Walking Dead: Season 2 Finale and looking forward to Season 3!

Last nights Season 2 finale episode of Walking Dead restored my faith in the series!  I had stopped watching the show and have not seen the previous three episode's because I felt the series had become too much of a soap opera and had gone too far away from including zombies in the mix.  With that said, the season finale did not disappoint and made up for the lack of zombies by including a whole herd of zombies!  Yes!

Michonne!?  Yes, finally. Show save +10!

Let's start from the top.  The previous episode left off with Rick killing Shane in "self-defense."  While this was self-defense, you also get the feeling that Rick wanted him dead anyways (which he admits to Lori in the finale.)  Rick come backs to life and our young friend Carl, who is given too much leisure to roam for a 10 year old living in the zombie apocalypse), puts a bullet in his head.  Of course the gun shot attracts any walker within gun shot range.  And this is where the finale starts.

The walkers that we last saw grubbing on Rick's horse back in Atlanta, well they didn't stay in the city.  There dinner party is interrupted by a helicopter flying over head and of course they are drawn in the direction that the helicopter is flying.  It just so happens that the helicopter is flying in the direction of Herschel's farm.  What are the odds?! (Pretty good if Herschel's farm is in the direction of the Prison...this is only my guess of where the helicopter came from.)

Anywho, the zombies play follow the leader with the helicopter and end up occupying the wooded area around the farm.  Thus, when our young lad Carl blasts zombie Shane away, he attracts a herd of zombies.  The zombies swarm the farm and eventually bring about its destruction with the help of Rick and Carl who find it necessary to set them on fire inside of the barn.

Its at this point that all chaos ensues.  The group appears to have no plan.  Its every man for himself first, and then help your neighbor if you can/feel like it.  Well that doesn't work too well and the group is split into mini groups who have no idea what is going on except that they are supposed to meet back at the highway where they encounter the first herd of zombies before coming to Herschel's farm.  Good plan.

A bunch of drama happens, the group finally reunites but wait!  Andrea is missing, at least to the group she is.  And guess what: she has all the guns!  Really?!  Why weren't these things in the lead vehicle?  Anywho, back with the main group, Rick's car runs out of gas and the group stops and builds a fire for the night.  Rick tells Lori that he killed Shane and that he wanted him dead.  Ohhhhhh.  And guess what? Is Lori elated because this is what she has been goading Rick to do the entire time?  No!  She is actually really, really upset and mad at Rick!  Go figure.

When they rejoin the group, Rick breaks it to the group that he killed Shane and a group of people who wanted Shane gone are now all upset with the man who made their wish come true.  Tired of all the whining and pity partying that has been going on, Rick finally loses his shit when a mutiny begins to brim. Rick informs the group that this is not a democracy, (its a Ricktatorship!  Stolen from Talking Dead) and if anyone has a problem with that there's the front door!  Ohhhhhhh.  Surprisingly nobody leaves and Herschel (who I believe has a secret man-crush on Rick) has this little smirk on his face.

Back with Andrea, who has been running this whole time but is still being closely followed by zombies who can only walk swiftly; she finally trips out of breath and is about to meet her maker when a flash of steel separates the encroaching zombies head from its body.  Left in the once zombies place is a hooded figure with two pet zombies chained to her.  Michonne!!!  Yes.

Oh, and least I forget, in the background after Rick's Ricktatorship speech, we see the Prison.  Season 3 looks like its going to be good!!!