Recap The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 6: Secrets

Sorry for the delay but I finally was able to watch episode 6 and will be watching episode 7. So here is the recap and my thoughts for episode 6: Secrets. There are spoilers for those who haven't watched it yet.

Sunday nights 9 pm EST on AMC!

The episode begins with Patricia breaking legs of live chickens. We see that she is feeding the zombies in the barn. It seems that the zombies are attracted to live bait such as when Shane shot Patricia's husband Otis in the leg and leaving him for dead.

Maggie tries to convince Glen keep the secret of the barn to himself. Unfortunately, Glen is a bad liar and he eventually reveals to Dale that there are walkers in the barn and that Lori is pregnant. Dale decided to confront Hershel about the matter and does not convince Hershel that the walkers are dangerous. Hershel instead still views them as people will a horrible illness and he does not want to "kill" his wife and step son who are in the barn. It's clear that Hershel and the rest of the people on the farm have been sheltered from the gruesome reality that the others have faced. These walkers are not really people anymore.

Carl wants to learn how to shoot. He goes out of his way to steal a hand gun and tries to talk to Shane about  learning how to shoot. Lori, for obvious reasons, does not want her son around guns especially after being shot quite recently. Rick decides its the best course of action just in case there is an emergency and Carl should not be afraid of guns. Fast forward to shooting practice. We see Andrea excelling during practice. I have no idea how she got so good in a short time span. She is given an advanced private lesson from Shane. This, however, does not go well. Shane keeps yelling at her because she cannot hit a moving target. She has to turn off all thinking and emotion. He crosses the line when he brings Andrea's dead sister Amy who was killed by a walker in the first season. He apologizes to her. He tells her that they have a lead on Sophia and he could use her as backup.

Back at the camp Dale tells Lori that he knows about her pregnancy. She is heart broken because she realizes that her son Carl and the baby will have a life filled with misery. Dale tries to reassure her.
Lori once again asks Glen to go to the pharmacy in town. Although Maggie is pissed off with Glen, she accompanies him back to the town. She is not truly convinced that the walkers are a huge threat until she gets attacked. Glen saves her life. This is also the zombie killing highlight for this episode!
 

Glen comes swinging with a store shelf.

The walker is still "alive"

I'm not sure what tool this is...

Melee headshot!

This zombie got f'ed up!!!

 Shane and Andrea finally get to their destination which looks like a nice suburban area. Time to check out all the houses. They stumble upon a garage where they see corpses. There is no sign of Sophia but there are signs of a lot of zombies.

At first Andrea loses her focus and cannot shoot any of the zombies coming her way. Shane tells her to relax and focus. She ends up learning how to kill the zombies.

She has something on her mind...

Gratuitous crotch grab...

 After their daring escape, Andrea has sex with Shane in the car. Back at camp, Dale is suspicious of Shane and his motives. I'm sure that there will be more conflict between these two characters in the near future. Is Shane really that big of a douche? Or is his actions justified in the context of their new reality of a zombie apocalypse?

Lori first decides to ingest a handful of emergency birth control pills and immediately regrets her decision and throws them up. Rick finds the birth control pill packaging and confronts Lori. She reveals to Rick that she is pregnant and that she slept with Shane after she thought that Rick had died.

Finally secrets are being revealed. We have to see what happens in the next episode, which is the mid-season finale. I'll be working on the next post as I get the chance to watch episode 7.

Scheduling Made Easy: Tungle.me

I'm just writing a quick post about a great application that allows you to share your availability with others whether it's for personal or business reasons. The name of this app is tungle.me. This app was created back in 2009 as a start up venture in Montreal, Canada. As of April 2011, they have been acquired by Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of Blackberry phones and tablets. In my opinion this is a great web application!

I first learned of this app when I was trying to schedule a recent job interview. The hiring manager sent me a public link to his tungle profile to show when he was available to meet. I just had to propose a meeting time. This was synced up with my blackberry calendar and also I was sent an email to remind me of the date and time of the interview. Below is an example of the public profile.

The interface is easy to use. Once you have set up a profile you can choose to sync it with other calendar applications such as google calendar, ical, microsoft outlook, blackberry calendar, facebook, and others. Once all calendars are synced up you can see your events and appointments on the tungle.me calendar. The good thing is that when you share your tungle.me calendar with someone else they can't see your events but only see that you are not available or busy at that time. Another great thing is that this prevents double booking. Also the person who wants to propose a meeting does not have to sign up for an account to propose meeting times.

This is definitely a great application to increase productivity. It is a great way to minimize the time and sometimes confusion of scheduling meetings with each other. It is free to sign up for an account. There are also the app versions that you can download for your mobile phone. So far blackberry and iphones are supported. There is no word on an android app on their website but I am sure one will be on its way.

I suggest you check it out and see for yourself if this app can be useful in your life. I think that it will be!
Here is the link again: tungle.me.

Recap of The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 5: Chupacabra

Here we go Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 5: Chupacabra. If you haven't seen the episode from last Sunday there are going to be spoilers here.

Sunday 9pm EST on AMC!

Episode Recap:

The episode begins with a flashback. We see events at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. We learn that the government has dropped bombs destroying the city much to the horror of the people waiting on the highway.

The group is planning out a search party for Sophia. Shane and Rick have differing opinions about what should have been done regarding searching for Sophia. Shane believes that there should not have been a search party because it uses up resources and makes the survivors susceptible to danger. Rick is stricken with guilt over how he could not protect Sophia and lost her. He still believes that Sophia is alive and that they will find her. Rick begins to doubt his decisions. We find out later we find out that Shane's top priority is to keep Lori and Carl safe. No one else really matters. Lori has not told Rick (or Shane) that she is pregnant. I'm thinking that this might be Shane's baby but not sure of the timeline of events thus far.

Daryl's missing brother Merle from Season 1. Is he still alive?

Darryl goes off on his own after borrowing a horse without asking. He finds a doll possibly owned by Sophia down by a lake. However, before he can make further progress he is thrown off by a horse down the side of a short cliff. Unfortunately, one of his arrows has pierced his side. He attempts to climb up the cliff to get back to safety. He slips and falls again. He has visions of his brother Merle who keeps goading him and tells him that he is not liked nor respected by the other survivors. He finds the strength to climb back to the path but not before making a necklace out of the ears of the zombies he just killed.

Zombie Killing Highlights: Darryl fights off two zombies.

• Zombie A gets owned by a large walking stick to the head. 

Well place walking stick to the head.

• Zombie B is killed with a well placed arrow to the head.

Headshot!

Andrea wants to keep the camp safe by keeping lookout. She spots a zombie who is really Daryl covered in dirt and blood. She can't properly identify who it is because of the sunlight. She takes a shot which just grazes Daryl's head. 

Zombie or just crazy Daryl covered in dirt and wearing a zombie ear necklace? Andrea take a look...

...what Andrea sees through her binoculars.

Andrea's shot just grazes Daryl's head.

Glen confides in Dale about having sex with Maggie. Dale is not impressed and mortified by the whole situation because he knows that Hershel is going to be pissed off if he ever finds out.

Ever done it in a hayloft? Funny story there was this one time...

Creepy barn alert. There better not be any zombies in there...

The big reveal comes at the very end of this episode. Glen wants to meet Maggie at the barn hayloft after dinner. He makes a shocking discovery that Hershel has kept living zombies locked up in the barn. Maggie tells Glen that he was not supposed to see this.

WTF! There are zombies in the barn! 

How will Hershel explain this secret to the survivors? Will this drive a wedge between Team Rick vs. Team Hershel. Will Lori reveal her pregnancy?  We will see what happens next episode!