OK. So I thought the zombification of Amy, Andrea's sister as well as Sophia's rise from the "normal" dead, or even the entire apocalypse, were all heart breaking. I was wrong, they were all booted out by Lori.
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| The Walking Dead Season 3, Episode 4: Lori talks to Karl before she had an amateur caesarian section done by Maggie. She then asked her son to shot her in the head before she turns into a zombie. Photo courtesy of www.afterelton.com |
(For those of you asking what on Earth I am talking about, click here to read about The Walking Dead. It happens to be cable's most watched television series in history.)
It hit me because for the first time ever, I related to Lori as a mother. Her love for Carl and her unborn baby was overwhelming albeit she knew that she has lost all her chance to protect them from the cruel, sad world ruled by walkers.
Not wanting her baby to die inside her womb, she bravely asked Maggie to cut her open. She had to do that because she's been bleeding yet her cervix is not yet dilated. It was a cul de sac, a dead end where she either dies with the baby--both turning them into walkers--or she dies and the baby lives as a normal child.
After the unsanitary C-section which by the way happened in a basement, on the floor, and with walkers lurking just outside---Maggie peeks at the door and hears a gunshot. Carl then came out with a gun on his hand, assuming that he finished the job to end his mother's life. (Parents, watch this by yourself and not with kids, okay?)
The three then came out into the yard. Rick, Lori's husband, already knowing that Lori's dead when he saw the baby looked at Carl and was terrified to realize what his son did.
He fell into the ground, weeping.
Amazing how some fiction TV series can take you to another realm as if you were there. Thank God His version of the apocalypse based on the bible is different and filled with much hope!
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