With The Walking Dead Season 2 at a pause till February and the New Year have finally started, a rating of the top 10 Walking Dead is in order. Season 1 of the series was phenomenal and this season isn’t falling short. The series has had scenes that captured and frighten the hearts of many, but what are the top 10 best scenes of to date for The Waking Dead? Wait no more……scroll down to begin.
10. Carl Gets Shot
If you kept up with this season’s episodes, you would see Carl get shot in slow motion. No, this wasn’t on purpose, it was purely an accident. While the hanging with his father, Rick, and Shane, Carl saw a deer. With the captivating beauty of this gorgeous animal, Carl stopped to admire its beauty. Couple seconds later, you see the deer and Carl fall to the grown that will leave you in awe. The shooter was Otis and he couldn’t see the boy since the deer was standing in front of Carl. Luckily, the boy survives and amazingly makes a pretty fast recovery from the help from a veterinarian back at Otis’s camp. It somewhat makes you wonder that must be one hell of a vet or Carl has great healing abilities…
9. Rick’s Wake Up
In the pilot episode of Season 1 of the series, Rick wakes up from his coma that he suffered before the zombie epidemic began. He wakes up in complete confusion and begins to walk around to figure out why there aren’t any nurses or other personal coming to his aid. Get close to a door way that is closed off and he sees one of the ‘walkers’ chowing down on a fresh corpse. Stunned and slowly starting to freak out, he quickly finds his way down the stairs and out the hospital to find the parking lot filled with dead bodies of civilians and military personnel. At this moment, you can officially call this the beginning of the worst day ever for anybody. It’s this reason why it’s makes the list because it made all viewers who saw this scene the first time think, “Crap”.
8. Glenn The Knight in Shining Armor
In this scene, Glenn actually saves his girlfriend from a hungry walker at the pharmacy in Season 2. The main reason why it made the list is because it is the first time Glenn goes Rambo and takes out a walker by himself with a hand weapon. It’s rather risky for him because he’s the main character to be the first to hide and need saving. He cuts…well, hacks…the walker to submission. His reward: a kiss from his girlfriend and her full affection. "You’re the man, Glenn."
7. Morgan’s Dilemma
Many fellow watchers of the series remember the characters Morgan and his son, Duane. They appeared in the first episode and never again since, but are involved in a powerful scene. After Rick leaves to go searching for his family by heading to Atlanta, Morgan goes to top window and starts practicing shooting his new acquired rifle. After taking out a walker, he spots his wife who became a walker after being bitten. He aims for her to give her a quick death, but his feelings for her stops him from pulling the trigger. We never know if he ever pulled the trigger or survived the horde of walkers coming to the house, but hope they did make it out somehow. The scene brings one of the many dilemmas to any true zombie fanatic head: Could you ever kill a loved one when they have turned to a zombie?
6. Walker Swarming the Tank
This is a scene that is both informative and very intense. Rick gets surrounded by walkers while on a horse when he arrives in Atlanta. He then falls right off horse once it gets freaked out by the horde of the living dead. With an intense fight that had moments when he was about to be lunch meat he finds safety in the tank, but he loses his bag of weapons. While in the tank, the horse becomes a tasty meal and makes it clear that the walkers aren’t shy of eating living animals. Poor horse should’ve never let that man use her as a source of transportation.
5. Herd of Walkers
This particular scene another informative scene about the zombies in the series that shows you can treat them like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. The season 2 pilot starts out with group on a highway heading to Fort Benning. Unlikely, when they are forced to make a way with all the abandoned cars on the road, they make small fuzz that leads a herd of walkers toward their direction. The group hides underneath the cars and stay completely still to avoid making any sudden movements to avoid making any sounds. Sadly, Sophia is discovered, because she emerges far too early from her hiding spot and she's spotted by a lingering pack of walkers that begins the seemingly endless search for the little girl. Sometimes being first is last place.
4. Abstracting the Walker from the Well
This scene actually startled me a little bit. The group found a fat, disgustingly large walker in the well next to the one they were get water from. Trying to make sure it didn’t contaminate the drinking water any further, the group decide to use Glenn as a tool wrap a rope around him to get the walker out. When Glenn is lowered down, a slight mishap occurs and Glenn screaming at the top of his lungs to pull him out while the walker tries to make a snack out of his leg. Glenn is luckily pulled out unscathed and manages to harness the walker. While pulling it out, the walker splits in half and spew all of its’ insides into the well . No more drinking water.
3. Walker Ambush
This scene is number 3 because it had the most action. Literally, 1/3 of the camp was lost and everyone was fighting for their lives. While Rick, Glenn, T-Dogg, and Daryl Dixon venture out to save Dixon’s older brother, Merle, and receive weapons, the camp gets ambushed by walkers that arrived unnoticed up the hill. Ed gets eaten alive and many other people in the camp are devoured by the walkers. The rescue team comes back just in time to save the rest of the group. Sadly, Amy dies in the arms of Andrea. The scene satisfied most viewers for the yearning for a good walker battle and it was quite appetizing. However, I do wonder on who was keeping watch that night?
2. Death of Sophia
Throughout most of Season 2, the group had been searching for Sophia. The poor, defenseless little girl had run away from the group when she was being chased by walkers. At the end of last episode to air, Sophia came walking out of the walker filled barn and looked to have turned into a walker for some time. This scene is number 2 in the list because this is a very surprising and emotional scene. The mother, Carol, becomes hysterical to her greatest fear for her daughter becoming a reality. Rick goes up to Sophia and doesn’t hesitate to shoot Sophia with his revolver. This one of the scenes that will make all the past episodes seem worth the wait to find out what happened to the little girl.
1. Death of Otis
The best scene by far in the series of the Walking Dead is the death of Otis. It’s not because he died, but how the big nice guy died. While going out in search of medical supplies for Carl, Otis and Shane run into a problem on their supply run. Shane and Otis were fighting off hordes of walkers at the high school where the medical supplies where at. In all this commotion, the two got split up and decided to regroup on the road outside. Shane found himself trapped by walkers when he injured his leg while getting away from walkers in the school building. Luckily, Otis saved him with his sharp shooting and both began running on the road back to the truck. While running on the road, the walkers were quickly catching up to them. With both men having one bullet left, Shane tells Otis, “I’m so sorry..” and shoots him in the leg. Shane plies the needed medical supplies from Otis and leaves him as bait for him to get away. Twitter was booming with about this scene and many viewers didn’t condone what he did. This brought a great moral debate for fans of the series: If in the position, what would you have done and was it truly wrong? Would you have done the same thing to save your life and save the person you cared about? Tough questions, but none the less, it is the most powerful and controversial scene of The Walking Dead.