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‘The Walking Dead’ season finale: Burning down the … barn

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After  a second season that tested the limits of its viewers’ patience at times — and at other times excelled as after-the-end-of-the-world melodrama — “The Walking Dead” went out with a bang tonight.

Lots of bangs, as a matter of fact, followed by exploding walker heads. Also fire, as in the fire that burned down farmer Hershel’s barn.

In this case, fire good. Walkers bad!

Some thoughts on tonight’s episode:

The helicopter: As the episode begins, walkers in the streets of Atlanta notice a black helicopter overhead. They stumble after it, a journey that takes them out into the countryside and to the fields of Hershel’s farm. The helicopter not only explains why all the walkers showed up in the countryside at one time but teased us with the possibility of other survivors. Who was in that helicopter?

The badass chronicles: Daryl, with his crossbow and attitude, is a fan favorite on this show. Tonight he didn’t disappoint, tooling around on his motorcycle and snarking at people. Oh, and killing walkers. But Hershel, the mild-mannered veterinarian who has been an annoyance at times this season, grabbed his gun and put down a lot of walkers tonight. He also backed the new, more badass version of Rick who took charge by the end of tonight’s episode.

“We’re all infected.” Rick reveals what the doctor at the Centers for Disease Control whispered to him at the end of the first season. It makes perfect sense — the zombie plague had to begin somehow, after all — but casts a pall over the whole proceedings. If you manage to avoid walkers for 20 years and have a heart attack, you come back as a walker. Bummer.

The prison: The next major setting for the series is straight out of the comic book series. I haven’t read that far in the comics, but there’s potential for a lot of conflict there. We glimpse it at the end of the episode.

Michonne: One of the most-awaited characters from the comic book series showed up right before the final scene, as a hooded, sword-wielding figure  rescues Andrea from a horde of walkers. On “Talking Dead” afterward, the show’s producers confirmed that the hooded swordswoman was popular comic book character Michonne. Creator Robert Kirkman (I think it was) said that Michonne is the first character who’s not just surviving in the post-apocalyptic world but has it all figured out.

I’ll come back to the topic of “The Walking Dead” at some point soon — certainly before the show returns next fall — but it’s been fun blogging about the series this season and I’m looking forward to season three.

Spoilers are out there (not here) for ‘Walking Dead’ ‘Better Angels’

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Be careful what you click on between now and Sunday night.

Spoilers are all over the Interwebs for the “Better Angels” episode of “The Walking Dead,” airing Sunday night on AMC.

The episode is the next to the last for this season of the zombie apocalypse show.

If you’ve remained spoiler-free this season, I won’t change that. But if you’re determined to find out what happens in Sunday’s night’s episode, spoilers are out there. Big time.

One site I came across this afternoon even had a photo of … wait. I’m not gonna say.

Needless to say, this episode will be a pivotal one, nearly as important as the one to follow, the last episode of this season.

According to online reports, the final episode of the second season of the show will reveal what the CDC scientist whispered to Rick in the final episode of the first season.

So anyway, I plan to be watching Sunday night. Not quite as spoiler-free as I would have liked, but watching still.

More thoughts on “The Walking Dead” whisper

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Is there such a thing as a possible spoiler?

I guess there is, particularly when it comes to “The Walking Dead” whisper.

You remember the whisper. At the end of the first season of the AMC series, the doctor at the Centers for Disease Control whispers something to Rick. But what?

You might remember that I wrote about speculation concerning the nature of the whisper here. I’ve been reading up on it since and came across some interesting speculation.

Ready for those potential spoilers?

The prevailing speculation online — and we know how reliable that can be — is that the doc told Rick that everyone is already infected.

Presumably that means that everyone will eventually become a zombie, no matter if they avoid getting bitten or scratched.

That would explain the emphasis placed, in a recent episode, on Rick and Shane speculating on why two walkers had become walkers despite showing no visible signs of being bitten.

The “Walking Dead” comic book doesn’t solve the mystery and neither does creator Robert Kirkman who, when asked by The Hollywood Reporter, says, “Sure. Maybe. We’ll have to see (laughs).”

Kirkman is likewise mum on what caused the zombie apocalypse in the first place. He told “The Walking Dead” wiki, when asked about what happened, “…That starts to get into the origin of all this stuff, and I think that’s unimportant to the series itself, There will be smaller answers as things progress … but never will we see the whole picture.”

So while we might get an idea of what the whisper is, we’ll apparently never get a good idea of what caused the walker plague.

 

What was ‘The Walking Dead’ whisper?

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Here’s one for fans of the AMC series “The Walking Dead” as we wait for another new episode — the second in the latter half of the second season — to premiere Sunday night.

What did Dr. Jenner, the scientist at the Centers for Disease Control, whisper in Rick’s ear near the end of the final episode of the first season?

If you remember, the survivors of the zombie apocalypse made their way to the CDC at the end of the first season but abandoned it when Dr. Jenner, the last remaining scientist, became despondent and decided to blow stuff up real good.

Before Rick led the survivors out, Jenner whispered something in Rick’s ear.

The Associated Press asked Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick, about the whisper.

Lincoln — who maintains he knows what the whisper was intended to be, but says he hasn’t even told his wife — hints that the whisper was not good news.

“This is a scientist who seemingly held all the cards to what this epidemic is about and I do think, you know, you would imagine he would have something of value to say on that matter,” Lincoln told the AP. “Well, he chose to kill himself.”

Well.

A friend, co-worker and fellow “Walking Dead” devotee of mine, Mark, says he believes the doctor whispered the word “Airborne,” which would not be good news for the survivors.

Having read some, but not all, of the comics upon which the show is based, I don’t know if the whisper was a part of the storyline or if it has been revealed.

I’ve heard other speculation about the whisper, including “No cure.” Also a dark scenario.

Lincoln indicated that the answer would be revealed this year.

As long as the doctor didn’t whisper, “Stay on the farm forever,” I’m good with whatever happens.