The Walking Dead

Season 3 Episode 12

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Rick leads an expedition to get more weapons after realizing the group is outgunned against the Governor.

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  • The Walking Dead "Clear" Review: Lessons in Crazy

    Rick, Carl, and Michonne went huntin' for guns and ended up finding a cable-quality drama along the way in this excellent episode.

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    • The hitchhiker.

      10
      Leaving behind the hitchhiker was about making a point (in the story) that such situations lead people to do things they would never have imagined doing.
    • Changing

      4.0
      I liked the episode except for the fact that they left the hitchhiker behind. I can understand that there is trust issues, why wouldn't there be. But to leave a man behind, any man , weather you know him or not is just cruel. At that point they became no better than the Governor. He has no trouble killing, zombie or human.
    • Clear

      7.0
      A better episode than most this season, but the problem continues to be with the acting here. For all parties involved, it was just not good enough to pull off one of these moral quandry stories, the show appears hell-bent on giving us.
    • The Hitchhiker

      1.0
      The tragedy of Rick's group ignoring the hitchhiker was too heavy-handed. I can understand that the prison family (reflecting Rick's paranoia) may be reluctant to trust outsiders. However, if they cannot maintain sufficient human empathy to emerge as an alternative to the Governor's manipulative behavior, the coming battle at the end of the world will just be a brainless street brawl between two gangs of sociopaths. Something I have no interest in watching. So how about bringing Rick and comrades back into the light please?moreless
    • the hitchhiker

      8.0
      Ok just a couple of words on the hitchhiker. Someone wrote in his review that they are kind of in need of people to defend the prison and are facing up to 30 people (but they don't really know). They learn that the governor is determined to destroy them. Okay. So why the fuck not take the hitchhiker with them? It makes no sense at all. By the second time they see him it was quite clear he was alone and no bait for an ambush etc. He seemed to be unarmed which could easily be checked with weapons out and frisking him. I was only shaking my head, nobody in the car even brought up the issue. Hell, they could have put him in the trunk of the car (why are they driving such a shitty car by the way and not a VW Touareg or similar) and the have him sit in a cell until his motives and psyche are more clear. Stupid. And cold.



      But the best part is: the mysteriously spawning six or so undead at the scene where Michonne gets the car stuck (I lol'd, how about getting to know how to extract your car out of that with driving skill) - if we accept that they are just there, _why_ the heck shoot them. Just push the damn sword in them? I am quite sure they not only passively killed the hitchhiker but they did more actively so. The gunshots attracted all walkers from around a diameter of at least a mile, maybe more. It is not unlikely the reason the poor pal died. But hey, they successfully loot his backpack, like the bandits they became.



      Apart from that, it was a good episode. Hate Andrea, so nice to have a self-contained story including Michonne. Best character in the series, like in the graphic novel.moreless

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      • After Rick subdues Morgan who has attacked him, he tries to help Morgan remember who he is by saying that Morgan found him "last year" in Rick's front yard. Although the story's chronology is not synchronized with the series' calendar timeline, surely it has been more a year since Rick last saw Morgan.


        *Actually, it is more likely to be slightly less than a year since Rick last saw Morgan. As Judith's parentage is questioned, we can assume that Lori became pregnant around the time Rick found her and Carl. (Again assuming she stopped sleeping with Shane once Rick returned.) Lori gave birth prematurely to Judith, so she would have been pregnant for less than 38 weeks. It also does not appear to have been more than 3 months since Lori's death (considering Judith's growth/development.) So unless Rick wandered for some months before meeting up with Glenn in Atlanta, it would have been nearly a year since Rick last saw Morgan.

      • Goof: At 40:49 Michonne is wearing a crossbow on her back. When the camera angle changes, the crossbow is already in the car as she is shutting the hatch.

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