Thursday, May 5, 2022

Unpopular Opinion: 02x13 “Beside The Dying Fire” is (arguably) TWD’s best episode.

I don’t think theres anything not to love about this episode. It’s the perfect goodbye to the Greene’s farm arc, in my opinion. First, it shows the giant herd of zombies gathering up, and why they headed towards the farm, and how Shane’s whole plan, to kill Rick, ultimately caused it. Then we get the panic of them not being prepared for something like this, with everyone freaking out, building up the suspense.

Basically nobody was afraid to fight, for the most part. Hershel preparing to die with his farm, while still putting up a fight. The barn getting lit up is just an amazing scene, aesthetically and in general. The intensity of everyone driving around killing zombies seemingly non-stop, yet the zombies just don’t seem to stop coming.

Then they all start to leave the farm, but all at different times, building up the suspense yet again as to if they’ll find each other. Eventually, they meet up at the highway, then are forced to settle down for the night in the middle of nowhere. Then Rick delivering the iconic “This isn’t a democracy” speech. And Andrea getting left behing which led to one of the best character introductions imo (Michonne).

All in all, it’s such a perfect episode to me, obviously there’s other contenders for the best TWD episode, but this one certainly needs to be in the running, in my opinion.



Submitted May 05, 2022 at 01:43AM by Puzzleheaded_Bus_112 https://ift.tt/YeCrBaz

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