I'm split on the last episode. It wasn't bad, but needed more zombie killing. Do you think it was really necessary for Rick to kill those two who were just looking for a place to hide out?
Um...no.
They were asking too many questions and digging too hard to get answers out of Rick as to where they were staying. To be honest, they were acting suspicious as fuck and any intelligent person would have seen they weren't really desperate enough to simply need a place to stay. They were all about the looting and stealing and Rick, a cop who's heard lots of guilty people try to lie their way out of a situation, could smell it on them.
Rick was also trying to be respectful of Herschel over the trust that was broken with the farm massacre. If Rick started grabbing survivors off the street recklessly, he'd basically be shitting all over Herschel's wishes as their host. They were trying to get Herschel to come back to his farm, which he let them stay at as a courtesy. The last thing Rick would want to do is start picking up strays they know nothing about along the way.
I really don't see how you, or anyone, could have missed the subtext of the scene. It was one of the few well handled scenes in the episode.
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Overall, I'd give the episode a 2.5 out of 5. Good mixed with bad for an entirely average experience with some maddeningly bad parts.
