“What do you want… for you?”
A question posed from Deanna, lying on her deathbed.
Michonne answered, “I don’t know.”
What would you answer?
The Walking Dead has a unique way of asking us the big questions about life, questions that we wrestle with for the next week. Sadly, this week are asked to wrestle with it for a few months, as this episode was the mid-season finale.
When I was a kid, television was full of certainty. I always knew that the A-Team would save the oppressed and teach the bad guys a lesson. I always knew that Perry Mason would win the case. In Star Trek, if there was a guy on the “away team” (not named Scotty) wearing a red shirt, you knew he was dead meat. Kirk, Spock and McCoy never had to worry about anything as long as one of those “red-shirts” were with them. Those were the rules, and no television show ever tried to break them.
But times have changed. With shows like The Walking Dead, it is hard to remember a time when certainty reigned, especially in an episode like tonight’s. On Talking Dead (The Walking Dead after show), Executive Producer Scott Gimple admitted that