Walking Dead

[Cyrrex]

Not sure if serious.  Maybe I just fell into the chasm, but I am pretty sure I loudly exclaimed OH FUCK HELL NO THEY DID NOT JUST DO THAT when Sophia came out.  It also proved that nothing at all was off limits.

[Rasix]

It didn't really do anything for me. I thought it was the most likely outcome given Hershel's stance on walkers at the time.

Is that the last time (outside of P) we've had a child zombie?

[jgsugden]

Ass-kicker was likely alive and taken from the prison, but I could also see them showing a flashback where a character makes a choice to leave the baby behind to save their own skin and having that be a wee-tad point of contention with Rick.

Having a baby on the road could result in a MASH finale type twist (chicken/not a chicken) - but I think they're aware that 'a baby puts us in danger' would get old very fast.  If still alive, the baby will not end the next season with Rick.

[Threash]

I bet the two sisters have the baby, it would be the only way for anyone from the governors crew to make good with the group.

[Nevermore]

Didn't one of those sisters die?  Or was it just the one sister's girlfriend?

[Setanta]

Not sure if serious.  Maybe I just fell into the chasm, but I am pretty sure I loudly exclaimed OH FUCK HELL NO THEY DID NOT JUST DO THAT when Sophia came out.  It also proved that nothing at all was off limits.

That was pretty much my reaction. In fact it was pretty much the only thing I found to be done well that season.

[Threash]

Didn't one of those sisters die?  Or was it just the one sister's girlfriend?

The sisters gf got head shot by one of the crazy little white girls, yeah.

[Surlyboi]

'Dat pudding tho'

[KallDrexx]

[HaemishM]

I was really hoping the kid would buy it instead.

[Nevermore]

I really hate Carl but I have to say that it was a well made episode.

[Surlyboi]

It was solid all the way around.

[Cyrrex]

Oh shit, did this premiere?

[Selby]

Premiere!

Yes, very well made.  Carl's attitude was pissing me off, but it was well done.

[HaemishM]

Carl's attitude was pissing me off, but it was well done.

This. I almost wrote this episode off until the ending - which made me smile.

[Threash]

I think they perfectly straddled the "i can take care of myself"/"I'm still a dumb ass kid" line perfectly with Carl.

[Evildrider]

That whole episode between Car and Rick was very close to the comics.  Rick needs to take Carl behind the woodshed for a bit though.

[apocrypha]

So do we have any indication of the timescale in this show? How long has it been since The Fall? A year? 2 years? There don't seem to have been any seasons in the world, it's been a perpetual nondescript spring-summer-autumn visually.

I ask because I was very aware in this episode that the neighborhood Carl was wandering around in didn't look particularly abandoned or overgrown. It was just... quiet. When he pulled that solar light out of the ground, for instance, the plants around it were totally manicured. I know it's just a budget & time thing but little details like that really pull me out of it unfortunately.

Other than that, yeah, decent episode.

[Ginaz]

So do we have any indication of the timescale in this show? How long has it been since The Fall? A year? 2 years? There don't seem to have been any seasons in the world, it's been a perpetual nondescript spring-summer-autumn visually.

I ask because I was very aware in this episode that the neighborhood Carl was wandering around in didn't look particularly abandoned or overgrown. It was just... quiet. When he pulled that solar light out of the ground, for instance, the plants around it were totally manicured. I know it's just a budget & time thing but little details like that really pull me out of it unfortunately.

Other than that, yeah, decent episode.

It's set in the deep south.  I think the only seasons they have down there are hot and hot as fuck.

[Ironwood]

Good Episode, I liked it.

I suppose we're not meant to because Carl, but it really worked for me.  And just knowing that Michonne married the guy out of Leverage is just lovely news.   

[Rasix]

It didn't tell me everything I wanted to know NOW, but that was decent TV.  If Carl wasn't Carl, he'd be dead.  "I can take care of myself, except I lack the physical strength and good judgement to do so!"

You'd think maybe the website version of the show would have less commercials, just to be less annoying if nothing else.  NOPE.

[Ironwood]

Oddly, we were forced to use Fox Catchup here because it didn't get much advertisement and it was advert free.  I liked that a LOT.

Also, what teenager DOESN'T say he's all grown up when he's clearly not ?

[apocrypha]

You'd think maybe the website version of the show would have less commercials, just to be less annoying if nothing else.  NOPE.

You're using the wrong website. 

[Rasix]

Comcast recently sent me an email about which websites I should and shouldn't be using.  I'd say it was an idle threat, but they were very specific.

[Signe]

Comcast recently sent me an email about which websites I should and shouldn't be using.  I'd say it was an idle threat, but they were very specific.

I'd be interested to know what they said you should and shouldn't use.  I guess with the merge they're counting on they feel invincible! 

Also, what's with Carl?  Is he the new Wesley?

[Cyrrex]

I really liked that episode, but what else is new.  Really stark contrast to the last one, that's for sure.  I think one great thing about this show is that it is really easy for them to sort of reset things...all shit hits the fan, and then they are suddenly back in desperate survival mode.  Not many shows have this luxury.

[Ironwood]

I think there needs to be a little more consistency about the Zombies tho.

They seem to swarm JUST WHEN THE STORY NEEDS THEM TO and thereafter there's none around for miles.  Also, the Michone Detect Tether Method is just utter bullshit.

[Tebonas]

She should teach that to the other survivors for a modest fee. For the low price of one can of baked beans you will never ever be bothered by Zombies again.

Hell, she could sell them pre-configured armless jawless zombies for an added fee and make a living out of it.

[Cyrrex]

Well, I think we have to suspend some disbelief (other than for the obvious reasons) regarding the zombie swarms.  Because if we are going to go down that route, nothing in this show remains remotely believable.  The US is so sparsely populated per square mile/kilometer that avoid zombies would be just about the easiest things in the world. 

And yeah, I don't know that I much like the tame zombie thing.  It seems like they would continue to attack her even without a lower jaw, and would still be quite able to infect her.  Beyond that, I suppose we are meant to believe that somehow having them in proximity masks her smell somehow.  It isn't very consistent behavior...we all remember in season one when they had to cover themselves in zombie stank.  I prefer that method.

[Ironwood]

I get that, but it made much more sense when she first arrived because she had two real rotters and an oilskin cloak covered in guts.  Fair enough.

But the latest episode just didn't make me buy it.  She looked lemony fresh and her actions in the middle of  group didn't register at all until she started lopping bits off.

[satael]

I get that, but it made much more sense when she first arrived because she had two real rotters and an oilskin cloak covered in guts.  Fair enough.

But the latest episode just didn't make me buy it.  She looked lemony fresh and her actions in the middle of  group didn't register at all until she started lopping bits off.

That would actually make for a kind of an interesting development storywise if they'd eventually notice that the zombies are getting used to people for some reason or maybe that the living people are slowly being zombified (when alive) like the fact that everyone is turning into a zombie when they die might suggest.

[Cyrrex]

No, because she knew she could do this already, didn't she?  She didn't looked surprised in any event.  I think we are supposed to believe that dragging them along masks her scent.  Other people don't do this on account of it being totally fucking psycho and more than a little bit disgusting.

I don't remember anything about an oilskin cloak, but I'll take your word for it.  Makes more sense than what we just saw anyway.

I'd be okay with Michonne getting eaten at this point (and not in a Carl Becomes a Man kind of way)  Her character is very inconsistent, and not wholly believable either.  While we are at it, they need to make some passing mention of how zombie skulls turn incredibly mushy as a result of their zombiness, because it is just way to easy to cleave into them.

[Ironwood]

In the comics, it's pretty grody.

[Cyrrex]

Ah, I forget that sometimes the comics explain this stuff, having never read them myself.

Aren't we also meant to believe that the two original dudes she had as pets were those same two dudes we saw in her flashback?  Because again, psycho.

[Signe]

How does she get them to heel so nicely?