Shortly after that discussion

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I m on record as saying that Lori is the most annoying character on the show, which stems mostly from last season. It wasn’t the character exactly—every group needs someone trying to act as the voice of reason—it was Sarah Wayne Callies’s performance that frustrated me. She’s not a bad actress—far from it—but the writers didn’t give her much to work with. Nearly every time we saw Lori last season she was either being a total buzzkill or looking shocked at something with giant bug eyes, a facial pose that wasn’t very convincing even in the most dire of situations. Callies more than made up for that with her subtle acting this season, which is why I’m sorry to see Lori go. The emergency Cesarean scene was barbarous, a cruel reminder than life is still severly primal. And then there’s Carl. Poor kid. One minute he’s making eyes with a cute older girl and the next he’s not only helping deliver his new sibling (did anyone catch the baby’s gender? If they said it, I missed it.), he heroically volunteers to be the one to put his mother down and ensure she won’t become a zombie.

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Shortly after that discussion there was a nice moment where Hershel walks on his crutches and Lori looks at Rick and somehow everything seems like it’ll be okay. Of course it isn’t. All hell breaks loose. Walkers streamed in from every corner of the prison. You have to go back pretty deep into last season to find the last surprise zombie ambush on this scale. And the results are devastating. After being bitten, T-Dog sacrifices himself to save Carol; Lori, Maggie and Carl become trapped in a tiny room and surprise, Lori goes into labor.

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The closing scene had so much potential. In the span of less than an hour we went from nearly pastoral to nearly apocalyptic, and then Maggie and Carl walk out with the baby and no Lori. It was exactly the kind of scene that begged for Andrew Lincoln to turn in a great performance. Instead, he took a giant Babe Ruth swing and missed. The episode ended with Rick Grimes belowing from a supine position, trying hard to convince us in the audience that he actually cared for his wife. I didn’t buy it, and it ruined what was otherwise a pretty powerful episode.

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