The Walking Dead Season 2 Retrospective: Slow Burn or Boring?

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @Adog00
    @Adog00 11 месяцев назад +968

    I like to say this is my favorite season of the show, even though it was slow, the build up to Sophia’s reveal was plentiful and worth it. I loved Shane’s descent into madness, and how Rick took over his view in the later seasons, mirroring his once friend and enemy

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +11

      Well said

    • @CodClips59
      @CodClips59 11 месяцев назад +4

      Fr

    • @flagondragon1854
      @flagondragon1854 11 месяцев назад +19

      Shane would've beena good leader till they met neegan and then being aggressive like Shane probably would've gotten everyone killed

    • @bestmasterbilly6173
      @bestmasterbilly6173 11 месяцев назад +6

      Season 1+2 will always be peak to me. I thought it was because of frank darabont but idk why the rest of the show just wasn’t it with some high points scattered around imo

    • @biglad3953
      @biglad3953 10 месяцев назад +2

      @Adog00 same brother

  • @PrincessStinkbug
    @PrincessStinkbug 11 месяцев назад +415

    I think season 2 starts to become more artistic. Especially the fight scene in 18 Miles Out with the broken window. It's obviously no accident when you see Shane's reflection backing out as the walker is coming forward. Maybe I'm just simple but, that shot always impresses me.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +27

      foreshadowed his death and how everyone saw him as a monster

    • @dashcole8812
      @dashcole8812 11 месяцев назад +9

      Great catch

    • @Sophia_P999
      @Sophia_P999 10 месяцев назад +8

      @@IIIISaiExactly, he became a Walker in the end after Rick had to deal with him. Walker Shane is actually terrifying too, a literal monster.

    • @yaboy_dlee
      @yaboy_dlee 10 месяцев назад +4

      18 miles out is one of if not my favorite TWD ep

    • @aidanchilton7899
      @aidanchilton7899 13 дней назад

      I saw that but thought I might have been reading into things lol

  • @Kingofportals
    @Kingofportals 11 месяцев назад +483

    It’s a miracle Carl survived the season and didn’t die like Sophia or Dale. He was just a kid and no one kept their eye on him.

    • @aaronmarshall5628
      @aaronmarshall5628 11 месяцев назад +28

      He wasn’t just a kid. He was almost 12 years old. He should have known better and listened to the adults around him. What was Lori supposed to do, lock him in a tent? He ran away constantly after being told how dangerous it was lol I wish he had bit it a lot earlier than he did.

    • @Kingofportals
      @Kingofportals 11 месяцев назад +22

      @@aaronmarshall5628 If he ran off the highway and got lost instead of Sophia and then was revealed in Hershel’s barn… just imagine the emotional toll that would take on Rick, Lori and Shane. It would break them. Sophia would be shot instead most likely. It would have been a crazy way they could have taken the show.

    • @milkbottle4u
      @milkbottle4u 10 месяцев назад +15

      He didn’t keep his eye on him either

    • @Kingofportals
      @Kingofportals 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@milkbottle4u Lori told Shane to stay away from them and to not go near her or Carl so it’s not surprising that Shane didn’t keep his eye on Carl. It’s all Lori’s fault everything at the farm went wrong!

    • @milkbottle4u
      @milkbottle4u 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@Kingofportals I agree, I was just making a dumb joke about Carl losing his eye

  • @regent2125
    @regent2125 11 месяцев назад +360

    This season aged beyond amazingly well.

  • @Gamfluent
    @Gamfluent 11 месяцев назад +32

    11:00 one thing I like about this whole barn scene is how in the end Shane didn’t make the hard decision he made the easy decision to open the barn doors and shoot, however Rick made the tough decision to put down Sophia

  • @Kingofportals
    @Kingofportals 11 месяцев назад +220

    The deaths that really hurt and changed the group: Otis, Sophia, Dale, and Shane. Otis caused Shane to become the villain and changed him for the worse while making everyone trust Shane less, Sophia caused them to lose hope and become darker and more brutal and willing to kill the living for the first time, Dale caused them to lose even more hope and to become at first more peaceful however that wouldn’t last, and Shane whose death caused Rick to take charge as the group’s leader. Season 2 deaths really changed the group and broke them.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +8

      fax

    • @DeadX2
      @DeadX2 11 месяцев назад +5

      Shane wasn’t a villan

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +10

      @@DeadX2 he wasn't a villian but the guy is just describing the effects of otis death , shane was losing his heart

    • @mistasomen
      @mistasomen 11 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@DeadX2he turned into one by the end of the season.

    • @Kingofportals
      @Kingofportals 11 месяцев назад +13

      @@IIIISai I think Dale and Sophia’s deaths proved to Shane in his mind that Rick could never protect Lori, Carl, or the group and that the only way they’d all be safe and survive would be if Rick was out of the picture, then things could be perfect again with Lori and Carl. Shane at that point thought that Rick wouldn’t be able to protect the group, he believed that Rick ruined everything at the Atlanta Camp and after because he considered him weak, turns out Shane was wrong and Rick was built to survive, Officer Friendly died when Rick put Sophia down and then killed Dave and Tony at the bar. Dale’s death was the final straw that inevitably made them long term lose their morality and become more like Shane. Shane was right however when it came to Rick’s bad decision making early on, how he went back for Merle for no real reason, how he placed Sophia in the marsh by herself to take out 2 Walkers, how he got Carl shot indirectly, the way that Rick refused to stop searching for Sophia when it was clear after multiple weeks that she was almost certainly dead, Rick refusing to do anything about the barn full of Walkers and even helping Hershel with it, also Rick protecting Randall of being killed even though he was a bad person and had a dangerous group. Shane was right in these ways, Rick and Lori also failed to watch over Carl which nearly got him killed many times and got Dale killed in the end. Shane and Rick were always meant to be at odds and that is what makes Shane the villain, he directly went against Rick and threatened to take over the group while losing his morality.

  • @MistahJay7
    @MistahJay7 11 месяцев назад +174

    Season 2 has this really comforting feeling whenever I go back and rewatch it. It just feels chill to watch again lol hard to really describe

    • @JoePizzeria007
      @JoePizzeria007 11 месяцев назад +35

      The farm was a truly great location that made u feel at home and cosy. I was devasted when the walkers destroyed it

    • @knickknackpattywack
      @knickknackpattywack 11 месяцев назад +20

      it's cus of the cozy yeeha farm run by that jolly old Hershel feller

    • @tipsyXtwo
      @tipsyXtwo 10 месяцев назад +16

      It’s like visiting old friends you know are gone in the present day

    • @flyback-457
      @flyback-457 10 месяцев назад +3

      YEAH MAN i have this feeling too but i cant explain why)

    • @buckyhurdle4776
      @buckyhurdle4776 10 месяцев назад +22

      Season 2 imo has some of the best character interaction and dialogue of the whole show. That might be what it is. I feel like this is the season where members of the group are actually...talking to each other, about how they feel. Like actual characters, with traits lmao

  • @WillyP313
    @WillyP313 11 месяцев назад +105

    I’ve been laughing a lot at the “I know what kind of man you are” memes. Shoutout out to Dale. Also Shane’s best character this season

    • @sandrobruni7575
      @sandrobruni7575 10 месяцев назад +9

      And the “stop acting like you know the way” meme

  • @chris.shamblin
    @chris.shamblin 11 месяцев назад +352

    I think season two is really the lynchpin for the whole series. It may not be everybody’s favorite season, but I do think it’s arguably the most important season.

    • @JCVenomous
      @JCVenomous 11 месяцев назад +12

      Well said

    • @torridd
      @torridd 10 месяцев назад +7

      Interesting concept. When I think about it being the linchpin, I agree. It made all the characters stronger after that.

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 10 месяцев назад +3

      The walking dead ended for me after season 1. It became a drama at that point. Fear the walking dead although slower. Is more about people in the apocolypse than walking dead. Atleast until the later seasons when they wiped the cast of fear for the walking method. Total blah. Though the king of the walking dead is season one of the walking dead game. Lee and Clementine had a far better story than anything in the tv shows.

    • @zillionfurball1451
      @zillionfurball1451 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@geronimo5537brother the walking dead is a drama show. The games, the comic, the show. If you don't like it being a drama show why did you watch it

    • @CL053DC45K37
      @CL053DC45K37 7 месяцев назад +5

      Absolutely! It's to me the most important season not only because it brought in the rest of the important characters but it's the season where the main group started to finally shed their skin so to speak. It's the season that showed them that their old lives, the old way of doing things was dead. That you can't just bring random people into your group then releasing them after using your resources and giving them stuff you need is dumb. Randle literally shot at them and was with the men who were trying to either force their way into the farm or were lookin to find out where they were to then take them by force just like the story Randle told Darrell. How they found the man with his two daughters then forced him to watch as they took what they wanted from the girls. How he knew Maggie, Herchel, and Beth. Rick with his I got to think it over bs then fighting Shane over him wanting to drop Randle. Yeah he said Rick couldn't keep Lori and Carl safe but it started with Shane trying to drop Randle. The ending of season 2 is on Rick as much as it's on Shane. If Rick just allows Shane to drop Randle in that water management facility the end of the farm doesn't start like it did. The group isn't out looking for Randle and Shane doesn't lure Rick out into the woods, at least not then. Season 2 also shows how much of a terrible mother Lori is and how completely incompetent she is as a person. Playing Rick Vs. Shane all season long. If she doesn't stoke that flame at every turn they might not want to delete each other at the end.

  • @TheChickenShorts
    @TheChickenShorts 11 месяцев назад +64

    I actually fucking love season 1 and 2 because of the “slow burn” i think it’s extremely intriguing to see how these normal people go about traversing through something so unthinkable. Shanes true colors show, the group starts losing their humanity, Dale realizes what the world is coming too, Hershel still doesn’t know how bad things really are. I think its beautiful.

    • @Shadowsreverie
      @Shadowsreverie 10 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly the season 3 really tied that change together, when they were first on the road and we saw how much they changed then coming across the prison at first was good but then when we really got into the nitty gritty of the horrors we would have to face with the governor and after that, and season 2 was the start of the character’s questioning their morals and really understanding the situation so even though it was “slow”, it was important season for the development of characters and the story.

  • @nickh7962
    @nickh7962 7 месяцев назад +14

    The bar scene is an absolute masterpiece. Nobody ever talks about it but it might be my favorite scene in the entire series

  • @deathwatchproductions5221
    @deathwatchproductions5221 11 месяцев назад +52

    I watch season 1 the day it premiered, me and my dad watch all the way up until season 4 mid season finale - seasons 1 and 2 are so nostalgic for me and are the best walking dead seasons, the zombie era of like 2008 - 2012 is unmatched. And being a kid during this era had you imagination run wild. Good times ;(

    • @thethriftytypewriter
      @thethriftytypewriter  11 месяцев назад +16

      I was convinced the zombie apocalypse was coming and I had a concrete plan to escape from my middle school if it happened. Sometimes during math class I actually wished the apocalypse would start 😂

    • @deathwatchproductions5221
      @deathwatchproductions5221 11 месяцев назад +6

      @@thethriftytypewriter yep! I was in elementary school and I always wondered how me and my family would survive the zombie apocalypse, and with the bath salt incident in Miami in like 2012 me and my friends were convinced the zombie apocalypse was nigh 😂

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 10 месяцев назад

      The walking dead ended for me after season 1. It became a drama at that point. Fear the walking dead although slower. Is more about people in the apocolypse than walking dead. Atleast until the later seasons when they wiped the cast of fear for the walking method. Total blah. Though the king of the walking dead is season one of the walking dead game. Lee and Clementine had a far better story than anything in the tv shows.

  • @austinattack
    @austinattack 11 месяцев назад +20

    Season 2 was the first I watched as it aired. We watched it in college as a group in a common room each week and I just remember how shocked and devastated we all were when Sophia came out of that barn and when Dale died. We were all screaming and crying and falling off the couches. It's a fond memory (despite the trauma!!!) so Season 2 will always hold a place in my heart. Thanks for this video!!

  • @terrilord7102
    @terrilord7102 10 месяцев назад +17

    "Beside The Dying Fire" is my favorite episode of the series..
    Herschel: "This is my farm!"
    Rick: "Not any more!"

  • @ry2950
    @ry2950 11 месяцев назад +21

    The second half of Season 2 was some of the shows best moments.
    I think the slowness of the first half was rough when watching on a week to week basis, but with it all out and available at once it has aged much better.

  • @M0mzSpagheti
    @M0mzSpagheti 11 месяцев назад +8

    I love that Hershel had the only no reload shotgun in the world. Dude was him.

  • @Espritlumiere
    @Espritlumiere 11 месяцев назад +19

    14:38
    Lori was in shock and was trying to understand Rick when he told her that he killed Shane. It wasn't until Rick said that Carl put Shane down when Lori got upset and couldn't look at him. I think a lot of people miss this and just assume Lori was mad that Rick killed Shane. She wasn't, she was mad that Carl had to be the one to put Shane down. She didn't want him to have to do that, and she doesn't lose it until Rick says this.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +6

      multiple things throughout the past 2 seasons showcased her deep affection for shane whether u believe platonic or not is up to u (even tho it was romantic), she was clearly broken that shane was dead , if shane died vs Carl was the one to shoot him what's worse , obviously the death , she literally never took care of Carl or he wouldn't of been out there in the first place he's the last thing on her mind, she cares about him otis situation showcased that obv , but let's not act like he's the first thing she thinks of, she indirectly killed shane , the exact words rick used to justify killing shane were the things lori whispered im his ears after the bar scene from episode 9, lori talked to shane in that same episode he died which set him off to begin with , Idk why i ranted but u just dismissed shane like lori wasn't planning to die old with him after the apocalypse started , she even admitted she was a horrible mother and wife in season 3, that's when she started to change before she died, if it was shane that killed rick I do think she would still back away but that's Shane's nature, she also did that in season 1 and shane just started kissing they made up quick , rick is a softer dude who needs affection and she just left him standing there, he wasn't a monster he just listened to her warnings but she looks at him with disgust

  • @NiqRipple
    @NiqRipple 11 месяцев назад +77

    My first experience with The Walking Dead was watching it amidst a hurricane.
    I had no power, no contact w’ anybody and nothing to do. So I finally decided to watch the show after many years of putting it off.
    I stayed up all night when my internet would work and binge the shit out of this show. I enjoyed Season 1 and everything beyond but Season 2 just captured me. There’s something about the conflict of Rick and Shane which was just so captivating.
    I know people think it’s slow but I don’t think there will ever be any TWD content which tops this season. It just felt too real and human.

    • @CL053DC45K37
      @CL053DC45K37 10 месяцев назад +3

      Yeah, it was the most human of all the seasons. This the one where some character choices really stirred up conflict in me. Like would I have put Otis down to make sure carl.lives and I get back, would I have went off and opened the barn, or the tension between Dale and Shane. Personally i hated Dale and he wasn't ever going to survive, he was too weak in my eyes crying over having to do whatever it takes to survive. Dale really irritated me in the whole of seasons 1 and 2. How Dale tried to control Andrea or to act like he was her dad annoyed me because I had someone try that bs when I was growing up and it didn't go well.

  • @ErinJeanette
    @ErinJeanette 9 месяцев назад +11

    Shane seeing Rick bringing a zombie in with hershel when he's already going off and goes "what is that, WHAT IS THAT" while angrily running at them is so funny especially Rick's face like ah shit seeing him flying at them

  • @smileytownSF
    @smileytownSF 11 месяцев назад +90

    The conflict between Shane & Rick is the perpetual conflict between the head & the heart, between certainty & faith, between 2 kinds of strength & 2 kinds of leadership.

    • @aidanchilton7899
      @aidanchilton7899 13 дней назад

      Nah Shane was full on weakness. He always acted in fear and selfishness to protect what was "his". If there was an option that killed the rest of the group but saved Carl and Lori, he wouldn't even look for an alternative.

  • @retrostudios894
    @retrostudios894 10 месяцев назад +24

    literally the most important season of the show. this is the foundation for the characters going forward for the rest of the series. killing shane literally shapes rick for the whole show. it’s one of his most important character defining moments. will forever love season 2, truly a masterpiece and one of the best.

  • @pyroAdapt
    @pyroAdapt 11 месяцев назад +41

    It was one of the best seasons of the whole show. The complaints people usually throw at it are almost always regurgitations of complaints they heard elsewhere I've noticed. They never actually give reasons that show they actually watched it. Its usually just broad shit like "it's too slow and they never leave the farm". Like okay? What about the writing? The plot lines? The acting? The pay offs? The shit that actually matters! As far as those things go they nailed it on all fronts. People just love to bitch.

  • @GBeegobeekobado97
    @GBeegobeekobado97 11 месяцев назад +55

    16:40 “Shane dirty there new 2011 Hyundai Tucson!!!!!😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
    It’s funny as u say it and u see Shane’s face like this😮along with the music

  • @unknowncorner6268
    @unknowncorner6268 11 месяцев назад +5

    You make alotta good points about shane, I'd never connected otis and his sudden decline. He thinks of himself as a bad guy from then on, so he does crazier stuff cause he doesn't mind otters seeing him as a bad guy, a great point.

  • @harrisonfech9713
    @harrisonfech9713 11 месяцев назад +25

    As an adult now, I LOVE season 2. Shane is phenomenal and ricks transformation is so important for the story

  • @mlmaven4965
    @mlmaven4965 11 месяцев назад +74

    season 2 aged like fine wine, ill take this character drama era of the show over the more action packed seasons like 6, 7, and 8

    • @thethriftytypewriter
      @thethriftytypewriter  11 месяцев назад +20

      Leave season 6 out of this but yes same 😂

    • @eyeso2k346
      @eyeso2k346 10 месяцев назад +11

      tbh for me personally ill take it over any of the new spin offs. The dialogue and the emotion in this season is incomparable

  • @braixy642
    @braixy642 11 месяцев назад +5

    Frank's concept of Season 2 was to give a prequel to what we had already seen so far. How the zombie outbreak even began, how the survivors met each other and one episode would've been dedicated to the undead soldier that we see in the very first episode inside an abandoned tank. AMC wasn't happy with the direction Frank wanted to go, abruptly fired him and replaced him with a new director, who gave us Season 2, 3 and i believe 4 aswell before also being fired.

  • @averykoller
    @averykoller 10 месяцев назад +6

    This is in my opinion not only one of the best seasons of The Walking Dead but one of the greatest seasons of television ever made. The characters and their stories alone were more entertaining than any zombie threat ever could be.

  • @REL-420
    @REL-420 11 месяцев назад +7

    Shane had the most impact on TWD. If it wasn't for him and the lessons he inadvertently tought the group they wouldn't have survived as along as they did. I stand by that.

  • @mirokpirok
    @mirokpirok 11 месяцев назад +26

    Definitely my favorite season, i love these retrospective series, thank you for making them ❤️

  • @MistahJay7
    @MistahJay7 11 месяцев назад +40

    Shane was actually willing to stay behind and let Otis escape and sacrifice himself.
    But Otis refused to do it and wouldn't leave Shane behind so Shane took it upon himself and said fine guess I'll make it out of here instead.
    No one ever brings this up

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +18

      Because it has a dumb fanbase who either hates shane or worships him, finding those in the middle is rare , anyways the show emphasized the wrong things sometimes , shane offered to kill himself for otis, told andrea he never got that part down about moving on from murder (otis), shaved his dead, and forced rick to kill him not the other way around , planned to leave the group twice and that sad empty look after his final talk with lori , and the lone walker scene from episode 10, all these details together made shane look suicidal not someone who wants to take over the group, To be safe I use this narrative that amc was Goin for the suicidal route but didn't do the best job showcasing that because these details and moments are subtle or quick , but Shane's aggressive demeanor didn't give suicidal vibes more like Hardcore alpha who wanted control, he needed more scenes alone and some type flashback on how he became this way pre apocalypse, but they never gave this, most people paint shane as selfish, even some of his fans claim he was trying to kill rick, some say he was wrong in the way he handled things , none of the above are true there's no way other than what he did to deal with Incompetent individuals such as his group, anyways I wish they emphasized Shane's attempted sacrifice for otis, maybe make shane pray for forgiveness something

    • @CL053DC45K37
      @CL053DC45K37 7 месяцев назад

      ​@IIIISai I wouldn't say he was trying for control over the group he was just the first one to adjust to their new reality. That you cannot be going off trying play the hero when you have people that need your leadership, that rely on you for their survival. That saving 1 person instead of putting the group first will cost you mote lives in the long run. It also send the wrong message to the group. Bringing Randle back to the farm was the dumbest thing Rick could have done because it caused everything else that came in season 2. It split the group even more, took everyone's focus off each other, lead to Carl almost dying multiple times like with the walker, or when Randle was trying to con him. It lead to Shane not believing in Rick anymore because 2 times he backs out of ending Randle. Showed he was soft still and didn't get it's kill or be killed. Imagine if that group at the bar took out Rick, Herchel, and Glenn. They would have lost 3 of the most important people in the entire group, then they bring back one of the people who just tried to kill them because ? Feelings I guess I don't get why they brought him back.

    • @bangitybangbabang
      @bangitybangbabang 11 дней назад

      Wow i completely forgot this, gonna have to rewatch

  • @AlenAlic
    @AlenAlic 11 месяцев назад +8

    Season 2 was always my favorite. Glad now that the show is done people are realizing how incredible this season was. The peak of the show for sure.

  • @kamm6001
    @kamm6001 11 месяцев назад +3

    the 'surviving a good amount of time just to die to a drunk 80 year old man' bit was funny

  • @KingdomHeart556
    @KingdomHeart556 11 месяцев назад +3

    S2 came out during my senior year of high school and I remember talking to my friends all week about the new episode and waiting for the next one. Oh man better days

  • @HappywifeTaylor
    @HappywifeTaylor 11 месяцев назад +9

    I wasn't obsessed with the show UNTIL Sophia came out of that barn. After that, I was officially hooked.

  • @h24812h
    @h24812h 11 месяцев назад +15

    I love this serious your doing, just sucks i have to wait a month each season lol but I get it after you mentioned how its hard to still come up with twd content when youve covered so much already

  • @FOCS27
    @FOCS27 11 месяцев назад +4

    Seasons 1 & 2 were the only two seasons I had available to me wayyy back in 2013. I had heard of TWD around that time after watching playthroughs of the first Telltale game on RUclips. Once I got ahold of the first two seasons, I used to binge watch them over and over. I never watched the show when it was airing at the time because it was on at like 10pm on Monday nights in NZ, which was a school night and I was only 14, and wasn't allowed up past 9pm lol. Not to mention the fact that the show had already progressed through two more seasons, so I wanted to wait until I was up to date, before watching it weekly (Spoiler alert: it wasn't until 2016 that I finally caught up and started watching it weekly, and I only managed to catch up by watching the other seasons through streaming them on pirate sites).
    Because I only had access to the first two seasons, they have remained my favourite seasons of the show. Don't get me wrong, I love the entire show (the good AND the "bad"), but the first two seasons are just sooo good, imo.
    P.S. I'll also only ever watch a show through binging the episodes now. I used to watch TWD episodes weekly from around season 7 onwards, and it sucked watching it that way. By the time the next week rolled around, I couldn't remember what had happened the week before. Never again. Now I wait until a season or two of a show is up, and then binge it all at once.

  • @SamUHells
    @SamUHells 11 месяцев назад +10

    I loved the slowness of the early seasons compared to the later seasons mainly due to the fact that I actually cared about these characters way more in the beginning.

    • @jsedge2473
      @jsedge2473 22 дня назад +1

      I think the slowness and the dialogue is why people cared more. It was more realistic, and the characters seemed like humans instead of what they end up being.

    • @SamUHells
      @SamUHells 22 дня назад +1

      @ it could be, could also be the over-saturation of characters as the seasons continued that lessened my care for them as a whole. But that’s an issue most shows have tbh

  • @chibicthulhu4382
    @chibicthulhu4382 11 месяцев назад +1

    It’s so crazy looking back at how young Chandler Riggs was at the start of the show. I’m a few months younger than him so it’s just wild that he was acting in what would become a pop culture icon while I was playing game cube with my brother. I had a crush on him at one point lol

  • @DMDvideo10
    @DMDvideo10 11 месяцев назад +2

    Might be my favorite season after season 1. The scene where Shane shoots Otis to escape the dead, highway horde, and Sopia's reveal where all incredible moments.

  • @shizzlenortheast8146
    @shizzlenortheast8146 11 месяцев назад +6

    I absolutely love your takes on all this Walking Dead stuff. You’re so good at breaking down all the character development. I never thought about Shane’s killing of Otis as his breaking point in that way, that he’s not able to process his grief about it and about himself. I’ve been obsessed with this show for over a decade and the fact that it’s over and there are still people out there picking it apart is just the best thing ever. Thanks for everything you do. These videos are awesome.

  • @RickBerman-iv2il
    @RickBerman-iv2il 11 месяцев назад +36

    One of the finest ever seasons of tv. The way every character came alive was superb - and the show would never have such 3D characters again, or so many of them

  • @beauloppens4100
    @beauloppens4100 9 месяцев назад +3

    I loved season 2, I have great memories to it, it was also the season my grandmother started watching along and made her fall in love with the two universe

  • @ninijellybeanie6853
    @ninijellybeanie6853 10 месяцев назад +4

    I freaking loved season 2!! It’s my favorite and I met Glenn in real life at a comicon. This was before he became famous. He was simply lovely and I could not believe how handsome he is in real life. Wayyyy more handsome than he appears on film and tv!!! 😮

  • @kingfluffy1979
    @kingfluffy1979 11 месяцев назад +5

    Season 2 will always be my favorite season of TWD. It may not have as much action but those characters and their chemistry is unmatched. I just love the feel of how they are still figuring out this world and what the "rules" are. Unlike later seasons, they are still afraid of walkers and they feel like a real threat.

  • @tired8788
    @tired8788 Месяц назад +1

    I loved season 2. Shane descending into madness is masterfully portrayed and acted.
    Shane was often right, but as Andrea points out, his approach is almost always wrong. And while it's easy to understand WHY he cracks, his actions cannot be validated. When Rick asks him at gunpoint if he plans to "ride off into the sunset" after he kills him, Shane is actually adamant that this plan will work, that Lori will believe, accept and resume their relationship, proving how far his grasp on reality has fallen.
    Its obvious from the flashback episodes that Shane never intended to steal Lori, and that he was a good man/friend pre apocalypse, which makes the events so much more believable and utterly tragic.
    You're so right in your assessment that Shane isn't built for the new world. His inability to cooperate with challenging opinions, inflexibility with the rules and willingness to sacrifice companions for "the (subjective) greater good", make him a terrible leader. Pragmatism is a great quality, but his rigidity counters it.
    His lack of diplomatic flair would almost certainly ensure a weaker group with less core, ride or die members, and I doubt he would have performed well against any of the major antagonists. His unchecked temper and emotional instability would have left him wildly vulnerable to the likes of the Governor, let alone those threats that came later. Still, i'd actually love to have seen how he'd have played out against them.
    Also, "Hello farmers daughter." Finally justice for pizza delivery nerds!

  • @alka6432
    @alka6432 10 месяцев назад +7

    Season 1 and 2 are by far my favs

  • @kiddkush
    @kiddkush 11 месяцев назад +15

    I imagine what would’ve happened if Shane went with Rick to the bar to get Hershel

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +1

      would glass him 💀😭😭

  • @StormX6
    @StormX6 11 месяцев назад +5

    I still enjoy S2. It was still the onset of the apocalypse and tensions really arose for the group. There were some memorable moments like the walkers in the barn, Shane becoming more ruthless, Daryl’s development, etc. I think this season was a turning point for the group.

  • @_Devil
    @_Devil 11 месяцев назад +5

    Definitely my favorite season of the show. The dynamic between Rick's group becoming hardened survivors while Hershel's group are more or less unaware of the world around them is something I have not seen replicated before with any other show, movie, or game.

  • @pyroxlego
    @pyroxlego 11 месяцев назад +2

    I’ve been waiting for this month’s TWD retrospective! You got it out just in time to stay on your track! Great job!

  • @cvjonesmusic97
    @cvjonesmusic97 10 месяцев назад +1

    I personally LOVE this season. The character development is so good especially with Rick. You can see him slowly become this righteous, good guy he was in season 1 to the person who is just going to do whatever he has to do to keep his group safe. As the show progresses to later seasons, Rick literally becomes Shane and maybe even worse than Shane.

  • @jjkilhij9531
    @jjkilhij9531 11 месяцев назад +35

    Season 2 has aged very well, the character drama and dialogue in this season is some of the best in the series. Shane's descent is easily a highlight of the season (a big reason why it's good his story ended here), and despite the first half of the season being a bit slower to get through, episodes 7-13 are all so peak in various different ways.
    Looking forward to the s3 video (actually am not as fond of it as many others seem to be, mostly because of 3B [its my least fave of the first three seasons😅], so I'm interested to here your thoughts)!

    • @critical_thinker0668
      @critical_thinker0668 11 месяцев назад +6

      Agreed. Season 3 has good elements but has such a lackluster conclusion.

    • @dilwitchspahlin4761
      @dilwitchspahlin4761 11 месяцев назад +1

      I disagree. Some of the storylines are great, but there’s sooo much filler in season 2. And the dialogue definitely dropped off from season 1

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +1

      the thing with Shane's descent, is they made all the surrounding characters so stupid that Shane's death felt so preventable and gave people who liked shane some sour tastes obviously the soft mob that hate shane didn't feel that way but for those that liked shane everyone always mentioned how he coulda went with andrea or left , like the writer almost glued shane with a stupid group that wouldn't adopt or be open to his ways , sleeping with walkers and hostages, aware that merle escaped and just canceled his own departure plan he prepared I love Shane's arc but they didn't have to make everyone brain dead for it to work, and while I do think a shane rick moon confrontation was needed to me it shoulda ended in a rough brawl but not death , just close call, u can tell when Rick shot shane, shane regretted it, I would rather shane died with merle in season 3, obvious detail changes but this is better than what they did, with andreas weird death, govnor pullin up to the prison and only Killin that prison inmate , and then a season later hershel , so basically a mc that kept gushing over him and the old man (legend) who wanted mercy and the prisoner , that's all his mc bodies? I guess merle too, govnor to me is the best villian but damn if shane and merle died in some type of war with him I'd like that , more than merles dumb gunho plan andrea bein dumb until her last episode, etc..shane leaving the group would still change rick I don't think u have to kill homie to do that, regardless lori dies soon after so rick woulda changed anyways, rick and shane had multiple fights and arguments , what shane said stuck to rick u don't have to kill shane to make it stick him leaving is enough especially if that moon confrontation still happened

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад

      @@dilwitchspahlin4761 cap the dialog only improved, but yes it was some filler

    • @dilwitchspahlin4761
      @dilwitchspahlin4761 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@IIIISai cmon bruh even the actors in the show admitted later that the writing quality went down after Frank Darabont got fired

  • @Mbe69
    @Mbe69 11 месяцев назад +6

    I’ve been waiting for the season 2 retrospective for a whole month

  • @darrylseymour
    @darrylseymour 11 месяцев назад +11

    Slow Burn or Boring? I'll tell you what it is. Great writing, Great acting, Great directing, Great character development, Great dialogue, Great characters, Great soundtrack, Great payoffs, Great conflict and Great storytelling. Mic drop.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад

      you're right but you forgot to mention. Lazy settings, inconsistent character writing, dragged out drama, non threatening zombies, anticlimactic deaths besides Shane's or otis or Sophia, and a cliff hanger finale, this season was when the show was less about the life of an apocalypse survivor and more of a drama show , season 1 had u on your feat and lost, season 2 u felt safe and just focused on character drama , season 3 was a mix of both etc..., season 5 temporally had the group on the road Goin back to season 1 feels but that got lost quickly

    • @hi1is
      @hi1is 6 месяцев назад

      @@IIIISaiseason 2 is the best season

    • @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне
      @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне 21 день назад

      All rick had to do is to properly confront and control shane. He's a policeman but when shane goes apeshit rick just stands there in silence. So fake.

  • @odststalker5117
    @odststalker5117 11 месяцев назад +1

    I think the point at which I knew Daryl was going to be a great character was in the last episode of the first season, when Dr. Jenner told the group that the blast doors were designed to stop a bomb and the rest of group gives up trying to break through it. Except for Daryl, who picked up the fire axe and can be seen trying to break out of the door in the background up until the point they convince Jenner to open it finally. You need that guy on the squad

  • @thegeekkid1
    @thegeekkid1 11 месяцев назад +3

    Love these retrospectives of each season keep em up man .👍🏾

  • @GazerBeam2k
    @GazerBeam2k 11 месяцев назад +11

    And the Sophia reveal was terrific

  • @nrjdohhg5
    @nrjdohhg5 11 месяцев назад +4

    Those situations in the early seasons (and the relationships between the survivors after the prison), are the moments i think of when i say "i miss The Walking Dead". Once the originals died one by one it all just felt so empty...

  • @aguywithcommonsense7503
    @aguywithcommonsense7503 11 месяцев назад +8

    Just think that if it wasn't for Lori we could have had a Shane storyline later on where he was the one who was brought in by the saviors, not Morales and reunite with Rick and Daryl in either S7 or S8. That would've been hype.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +3

      if the writing was good , when rick confronts shane they drop their weapons , and Duke it out after the talk , and shane gives rick the choice of becoming the right leader or he leaves with andrea , obviously ends up leaving cuz rick is stubborn but when they find the prison rick develops anyways, michone finds them and shane doesn't trust her but hes out of choices as he has no supplies anyway , he eventually meets merle , I think they needa fix up all Andreas horrible season 3 writing lol, but I plan a death with shane andrea and merle mixed in with govnor , details don't matter cuz it's nit fanfiction central but shane was cut too short season 3 woulda been a better area

  • @anedgedancer5147
    @anedgedancer5147 11 месяцев назад +3

    I was 17 when I was watching this season, and I particularly remember Otis dying when I went on a university tour. Great series

  • @Comicbroe405
    @Comicbroe405 11 месяцев назад +3

    These are great. Really hope you do it for all the seasons.

  • @marskeck1024
    @marskeck1024 11 месяцев назад +1

    i just started watching your videos a couple weeks ago and i am really loving twd content (and your other videos ofc!) i have no way to watch twd right now, ive tried so many times

  • @michaelelmes2135
    @michaelelmes2135 11 месяцев назад +6

    Its a good season, it still had that grounded horror feel from season one. Lots of great character work and some standout episodes
    The writing and pacing definitely had its fair share of issues, especially watching week to week at the time. But now being able to binge it improves it significantly
    So yeah pretty much agree with the video lol

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад

      i disagree , horror left the moment they found the barn but the dialog was good

    • @billross9132
      @billross9132 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​​@@IIIISaithe scene where Shane and Otis went to the school was still pretty scary, walkers ran and also screamed. Freaky.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@billross9132 ohh that scene was scary af, ever since that scene horror left the show7, that's why i said the moment they went to the barn it stopped

    • @billross9132
      @billross9132 11 месяцев назад

      @@IIIISai ye I hate how instead of making our characters naturally adapt to where walkers were no longer a big threat, they just made them stupid in s3, big missed opportunity

  • @Jtroberts777
    @Jtroberts777 11 месяцев назад +6

    Bro. How?! I just finished rewatching season two today!!

  • @KingdomHeart556
    @KingdomHeart556 11 месяцев назад +2

    I like to think Shane’s last scene is one half planning to kill Rick, and the other half testing Rick to see if he would kill him to protect his family

    • @dora1980
      @dora1980 9 дней назад

      No, he wasn't testing Rick. He was ready to kill him. Shane told him you have a weak son , Lori and Carl will get over you. He wanted to steal Rick's family.

    • @KingdomHeart556
      @KingdomHeart556 9 дней назад

      @dora1980 I'm just saying you could argue he was. We can't truly know exactly what was going on in his head during these last couple of episodes

  • @simonbelmont65
    @simonbelmont65 9 месяцев назад +1

    Season 2 started off really great. When they were stuck on the highway scavenging for supplies and then the heard of the walkers came through and the group had to hide, that was really intense and so awesome to watch. But then once Sophia went missing, that dragged on way too long.
    The night with Shane and Otis was awesome too, but then the Randall situation made it lame, he never should have been brought back to the farm. So season 2 was good and had its ups and then its downs.

  • @readyupgames2781
    @readyupgames2781 11 месяцев назад +3

    Giga Glenn! 😂
    Great job man looking forward to the rest of these

  • @Evil_Change
    @Evil_Change 11 месяцев назад +12

    I remember when I was in high school it was right after I finished watching breaking bad when the show officially ended in 2013 is when I finally picked up watching The Walking Dead and I binge watched the first couple seasons and quickly caught up to win. Governor was making his reappearance basically in the series and I have not stopped watching the show live every time a brand new episode has aired since

  • @MrChase-
    @MrChase- 11 месяцев назад +4

    I didn't start watching the show until seasons 1-8 were on Netflix. I binged the show at the time and Season 2 was always my favorite.

  • @drkrack0607
    @drkrack0607 11 месяцев назад +7

    Awesome so glad ur doing this series I thought u weren’t gonna stick with it hell ya keep it up

    • @thethriftytypewriter
      @thethriftytypewriter  11 месяцев назад +2

      I’m never gonna stop doing TWD. I just like doing other stuff too 😁

  • @davidthorson2036
    @davidthorson2036 8 месяцев назад +1

    I'm rewatching Season 2 right now and I have to say it's not as dull as they say. There are so many iconic moments and a ton of character development for just about everybody. Finding Sophia in the barn, Shane's downfall, and the end of Nebraska are all top 10 TWD moments.

  • @devin2445
    @devin2445 11 месяцев назад +3

    Thrifty has been getting consistent now, great video!

  • @caravan2702
    @caravan2702 11 месяцев назад +3

    Really enjoyed this video, keen for the rest!

  • @ArchAngel420
    @ArchAngel420 11 месяцев назад +4

    There is certainly an argument to be made that Rick saved Randall because he heard the screams of an injured and terrified young man and the Officer Friendly side had to help, but it still feels like a pretty contrived plotline. Especially right after he killed people for the first time. They knew how hard it was to survive and to leave Randall injured and alone out in the world after patching him up is very possibly a worse fate than a quick death.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад

      it didn't make sense , the show just made ricks character all over the place for a prolonged drama , what sucks is even after this annoying season 2 rick finally agreed with shane , dale has a dumb death and rick turns 180 on his plan and doesn't kill Randall , and Carl who has been annoying the whole season comes right about when they are about to kill him , And above that the way rick saved Randall , hold fence pike in leg, surrounded my zombies , member of the crew that tried to kill him , rick even Savin him to begin with and not doing a quick death made 0 sense

    • @animegopher
      @animegopher 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@IIIISai So... In your opinion... A character has to make the right choices at all times... A character can't have conflicting views and actions... And a character can't have any true flaws at any point ever... Right... You should become a writer for Disney. They'd love you over there. Captain Marvel is getting another movie, go help with that.
      I know that was fairly rude, but it's to stress a point. Characters are allowed to make dumb decisions. That's what makes them not boring. Being flawed is GOOD. Rick is still clearly trying to hold on to his old values before the apocalypse. I'd argue that's probably fairly realistic. And him wanting to save Randall is obviously because he's a child. You know what police officers do after a firefight? They call ambulances and try to help the wounded, even if the wounded was shooting at them. So obviously he's still in that mindset. I know your view with film is probably "why would he do that, that's dumb, therefore, he's dumb." I'm sure you in your day to day make a LOT of dumb decisions. Just like me. Just like everyone else. Get off your high horse. Write your own story and characters. I can't wait to see how boring it is as the main protagonist overcomes every obstacle with ease.

    • @ArchAngel420
      @ArchAngel420 11 месяцев назад

      @@animegopher bro I ain’t reading all that. I just said it’s understandable for Rick to abandon OR save Randall but I think (MY PERSONAL OPINION THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE IS THE END ALL BE ALL OF MEDIA ANALYSIS) the ensuing plotline comes across as stupid upon closer inspection. If you feel differently that’s okay but you don’t have to be a cunt about it.

    • @animegopher
      @animegopher 11 месяцев назад

      @@ArchAngel420 Don't talk then if you can't read responses. Lmao. It's not a lot. I'm sure you have that Gen z brain rot though, so I understand.

    • @animegopher
      @animegopher 11 месяцев назад

      @@ArchAngel420 Don't respond if you can't read something more than 100 words. Lmao. Looking silly.

  • @ARC117Studios
    @ARC117Studios 8 месяцев назад

    I started the show with the premiere of Season 2, it was such an unforgettable day for me. I watched the S1 marathon leading up to the premier of S2 and was absolutely blown away. I don't think I had ever been or have been invested in a show quite as much as I was this one. Waiting each week was both agonizing and exciting, never knowing what was going to happen next. It was still also such a small show at the time, so seeing it absolutely explode by the time the S4 premier rolled around was insane.

  • @SteakjucySWOP
    @SteakjucySWOP 6 месяцев назад +2

    “A Ricktatorship”
    - The Thrifty Typewriter 2024

  • @Razorjaw86
    @Razorjaw86 11 месяцев назад +5

    This is my personal favourite season, it’s a feel good season, I definitely enjoyed it more because I had the luxury of binge watching it, there was a lot of personal drama and we watched a lot of these characters develop, it really depends what genre you’re most interested in

  • @Father_Daniel
    @Father_Daniel 11 месяцев назад +2

    I LOVE season 2! Was the first season I watched live on air and watched it several more times with friends I was trying to put onto the show. Mid season finale and the last 2 eps of s2 are some of my favorite TWD episodes ever

  • @lukeskywalkerthe2nd773
    @lukeskywalkerthe2nd773 11 месяцев назад +28

    Some people still think that season 2 was where the show began to decline. And while that might be true (Frank Darabont was fired after the first season after all, and I still hate that we never got that original full first episode of the fall of Atlanta that was originally planned. Would've been great) for some things, I still think Season 2 was really good for all the unforgettable moments we had in it mentioned here. It's always a blast to rewatch! :)

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +9

      ahh if he was fired after season 1 it explains why s2 felt so different and lost the old vibe and characters being brain dead especially deaf to Shane's common sense

    • @mrcheese5383
      @mrcheese5383 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@IIIISaiI think that the characters reacted very realistically to how real people might

    • @bamuh4506
      @bamuh4506 10 месяцев назад +2

      Some seasons are just way better as a binge than a weekly episode watch. This is one of them.

    • @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне
      @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне 21 день назад

      S2 lost any interest in setting. They are looking for a girl and solve pretty much typical everyday survival problems: food, water, roof, healthcare, laundry, etc. Nobody cares what is happening any more, zombies are taken for granted, nobody cares is it even possible to fix things, it's missing girl and power struggle in the kitchen all the way. Boring. S1 was full of suspense but S2 did not deliver any resolutions, it just introduced new boring tasks that were not any different from anything they used to do back in pre-apoc times.

    • @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне
      @ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне 21 день назад

      @@mrcheese5383 Shane going insane over a barn is not what average cop is like. And, even more so, Rick just standing there silently while Shane goes full apeshit, opening barn and stuff, it's just bleh. They both were established as solid cops, not rookies, and yet their behavior (esp. Rick's) is totally out of character. S2 is nothing but plot devices.

  • @purplebanana6420
    @purplebanana6420 11 месяцев назад +4

    i can appreciate season 2 alot more these kinds of seasons that build character is the best and it really works well honestly showing how the group changed

  • @beardedweirdo790
    @beardedweirdo790 11 месяцев назад +4

    For me season 2 was one of the best because yes its long winded but also shows growth for what was to become and also the one with a more realistic feel and did feel like a show about true survival and everything after was more an action show

  • @aidanchilton7899
    @aidanchilton7899 26 дней назад

    That was a brilliant point you made about each of their respective killings (shanes and ricks i mean) being their catalyst for their evolution, specifically when you said that it proved it was shane who was in fact not fit for this world. Just thought that was a good observation

  • @Colecruzin
    @Colecruzin 11 месяцев назад +48

    If you think the walking dead season 2 was boring you probably have the attention span of a toddler or just simply have bad taste lmao good video dawg !

  • @unownassassin1583
    @unownassassin1583 11 месяцев назад +3

    This has always been my favorite season. I loved the characters introduced (Maggie and Hershel) and the characters that grew and the the deaths (Dale and Shane) were great in my opinion. And I thought the writing and conflict made it amazing.

  • @TheRealCaptainGold
    @TheRealCaptainGold 11 месяцев назад +4

    Season 2 is GOATed

  • @jjbean4490
    @jjbean4490 11 месяцев назад +3

    I was also 11 watching this season waiting for the zombie scenes to pop up on the screen😂 I for sure overlooked all the character arcs

  • @s.o.c.c.5027
    @s.o.c.c.5027 7 месяцев назад

    17:41. Yes John B actually spoke about that as well in an interview. He said Rick found out the fun was not loaded when Shane became a walker and tried to put him down. Then that was when Carl did it instead.

  • @80sHorrorCentral
    @80sHorrorCentral 11 месяцев назад +2

    One of my favorite seasons. Great review and video! 🤙🏻

  • @kristym7149
    @kristym7149 11 месяцев назад +2

    I haven't seen TWD and don't plan on it since it's so long, so I'm watching all these videos and it's actually kind of making me want to watch it. I assumed it was a regular, basic zombie show. I might watch the main series and then The Ones Who Live. Thanks for the great content!

    • @thethriftytypewriter
      @thethriftytypewriter  11 месяцев назад +2

      I’d certainly give it a shot. It’s not the typical zombie apocalypse show. It’s a drama about how people deal with the apocalypse and if you view it that way you’ll enjoy it so much more.

  • @manOnAboat
    @manOnAboat 11 месяцев назад +5

    I started watching the show in December 2022 and finished it in December 2023. I remember I watched the entire first season in one day but kinda slowed down a bit and it took me 2 weeks to finish S2 E2. But on Christmas day i was building something and put it on in the background in instantaneously got hooked again. I then finished Season 2 in 2 days. I LOVE seasons 1 - 5 but there is just something so special about the first 2 ESPECIALLY the 2nd season. I think it was due to the simplicity before it became a turf war every season. you can really see the difference in season 3 (no hate to season 3 its a top 4 season) but season 2 gets UNFAIRLY hated even though it damn well may be one of the finest seasons of tv ever created

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +2

      the people that hate season 3 are the same people that consider season 7 and beyond good tv 💀

    • @manOnAboat
      @manOnAboat 11 месяцев назад +1

      Hot take: season 7 actually was pretty decent in the episodes that Negan shows up at Alexandria (also the 2nd half of season 8 is kind of good)

  • @trutherror
    @trutherror 10 месяцев назад +1

    This was one of my favorite seasons.Thanks for the review!

  • @lifelinegaming490
    @lifelinegaming490 11 месяцев назад +4

    For me this was one of the best seasons of the walking dead , this is what made me like twd , the character drama , shane and rick , and i think shane was actually a really really good character writing wise. Everything was as i wanted to be. The vibe of the farm was so fitting for me , the first episode in the highway , the conversations and arguments between rick and shane , it almost felt like it was a video game storyline for some reason.

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад +1

      lore for farm level in black ops 2 zombies 💀

  • @JDanus
    @JDanus 11 месяцев назад +2

    It's funny that I started rewatching TWD like 2 weeks ago. I watched your first video when I finished Season 1. And 2 days ago, when I finished Season 2, I looked for your channel to see the video of that season, and I couldn't find it. And then I realized you uploaded the first video like a month ago and that I would have to wait for the next one. It was so sad. But at the same time, an amazing coincidence that I started watching the show at the same time you are making this videos!
    I loved Season 1. It's a perfect piece of television. And Season 2 is also great. My only problem was that some deaths of characters felt a little off for me. Dale's death wasn't so impactful because It felt kind of cheap in it's execution. And also now I know that Jeffrey DeMunn asked to be killed because he wanted to get out of the show after AMC fired Frank Darabont. But I love how Dale's death affects the rest of the characters and all the moral dilemas that sorround this event.
    Dialogue this season is amazing and characters like Shane, Daryl and Hershel are on another level. Jon Bernthal perfomance is so amazing to watch. I thought is funny that characters like Danny (i think that was the name of the boy in the farm), and Patricia, are really in the background. And I felt they died just because the writers didn't know what to do with them. Sometimes I also felt like scenes repeated throughout the season. They would speak about something in one episode and in the next one they'd speak about the same thing with different words.
    My main issue was that sometimes I felt the show's script forced some situations out of thin air. Specially when the walkers arrive at the farm. I mean, the group was shooting guns and doing target practice for days, making hell of a noise, and no walker heard it. But one gunshot of Carl after the Shane vs Rick arc is completed, immediately attracts a huge horde, so they can destroy everything and force the group to escape.
    But overall, Rick and Shane's whole development as friends and then enemies is so f***ing great! I believe the first 3 episodes of this season are perfect TV. And the ending of the first half, with the opening of the barn, works on so many levels. It breaks Daryl and Carol, and also shows Rick that he really needs to change if he wants the group to survive. I love a line he says after this event. Something like: "I had them chasing a ghost in the woods". I think consequences of character's choices are really important and well developed in this season. Character development is top notch here. I watched the last 5 episodes in just one sitting because I was so intrigued.
    I liked Season 1 more because it was such an emotional rollercoaster. Every episode had me on the edge of my seat. It was such an adrenaline rush. I was so nervous and anxious watching it. Almost like terrified. I felt the same in the first 3 episodes of Season 2, but then it was something different. I liked both seasons very much. But I missed in Season 2 the adrenaline rush of not knowing and waiting for chaos to unfold.
    I started writing this comment just because I was happy of the coincidence of this videos coming out right when I started watching the show. And It got out of hand! Love you content man. I'm watching Season 3 and i'll be waiting for your next video.
    My score for this season is a 8/10
    Thank you if you read this far!

    • @IIIISai
      @IIIISai 11 месяцев назад

      that was the best analysis I ever read and you're correct , the show never has the season 1 vibe again , it stops bein a scary adventure and showing the struggles for basic survival needs and becomes a drama show in sets, the first 3 episodes of season 2 feel like season 1 whole the rest don't, and it's like every character stops developing but only shane does, Makin everyone besides daryl and hershel eventually , look stupid and shane a misunderstood man, I love shane , but him Not leaving and listening to lori when he asks her if he should stay twice and after all the arguments and fights and andrea offering to go with him was wack to me, they killed him off to kill him off because they didn't know where to go with him, a character who's cut throat and doesn't take bs and has common sense is too strong for a show that drags narratives by Makin characters choose stupid choices , you'll notice this alot in season 3 and the rest of the show, eventually the antagonists become brain dead too, rick overtime after Shane's death gains common sense like shane , but on multiple occasions will still make dumb calls, why , simple so the show works , if everyone was shane show ends quick because all conflicts have quick solutions, and as i said rick earlier besides his dumb calls, when he makes right calls like shane through the seasons, because his group members complain he'll submit, so even if u got a no bs character that's there way of Makin the plot happen , i ranted for no reason Lol, but yea season 2 was entertaining but Shane's death while cathartic was completely preventable and I bet if shane was alive longer they would somehow make him do something dumb for the plot to work, but it is rough to accept because as soon as shane dies now ricks common sense works , now they find a new location , like bruh

  • @KisaTrevor
    @KisaTrevor 11 месяцев назад +5

    Just finished watching episode 10. I have to say season 2 is some of the best Tv I’ve seen in a while

  • @OMGDDAAVVIIDD
    @OMGDDAAVVIIDD 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love these quality breakdowns, please keep it up

  • @stoner36s
    @stoner36s 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've avoided your content even though you came highly recommended by RUclips, it was more about the length, but God Bless You. Great interpretation from a comic book and TWDEU fan. Read all the comics all the books and own all video media. OG Uber fan, love your content.

    • @thethriftytypewriter
      @thethriftytypewriter  11 месяцев назад

      Haha I initially tried to keep videos shorter, but I always have more to say than I think I do which ends to longer videos 😂 glad to have you on board, hope you enjoy the previous content and future content to come

  • @JasperWolf-wy9mb
    @JasperWolf-wy9mb 18 дней назад +2

    Season 2 is great as a binge. I couldn’t imagine waiting week to week for it would’ve been so annoying

  • @diegoibarra6646
    @diegoibarra6646 11 месяцев назад

    Whenever that green car showed up i kept laughing about how untouched it was for ad reasons

  • @Marlo-138
    @Marlo-138 3 месяца назад +1

    Season 2 is my favorite season.
    The reason why it's my favorite is because I grew up on a farm myself, and this season is the most realistic as to what would happen during the apocalypse: people would live on farms in the middle of no where; the further you are from large towns and cities, the safer you are.