They decide that Otis will draw the walkers away through the locker room while Shane escapes with the supplies via a narrow window 20 feet above the ground. As Shane dangles out the window, a walker grabs hold of him. He shoots it in the head and drops, injuring his ankle. In the bedroom, Hershel takes Carl 's blood pressure. If Shane and Otis don't get back soon, they'll have to decide whether to operate without the respirator.
As they march through the forest, Andrea asks Daryl if he thinks they'll find Sophia. Daryl tells Andrea a story of a time he was lost in the woods when he was Sophia's age. Nobody was even looking for him and he found his way back. Standing on the farmhouse porch, a distraught Lori tells Rick that Carl's death might be a blessing: Jenner to let them try to survive for as long as they can. Lori confesses that for a moment, she forgot Jacqui was dead and when she remembered, she realized Jacqui didn't have to be scared anymore.
Shane limps across the high school athletic field as walkers surround him. As he readies to fire his final shotgun shell, Otis emerges from around the building and guns down the walkers standing between them.
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Inside the farmhouse Carl wakes, disoriented and in pain. It was so pretty. In the forest, Daryl and Andrea find a walker hanging from a noose in a tree — a bite victim who tried to commit suicide, but as Daryl points out the guy wasn't smart enough to shoot himself in the head. Daryl is content to leave the walker hanging, but Andrea begs him to kill it.
Daryl agrees, provided that Andrea tells him whether she still wants to die. Patricia stitches T-Dog's arm in the living room of the farmhouse. The antibiotics he got from Daryl likely saved his life, she tells T-Dog.
Glenn goes to the porch, where he sits and tries to pray, though it's his first time. She's always been a person of faith but realizes that recently an awful lot of prayers must have gone unanswered. Inside, Rick tells Lori about the deer in the woods. When Carl woke up, Rick explains, he wasn't talking about the horrors he'd witnessed; he was talking about something beautiful. Back at the high school, Shane and Otis are collapsed on the pavement. Shane tells Otis to take the supplies and leave him behind, but Otis insists they go on together.
Carl's condition continues to deteriorate, and Hershel demands Rick and Lori decide whether to operate. Rick looks to Lori, who consents, and Hershel begins prepping. Outside, Otis's truck arrives at the house. Rick, Lori and Hershel run outside. Rick embraces Shane, who stares at Lori, shell-shocked. The walkers kept coming at them, he tells Rick tearfully. Andrea and Daryl return from their hike without Sophia.
Disappointed, Carol disappears back into the RV. Dale asks Andrea if she forgives him. In the farmhouse kitchen, Maggie cries to Glenn about Otis. Glenn encourages her to talk about who else she lost. Maggie points to photos on the refrigerator of her step-mother and step-brother. Hershel joins Rick and Lori on the porch to report that the surgery was a success. Rick embraces Herhsel, then goes with him to tell Patricia about Otis.
Upstairs, Shane turns on the shower and undresses. He looks at himself in the mirror, and notices a patch of hair missing. Shane flashes back to his final moments with Otis at the high school. Walkers gain on them as they fire their final bullets. Shane and Otis struggle over the supplies. Shane kicks at Otis, who grabs onto Shane's hair. Noah dies getting eaten inside a revolving door. Michonne has been showing up most of the characters of this show with a hard core, getting things done, chopping off zombie heads, arms and anything else that gets in her way, while still managing to retain a degree of humanity.
She only weights a buck twenty and lays out man or zombie alike, without hesitation, sometimes killing two zombies with each swing of her katana. While Sasha seems more like she is on a collision course with a self-imposed death, she has, in the meantime managed to fight, get things done and keep her crazy to herself, for the most part.
Still more vigorous a character than most of the Black men depicted in this show thus far. Then there is Father Gabriel. Nothing I say can reveal my utter contempt for this character. Spineless, weak, simpering, cowardly…you get the idea. But I had one last hope.
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Rumors of his return caused me to consider staying with the Walking Dead because he was reputed to be the Black Man we were waiting for. We meet him a couple of times briefly in the series and the first time he was moral, upright and still hopeful. The next time, much less so, but still grieving. His return shows him defending himself against some Wolves, quite effectively, walking a path of bushido, using no more force than necessary to protect his life.
Willing even to part with his goods as long as no one got hurt. I could admire this in principle. Rick, in my opinion, has achieved peak apocalypse awareness. Perhaps a bit on the crazy side, but I can agree with most of his decisions, most of the time. Some people say Rick is the problem, bringing death and destruction with him in his wake.
Other say I am discounting the morality of the Black characters who seem to be holding onto their humanity and are thus, not weak; they are moral and in this case stronger than Rick and Carol [who] have lost any sense of right and wrong during this crisis. When Rick takes the group to the Farm, Rick was the first to suggest it was not safe to be there. Morality makes shooting other people difficult, but most of the living people the crew ends up shooting, deserve to be shot.
The only moral quandary has been the people of Alexandra: A town of people cowering behind a fortification not knowing anything about the outside world. Get a rifle and set up some lookouts. Throw him out, post-haste. Rick and I would get along during the zombie apocalypse. I believe in dealing with threats when they are small and manageable. But I think my time with the Walking Dead is done. Bushido does dictate using as little force as necessary to resolve a problem.
But it has limits, too.
As a former military person who has seen combat, I can understand Morgan NOT wanting to kill when it can be avoided. However, a real soldier understands when an enemy attacks you at home, kills those who are under your protection, honorable behavior treating life as sacred falls underneath the primary duty of protecting your group and ensuring an enemy never returns to be so bold again. I am unsure why these writers continue to paint Black men in such a passive and uncommitted role instead of as men of action who recognize what needs to be done in this new world.
Actually, I do understand. Was that really necessary? Was there subtext there? Does anyone here ever consider what they are doing while they are writing the scenes for this show? I say thee, nay! Any man this conflicted will be dead the first time he faces someone with a gun and a complete disregard for HIS life. Likely by the hands of the Wolf who ran off with a gun. Holding true to form so far. If you place a gun in a scene, you have to be prepared to use it as soon as possible. Carol, having been shown with more balls than most of the men in this show, started an older housewife whose husband was an abuser, has evolved into an action-directed, thinker, leader, and overall terrifying character when she wants to be, with little room left to develop, in my opinion.
At this point, her balls are so large, they are starting to chafe. Perhaps, but surviving, just the same. Her battle with the Wolves could be her swansong and while people would weep her passing, she would have had a complete heroic character arc worth of a Viking pass into Valhalla. I had hoped for so much more, than this simpering little whiner they have given us. Yes, he has morality, just like T-dog. And if history is any judge, his morality will be the death of him. If you are a Black man watching this show, these Black men are inscrutable to you. No one you know acts the way they do.
The writers, who are most assuredly white men, may want to imply the Black men we have seen to date are dying because they have retained their humanity, but in a world like this one, humanity is not a reasonable perspective. No sane Black man I know would be taking this perspective. We would fight for our right to survive, just as hard as Daryl, and Rick and Carol and Michonne. And if your morality is intact, in a world without morals you may as well BE DEAD, because your humanity will count against you when you need to take an action which will keep you alive.
This show is dead to me. I am already well-versed in what it takes to be a good Black man and a hero in this modern world. Nor do I consume any of those media outlets or forms of media. No sports, no rap, no reality television, no negative depictions of people of color. I am the quintessential American: Ex-military, hard-working, highly-educated, I am not confused about the role of Black men in American society for the last four hundred years.
We have no role. And I recognize television will reinforce this perspective as long as people of color are not allowed to write on television, to create new media which is more accurately representative of how we think, feel and behave. Television like history, wants as little to do with presenting strong black men unless they can make them subservient, weak, and unable to control their destiny, in the same fashion slavery did.
They have roles as sidekicks, bartenders, wingmen and other supporting positions. People come to movies to see white heroes because the audience is mostly white. The roles People of Color play are subservient roles because that is what our customers want to see or the ones we have conditioned them to want. We are giving the customer what they want.
If People of Color want roles as heroes, you have to wait until you have your own production companies before you can see this happen. Besides how we depict you has no effect on how your should see yourselves.
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And in this drug of choice, being White is the best role anyone can have. Because people seeing themselves in a positive light, in a heroic light, in a light which shows them achieving their dreams, fighting against impossible odds and winning hell, even losing can alter the perspective of a person, a child, an adult without hope, helping them to aspire to feats of greatness they might not have ever achieved without seeing such things.
You paint the picture of the White man as the ultimate expression of good, power and mastery over everything else in nature. Because from where I sit, Black men have been emasculated, eviscerated, eaten, and disrespected pretty much since speculative fiction started being distributed in any form of media. From Ben surviving Night of the Living Dead only to be shot by the police the following day, to watching the Walking Dead, nearly fifty years later, nothing has changed. There is no future that welcomes Black men. His non-fiction work has appeared in numerous magazines: He maintains a diverse collection of non-fiction at his blog, A Matter of Scale.
He is a contributor at The Enemy, a nonfiction literary publication out of Los Angeles. His work can be read on his website Hub City Blues. Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.
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Other characters have had their stories changed for the show in addition to Tyreese. This show follows one group of people in one part of a very large country. The Walking Dead is a specific show about a specific group of people in a specific place and time. I would argue that the show has been better at giving us more complex characters regardless of skin color or gender, and that when you involve actors in the process, their presence dictates change due to their personalities, their input, and their desire to book other jobs.
I, too, do not agree with every choice that has been made in regard to character and story on the show. Sometimes there is no elephant in the room. Every character on almost every show is a stereotype that has been tweaked, twisted, flipped, cleverly disguised, or wholly embraced in order to tell the story the show runners want to tell.
That has happened to pretty much everyone. You can write whatever the hell you want for whatever reason. Everyone is fair game. To each their own. Sounds like a bunch of whining about nothing. TWD has gave us great, amazing black characters, and if you ever followed the comic you would know that they were some of the most important characters in the entire series. The Priest is amazing because of his conflict with faith and real life. Morgan is a bad ass. But hey, at the end of this episode, all the white privileged zombie apocalypse survivors died. As an educated, socially-aware white male, I completely agree with the views in this essay.
There is a strain of toxic representation that goes back to the first season, when they chose to name the black male T-Dog, as if Blackness is only recognizable according to our ideas of urban culture. Or what about the introduction of Michonne as a sword-wielding, magical negress whose duty is to protect the white woman? Or later, when she is a bargaining chip in a power struggle between a while male named The Governor and a white male southern deputy? In the comic, her beef with the Governor comes from being brutally raped and beaten by him. In the television show, that dynamic is replaced by the the mere threat of rape against a white woman.
Thaddeus Howze is unequivocally on point in his reading of the show. If you disagree, ask yourself: If there was a line crossed, you could boycott, write letters, or protest it in some form. I feel that there is way too much of that going on involving entertainment these days. I always find you can test the validity of a theory by reversing it — so lets do that. Would Bob be their go to depicition of a black male, or Morgan or Gabriel or Noah? These are so non-stereo-typical, which makes them interesting and actually real — if not a statistically representative slice of a demographic.
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What about Sasha and Michonne as that of black women? What if Rick was black? In his descent to animalism, biting out the neck of an assailant or executing Pete would people be projecting race onto this too? Would Rick be the black male without a moral compass that middle class white republicans fear when walking home at night? Maybe there is racism at play here — maybe the show is sensitive to creating a black male stereotype — i. These are interesting questions…. But I do feel that race gets projected onto everything in a way that makes it paradoxically impossible not to be racist unless you are actually racist.
By that I mean, if you spend the entire time when writing a story trying to consider what is racially representative — that is, in itself, racist by definition. This is a story about people who happen to have a certain gender or race or sexual persuassion. The world is, by definition, full of deviation from the mean events, otherwise its a highly contrived story.
Indeed would Daryll from where he started from. We now have it in Morgan — a bad ass as well as the new moral compass of the group. I do know that I have really enjoyed watching Bob, Noah and Tyrese and I wish they were still in the programme — particularly Tyrese. Instead, I see a profoundly honest description of what Mr.
Howze finds offensive on a television show he wanted to like. For myself, I stopped watching last season, when I thought the stories and characters became too repetitive. These included racial stereotypes, but much more so gender stereotypes, and all sorts of other things that, quite frankly, were boring. You certainly have your strong points about the lack of screen time given to black men on the show. Tyrese was possibly one of the most beloved and greatly acted characters on the show. It was really refreshing to see that. Did I think they made him soft?
Yes, but can you actually say that it would have looked great for a big, hulking black man to have been the one to shoot down a little white girl on national TV? Even if the show went out of its way to depict he would have been justified in doing so? In regards to Morgan, I like his characterization in the show better than the comic where he was just a raving lunatic that was hooking up with Michonne.
Is his pacifism becoming frustrating? At the end of the day, almost every demographic had a gripe about the show. Like how earlier in the series feminist complained about how all the white female characters were useless and nothing more than eye candy. How a religious character like Hershel was stubborn to the point of stupidity in his initial introduction.
My BF, who is Hispanic, often points out that at least black women and men are getting screen time. The list can go on. I still like the show and I know plenty of people of color who still do and still like the very characters you bashed. I highly doubt the writers on the show are going out of their way to offend anyone and just want to do a good show.
I respect your perspective, and hopefully your respect my points as well. It seems to me that there are way too many people in this country who look for racism in everything. Racism does exist but its not one sided.