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Woof!
Despite the first rain we've seen for five years in post-apocalyptic Georgia, that was another snoozer. Literally! I missed most of Rick's big monologue in the barn. Woke up for him saying the name of the show though. Roll credits.
This new stalker guy looks promising. A long time coming, but I'm gagging for next week. Hopefully they wring the most out of him.
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Yeah, I'm guessing they've just set things up for the new 'long-term' living space. Looks promising! It's been a while since they've all been together in one place for longer than a night or two.
Hopefully it's as action-packed as the 'prison era' rather than the total slowdown during the 'farm era'.
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That seriously felt like one of the most traumatic episodes in a really long time. On so many different levels. Damn.
All I know is - Nicolas. Must. Die. Like was anyone else wishing Abraham had gone on that run so he could've let the fists fly longer than Glenn did? That scene. I actually had to look away.
And WTF with Gabriel???
There's been so much character evolution over the last few episodes. Even Rick and Carol are feeling a little more complicated than I gave them credit for.
Also - how come nobody ever gets a mercy shot on this show? Like I know it's less dramatic, but that would be the first thing I'd establish in the zombie apocalypse. If it looks like my number is up, do me like Dale before you run away.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
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Amen, Sister, on the mercy shot! I couldn't believe they just left that first guy. I could kind of get how Glen would be too shocked to do the guy in the door, but still, he should be hard enough by now to just get it done.
Let's make a pact right here, Doll. If you and I are ever in a zombie apocalypse, we promise to do each other.
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Ah-hem, anyway... If I was Glen, I wouldn't have just tuned him up. I would have killed him. Actually, I would have gone all Shane on his ass and put him down with a shot to the leg. These out-of-touch Alexandria softies are really starting to get up my nose.
I don't know about Rick, but Carol's character of late has really kept me guessing. I couldn't believe she went nuclear on that kid last week when she got caught nicking the guns. And she was so hard on him this week, which doesn't gel with the whole oh-shucks-Leave-it-to-Beaver thing she has going on. But I suppose it feeds nicely into the Dr Wifebeater scenario.
And I know! That fucking priest!
There's not enough time left... I can't wait another six months to see this play out...
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Funny thing if the show had started out from the beginning with the Alexandria people as the "main group" and then they'd let in Rick's gang as newbies with the hopes of 'strengthening them' and continuing on with running Pleasantville, imagine how viewers would be reacting to many of those characters... They're all becoming kind of unhinged, ready to 'take over' or lay down new laws. Technically Gabriel isn't all that far off - it's just that our longterm solidarity with the main characters and their backstory makes him the bad guy now.
It certainly makes you appreciate Shane a lot more. He was kind of Apocalypse-evolved beyond his years. I miss that character.
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I'm getting fed up with the producers of The Walking Dead killing off all the characters I fancy!!
Tara...
...is looking very precarious right now. I won't be happy if she goes!
Okay, so I'm shallow lol
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Interesting idea on the switching perspectives. I think I always would have hated Dr Wifebeater and the cowardly dumbasses who don't know their asses from their elbows out on a run, but I'm okay with the rest of them so far. And I don't know that Rick's crew has actually done anything that bad. It's not really until they've arrived at Alexandria that Rick and Carol's paranoia has run away with them and ventured into the manipulative. It's still early days on that, but they do need to dial it back a bit.
To be fair to Gabriel, maybe more than he deserves, all he knows is that a bunch of badasses turned up, killed the Terminus guys in his church, and then hauled him away. He's kept himself on the outer, and may not have a full appreciation of the context of our group's actions. Still, there's something up with him.
And I know you've got a thing for the bad boy, but no way was Shane a productive guy to keep around in a zombie apocalypse. The head rubbing aside, he left his best mate for dead, fucked his wife, and murdered one of his own group just so he could get away. He was toxic, and in retrospect, just someone to hate in the boring farm season.
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And I know you've got a thing for the bad boy, but no way was Shane a productive guy to keep around in a zombie apocalypse. The head rubbing aside, he left his best mate for dead, fucked his wife, and murdered one of his own group just so he could get away. He was toxic, and in retrospect, just someone to hate in the boring farm season.
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Nope - let's break it down:
"He left his best mate for dead." - Technically what else could he have done. Rick was hooked up to machines in the hospital. Machines failed. He seemed pretty dead. And zombies were coming. At least he pushed the hospital bed in front of the door to block them out. If he was really evil, he wouldn't have bothered. He probably wouldn't have even bothered checking on his BFF either when the world was basically going to hell. So really - let's be honest here - he was a true friend against all odds.
"He fucked his wife." - Ok, yeah... sorta tacky. But he was obviously very in love with Lori. It wasn't just to get laid. As far as he was concerned her husband was dead and here he was - willing to take on a single mother with a kid (a total liability in an apocalypse). So really - he was essentially protecting Rick's family when Rick couldn't. :)
"He murdered one of his group so he could get away." - Technically he'd only just met Otis a few hours earlier - not like they had some longstanding relationship. And, if he hadn't done it, they both would have died. And then Carl would have died too - poor innocent little Carl, whom Otis had negligently shot earlier that day. So really - he saved a little boy. He's a bit of a hero, really. :)
I know there was that whole 'trying to kill Rick' bit later on at the farm, but love and PTSD will make ya do crazy things.
I do love wearing my rose-colored Shane Goggles sometimes.
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Sure, Dr Wifebeater needs to be brought into line, but suggesting he should be killed is crazy, at least at that point.
I can’t think of a good tagline so this will have to do. Suggest a better one for me?
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I think the carved 'W' signs are signalling the new "Bad Guys" on the horizon... assumably some renegade psychos that will challenge the Alexandria Safe Zone and want to take it for themselves.
This would technically allow Rick to be 'right' about everything he screams about in the last episode (Alexandria is not secure, there are bad people who will want to take it from you, we have to prepare etc.). If they do punish Rick for his totally unhinged outburst, the arrival of a new threat would be what the show would need to allow Rick to redeem himself among the group... and pretty much come out as the 'I told you so' Hero.
Also - there was this foreboding graffiti written on the wall inside Noah's demolished community ('Wolves Not Far').... plus they found that truck of half-chopped 'W'-carved walkers just outside the broken walls there - so it seems like whoever wrecked that community likes to make their mark, maybe to intimidate and scare people first, and then take what they want. It would make sense that a relatively sheltered community like Noah's, and even Alexandria, would be seen as soft pickings filled with people that are easy to scare into submission.
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I have to keep averting my eye to avoid spoilers because I'm only in season 3. And I really love the show, but one thing keeps bugging me. How come they never stop for gas?
I'm sure there would be gas around, from cars and abandoned gas stations, so it is a logical flaw they could at least address. But they don't. They drive SUVs and RVs for Christ's sake!
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Hmm... I could swear we've seen them siphoning gas from cars on various episodes - especially at that highway gridlock just before they lost Sophia in season two. I assume finding gas at this point would mostly be a stroke of luck, but yeah - they don't really touch on it much anymore.
Their companion series "Fear the Walking Dead" is starting sometime this summer (same premise, early in the zombie apocalypse, but on the west coast and with a different core group of characters). I'm not sure how successful it will be, but I think it'll be fun to check out. And you can watch this one without fear of spoilers!
"What is the quality of your intent?" - Thurgood Marshall
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You're such a die-hard Walker fan.
You should work for one of those sites that does episode reviews.
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Hmm... I could swear we've seen them siphoning gas from cars on various episodes - especially at that highway gridlock just before they lost Sophia in season two. I assume finding gas at this point would mostly be a stroke of luck, but yeah - they don't really touch on it much anymore.
