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Walking Dead Season
3 Episode 6 In response, the Governor, calm as ever, explains the
necessity of spectacle as a means of giving folks an outlet. His justification
for trivializing the nature of the outside world and entertaining the masses
with violent misrepresentations marks a potential new avenue The Walking Dead
may be headed down. It could also be construed as the show's first bit of
reflexive commentary on the nature and gratuitousness of its own violent
expressions.
Though given what we already know
about the Governor, like how he watches the jangling severed heads floating in
water tanks for Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 6 his
own pleasure, his hair-brush routine conveys more than simply denial. Rather,
the Governor's secret fixation on reliving the past signals a deep level of
psychosis masked by his seemingly fair-minded leadership of the Woodbury
community.
Walking Dead Season 3
Episode 6 After last week's episode of The Walking Dead ushered in a
new level of intensity with the deaths of two major characters and the birth of
Lori's (Sarah Wayne Callies) baby, "Say the Word" is comparatively
stagnant. This makes it consistent with the narrative rhythm that the writers
have committed to since the show's second season: After a dramatic turn of
events, everything slows down, often for several episodes.
"Say the
Word" fits comfortably within that broader framework, but it makes better
use of its quieter interludes than similar episodes and also offers a handful
of isolated standout moments.
One of these is early on, when
the Governor (David Morrissey) is listening to soothing classical music and Walking Dead Season 3
Episode 6 brushing the hair of his zombie daughter in his secluded
second-floor abode. She struggles, but the Governor wrestles the girl's
contorting body into a position in which he can safely hug her and tell her how
much he loves her.
The scene is somewhat of an extension of last season's
thread involving Hershel's (Scott Wilson) insistence that walkers are human.
"Say the Word" allows
Morrissey a fuller range of emotion, as the Governor uses faux vulnerability to
further exploit Andrea (Laurie Holden) Walking Dead Season 3
Episode 6 and turn her against the ever-suspicious Michonne (Danai
Gurira). We also see the extent of Woodbury's operation outside the town walls,
when Merle (Michael Rooker) and some of the Governor's other henchmen leave
town to retrieve walkers from elaborate traps.
Walking
Dead Season 3 Episode 6 All this reveals the precise level of control
the Governor holds over the community and its members. But perhaps more
revealing of his leadership is the cage match-style fight he stages at the end
of the episode, wherein chained walkers surround two human fighters.
As the
crowd cheers on, Andrea doubts the morality of the event.
Walking Dead Season 3
Episode 6 However you interpret the Governor's actions and account for
them, one thing for certain is that the portrayal of Woodbury continues to
stand in stark contrast to the group back at the prison. With a new baby
requiring care, those who remain in the dwindling group come together in a way
that's beginning to resemble a family. Their need to protect and help each
other has become almost instinctive, emphasized by several tender exchanges
born out of their mutual lament for those they've lost.
In particular, Daryl
(Norman Reedus), who, despite keeping his emotions mostly in check, appears to
be growing Walking
Dead Season 3 Episode 6 into an active leader figure through subtle
acts of loyalty and persistence that resonate with the others.
Walking
Dead Season 3 Episode 6 The one missing element amid the familial
bonding is Rick (Andrew Lincoln), whose guilt and despair have swelled to such
a level that he refuses to engage anyone. For much of the episode, Rick prowls
about the prison's interior, his face caked in blood, chopping through walkers
on his way to locating Lori's remains.
His final encounter with the zombie who
alone appears to have benefited from Lori's corpse represents perhaps the
show's darkest chapter yet.
Rick's impulse to see his wife is
a clear juxtaposition to the Governor's own unfettered drive to regain some
Walking
Dead Season 3 Episode 6 semblance of a life long over. But the most
chilling moment arrives in the closing shots, with the inexplicable ringing
phone that Rick hears and answers. Real or imagined, this moment tacitly
illustrates the intimate degree to which we have become bonded to Rick's
withdrawal from the group.
Walking
Dead Season 3 Episode 6 "Say the Word" lacks the thrills and
broader emotional palate of the previous episode, and thus its significance in
the broader story arc is somewhat low. Nevertheless, within the scope of the
show's accepted limitations, the episode is a measured accomplishment. Its
vision of human descent into madness, while not terribly original, resounds in
small, palpable doses.
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