The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 4

Care to describe what happened for us that don't have a photographic memory?

Also, are you going to watch season 5? Or just stop at season 4

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Can you give a synopsis of the show for those of us who don't have the episodes memorized by episode number

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Care to describe what happened for us that don't have a photographic memory?

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***SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET***

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I'm guessing Lori.

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Oh yeah, that's the one.

The season begins by jumping ahead past the fall and winter to the next spring, and the whole group takes refuge in a prison. There's bad relations between Lori, Rick, and Carl. Lori keeps trying to mend the fences but Rick can't let go of his anger and feelings of betrayal because she got with Shane, and her son Carl is in the same state of mind and is freezing her out too. Every time Lori broaches the issue, Rick pushes her away. Lori's desperately in love with Rick, but his heart is as hard as stone. To make matters worse, Lori's also so pregnant she's about to pop.

Herschel loses part of his leg in a walker attack, but they nurse him back to health. They get him up on crutches and bring him outside. Everybody's overjoyed at seeing him up and around, and Rick and Lori exchange a look and a smile at each other that shows that the ice is finally thawing in Ricks heart.

It seems that things might be about to get back to normal with them. And at that exact moment all hell breaks loose. Unbeknownst to the group, one of the surviving prisoners is working behind the scenes to cause mayhem. He makes is so that the walkers have access to the groups living quarters, and baits a trial to lead the walkers to them. As everybody's looking at Herschel and feeling good about him making it through, they are attacked by a group of walkers through the machinations of that aforementioned prisoner, and Lori, Carl, and Maggie are split off from the rest of the group. They take refuge together in a room in the prison. That's also the exact time the baby decides it's time to be born. Lori can't give birth the usual way and needs a C section. She's bleeding out the birth canal very badly, and Lori knows in her gut she won't survive, and Carl, who for months has been giving her the coldest of shoulders, realizes how much he really loves his mom. After Lori makes her peace with Carl and Maggie, Maggie takes Carl's knife and cuts Lori open on the old C section scar from when she had Carl. Lori passes out from the pain, and Maggie is able to get the baby out of her womb alive. Maggie and Carl both know that Lori's not going to make it, and one of them has to put her down so that she doesn't turn into a walker. Maggie starts to do it, but Carl stops her and says 'She's my mom.....I'll do it'. Maggie walks around a corner, and you hear a single gun shot. Carl had to shoot his own mother in the head to keep her from becoming a zombie.

Everything about that scene was just level 10 intensity, and the actors played it beautifully. The combination of joy, terror, and anguish absolutely blew me away.

And the actors have done just an outstanding job of developing the characters and the relationships amongst them. But I guess what really made it so hard was seeing all the close calls they'd made it through in the first two seasons, only to have it end for Lori so absolutely horrendously. And knowing how fricked up Carl's going to be in the head about it. That shite's going to haunt him until the day he dies. Ricks reaction when he realizes she's gone and that he'll never get the chance to fully make things right with her and how he'll always regret treating her so coldly the way he did near the end was well played on top of everything else. To see such a strong man collapse in inconsolable agony was hard to watch too.

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Also, are you going to watch season 5? Or just stop at season 4

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I'm binging the first 4 seasons on DVD. I'm halfway through season 3 now. The 6th season starts in about 5 weeks, and AMC is showing a marathon of every season every weekend leading up to that. I'll be done with the DVD's by the end of next week so I'll just watch season 5 when AMC shows it all in one weekend.

I was late to Breaking Bad too. For some reason, maybe because it was on AMC, which I didn't known anything about or some other bullshite reason, I had a totally wrong idea what these shows were really like. I had one thing mind, and then I actually watch them and find out they're some of the best things to ever be shown on TV. I think what really changed my mind was I just by accident was flipping through the channels when the first episode of the first season of Hell On Wheels came on and Cullen shot that priest in the confessional and I quickly realized what an incredible show it was and how it was like nothing you'd see on one of the major networks. Then I read all the great things people on this board said about Breaking Bad, and the rest is history.

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I'm guessing Lori.

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You are correct according to wikipedia.

I hated Lori so much IDGAF.

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frick Lori. I was ready for that count to die by season 2.

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She rubbed me the wrong way too sometimes, but despite her flaws she was a good person and she truly loved Carl with all her heart.

I doesn't hurt that nothing turns me on more than a beautiful, slim, long legged brunette.

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I cried too but they were tears of joy that Lori was dead.

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It was really more about the son having to kill his own mom and Ricks reaction when he found out.

I'd looked at the character timelines on Wikepedia, so I knew Lori was going to die that season. Unlike some of you, I did like the character, but I would never have imagined that scenario.

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I cried too but they were tears of joy that Lori was dead

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This has to be a troll job. I literally don't think I've ever seen one person say or post anything positive about Lori ever.

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I've never read any of the Walking Dead topics on this board, so I'm completely unaware of the way she was apparently despised by so many. I'm a little surprised, to tell the truth. I personally liked her character pretty well.