Was I alone on having my jaw drop to the ground and my stomach along with it when she stepped out of the barn as a zombie in season 2's mid-season finale?

no. ive been telling people i think that direction they took damned allot of the things in the book, but it was pretty emotionally explosive. It makes me not so mad that The Twins dont exist. Right now their thing should be going on.

Well Chris Hardwick in the "Talking Dead" shows keeps bringing up how ominous it is Shane is teaching Carl to shoot, we know how that ultimately should end,,,

EDIT: Though now, I wonder if that will play out like we expect