This week's episode of The Walking Dead, titled "Prey," contained a zombie inferno, a fight above a pit of zombies, and a deadly game of hide and seek. And while these scenes were meant to bring the excitement up and keep the audience intrigue high, the fact remains the same. "Prey" is just another episode of season three of The Walking Dead that is helping to fill an episode quota.
I know I have been saying this a lot lately (because it is true), but let me help to explain in case you don't understand why I keep saying it. At the beginning of "Prey," Andrea is in Woodbury and is skeptical about The Governor's intentions. Worried, she decides she is going to try and escape back to the prison group. The only other storyline in the episode is Tyrese and his group teaming up with the generically named Martinez to go fetch some zombies from a pit the Woodbury gang created. Tyrese disagrees with the tactic, gets in a fight with his old buddy Pale-Face Wimp Widower, and the zombies are later torched after the group has left by a disguised figure (my guess is Morgan). The sub-plot of the episode takes up about ten to twelve minutes of screen time. The other bulk is Andrea.
That is important. We are talking about over a half hour of screen time being the Andrea storyline of her trying to get away from Woodbury and back to the prison. After the point that The Dweeb tells Andrea about The Plantation Pirate's plan to capture Michonne and Andrea sees the torture seat Captain Phillip Sparrow has set up, she wants out. We have hit about the twelve minute mark of the episode when all of her escape starts to take place. First, she must convince Tyrese not to shoot her as she runs away. Then she has to hide in the woods from a Woodbury truck and fight off a surprise walker attack. Then she must outrun The Govclops's truck as he chases her down in a field. Then she has to play hide and seek in an abandoned factory and use a stairwell of walkers to escape. Then she continues to march all the way to the prison, where she can see Rick keeping an eye out in a watch tower. But after all of that, she starts to wave and is tackled by Captain Govclops before Rick can see her. She is taken back to Woodbury where The Governor straps her into the torture chair.
So basically the entire episode starts in Woodbury with Andrea wanting to leave and The Governor wanting her to stay and it ends with Andrea being held captive in Woodbury by The Governor. The incredibly long sequences running down a street, being chased in a field, and playing hide and seek in a warehouse all meant nothing. They were useless. They did nothing but waste our time and give a round-about way of getting Andrea in that chair.
To read the rest of the review (IMDb form too short) visit: http://custodianfilmcritic.com/the-walking-dead-3-14-prey/
I know I have been saying this a lot lately (because it is true), but let me help to explain in case you don't understand why I keep saying it. At the beginning of "Prey," Andrea is in Woodbury and is skeptical about The Governor's intentions. Worried, she decides she is going to try and escape back to the prison group. The only other storyline in the episode is Tyrese and his group teaming up with the generically named Martinez to go fetch some zombies from a pit the Woodbury gang created. Tyrese disagrees with the tactic, gets in a fight with his old buddy Pale-Face Wimp Widower, and the zombies are later torched after the group has left by a disguised figure (my guess is Morgan). The sub-plot of the episode takes up about ten to twelve minutes of screen time. The other bulk is Andrea.
That is important. We are talking about over a half hour of screen time being the Andrea storyline of her trying to get away from Woodbury and back to the prison. After the point that The Dweeb tells Andrea about The Plantation Pirate's plan to capture Michonne and Andrea sees the torture seat Captain Phillip Sparrow has set up, she wants out. We have hit about the twelve minute mark of the episode when all of her escape starts to take place. First, she must convince Tyrese not to shoot her as she runs away. Then she has to hide in the woods from a Woodbury truck and fight off a surprise walker attack. Then she must outrun The Govclops's truck as he chases her down in a field. Then she has to play hide and seek in an abandoned factory and use a stairwell of walkers to escape. Then she continues to march all the way to the prison, where she can see Rick keeping an eye out in a watch tower. But after all of that, she starts to wave and is tackled by Captain Govclops before Rick can see her. She is taken back to Woodbury where The Governor straps her into the torture chair.
So basically the entire episode starts in Woodbury with Andrea wanting to leave and The Governor wanting her to stay and it ends with Andrea being held captive in Woodbury by The Governor. The incredibly long sequences running down a street, being chased in a field, and playing hide and seek in a warehouse all meant nothing. They were useless. They did nothing but waste our time and give a round-about way of getting Andrea in that chair.
To read the rest of the review (IMDb form too short) visit: http://custodianfilmcritic.com/the-walking-dead-3-14-prey/