Maybe they are trying to build up to what that character becomes. It doesn't need to take place in the same time frame as the comic. It should be considered pretty "badass" for Rick to have been the one to kill Sophia, when none of the other "badasses" would. His development just might be slower than what you read in the comic book, but it might be too early to tell if it's a 180. Killing Sophia was a major turn for his character as a leader, since Shane was perceiving Rick as weak. "Who's weak now, B***H?" I hope that's the first line in episode 8.

Maybe... I would bet he is still a huge pussy.

It would have been legen.........



wait for it.......



....deer-y!

They're barely beginning to explore his anger. It's beginning to bubble, and that was probably the first act of a much more "in charge" or dangerous character.

I personally don't think Shane's a "badass", I think he's an a-hole having a psychotic break.

Even for this thread you're reading way too much into it. These guys are busting out scripts the way we used to bust out essays we started the night before class, they aren't exploring anything or setting up anything.

The worst episode of American Horror Story wipes its ass with the "best of" TWD ainec. Acting wise.. Writing wise.. Directing.. Everything but make up and zombies.

Actually they have zombies.. with red hair, nice tits and a maid's uniform (she'll make you a sandwich after she polishes your wood downstairs).

Shane may be an *******... (and he is).... but he is the only one making tough decisions in a ****ed up world. Basically what Rick did in the comics.

The toughest decision the group on the TV show has had so far is killing Sophia. When it came down to it, Shane couldn't kill her, but Rick could.

Rick had to cause he's the one who lost her. Clearly, Shane was gonna light her up if she got any closer and Rick hadn't walked forward to take the shot.

+36. Take the 3 Star Wars prequels, for instance.

Yeah, at best you have to get your mind over that none of the zombies figured out how to come down the road that everyone else found pretty easily. I just don't know why the writers thought it would be more interesting for Rick's wife to get pregnant, than it would be to explain how the farm is an oasis of peace in the fcked world. It would've been cool for them to show the weaknesses of the zombie horde through explaining why the farm doesn't get any zombie visitors.

Yep. You could add Kubrick if you're about 30+ in age, and Michael Bay, the latter for infamy rather than fame.

5 years ago you would've added M. Night Shammalammalan to that list; no I doubt anyone younger than 22 knows who he is.

FWIW, Shane's actor is much better in the 2nd season's role, he played the hurt and conflicted best friend not-so-great imo.

Yes, and clearly that was meant to be a transition point for Rick's character. They go into that with some more depth on amctv.com.

Not untrue, but above had more meaning to the series.

I definitely agree. I thought he was woefully miscast in season 1, but he's doing a much better job in his part in season 2. He's playing a person on the verge of a huge meltdown pretty well.

Rick went from rustling zombies to shooting a young girl zombie..

OMFDG!! WHAT A BAD ASS!!!

Spike Lee
Clint Eastwood
The Cohen Brothers
Martin Scorsese
Michael Moore

That's 5 more without even trying.

Now I know you are just trolling

We aren't talking about what you consider to be tough decisions, we are talking about what the group considers to be tough decisions.

They spent the whole first half of the season searching for Sophia (in a universe like this, that amount of time wasted is really lol). They find out she's in the barn. Before learning this, the whole crew goes Rambo style killing all of the zombies Hershel and friends knew. However, when Sophia comes out, everyone's like "wtf?", and they all stand there with their d***s in their hands. Do you not get the irony? Everyone's acting like the characters are motivated by movie conventions, and completely ignoring that the makers of the show and comic are probably trying to relate it to a practical real world example. In real life that would be a tough decision. The right one would be to blast her, but it wouldn't be easy to do to someone you know and love. If you think it is, you probably have some issues you need to explore.

In a perfect world Sophia says " I was just kidding" similar to the way Daryl did as she's falling back.

lol... if this was early in the outbreak then I might agree with you. That scene have may been designed to make you think that Rick was making the tough decision nobody else could... if you ignore the entire rest of the series.

But you know... maybe Rick could have made tougher/better decisions before and not gotten them into this **** in the first place.

I would instantly shoot the old peach eating bastard for not telling me the girl I was risking my life to find was in his barn the whole time.

Which is exactly what most people that managed to survive the zombie apocalypse would have done. Not day 1... week 1... but months into the world going to ****.

Same thing if there was a massive famine and people had been starving to death only to find out that he had a barn full of supplies that would have saved them.

Mutant, I'm not arguing how terrible Rick has been, up to that point. Big things are happening to him. He's beginning to wake up. I predict we will see a different Rick in the second half of the season. I seem to remember every time I remember him killing a zombie that it's been overkill. Is that correct?

slick, don't you get he was recycling their s*** for zombie food? He needed them!

Guess we will see how his character develops. I have less hope based on the sneak peeks so far.

I haven't seen any yet, and I'm going to avoid them, like they're zombies.

So you are just going to walk around, camp out in the front yard and make lots of noise?

I heard that wooden spoons and iron skillets are great zombie deterrents, if you aim well.