Recall the events of the previous episode: Clementine and comrades were in bootcamp old dictator Bill Carver, where they forcibly kept under lock and key. Camp, however, is not simple: plenty of food, protection against zombies, and locking such fictitious - in a cage no one holds, just make commuting at gunpoint. Before Clementine formed an interesting choice - either stay in the camp, or escape to freedom, where zombies, no food and weapons. Group chooses the second option - and returns to hell unstable tomorrow. Actually, Amid the Ruins and it is dedicated.
Problems pile up from the starting whistle: Rebecca recall pregnant - rifle hanging on the wall all three episodes, finally fired Rebecca is about to give birth. Pregnancy, of course, accompanied by quarrels, shouting, tantrums, veiled suggestions abortion and other abominations, which habitually pouring from all (well, except for Clementine) nutty group members. Taking a break in the third episode, and there is almost no quarrel guys vengeance in the fourth - here, as usual, a lot of domestic scandals. But the line childbirth - not in the main Amid the Ruins. Not the main line and suffering Sarah - a little girl, with a slight touch of autism, mourns the loss, but the airtime it takes a little bit.
However, the main intrigue revolves around Jane.
However, the main intrigue revolves around Jane.
Weird girl to join the group until the end of the previous episode, all seem fairly alien - even despite the fact that she has made a major contribution to the operation to escape from the camp. But take it with a big scratch: some paranoids see Jane unreliable person, while others simply do not trust; resolves, as usual, all Clementine. True, at the very Jane seems stigma of a gun - too strange and incomprehensible girl; although, of course, charismatic - a couple of scenarios with her participation will be remembered for a long time.
But that's all. Amid the Ruins, probably the first episode of season two for all, where there is no general conflict. This is obvious - since died Carver man trickster, a man-threat, invisible shadow of death over the group, everything was somehow impressively. The third episode, which was the best of the season, and which can be sold separately from the series, this was just because it departed from the usual Walking Dead-canon: Well, you know, all this tinsel with zombies, no food, have gone missing cartridges, o-my-god-where-is-water, etc., etc.. In Amid the Ruins it all comes back in full (even slightly obsessive) amount, but no single line, some central ideology that would characterize this particular episode - no. Just bytovuha, just a bunch of tired of each other and the lives of people who are trying to survive. And that in itself is not bad - but not in the Walking Dead, which fend off the zombies long become a routine exercise; brush your teeth.
A more Amid the Ruins and offers. Characters - yes, good, especially Jane adorns slightly overexposed cohort familiar faces, delighting the eye. Story of the birth of the child - strong, but obvious, and, shall we say, has too sensitive places: to elicit sympathy, screening pregnant woman, many do not mind. Of the final part and he does not want - there is a piano in the bushes that can play all of Bach.
And in the end there is nothing left. Standard, not particularly smart and drayvovy episode that in general chronology seems to serve as a bridge between the events of the season and the finale, which is suitable Walking Dead, that here, with a much lower rate than in previous times.
It is now obvious that the second season strongly loses first - that there is in the fifth episode did not come up. And it is unclear who is behind scold: change the composition of the writers, excessive activity Telltale Games (parallel Walking Dead they were doing and Wolf Among Us) or their own expectations. A little sad that the second time the miracle has not happened, and talented, by far, the studio over your head again could not - made just the way it usually does, without revelation.
And yet, we are waiting for the final - all the more so that the third season has already claimed.
It is now obvious that the second season strongly loses first - that there is in the fifth episode did not come up. And it is unclear who is behind scold: change the composition of the writers, excessive activity Telltale Games (parallel Walking Dead they were doing and Wolf Among Us) or their own expectations. A little sad that the second time the miracle has not happened, and talented, by far, the studio over your head again could not - made just the way it usually does, without revelation.
And yet, we are waiting for the final - all the more so that the third season has already claimed.