31 Days of Halloween - Day 14: The Walking Dead Season 3 premiere

Yes, yes, YESSSS!!!! If you haven't figured it out, I'm over the moon that Walking Dead is back again (especially since I get to watch it in HD on my brand-new LED flatscreen. Thanks to my stepdad for the wonderful birthday gift!) This season is already gearing up to be better than the last. SPOILERS below so I suggest you turn away now if you have been living under a rock unable to see the premiere.

We pick up several months after the events of the season 2 finale. Lori Grimes is still preggo and ready to drop that baby any moment. Rick is dragging the group from place to place frantically looking for somewhere safe they can hunker down in more permanently when the time comes for Lori to have the baby. We finally see the prison, which will be the main setting of this season. Good God that place is creepy and depressing. It also seems that my worst fears have been confirmed and the writers are hinting at a Daryl/Carol pairing. Oh FFS no! The interaction between them was just awkward with Carol going "oh this spot is romantic, want to screw around?" Nothing against the actress that plays Carol, but she's one of the most unsexy female characters on the show and that line's delivery was completely unbelievable. Gross, now I have to go bleach my brain.

I was most proud of Carl, Rick and Lori's son. He's grown up quite a bit since the start of the show. He went from being a spoiled brat to turning into a young man who can finally handle himself. I like the way Rick trusts him and we get to see Carl utilizing his gun skills to take out walkers left and right. With Carl pulling his weight finally and the desperate situation the survivors are in, the group seems to be working together much better now. Even Carol has come around to appreciating what Rick has done for them all, which is a complete 180 from her opinion of him last season.

Walkers in riot gear? How awesome is that?! There are other survivors in the prison? Uh oh. I smell trouble. Never trust a felon that's been locked up without any females that weren't of the undead variety.

Why oh why are we losing Hershell this early in the season?! He didn't bite the big one until much later in the comics! That was the biggest shock of the episode.

And finally... MICHONNE!!! The most bad ass black female character in TV history! Seriously, I yelped when she made her appearance on screen in all her katana-wielding glory. I am hoping for lots of screen time for her this season.

Would you really want to square off with this woman?!

We also get an idea of what Andrea has been up to all these months since being separated from Rick's group. She's been taking lessons from Michonne in the art of kicking walker ass and taking names. I'd hate to be the one to tell her that her f*ck buddy Shane is dead. To be a fly on the wall for THAT conversation!