Walking Dead Season 4 Spoilers ahead! For those who haven't caught up with the latest episodes should avoid reading this. But if you've caught up then read on!
For a while it seemed like the prison is a safe place in the zombie apocalypse, but the second part of season 4 will remind us that no place is safe in the zombie apocalypse. While the group knows how to fight off the undead, the challenge that will always remain is finding food, supplies and shelter.
A newly released promo poster for the second half of season 4 shows Rick and Carl walking along a railroad track. With nothing on them but their guns, the text above the photo reads: "Don't Look Back." A definitely ominous image if I do say so myself. Wearing his father's old sheriff hat, the photo seems to hint that Carl is now the one in charge.
Amanda Remling of the International Business Times thinks that "If Carl did take charge in the second half of the season, it would be an interesting twist and something that "The Walking Dead" was suggesting at the beginning of season 4 with the rest of the prison children. For Rick and the other older group members, they remember a life prior to the horrors of the zombie apocalypse. They've since been forced to adapt from a life of safety and warmth, to one of living minute-to-minute. But it's a different story for the children. Despite initial attempts to shelter them from the dangers and plague of terror, this dead world is the only thing they know."- A good theory indeed.
When "The Walking Dead" started, Carl and Sophia were treated like children. By the time season 4 came around the number of children had grown thanks to the addition of the Woodbury townspeople to the prison. The children were required to do chores, but they were also receiving lessons on how to survive. While Carol's initiative to teach the children how to protect themselves was initially not well received, the result was Lizzie and the rest of the group bravely coming to the rescue of countless adult prison members. They fearlessly attacked walkers, and as we saw with Carl in season 3 and Lizzie in season 4, killing a human threat without a second thought.
When season 4 resumes Feb. 9, Carl is going to be forced to help his Rick, who is struggling to come to terms with the possible death of baby Judith.
"It's going to hit (Rick) in a way that we haven't seen before," executive producer Scott Gimple told TV Guide of life after the prison massacre and potential loss of Judith. "If it's just the two of them, (Carl is) going to have to step up quite a bit because circumstances are wildly different and a lot will depend on him in terms of them just surviving. They don't have an awesome dual-layer fence and brick buildings to hide behind. They're out in the world."
But what happened to the others who were scattered by the Governor's assault in midseason 4 finale? Check out a these series of teasers that reveal what horrors the others will face when 'The Walking Dead' returns in February!
Though the quality of the teasers themselves remains pretty low for the moment, the new spots that aired during 'The Walking Dead"s New Years' marathon gave us some effective teases where we might find the survivors by the February 9 premiere. Carl keeps his peril behind a door, while we're pretty sure we know what Michonne is up to back at the prison (comic and AMC spoilers, be warned), but Daryl, Beth and Glenn seem to have it the worst.
