The other is swaddled in Eddie Bauer sportswear and nurturing a loving relationship. Put Rick and Aaron side by side: One is death-obsessed and mercurial, and looks like a Civil War colonel at the tail end of a particularly bloody campaign. They’re just ready to startįeeling human again, and it’s hard to blame them. Rick’s charges respect his leadership and the losses he’s suffered, as well as the fact that, with two kids in tow, his priority will always be security over comfort. “But I can’t give up everything else.” (Rick as metaphor for the post-9/11 American security state? Discuss.) Stepping in to stop Rick from forcibly separating Aaron from his boyfriend, Eric. Sunday found survivors as varied as Glenn and Abraham fretting over their humanity, with Glenn finally Own emotional well-being - paranoia works, but the hours stink - and the self-image of his cohorts. His approach makes brutally pragmatic sense but it also comes at a cost, both to his
Rick is a wartime leader, trained by dark experience to be ever vigilant, ruthless toward outsiders and trustful of almost no one. More broadly, there’s a division between Rick and friends regarding what See, for example, the simmering disagreement between Michonne and Rick over her urge to settle versus his need to just keep driving on. The issues surrounding the quality of the survival - questions and debates over what it means to be human, beyond merely continuing to biologically exist - that the show returns to over and over. Not that it necessarily needed saying - that much has been apparent at least since Season 2. Robert Kirkman, who created the comic book on which the show is based and is an executive producer on the series, has said that “The Walking Dead” isn’t a zombie show, it’s a survival show. “It was a ‘Heīut it was of a piece with an episode that focused largely on the degree to which Rick might be broken, or at least unfit for a return to civilized life. That wasn’t a “let’s attack that man look” I just gave you, Michonne told him. The blow seemed excessive, both to us, as viewers, and to Rick’s friends. Rick, who last week urged his compatriots to pretend that “we are the walking dead,” made like the punching dead instead, The reception was perhaps less grateful than he hoped. You’re good people! We want you and you should want us - get a load of our awesome Come with me to the Alexandria Safe-Zone, he said. I joked last week that Aaron looked likeĪ camp director turns out he’s more of a camp recruiter. On Sunday night (how many of you switched over from the Oscars for an hour?), we picked up where we left off, with Sasha and Maggie returning to the barn with their new friend. Last week’s dreary episode ended on an intriguing note of potential uplift: the arrival of Aaron (Ross Marquand), a remarkably kempt counterpoint to our grimy heroes.
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