The Walking Dead season 2 finale, Beside The Dying Fire has come and gone and there is only one word to describe the finale, and that word is intense. From beginning to end this was an awesome episode and certainly lived up to the expectations that I had from the finale. This episode had the fallout of the death of Shane, many questions have been answered, a few surprises and the group has finally left the farm after being there pretty much all of season 2 and will be on to bigger and better things next season.
Before I start talking about the finale, I want to do a short recap of what happened since the mid-season finale. Dale had been killed by a walker, which Carl set free when he got too close to it. It ripped dales chest open when he went for a walk because he refused to stick around when the group were going to kill the prisoner Randall. Darryl and Glen found Randall who turned into a walker after Shane snapped his neck. Shane lured Rick out into a field to murder him, so he could take control of the group and take Rick’s family to be his own. Rick calmed Shane down and when Shane let his guard down Rick stabbed him in the chest and killed him. Carl shot Shane who had turned into a walker that was going to bite Rick and we then see a herd of walkers making their way to the farm.
The season finale opened with a great scene that shows how the walkers formed a giant herd and made their way from Atlanta to the farm that the group was staying on. When the walkers heard the gunshot they started to go in the direction of the sound and that led them to the farm. This was a good scene because it showed how the walkers got to the farm and that they just weren’t there randomly to overrun the farm.
The first half of this episode was what everybody who is a fan of this show has been clamouring for and that is more zombies and more zombie kills. If you one of those fans you’re in luck because this episode delivers. Rick and Carl notice the walkers and run to the barn to hide to draw them away from the house where everybody else was staying. Rick poured gas all over the barn and let the walkers in and Carl dropped the lighter and the barn went up in flames. While this was going on the other members of the group were trying to fight off the herd of walkers and escape from the farm with everyone together. Jimmy who was trying to help Rick and Carl escape the barn was eaten alive by a group of walkers and Patricia was also eaten when trying to escape the farm with the other women. The rest of the group manages to escape the barn except for Andrea who gets left behind to fend for herself.
The second half of the episode is dramatic and exciting, but the walker killing is still not over yet. The group manages to reconvene at the highway where they had set up supplies for Sophia when she went missing. The group mourns their losses and decides to find a new place where they can make a home and be safe from walkers. We then see Andrea who is running from walkers in the forest by herself, where she is a badass and takes out several walkers, while staying on the move not to get caught by them. She is tired and running low on bullets and has to fight the walkers off. Andrea is then tackled by a walker and right before we think she is going to get eaten she is saved by a mysterious hooded person (known as Michonne to comic book fans), who wields a katana and has two walkers chained to her, which was awesome.
Rick and the rest of the group stop on the side of a road and come up with a plan to stay there for the night and look for supplies and a new place to live in the morning. Darryl questions why Randall turned into a walker without having been bitten and Rick finally tells them and us what Dr. Jenner whispered in his ear when they were leaving the CDC in the finale of the first season. All of the survivors are infected and as soon as they die from any cause they will turn into walkers. This causes the group (except for Darryl and Herschel) to be angry with Rick and question his leadership from holding such a big secret from them. Rick then tells Lori how Shane died and that Carl shot walker Shane, which shocks her and causes her to pull away from Rick.
Later that night the group hears a noise and Rick doesn’t let anybody investigate in case they were to be attacked and Carol questions Rick again and Rick finally snaps. He then tells the group that he didn’t ask to be in charge and keep everybody safe and he tells the group that he killed Shane for them so they would be safe. Rick then encourages anybody who doesn’t believe in him to leave and when nobody does he tells them “If you're staying, this isn't a democracy anymore," where he establishes himself as the leader of the group. The camera then pans away from the makeshift camp site where the group is staying for the night and we see a shot of a prison as the season ends.
This was an exciting episode and a very exciting season that was full of twists, surprises, excitement and drama. I can’t wait for the next season of The Walking Dead, which is sure to be bigger and better than this season was, October can’t come soon enough. For more information on The Walking Dead visit http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead.
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