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The Walking Dead - Season 4 - Top Five Moments in Review

Apr 1, 2014

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The Walking Dead’s fourth season has come to a close, and so I’ve picked out my top five moments from the season. See if you agree.

5. Michonne tells Carl what happened to her son (A)

The development that she had a son in ‘After’ had been coming for a while – there had been signs of a past connection to kids in season three. Flashbacks in ‘After’ let us devise our own theories about what happened, none of them positive. Carl did the same, and was proven right. This was nice development on the Michonne front (it was also good to learn who those chained walkers were), however it also led to a better connection between her and Carl. The back half of the season had presented her as more of a motherly figure for Carl, and this development helped move that along.

4. The Governor plays chess with Meghan (Live Bait)

As the third season went on, it became easy to forget that The Governor (to quote Mika) probably wasn’t like that before. We saw signs earlier in the season that he did actually care for other people, despite his concurrent portrayal as a psychopath. This was seen particularly with his despair over Michonne’s ‘killing’ of his daughter (which led to the mass killing in the third season finale). Upon his return in ‘Live Bait’, he was shown as someone who just didn’t care anymore. Yet, finding the Chamblers, particularly finding his connection with Meghan really brought out a new side to him (this was of course followed by a brutal killing of her zombified grandfather – but even that was to save the family). The chess game gave us great insight into The Governor’s former life, which I felt was crucial character development.

3. Rick kills Joe’s group (A)

Rick had been struggling with his anger issues for a long time now. Flashbacks to the time at the prison helped spur us on towards the moment when he finally let his anger out upon Joe’s group. It was the only real violent scene we had in the episode, so that was good in itself. But what was even better is the way that Rick went from hostage to psycho. That gunshot was the turning point, and I loved the way that Rick did what he did in order to protect those close to him.

2. Carol kills Lizzie (The Grove)

It seemed obvious. The choice to kill Lizzie in favour of protecting everyone from her psychotic mind. Yet, when Carol actually pulled that trigger, it came as a shock to everyone watching. ‘Did she really just do that?’ we thought. Killing a child is seldom seen on TV shows, yet The Walking Dead has done this on multiple occasions (see Sophia, Patrick). Even so, killing Lizzie (and Lizzie killing her own sister) came as a brutal shock to viewers.


1. The Governor attempts to take the prison (Too Far Gone)

This is a scene that we had been anticipating for a long time. Sure, we got The Governor’s failed attempt at overtaking the prison in the season 3 finale, but it wasn’t anywhere near the magnitude of what we witnessed here. Killing Hershel was a bold move, and it was followed by 12 (yes, 12) minutes of utter chaos. It was one of those ‘no one is safe’ moments, where anyone could be caught in the gunfire. Even Rick got shot in the leg. It resulted in the group being split apart, a spilt that formed the latter half of the season. But nothing compared to the brilliance on display in this scene.

What were your top five moments? Sound off in the comments!

Bradley Adams
15 year old in England. Love Hawaii Five-0, NCIS, NCIS LA, Person of Interest, Elementary, Criminal Minds, Nikita and Arrow, and the new The Blacklist, Hostages and The Tomorrow People. I am reviewing Person of Interest and The Tomorrow People for Spoiler TV. I run an Arrow blog, ArrowFansUK. Aside from TV, a keen cricketer.

18 comments:

  1. One of my favourite was The Governor plays chess with Meghan . I loved that scene

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  2. Live Bait is my third favourite episode of the season (1. Too Far Gone, 2. The Grove). The entire episode was great, in the way that it portrayed a different side to the Governor, but particularly that scene was great.

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  3. Hershel being killed counts as Governor attempts to take the prison ;)

    Those were all great scenes. I liked the Martinez one - it went 'Hey, we showed you a nice side to the Governor, now let's remind you why he's a psychopath that you all want dead', and I loved that.

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  4. Yeah, I liked the Michonne at the door scene. Those are all great scenes too.

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  5. More great scenes there. But I wasn't gonna include that last one, purely because the following line irritated me.

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  6. I have to admit I liked that last line a lot. I know it could have been stronger and it's cheesy, but it's my fondness for bad crime dramas from 30 years ago.

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  7. Ah, never watched anything (TV-wise) that far back. I just found it cheesy and odd. The idea of it was in character, but the actual line wasn't.

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  8. 5. Michonne putting her sword through The Governor's chest.
    4. Carol returning to join Tyreese and company.
    3. Maggie and Glenn reunion.
    2. Rick killing Joe and Dan.
    1. Rick telling Daryl he is his brother.

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  9. I forgot to say Patrick playing with the Legos. It was such a small, sad little scene, just a small character moment for both Patrick and Carl. It's one of those beats TWD plays that is often overlooked.

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  10. I very much enjoyed this season as a whole so its hard to pick just 5 top scenes. I did enjoy all the ones you listed. Although for me I'd probably put up one or 2 of Daryl/Beth's conversations up there because I felt the solo Daryl/Beth episode was one of the best episodes of the season and did wonders for character development for the two of them. This whole season was great just developing the characters more.

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  11. I wish that the following line would have been "Who we are." It would have been a better call back to the beginning of the episode with Carl.

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  12. You know, I liked that scene too. Almost makes me feel sad that it took me two episodes and a TWD wiki search to remember his name.

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  13. But it was straight fom the pages of the comic! Except it was "fucking" instead of "screwing"...

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  14. Another favorite scenes in my opinion were:

    Glenn finding out that Maggie is alive when he sees the signs

    The Governor's reintroduction (last pale light in the west)

    Daryl and Beth burning down that house

    Lizzie saving Tyreese

    Rick's rearmament

    Michonne crying when she finds Rick and Carl

    Rick to Daryl: "You are my brother"

    And surely Rick: "They'll feel very stupid when they find out..." (including the faces of Michonne, Daryl and Carl when Abrahams asks "What?")

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  15. Hershel's moments.

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  16. Hershel's death and Hershel holding a walker while he takes his medicine.

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  17. It's homage to the books. The exact line is a bit darker than that so
    I'm sure they edited a bit for the show, but it's a reference point for
    comic fans so they know what to expect in Terminus, I'm guessing anyway.
    The original line is "They're going to feel pretty stupid when they
    realize they're fu**ing with the wrong people." But given the context
    and situation of the story arc of the book it was right on for Rick's
    character to say and very fitting.

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  18. Maximum again and hundreds of times dangerous. http://www.friv200.com

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