Wiley Taylor
11/14/2011
Last week was a shocker and this week lives up to it. I’m very impressed with the series so far. To be honest, I plan on buying the series when it comes out. Enough chit-chat, let’s get into zombie horror heaven.
"Chupacabra" is a fast and loose storytelling episode by , using a major flashback at the outset and getting inside the head of one Daryl Dixon--hero, survivor, wild card. The beginning of the second season has been abundant somewhat slow and leaves me pondering when in the world are they going to find Sophia. Luckily, the fantastic writers are keeping me glued to the series with some of their imaginative input into the series.
SPOILER: The Dixon brothers aren’t even in the comic. They’re characters that are created by the writers and the writers keep Shane from biting the dust. According the Walking Dead comic, Shane dies within the first season of the comic strip. To be honest, the way the writers infuse them in the series is superb. I applaud you and I’m sure other fellow die hard WDC fan’s love it also.
The episode starts with a flashback that shows Carol's husband being the abusive husband/father that we all remember. Moving along, Shane and Lori try to cope with Rick's absence as attack helicopters douse a nearby city with napalm. Cool.
Back in the present, Lori awakes from her crappy night of finding out she is pregnant. You would’ve thought she would’ve made sure not to get pregnant in zombie filled world. Amidst waking up, Carol comes to her with a proposition: She wants Lori's help cooking dinner to thank Hershel's family for their hospitality. She asks Lori to rally the others since she's the team's “unofficial first lady”. Rick and Shane oversee plans for the daily Sophia search that now includes Jimmy, boyfriend of Greene daughter Beth, and newly-armed Andrea. This is the first point in the episode at which Rick and Shane clash over Sophia, but, as usual, they let it slide for the time being.
The search proceeds mostly as normal, except that Daryl goes off on his own riding a horse to climb a nearby cliff and get a view of the entire area. Meanwhile, Rick and Shane, searching together in woods, get into a serious argument about the ongoing rescue operation of Sophia. Shane points out that, before the apocalypse, search crews would look for a body after 72 hours. He thinks Sophia is dead and that continuing the chase only puts Rick's people in danger. Rick's still committed since he is the blame for her disappearance. Really, why would leave a child to defend for her in the woods when there are zombies around and give her horrible directions? The fight turns intense to the point that they don’t realize they’ve rounded up crossing another search team's path.
Meanwhile, Daryl's made his way to the high ground, where he spots something interesting the creek below. However, his horse spooks while on the way down and he ends up tumbling painfully down slope into the creek. His injuries are serious because he winds up piercing himself with one of his crossbow bolts. Ouch!
Struggling to stay alive and conscious, Daryl hallucinates his brother, Merle. Healed of his self-inflicted injury, Merle tells Daryl that Rick and co. considers him a freak and that they've made him their errand boy. Merle explains that forgotten about him and worked so hard to find Sophia, while not bothering to look for his him, his own blood. Merle suggests that Daryl betray the survivors and shoot Rick in the face. Before he can respond properly, his head clears and he realizes that what he thinks is Merle is really a walker going for his leg. He fights off the walker and another hungry one before beginning his climb to the top of the cliff. It's an agonizing retreat, but he manages to escape with two precious pieces of cargo: A necklace of zombie ears and the thing he spotted that brought him to the brink of death in the first place. It's a doll that belonged to Sophia...!
Daryl shambles back to the outskirts of Hershel's farm. Ms. Trigger-Happy, Andrea, spots him at a distance through the scope of her new rifle, but the sun’s glare causes her to see Daryl as a walker. He really does look like a walker from the far because he's covered in blood from eating a squirrel in the woods and his wounds are apparent. She warns everyone about the incoming zombie, so Rick, Shane and a couple others head out to intercept it. Dale tells Andrea to hold her fire, but of course Andrea shoots and hits Daryl in the head. It looks worse than it is because he is merely grazed and unconscious. Great job, Ms. Trigger-Happy!
Of course, Carol makes sure to thank Daryl for his ongoing fight for Sophia's life; Andrea spends the rest of the episode absolutely crushed for her actions.
Among all this chaos, there's this whole thing with Glenn and Maggie similar to a college late night hookup: Glenn doesn't know where he stands with the farmer's daughter after their steamy encounter at the pharmacy. He's got eleven condoms left, but it doesn't look like he’s going to use it anytime soon. Maggie changed it up once she hears that her father disapproves of the prior tryst and, like any defiant daddy’s girl, she passes Glenn a note that says, "Tonight When?" Glenn's response: "Ever done it in a hayloft?" Glenn heads out early to meet Maggie there with a blanket and gets surprised when Maggie shows up, mid-freaked out. She's not in time, however--he's already discovered the barn's horrible secret. Hershel's barn hides a herd of walkers. Maggie: "You weren't supposed to see this." Glenn feelings at this time: Mind blown.
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