The Walking Dead S02E09

Picking up where episode 8 left off we find Rick, Glenn, and Herschel preparing to leave the bar and head back to the farm. A car pulls up and they hear people outside. They hide. Eventually the group outside approaches the bar. They are looking for the two men that Rick had shot. The door starts to open but Glenn jumps in front of it, slamming it shut. Finally Rick answers saying that their friends drew on them first and they had no choice but to kill them. The guys outside start shooting. Glenn goes out the back to try to make it to the car. He shoots at a guy coming in the back. Herschel covers him as he goes out the doors. The guy outside had moved and opens fire on Glenn. Luckily Glenn is unharmed and Herschel shoots, but doesn't kill the other guy. Rick comes running out. He makes it to where Glenn is hiding. Another man is on a nearby roof shooting at them. A truck pulls up and yells to the man on the roof to hurry up and jump. That a huge group of walkers is coming. The guy jumps to a lower roof, busts his ankles and falls on to a spiked fence which goes clean through his calf. They try to cut his lower leg off but walkers overwhelm them and Rick is forced to just rip his leg back off the spike.

At the end of the last episode Lori is an a car accident. At the beginning of episode 9 she wakes up to find a walkers trying to force its way through a hole in the front windshield. She makes her way out the back but not before the walker makes it in enough to grab her hair. I think she breaks of the turn signal stick thing or some other lever and stabs the walker in the eye. She gets out and is calming down when another walker attacks from behind her. They fall and she tries to crawl away, grabs a hub cap and busts the walker in the face with it. She sees her gun in the car and goes to get it. As she turns the walker is back up and advancing. She shoots it in the head.

The people back at the farm realize she in missing and Shane goes looking. Finds her and lies to her about Rick being back at the farm already. They get back and she finds out it was a lie. Shane says he did it because he has to protect her and the baby. Later he talks to her and says that he loves her and Carl and that they were meant to be together. She tells him he is wrong.

The next morning a group is going out to look for the others in town when they pull up. They had brought along the guy who had injured his leg. They plan to heal him, give him water and send him on his way. Of course Shane is the one who freaks out about the idea. At the end of the episode Rick and Lori are talking. She tells him what Shane was saying about how Rick couldn't keep the group safe, that he was going to get them all killed and that he thought they were supposed to be together and that he thought that the baby was his. She said he was dangerous and wasn't going to stop. I think she said something like "you killed the living to protect what's yours?" Rick answered, "I did." and she went on to basically say that Shane was potentially going to endanger her and Carl. Rick gets that look in his eyes. You know the one where he is about to be a badass.

The preview for next weeks showed Rick and Shane fighting. Rick will give him the beatdown he deserves for sure.

The Walking Dead S02E08

Last Sunday, the 12th, The Walking Dead returned to tv with its mid-season premiere. It picks up right where episode 7 left off. With Rick shooting the zombified Sophia. People cry, they bury the ones they loved and burn the rest. Herschel tells Rick that he wants them off his land. Rick argues with him, saying they need to stay. Herschel disappears and one of his people goes into some intense shock. So Rick and Glenn go into town to try and find him at the bar. He's there drinking like a madman. Rick tries his hardest to get Herschel to come back to the farm to help but he keeps refusing. He had so much hope that his wife and step-son could be cured and Shane letting them out proved that he was wrong.

While he is trying to get Herschel to come back two guys enter the bar. Telling Rick and crew about their woes and adventures. One guy is going on about where Rick's group is staying. Rick dodges the question. The stranger keeps asking and gets that it is a farm nearby. If you're watching and haven't picked up that these two guys don't have friendly intentions then just wait a few minutes. The leader of the two guys goes behind the bar, pours a drink and continues to talk. Rick is facing the man behind the bar. The other guy is behind Rick. Herschel and Glenn are off to the side. The leader starts to pull a gun but Rick is quicker and shoots him in the head, turning to shoot the second man in the stomach and chest before shooting him in the head too.

Now this is more like the Rick I know from the comics. Ruthless. Willing to do what he has to do to keep his group safe. Even if it means killing people. Ones that haven't become walkers. Even Carl showed more of his comic self. Saying that he would have shot the zombie Sophia himself if he had too. I have high hopes that the second half of season two will be more true to the comics. I hope at least. But if not I won't complain. Its an amazing show regardless.

Writing!

So finally after nearly a week into the new year I have officially started writing! (Finally)
I'm working on the zombie novel that I started last fall. It's actually a collaboration with my cousin. I've never co-written anything before but it has been a blast so far!

Other than that I'm not currently focusing on anything else. Well writing anyways. I am also working on my fantasy world. I'll try to get new pictures of the map up soon. As soon as I finish it anyways. That may take awhile though. I end up making it 4ft x 6ft :/

Happy New Year!

Well Happy New Year everyone!

I was going to write about how 2011 was. The ups and downs and all that jazz but really you could just go read through my blog and see what I was up to. I honestly can't think of a whole lot off the top of my head. 

- I started playing disc golf (though not in a while). Its pretty great and I hope I get to play more this year.

- We got a new dairy department manager at work and I guess its because of him that I started reading comics. And I have to say that I absolutely love them!

- Skyrim was released and it is absolutely amazing!

- I pretty much switched to digital books. Though if I read an ebook and it blows me away I'm going to buy the physical copy too.

- I blogged a whole bunch, and met a whole bunch of great people through it (you know who you are!).

- I actually finished a short story which I had originally rushed for a writing deadline on this one site. I then published it on Smashwords. I'm pretty proud of that. Actually writing something to the finish. Even though I published it I know that it needs a ton of work. My brother and I did a few quick rounds of grammar and spelling edits but that is it. I should go back at some point and fix it up.

- Speaking of writing. I didn't actually write anywhere near as much as I wanted. And that's my fault. Though I did start a collaboration project with a cousin of mine. I have big hopes for it and even though I haven't done much with it in a while it's always been simmering in my mind.

That's all I can think of that I want to put. I don't really make resolutions. But I told myself that I was going to make some changes for 2012.

1. WRITE!!!

2. Cut soda out of my diet. I drink way to much of it and that's no good

3. That was it really. Well and write more!

Happy New Year and best of luck in 2012

New Movies, Dr. Jones, and Zombie Caterpillars

This is going to be interesting. As a fan of the original stuff I hope its good!

http://screenrant.com/three-stooges-release-date-plot-details-sandy-131204/

I think Arnold is a beast! I love all the movies he has done. Especially the older ones. Multiple "mistresses"? HA! That won't stop the Govenator!

http://screenrant.com/schwarzenegger-captive-movie-sandy-131221/

Indiana Jones comic? Interesting. Always wanted to see more Indy adventures!

http://io9.com/indiana-jones/

Now this article is just WOW! Zombie... caterpillars? YES!

http://io9.com/genetics/