On this episode of the The Weekly Dead, Clay Morgan and Alise Wright join me to discuss the aftermath of Lori’s death. We discuss the practice of Fight Clubbing zombies, how Rick just needed some Rick Time and how Andrea is slowly trying to become the worst with how she totally wants to be The Governor’s girlfriend.
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Speaking of leadership, it seems to me that Rick assumed leadership and the rest of the people basically submitted – or rather they were passive about it. Lori supported him as his wife, but reluctantly, and in some instances she did so simply to choose Rick over Shane (if not exactly to spite Shane, at least to show him where her allegiance was placed). Shane – until after Otis – argued against Rick many times, but always gave in with a crooked smile and some variation of, "Ok bud, we'll do it your way…I hope we don't regret this." The others just went along.
Am I wrong about that? Lori said, "you all look to him and then you blame him…" but I don't remember anyone electing him as a leader or asking him for leadership or "looking to him" in any substantial way for leadership. I can't remember a lot of, "What do you think we should do, Rick?" I do remember people saying they would wait to see what Rick was going to do, and they followed him, but that's not the same thing as asking him to lead. It looked to me that he simply took over when they got back from the city and the camp had been overrun. And they just let him.
The most telling thing for me about Rick is when Jim was dying and he said, "this is my decision, not your failure." Rick talks a lot about failure, and it seems he's always trying to overcome some imagined failure. To be honest, he gets on my nerves. In his mind, he's got to be the one to go, to make the hard decisions, to fix everything. Interesting. And egotistical to think he's the only one who can make the right decision (which he clearly does believe, "I'll think about it and decide in the morning", etc.). In real life, that guy would have got himself killed by now on one of those "I have to do this, Lori" trips, or at the very least burned himself out already – and we see Rick is losing it. But he's the hero of the story, I guess, so I'm wondering where they'll take his character next.
Hey! Thanks for discussing my questions! Oh, and loved the point about Darryl, that they seem to be setting him up for something big. I hadn't thought of that before, and I think you guys are right on.