6x03 Thank You

It's Glen. He's one of the characters who's been around since the beginning. He's had some legitimate character development over the years. So why don't I care about his death?

Maybe it's because this was an exhausting episode. Some of television is exhausting in a good way--conveying the sense that the viewer, like the character, has been through something--but this was a slog, full of heavy-handed dialogue and images about (yet again) what it takes to survive. And Glen is the latest casualty of this debate, leading the unexpectedly intriguing Nicholas into unexpected peril, and having it all become too much for this Alexandrian who is not as accustomed to having to earn survival the same way that Glen is. Glen's death is filmed and scored well enough, with images that are meant to convey the severity of what's happening, but which fell flat with me on an emotional level for some reason.

Again, maybe it's just because this episode was so blunt. Rick has gone off the deep end in terms of his self-assured cravenness again, and I'm sure we'll have some further tired exploration of that. Bitten husband guy is a walking symbol for Michonne learning to open herself up to human relationships again (probably with the survivor who cheesily eavesdrops on Rick's instructions). As always, the actress who plays Michonne gives a strong performance, but the material didn't give her much to work with. To boot, the scenes where they all escape from the hoard were not particularly well set up or explained, as I had a hard time figuring out what the various, jumbled plans are.

So by the time I got through the slog of all that and we reached Glen's death, it couldn't have the impact it should have because I was already numbed by all the on-the-nose dialogue and endless clunky meditations on what kind of person survives in this world. The Walking Dead is a show that has wild swings in quality, and after the high point of last week, this was an unfortunate nadir.

WHAT?!?!?! WTF?!?!?! I was so shocked with the episode that I couldn't even put my thoughts together to make my comment about it.
Talk about a tense episode, where one time or the other I was worrying about one of the group.
Loved seeing Michonne defending Rick's orders and also lecturing Heath regarding his naivety about the world now. I was so sad about the guy who wanted to send a note to his wife and didn't make it (maybe she hasn't survived the Wolves attack so she won't feel the pain of losing him).
I like Scott is still alive! I think he can be an interesting character for the show. I do wish that woman (Annie?) had still survived because it felt premature to have her die.
Rick was amazing taking out those wolves that attacked him at the RV (thanks a lot Morgan for that)! But I really want to see what he will do to get out of that cliffhanger we got there.
And now Glenn :( :( :( Seriously, he is my favorite since the beginning and that was not the ending I was expecting for him, specially in an episode 3 (I could see it being a mid-season finale or a season finale).... Now that my feelings have calmed down a bit, I am a bit positive about some things.... not the case now.
Nicholas took the easy way out and in doing so really screw up Glenn... a shame because he really was starting to change and redeem himself... But dude, I was cursing him for being the cause of Glenn's fall from that dumpster.
Side comment that Daryl really needs a storyline... he is such an awesome character that has just been standing there since last season (and barely has a personality anymore)... Even Father Gabriel has had more SL lately than him.

The cruel thing about this episode isn't the thought of Glenn dying. It's the thought that MAYBE, SOMEHOW he might have made it just because he had Nicholas on top of him when they both fell into the horde. Either way, I'm left feeling pissed off at this episode. If Glenn is alive somehow, I'm pissed off because logically there's no way he should have made it out of that many walkers right on top of Nicholas and him. If he is actually dead, I'm even more pissed off to have one of my favorite characters who I've seen grow so much die in such a stupid way. I've been pissed off ever since he tried to save that piece of shit Nicholas, and now he's trusting him out of all the capable characters to get the both of them out of a bad situation. Ever since the start, I've known Glenn as one of the most reliable characters to find a way out of the worst situations, and for someone like that to trust someone like Nicholas to find a way out is completely unrealistic for his character. It's also completely unrealistic if Glenn is somehow alive, either way, fuck this episode.