows rush everything in 20 or 50 minutes, this show does not  d this even when the first episode is 90 minutes long. Trust me I rather them take the time to do things that rush through it and you feeling like it was too short of a ride. 

Another thing this show does well, especially with this episode and the next is using simple things to pull out emotions. When you see Shane and you assume at least two of the survivors are Rick's wife and son you hope he finds them. It's simple, but you are left with the hope that something good will come out of this madness.