Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, Walking Dead is coming back in 4 weeks and just to get
us all pumped up and ready I’m doing a weekly countdown series of bonus videos for the characters
and some of my own personal favorites from the last couple of seasons.
This one will be all about Rick.
Hello any new people, if you’re just finding me I’m going to be doing weekly walking
dead videos and a weekly giveaway.
All you have to do to enter is be a subscriber and leave a comment.
I’ll be doing a Q&A tomorrow where I’ll announce this week’s winner.
More details about all that at the end of this.
I know farmer Rick got a lot of hate for what went down at the prison in season 4 and all
the chaos in the aftermath but that Rick is dead.
Long Live Farmer Rick.
Just to get things started, here’s my top 5 Rick Moments from the show so far.
Careful for spoilers from everything on the show through Season 4.
I’ll wait just a sec...okay, here we go
Number 5 - Rick Kills Shane
Bonus points for Carl killing Walker Shane, so Shane was killed twice in rapid succession.
I love that they give the bigger characters epic deaths.
And they made it a family affair.
Both times Shane was put down were self defense, Rick with the Knife and Carl with the gun.
This is one of the better examples of Rick finding it in himself to kill one of his former
best friends.
Let that be a reminder to Professor Mullett, Eugene or even Bob if he thinks about hitting
the bottle while they’re still trying to escape Terminus.
I feel like Rick’s final battle with the Governor during season 4 was just as personal,
but he and Shane shared so much between the two of them.
They were essentially this warped messed up family unit with Two dads and one mom.
Shane had been headed down hill all season, so by the time Rick took him out I felt almost
no sympathy for him.
Although, do you remember back in the second half of season 4 when Rick and Carl break
into that house.
Carl breaks down and throws Shane in Rick’s face.
They said, behind the scenes, the actors were thinking of the most messed up terrible thing
Carl could say to Rick, just to get him to react.
And they came up with Shane.
Number 4 - Rick Kills Dave’s Gang in Season 2
It was episode 9, the mid season premiere.
This is a classic example of quick tempered Rick shooting first and asking questions later.
He and Herschel were at Hatlin’s bar talking about Herschel’s dead wife and being guilty
about how he’d led Maggie and Beth on about her condition.
Cut to random appearance by Michael Raymond James from Terriers and Tony who were part
of a large group of nomads.
They press Rick and Herschel about the location of the farm so they can bring the group but
push comes to shove and Rick just ain’t havin’ it.
He finishes Dave off with a headshot, but Tony who’s huge takes three bullets before
he goes down.
I feel like everytime the show does a bar scene, something terrible happens.
So anytime a new one shows up I’ve always thought it’s the director reminding us visually
that this is like the opposite of cheers.
You will never be glad you came.
Number 3 - Rick Hacks of Herschel’s Leg
This was from the season 3 premiere and that leg did not go quickly.
It was really messy and really awesome at the same time.
Herschel makes the mistake of assuming a body lying on the floor is completely dead but
it reanimates, bites him and Rick performs surgery right there on the spot.
The hack job was something right out of a b-horror movie, which was probably just as
much fun for the props team to set up as it was for us to watch it unfold on tv.
But after it’s all done, everyone looks up from the mess and sees all a new group
of survivors walk up with WTF faces like what just happened here.
I think a lot of the season 4 complaints people had during the time at the prison were mostly
that it felt like a long slow rot compared to the crazy intensity of moments like this.
It’s always interesting to hear Scott Gimple and the other cast members talk about changes
to the tone of the show from half season to half season.
Thematically every 8 episodes, they completely change what the show is.
Number 2 - Rick Clears The Prison Like a Video Game
This was also from that same first episode in season 3.
The survivors had the task of clearing the prison for habitation.
And it just turns into this video game killing spree.
Like Rick is just chopping meat in a barrel.
This is what I’m hoping to see again in Season 5.
maybe even the first episode.
It would be a nice callback to them clearing the prison.
Only instead of clearing Terminus so they can live there, they clear it so they can
escape.
Some of the cooler takedowns are when they start finding the armored guard walkers.
Armor that Glenn then later used to escape in season 4.
Number 1 - Rick Bites out Joe’s Neck
This is the best example of crazy Rick.
The I don’t give a crap about anything but making this threat in front of me go away.
It was one of the crazier scenes from the comic book, usually the show is totally different,
but it does do some of the bigger stuff from the comic.
It was like Rick shook off whatever funk had been on him the whole season and roared back
to life all over Joe’s neck.
They said that when they filmed the scene, Greg Nicotero came up to Andrew Lincoln and
said Chicken or Fish.
And Andrew Lincoln took a sec till it was explained the chunk of neck he’d be biting
out would be uncooked meat.
He chose the chicken.
And he said the actor playing Joe just told him to really lay into it.
Like go crazy.
The whole thing was surreal.
And that next morning when he and Daryl are sitting there in the mess of the dead claimers.
Rick seems totally over it.
Like he’s already moved on.
I’ve been calling him Machine Gun Rick when I refer to season 5 stuff, but really we should
just call him Crazy Rick.
Like stab you in a dirty alleyway Rick.
If any of you really didn’t like season 4 in general, I think a lot of your prayers
for more action have been answered with this first half of season 5.
I’ve been following the production as they shoot the second half of season 5, so just
turn the volume down till this tag goes away if you don’t want to know what’s going
on...okay.
So it seems like the second half of season 5 is going to be spent on the run.
The survivors that is.
I still haven’t seen beth and it seems like they continued to shoot at that creepy hospital
we saw her at in the trailer.
okay spoilers over.
I don’t want to use the term Hunters, just because that’s a whole group in the comics,
but Rick is much more of a predator running point for the survivors.
I can’t show it here in this video but during comic con they aired a gag reel of Andrew
Lincoln warming up for scenes by screaming obscenities running around punching stuff
like he was warming up for a boxing match.
That’s the kind of Rick I’m really excited to see this year.
Once the episodes start we can talk more about character arcs, but for the first couple of
episodes it’s going to be all claws and teeth.
Here’s a big question for you guys.
What’s you favorite badass Rick Grimes moment from the show.
If you’ve read the comics it’s okay to comment on something from that but please
use spoiler tags.
Here’s the details on the giveaway, the bonus videos and what’s going to happen
when episodes start.
The premiere is Sunday October 12th.
For the next 3 weeks I’ll be doing bonus countdown videos just to help get everyone
ready.
Then when we to the actual weekend of the premiere I might do a little bit extra.
The weekly giveaway is just like my season 4 giveaway.
All you have to do to enter is be a subscriber and leave a comment.
I’ll keep reminding people every time I post a bonus video.
So no worries.
I’ll probably do a double giveaway for the first episode.
My videos for the episodes will be just like last year.
It’s the same thing I’m doing for Doctor Who right now.
Bonus video, Episode Review and then next day Q&A.
Feel free to make requests for those bonus videos.
I will be doing a Q&A video for this tomorrow morning.
There’s a bunch of other stuff starting next week too.
So I encourage you to check it all out as I post stuff.
It’s going to be a lot of fun!
Right now click here for my breakdown of the season 5 trailer and click here to learn what’s
happening with the walking dead spinoff show.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tomorrow.
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