The Walking Dead: Seed (Season 3 Premier) Review

Welcome to a world without rules- oh wait, that was the tagline for the Dark Knight, wasn't it? Never mind.

Spoilers for the episode follow.

Okay, so the Walking Dead is back for it's third season, which premiered last night on AMC, and it is pulling no punches, or anything else for that matter. The episode starts off, it's been like nine months, or at least that's implied from the size of Lori's stomach and the thickness of Hershel's beard, and you see the team storm this house. They just barge in, waste all the walkers, Daryll finds, kills, and begins to eat an owl he finds, and they all sit down on the floor and start to eat, until they notice some walkers outside and they have to run again. And all of this has no dialogue at all, save for T-Dog's one line that I can't even remember. And then theme song starts playing. Basically, this five minute sequence does a perfect job of showing that they've been at this for awhile, they're exhausted, but they just keep pushing. And then they find the prison.

When they find the prison, they immediately see a chance, and they take it. They rush in, seal the walkers in the courtyard, and off them from watchtowers George Romero style, which was really cool to see. It's actually kind of strange to see where all these characters are now; they're a lot more tight-nit, probably because Shane's gone (but people are still feeling the impact he had), Rick is still in charge, Daryl's second in command, and everyone's a BAMF. Even Carl's a badass (it also appears the writers are considering fixing him up Beth, probably to give her something to do other then kill her off, though the age gap is strange). After that, they take a breather, sing a little song with the walkers still around making it a bit creepy, and go for stage two.

Stage two, storm the rest of the prison. This was best part of the episode. It was this gigantic zombie battle, and I don't think anything like it's ever been put on screen. They were all using axes, knives, and such to, so it was close-quarters. And some of the zombies were wearing body armor too, at which point everyone, on screen and off, went "oh crap". The pure joy Maggie had when she works out how to kill them is awesome. 

Let's pause from this a moment to talk about Michonne, because otherwise I'll probably forget. We met her last season finale, and I went "huh." She and Andrea have been together all winter, saving each others tails, but now Andrea's sick. This was easily conveyed, and the woman who plays Michonne is not only a good actress, but she's a badass to (she decapitates three walkers at once).

Back to the prison: they get in, Lori, who, thank God, is slightly less infuriating, voices her fears to Hershel about what might happen if her baby is stillborn (terrifying mental images), and the next day, they storm the rest of the prison for walkers in some eerie yet exciting action scenes, and then Hershel gets bit in the leg. For a moment their, we were all thinking his time had come. And then Rick amputates the leg. You read that right (I almost lost my man card when that happened, if you catch my drift), and, big twist, wait for it, their are other people in the prison. Holy *bleep*.

All in all, this was an awesome episode, and a great start to what'll hopefully be a great season.

Final Rating: 93%