Not sure the group could have stopped her, she kind of just went for it and they didn't know she had a weapon or anything. I can't imagine why she did it, stabbing someone with scissors in the chest isn't going to kill them and there were dozens of guns in that hallway. Maybe she was suicidal, who knows? I wonder if she didn't realize that her sis and the baby and all the rest of the crew were out there too.
She didn't expect Dawn to blow her head off? In a packed hallway full of tension and assault weapons, what did she think the end result of stabbing Evil Dawn in the chest with a pair of surgical scissors would be then?
uppy:I think everyone underestimates Beth's actions. She knew she would likely die, she just didn't want to live in this world anymore. She had lost faith that the apocalypse would end.
I think everyone underestimates Beth's actions. She knew she would likely die, she just didn't want to live in this world anymore. She had lost faith that the apocalypse would end.
Maybe, I also think she knew deep down Dawn wasn't going to change (evil) and she wanted to stop her. I thought it was awesome/bad ass when Rick ran down that dude with his car
@andygreenwald does a good job in his recap. I agree with a lot of this.
"Still, for the life of me I can’t quite understand why Beth died. Was she trying to prove a point? Was she unwilling or unable to continue? Or did she just really want to stab Dawn in the chest? I thought Christine Woods — so good and so underappreciated on Hello Ladies — was exceptional as a leader trapped in a situation she could neither manage nor understand. But one of the side effects of her palpable humanity (how about that single tear after tossing her former cigar pal down the elevator chute!) was empathy. Ultimately, I didn’t get the sense that she was “using” Beth any more than Rick is “using” Daryl or any of his followers. In a death-ravaged dystopia, you have to rely on people for help and sometimes that help isn’t pretty. I’m not entirely convinced that the only other alternative is to stab them. Increasingly, the only difference between groups of morally challenged survivors is whether their names are in the main credits or not. This is an interesting distinction but not necessarily a novel one.
And so nothing happened in that vertiginous hallway, shot so well by directorial MVP Ernest R. Dickerson, that made me believe it had to go down that way. There was a new Dawn ready to step in as soon as the old one fell down. Noah could have been haggled over. He probably could have just escaped again. In truth, Beth’s selfless stabbing wasn’t saving anybody. Except, I suppose, herself. One of the lessons of this season of The Walking Dead is that there are people made for the new world and people who simply can’t cut it. By surviving as long as she had, Beth had cut herself into ribbons. Her suicidal choice of scissors made for a poetic, if unfortunate, final slice."
"Still, for the life of me I can’t quite understand why Beth died. Was she trying to prove a point? Was she unwilling or unable to continue? Or did she just really want to stab Dawn in the chest? I thought Christine Woods — so good and so underappreciated on Hello Ladies — was exceptional as a leader trapped in a situation she could neither manage nor understand. But one of the side effects of her palpable humanity (how about that single tear after tossing her former cigar pal down the elevator chute!) was empathy. Ultimately, I didn’t get the sense that she was “using” Beth any more than Rick is “using” Daryl or any of his followers. In a death-ravaged dystopia, you have to rely on people for help and sometimes that help isn’t pretty. I’m not entirely convinced that the only other alternative is to stab them. Increasingly, the only difference between groups of morally challenged survivors is whether their names are in the main credits or not. This is an interesting distinction but not necessarily a novel one.
And so nothing happened in that vertiginous hallway, shot so well by directorial MVP Ernest R. Dickerson, that made me believe it had to go down that way. There was a new Dawn ready to step in as soon as the old one fell down. Noah could have been haggled over. He probably could have just escaped again. In truth, Beth’s selfless stabbing wasn’t saving anybody. Except, I suppose, herself. One of the lessons of this season of The Walking Dead is that there are people made for the new world and people who simply can’t cut it. By surviving as long as she had, Beth had cut herself into ribbons. Her suicidal choice of scissors made for a poetic, if unfortunate, final slice."
Fuck yeah! Let's do this. Can't wait.
Only thing better than a new season of Walking Dead would be if somehow they walked out to California and they found just one survivor, a man named Bruce Jenner. A man-tranny who discovered the only immunity to zombie-ness was to go full-tranny.
In an epic finale Bruce Jenner tries to convince the whole crew of Walking Dead that if you want to save the human race, you must go full-tranny.
Now that would be one hellova episode.
Only thing better than a new season of Walking Dead would be if somehow they walked out to California and they found just one survivor, a man named Bruce Jenner. A man-tranny who discovered the only immunity to zombie-ness was to go full-tranny.
In an epic finale Bruce Jenner tries to convince the whole crew of Walking Dead that if you want to save the human race, you must go full-tranny.
Now that would be one hellova episode.
Agreed, gremlin. That episode was shit. One of the worst. Glad they got Ray Lewis off the show. I didn't like his character. Don't like the skinny black guy, either. And they need to kill off that skinny 50-something dike already.
Why they got rid of that hot young blond thing, I have no idea. She was good... and they could've run her slice through episodes and brought in the viewers.
Back to this episode. Just sucked. Like that whole season they spent on the farm. Boring shit where they babbled on about whether it's moral to kill zombies.
I hope this isn't the death of the show.
Why they got rid of that hot young blond thing, I have no idea. She was good... and they could've run her slice through episodes and brought in the viewers.
Back to this episode. Just sucked. Like that whole season they spent on the farm. Boring shit where they babbled on about whether it's moral to kill zombies.
I hope this isn't the death of the show.
The episode was art, from start to finish, great camera work, great performances...
I think they fucked us with Beth's and Tyreese's deaths, really unnecessary feeling to the both of them, stupid kils and the story didn't move forward, it was a kill filler... They need to bring back Frank Darabont (original season 1 showrunner).
My favorite part was the governor flashbacks
