The Walking Dead: Tell it to the Frogs

Spoilers for the episode

The Story:

Rick reunites with his family but immediately abandons them to go be a hero and save Meryl. Secretly it’s all about the guns he lost but he doesn’t want to spread that around because then he’s less of a hero.

Thoughts:

Meryl’s still on the roof and is a bit delirious. He’s talking to himself and finding it hilarious. Then he has a tantrum so walkers can hear him and starts begging God to save him. Then he gets angry at God, I’m assuming. It’s hard to tell with all the babbling. The only thing clear is that as soon as he realises he can get himself out of his predicament he stops asking God for help.

Back at the camp Lori’s giving Carl a hair cut and Shane’s going to teach him to catch frogs. Then they hear Glen who drives the posh car right up to camp with the car alarm still going.

Everyone jumps on him. Dale tells him to turn it off and Amy wants to know about Andrea. Then they get mad about the noise and the possibility of it drawing walkers. Dale thinks it’s okay because the noise was bouncing around the hills so it’s hard to pinpoint.

Carl gets upset over everyone reuniting. Then he spots his Dad and I can’t stand any of the characters involved but I love this reunion. The way Rick runs to Carl and falls over in his relief at seeing him. Lori just stands in the background stunned until Rick comes up and hugs her too.

Then we cut to around the campfire and Rick’s trying to express his feelings at seeing his family alive and his gratitude to Shane for keeping them that way. Dale decides to ruin the moment with old man wisdom.

Lori and Shane keep having meaningful glances as Rick talks about being disorientated and grateful to Shane.

Shane has to go deal with Ed who’s built his fire too high and Carol apologises for him. I like the little arc that happens for Carol but it takes her a while to stop being the beaten wife and start being interesting.

Still around the camp fire and Dale’s worrying about what they tell Daryl. T-Dog and Rick argue over who’s responsible and it’s so annoying. I hate self righteous people.

Although it is T-Dog’s fault because he dropped the key. Glen says it will sound better coming from a white guy. T-Dog then decides to tell them Meryl’s still alive because he chained the door shut. He’s been sitting on this knowledge for about a day and decided to wait until it’s night to tell anyone.

In their tent and Rick says he knew they were alive because the family albums were gone so they take this moment to look at the albums. Lori apologises for all the bad times and mistakes. They decide to have sex in the tent next to Carl. Lori says he won’t wake up and it makes me wonder if she used to do the same with Shane.

Carol’s washed Rick’s clothes and it actually becomes a plot point at the end of the season. While Glen’s sad because they’re stripping the posh car of parts.

Rick’s been thinking about saving Meryl and Lori hates the idea. She’s right Rick should be protecting his family.

Screaming happens in the woods and the adults go running. Why have they let the kids wander off on their own?

There’s a Walker eating a deer and everyone’s shocked because they never come this far up the mountain which means they’ve run out of food in the city. Apparently no one considered the possibility that people can die anywhere and become walkers. It may not be a walker form the city. Or you know the noise from the car is responsible and Dale was wrong.

They deal with the walker by decapitation and Daryl shows up with a lot of squirrels. Shane goes to talk to Daryl who just wants to know if his brother’s dead. Rick comes out with what he did and Daryl attacks him but they take him down.

Then T-Dog decides to make everything better by telling Daryl he dropped the key. I love his response ‘You couldn’t pick it up’ and T-Dog’s answer ‘I dropped it down a drain’ then Daryl’s reply ‘that supposed to make me feel better’. This is why you should keep your mouth shut if it’s not gong to make the other person feel better.

Then Shane tries to convince Rick not to go get Meryl because he’s not worth it. With Daryl sitting right there who tells him to watch it.

Rick asks Glen to go with them because he’s competent. Then T-Dog volunteers and he’s the opposite of competent. I’m surprised he’s survived this long.

Rick bargains with Dale for bolt cutters. Dale wants his tools that T-Dog left on the roof back and to strip the van of parts.

Shane gives Rick a gun with a bullet for each of them because Rick doesn’t want to fire a gun in the city. As this conversation’s happening Daryl is getting agitated and blowing the horn of the van.

Lori asks Dale where Carl is (and so begins Lori never knowing where Carl is). He’s being taught how to catch frogs by Shane in the Quarry.

The women are washing the clothes and Jackie’s questioning the division of labour while Carol says it’s just the way it is.

They talk about what they miss. Andrea misses her vibrator and Carol agrees. They have fun until Ed comes over and tells them to focus on their work.

Lori sends Carl back to camp and tells Shane off. He told her Rick was dead. He’s not to come near her family again. She also says ‘tell it to the frogs’ so they got the title in again.

In the City they enter the shop and take out walkers quietly with the crossbow. There aren’t that many at all so something must have drawn them off or they were all overreacting when they were there before.

Andrea tells Ed to do his laundry himself if he doesn’t like how it’s done. The other women stand up to him when he starts ordering Carol around. He hits Carol and Shane gets involved.

He takes all his frustrations out on Ed’s face and won’t stop. Shane tells Ed if he lays hands on Carol or Sophia next time he won’t stop.

Carol is distraught at the whole thing and apologises to ED as he’s still on the ground.

Back in the City they get to the roof top and the chain’s still on the door but Meryl has chopped off his own hand and gone. Daryl’s not happy.

The best parts of this episode were Daryl. He’s so funny and he throws himself head first into everything. Without him this episode wouldn’t have been half as entertaining as it was.

I like how different Daryl and Carol are now compared to these early episodes. At the time I found Carol boring and Daryl a thug.

Now the only characters I hate are Dale, Andrea and Lori (who doesn’t seem to have an unemotional rational bone in her body).

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