The Walking Dead: Cherokee Rose

     It looks like The Walking Dead is falling into a set pacing pattern as, once again, a highly charged, action packed, super eventful episode is followed by a slower, less dramatic one.  Not that I'm complaining, I'm just pointing out the pattern.  It's these "slower" episodes that help give the show it's depth of character, setting up for the action packed episodes and making their impact that much deeper.  This show isn't 24, it's not slam down the accelerator action and never let up.  The show is about what happens between the zombie attacks and sacrifice of life.  And, in that sense, it's episodes like "Cherokee Rose" that are more important then "Save The Last One."
     That being said, holy shit, was that well zombie disturbing!  That has to be one of the most disgusting sequences I've ever seen on television.  The bloated animated corpse that looked like something from The Hills Have Eyes was bad enough, but when he ruptured at the waist causing his lower half to explode back into the well followed by T-Dog braining the still alive torso put it over the top.  It was zombie gore at it's cable best!
     Some questions I'm left asking at this point in season... Will the group ever find Sophia?  She plays a fairly big role in the comic, but as we've seen so far that doesn't really mean much to the television show.  How far will Shane take Andrea down the same dark path he seems to be traveling?  Are these two the male and female equivalents of the new zombie society paradigm or is this leading to a bad end for Andrea?  Are we going to have a Carol/Daryl hook up?  That feels a little odd and wrong, but also seems to be an avenue the writers could take.  As Maggie pointed out, the options are pretty limited now and everyone feels lonely.  What does the infected water mean for the survivors?  They never addressed this.  Is all the water at the farm now tainted?  Doesn't this mean no one can stay at the farm anymore?  And the most obvious question, still unanswered in the comic as far as I know, is Lori pregnant by Rick or Shane?  This obviously sets up all kinds of future issues.  In all honesty, I would have rather they hide this plot point a little longer, kept in question what exactly Lori had asked Glenn to get, have Lori show little signs of pregnancy without making it obvious.  I think it would have played better.