Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
I think it's deeper than this.
This is like Jack vs. Locke. Instead it's Rick vs. Shane.
For the entire first half of season 2, we've been watching Rick play the peacemaker. He's the one that wants to forget what the world has become. He wants sense and order. Laws. He wants to abide by the rules of the world he was in before heading into a coma.
Shane, however, sees the world for what it has become. He sees chaos, danger and survival.
Last night's episode was both of those characters reaching the apex of their philosophies.
Rick with pulling walkers around like they are living people. Shane taking the guns and shooting the walkers down.
Except, at the end both characters saw their philosophies challenged and had to reconsider.
Shane blindly believed that every walker is insignificant. They are out to kill is all he considered. Then he saw Sophia and realized it wasn't that simple. (If they are smart they'll use that to help further develop Shane and Andrea's relationship now that he might fully understand what she went through to kill her own sister. Because he didn't which is why he used it to push her over the edge a week ago).
Rick had to shoot Sophia not just because he felt responsible or because he's the leader, but because he had to assert a growing understanding that the world is not what he wants it to be. It was his way of saying: You're right.
I expect that their actions last night at the end of the episode is the beginning of both Shane and Rick completely switching ideologies which should create some interesting drama and conflict. It would mean every relationship they have with every character needs to be challenged.
How will Lori view Rick? Does Carl begin to side with Shane? Will Dale lose faith in Rick? And on it goes.
I hope.
I think it's deeper than this.
This is like Jack vs. Locke. Instead it's Rick vs. Shane.
For the entire first half of season 2, we've been watching Rick play the peacemaker. He's the one that wants to forget what the world has become. He wants sense and order. Laws. He wants to abide by the rules of the world he was in before heading into a coma.
Shane, however, sees the world for what it has become. He sees chaos, danger and survival.
Last night's episode was both of those characters reaching the apex of their philosophies.
Rick with pulling walkers around like they are living people. Shane taking the guns and shooting the walkers down.
Except, at the end both characters saw their philosophies challenged and had to reconsider.
Shane blindly believed that every walker is insignificant. They are out to kill is all he considered. Then he saw Sophia and realized it wasn't that simple. (If they are smart they'll use that to help further develop Shane and Andrea's relationship now that he might fully understand what she went through to kill her own sister. Because he didn't which is why he used it to push her over the edge a week ago).
Rick had to shoot Sophia not just because he felt responsible or because he's the leader, but because he had to assert a growing understanding that the world is not what he wants it to be. It was his way of saying: You're right.
I expect that their actions last night at the end of the episode is the beginning of both Shane and Rick completely switching ideologies which should create some interesting drama and conflict. It would mean every relationship they have with every character needs to be challenged.
How will Lori view Rick? Does Carl begin to side with Shane? Will Dale lose faith in Rick? And on it goes.
I hope.
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