The Walking Dead--Returns! S2E1 - What Lies Ahead

Spoiler Alert*

It's been a long freaking year. I've waited my whole life for this, television's zombie series, season 2! Everyone's gotten so excited about the show, my friends and I (who are huge fan of zombie genre) literally camped out the stream/download websites refreshing the page every minute on Sunday night waiting for the show to come out.

Season 1 Pilot was phenomenal. It felt like something that came out of a Romero movie. Season 1 left something to be desired, simply because it was way too short. For a six episode season, it made the viewers hungry for more. The build up and hype about the show is unprecedented for AMC. Last season the season finale ended with about 5 million viewers on the air date. Season 2 premier was up in the 7 million mark.

S2E1 - What Lies Ahead

Summary

For a 1.5 hour premier, it wasn't action packed. At the start of the episode, we get a mini recap of season 1. The crew is now an 11 member crew, 2 cars and a motorcycle. The gang is heading to a new destination but they get stuck on the highway because their car breaks down. Since the cars were abandoned, the crew scavenges the by standing cars for food and equipment. They find a ton of useful stuff until a "herd" of migrating walkers show up. Caught by surprise, they hide under cars. Since there were too many walkers around to use firearms, they had no choice but to hide. Somehow, the little girl Carol gets revealed and she runs for it. Rick goes after her and fights off the walkers chasing them. However, Carol is lost in the woods and can't be found. People panic and argue about the situation. The rest of the episode is about the crew walking around the woods and didn't find the lost girl. Towards the end, they encounter a deer. Carl walks extremely close to the deer and gets shot--by an unknown gunman. The credits roll.

Thoughts

The opening scene was both suspenseful and exciting. There were some excellent scenes. Daryl managed to save T-Dog, the idiot that cuffed his brother to be left for dead. T-Dog somehow cut his arm and spilled blood everywhere when the herd came along. If it wasn't for Daryl, he would've been dead. There was another scene in which Rick and Daryl had to cut open a walker in order to confirm that Sophia wasn't devoured. That was bloody disgusting. But I really dislike the fact that people are touching the blood of the dead. Shouldn't they be more careful not to get that stuff splattered all over their face and eyes?

Hide the children!

How to live: cover yourself with a dead body

I hate ABC

ABC sucks. They canceled both V and No Ordinary Family. Both shows were running good storylines and they killed it. V was a very high end sci-fi show, I can understand why they cut it but still, leaving a plot hanging like this is just distasteful.

The fall lineup doesn't look too interesting. The only one I'm looking forward to watching is Terra Nova, which will be on Fox. Other ones I might watch are Ringer and Unforgettable. However, know how television shows can get cut for running after 1 season, I don't have my hopes up anymore.

two natural disasters within a week

Hello East Coast, mother nature said hi.

On August 23, a 5.9 earthquake originated from Virginia shook the eastern sea board. The effects of the quake were felt all the way from Canada. I was on the 9th floor of a building in downtown Manhattan when the quake struck. The entire building swayed for a few seconds but I didn't realize it was an earthquake until my coworkers started to talk about it. When I looked out the window, I saw people from other buildings flush out of their offices and into the streets. They were afraid that they wouldn't make it out if another quake occurred. But honestly, if buildings were to topple over, you can't run anywhere. I think I would simply stay put rather than getting crushed to death. It was a nice excuse for people to take a break from work, after all our lives are incredibly dull and a little excitement was needed.

To sum up the 5.9 quake:


The second great big disaster was hurricane Irene. It was predicted to have unprecedented collateral damage done to the eastern coast.

Mayor Bloomberg instructed the people in the orange and yellow areas to evacuate. I was in danger zone A and I wanted to leave. After reading up on some information on Hurricane Katrina, I planned to camp in Baruch since it was a designated evacuation zone in Manhattan. In the end my parents convinced me to stay put because they feared I would be stuck in Manhattan with no means of returning, for days perhaps. The entire MTA public transportation shut down due to flooding. I was so glad I stayed home, we didn't lose power or get flooded. None of the predictions came true, thankfully. By the time it reached New York City, the storm became a category 1 and was no big deal.

future goal

I want to move to Sweden one day. I have nothing against the US, but something tells me I'll enjoy life much more over there.