Comments on: The Walking Dead – Mid-Season Finale – ‘Pretty Much Already Dead’ Recap – Spoilers

By: Ray Sims

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By: Michael Doran

Michael Doran — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:55:00 +0000

One thing I don’t get. Herschel is a veterinarian, so a man of science to some degree. Why is it that no one even tried explaining to him what they had learned at the CDC? Surely that would have made an impression on him. He was waiting for the cure. Sorry Herschel, we were just at the CDC. There is no cure. The disease kills all higher motor functions and brain activities and basically roots itself in the brain stem and what you see are walking coma patients with a blood lust.

I think that might have gotten through to him (but would not have been as dramatic story telling I suppose).

By: Zoolander

Zoolander — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:41:00 +0000

I just don’t get one thing…why did Jimmy come running up to Herschel at the beginning of the episode saying “it happened again”??

By: Jeramy

Jeramy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:15:00 +0000

Fair comments, thanks kindly. @BlackAlan, you may be right, but you’d think Otis might have mentioned it to Shane or anyone else while everyone was alive and kicking and they were going to fetch medical supplies for Carl. I know there was a lot going on, but ‘the reason we were beating bushes around the woods is that we’re looking for a little gilr, reckon you might have wrangled one recently?” might have come up.

@Ryan, Hershel’s hypocracy runs deeper than just Sophia, and yes this is just my opinion and me reading motivation into the characters…He’s using the same fundamentalist pretzel logic to both keep his loved ones pent up in the barn because killing is wrong, while at the same time condemning Rick and his crew to what amounts to a death sentence, because he’s done his christian duty and it’s time for them to move along. It’s what Maggie called him on when she confronted him on letting Rick and them stay. And it seemed that she had gotten through until Shane screwed it up for everyone. Hershel is deeply conflicted not just with the situation, but with himself. He’s a well-constructed character IMO.

But again, Otis was alive and well long enough, and it’s reasonable to assume that he knew what Rick’s folks were looking for. If he’d coralled Sophia in the barn, why not just say so? “Yup. We saw her. She was bit. We put her down.” Done, and revealing the barn isn’t even necessary.

By: Ryan Moore

Ryan Moore — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:16:00 +0000

I got the impression that Shane shooting the zombie in the torso really got through to Herschel, because when Shane goes to bust the barn door open and Rick wants to stop him, Herschel refuses to take the Zombie from Rick, effectively tying his hands. I think that twisted look on Herschel’s face during the shootout was basically him finally coming to terms with his state of denial about the fate of his family/friends. I wouldn’t call him a hypocrite so much as someone who had desperately been clinging to a glimmer of hope in the tragedy.

By: Robert Paulsen

Robert Paulsen — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:30:00 +0000

I’ll have to admit that when Shane flipped out and shot the zombie
Herschel had, it was a long time in the works. I understand that Rick was
trying to convince Herschel to let his crew stay, but the barn by any means
wasn’t a good idea. What came as a shock to me was when Sophia came out of the
barn at the end with not even a hint that she was there. I’ll continue to use
my employee subscription to DISH Network to view the show in HD when it returns
in February, but seriously Rick’s crew needs no straighten up that farm.

By: BlackAlan

BlackAlan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:00 +0000

Only one thing, Herschel wasn’t a hypocrite, Otis was the one who usually wrangled the zombies, he legitimately most likely did not know that Sophia was one of the walkers in the barn.