Walking dead!!! ***Spoilers for the show up to the newest episode!!!***

novella1186

lolo883 said:

novella1186 said:

Can I also bitch about the location of bites? When they started over from season 1 and were playing all the re-runs, I watched a few randomly. People get bit on the exact same spot on their forearm all the time (exactly where Tyrese was bit). 

Maybe that's a particularly tasty spot for zombies. Maybe that's an easy place for the MUA to put prosthetics and special effects make-up. Maybe it films well. Whatever. They should get more creative with their bite locations. 

I feel like Tyrese should have gotten bit on the back of his elbow, considering he was snuck up on from behind. I know this is such a dumb nit-picky thing to be bothered by, but I was so bothered by it. 

Herschel got bit on the leg! And wasn't Bob bitten in the torso?

I think Bob's was on the shoulder maybe? Amy (Andrea's sister) was bit on the exact same place on her arm, and so does Ryan and Donna from the prison-dwelling group, and there were a couple no-name side characters that got bit like that too. I can't remember if any other "main" characters had forearm bites. But why not like a wrist bite, or a hand bite, or the bicep? Why the damn forearm? Just why? 

ETA: Ryan and Donna

larrygaga

FiancB said:

Also I have read the comics up through the 2nd compendium, and there are no spoilers to give because absolutely nothing in the last episode had anything to do with the comics. I wonder if they are going to stop using the story lines from the comics completely. I think it's cool they diverge from each other so much so that both have a lot of twists and turns, but at this point most of the characters in the show either don't exist or are already dead in the comics so...

There are if you are reading the comics and watching the show and expect this thread to be about the show only. They are not mutually exclusive, although they are different. 

lolo883 said:

novella1186 said:

Can I also bitch about the location of bites? When they started over from season 1 and were playing all the re-runs, I watched a few randomly. People get bit on the exact same spot on their forearm all the time (exactly where Tyrese was bit). 

Maybe that's a particularly tasty spot for zombies. Maybe that's an easy place for the MUA to put prosthetics and special effects make-up. Maybe it films well. Whatever. They should get more creative with their bite locations. 

I feel like Tyrese should have gotten bit on the back of his elbow, considering he was snuck up on from behind. I know this is such a dumb nit-picky thing to be bothered by, but I was so bothered by it. 

Herschel got bit on the leg! And wasn't Bob bitten in the torso?

T-dog was bit in the neck!

theycallmelinz

@larrygaga I'm very impressed that you just gave legit and educational reasons why these zombies wouldn't really survive outside TWD writers' imaginations. I now have a lady crush on you.

Fun fact about Zombie meals. If you ever see a scene where zombies are feasting on a body, they're eating pulled pork IRL. Except they can't swallow it because it's got this red dye on it (to make it look bloody) and it can make the people sick if they actually swallow the food. So they feast while cameras are rolling, then spit it out afterwards.

I learned this while touring the filming locations lol I live about an hour from the town where most of the filming is done. If you're in the area, it's a super awesome tour. It's given by actual people who play walkers on the show and they make it really entertaining.

I might have also won a "Zombie Hunter" car decal for answering trivia questions on the tour haha

ETF: words.

doeydo

You know how when they die, even from natural causes, they'll become a zombie because they have the zombie gene or whatever that one guy said it was?  Is it zoonotic?  Are there animal zombies?  Also, they're always running around in the forest and shit, I haven't seen them run into any animals like bears or something other than that one time with the deer (I know Daryl and people are hunting squirrels and stuff, but besides that).  

melbenso

So another fairly uneventful episode, but at least this one was setting up something to come.  And they did not get attacked by wild dogs so much as eat one.  Which was disturbing.

Also, Daryl in the woods at the beginning digging in the ground had me singing "No body likes me.  Everybody hates me.  I'm going to go eat worms." 

I did find the whole (Maggie's dream?) zombies attacking the barn, wake up the next day and everything is fine thing a little bit confusing.  But I missed a small part of that bit.  Looked to me like: Oh no, zombies about to overtake the barn - commercials - everyone wakes up happy and fine, so I'm guessing it was a dream.  Someone please let me know if I am way off on that.

And we have a new character. 

AddieCake

I, too, wondered if that was a dream. Because when would they have known it was ok to go to sleep? 

abl13

I thought there was a tornado! Maybe I'm way off. They were so down and hopeless and the tornado narrowly missed them and now they have hope again? That's what I got out of it.

ETA: The tornado also killed all of the zombies that were attacking the barn.

melbenso

@abl13 - that makes sense.  Thanks.

beachyone15

abl13 said:

I thought there was a tornado! Maybe I'm way off. They were so down and hopeless and the tornado narrowly missed them and now they have hope again? That's what I got out of it.

ETA: The tornado also killed all of the zombies that were attacking the barn.

Yes, this. It obviously wasn't a dream since they show the walkers outside pinned under trees, etc. the next morning. Looks like they just skipped showing the majority of what happened that night between the walkers attacking and the group waking up in morning.

Although in real life, we all know that a tornado would have destroyed that barn as well

FiancB

I think this was the first episode where I was  like um okay not feeling this. I get what they were going for but they could've stood to spend more time filling in the blanks with the barn thing and less time showing everybody moping along. Made me think of:

larrygaga

Daryl was so hot before his Anime hair

novella1186

Just catching up on this cuz I didn't get to watch the new episode till last night. 

So at first I thought the person who put the water in the road for them was Morgan. Now we know it was that Aaron dude. So where the fuck is Morgan?!!!!! (I know, kind of far-fetched that he'd still be following them since they were in cars for a while, but then why the fuck did we get those Morgan teasers? Come the fuck on!) 

That body in the trunk of the car would have been liquefied. Not to be gross but flesh and tissue in that kind of heat? That would not stay on the bone. But whatever. 

I was so annoyed that once again an entire episode lingered on without much happening and then right at the end, 30 seconds of something happening. Last week's episode and this week's episode (and probably next week's episode) could have been combined and still would not make a full episode. 

And the Aaron dude at the end seemed way too Garreth-esque to me. Like the same villain coming back again, looking all clean and happy and friendly and being all "It's ok I'm a friend!" We know he's not, because some shit goes down at some point and the group is in a "trap." So I'm getting a little bored with this pattern of "walk down the road, run into a villain, battle. Walk down the road, run into a villain, battle. Repeat repeat repeat." 

Dr Jenner and Shane were more diabolical because they weren't such clear-cut villains. The governor was interesting for a minute. The terminus ppl were just psychos so there was never any question of their bad-ness. These villains are becoming more one-dimensional and boring to me. 

Ok that's all I got. 

End rant. 

emmaaa

This past Sundays episode was pretty good. Slow, yes. But you need episodes like that to progress the story. I also never remember a time seeing the group so discouraged. They were thirsty, hungry, tired and exhausted. 

I loved the scene where they all held back the barn door together. It showed that they were all a team and would do anything to stay alive. they hadn't given up. Thank goodness for the tree falling on the zombies, otherwise they would be dead. 

what do y'all think about the clean stranger man? Good or bad? I say bad, for sure.

larrygaga

Did anyone think the zombie in the trunk looked like beth? I thought maggie was seeing things because she knew beth was kidnapped.

There is no way the guy at the end is trustworthy. 

emmaaa

larrygaga said:

Did anyone think the zombie in the trunk looked like beth? I thought maggie was seeing things because she knew beth was kidnapped.

There is no way the guy at the end is trustworthy. 

I think she looked similar to Beth and that Maggie felt guilt for not saving Beth when she was kidnapped.

kaitlynmichelle

Just caught up tonight.  I was really confused thinking it was a dream at the end there, until they went outside.  If it was supposed to be a tornado it seems a bit ridiculous the barn "escaped" but we weren't clear on if that is what they were going for, or just a bad storm.

I'm also getting tired of the villains being so similar. They need to have something new.

H and I also noticed that when Sasha was going nuts, she cut Abraham's arm.  I wonder if that will come back up, since that knife would have had walker blood on it.  H thinks he is now going to be infected and the cut will slowly get worse.  

larrygaga

Let's have us a girl villain who doesn't try and play the overused charismatic and trustworthy stranger. She rides a bike with an SMG in each hand and she had a boob amputated from a zombie bite. She trained a monkey that escaped from the zoo to reload her guns. 

Her motive? She does it for pleasure

ashley8918

larrygaga said:

Let's have us a girl villain who doesn't try and play the overused charismatic and trustworthy stranger. She rides a bike with an SMG in each hand and she had a boob amputated from a zombie bite. She trained a monkey that escaped from the zoo to reload her guns. 

Her motive? She does it for pleasure

SOMEBODY FUCKING HIRE THIS BITCH AS A WRITER. STAT.

AddieCake

I think he's good but that it's Rick and company who cause trouble by being suspicious. 

theartistformerlyknownas

AddieCake said:

I think he's good but that it's Rick and company who cause trouble by being suspicious. 

This was my feeling too. This is where the paranoia and lack of trust will start to burn them.

ashley8918

I weant nothing more than this chick with the amputated boob now. THANKS, LARRY.

larrygaga

ashley8918 said:

I weant nothing more than this chick with the amputated boob now. THANKS, LARRY.

I even wrote that sober.

Not sure if I should be proud or not

ashley8918

larrygaga said:

ashley8918 said:

I weant nothing more than this chick with the amputated boob now. THANKS, LARRY.

I even wrote that sober.

Not sure if I should be proud or not

I'm proud. 

larrygaga

My biggest question is why did they turn the car off when they drove into all the zombies and had to stop?

ohannabelle

I am 90% pleased with last night's episode.

I didn't mind the Symbolic Artsy Broken Clock episode, but my patience ran out last week when I spent the whole damned episode getting beaten over the head with alternating symbolic images of despair and faith. Things are bad, do you still believe? Of course we effing do, and there's the baptismal rain and barn bible and Herschel reference and act of God zombie killing storm to remind us. Okay. Burning priest collar followed by redeeming rain. We get it. Time for a storyline. 

So yay, last night. Action, purpose, conflict. Go, writers. A forward moving plot line. Brilliant.

Minus huge writing points for the applesauce scene. Seriously? You're being held prisoner by a crazed paranoid man who thinks you're trying to poison his baby, and fully intends to stab you in the head if you screw up, and you whine like a five year old about taking a bite of applesauce to calm him down? In what effing universe was this believable? Baby WahWah's mommy made him eat hims applesauce, and Baby WahWah is angwy. 

Writer fail. That whole scene made my ass ache. Aaaaargh. How did nobody notice how stoopid it was, and why was it not left on the cutting room floor, where it deserved to be. Maybe we could have spent those few minutes on something worthwhile, like the night zombie fight, from the motor home perspective. 

Regardless, I'm happy to be at the gates of Alexandria. I think there are storylines inside. Thank God. 

FiancB

Yay stuff happened!

I thought the applesauce thing was weird too. I guess it's to build suspense since the viewer isn't sure if he's a good guy either? Pretty silly though. I'd eat slugs if there was a knife pointed at me. 

Kinda don't get what happened with the guy that broke his ankle. Maybe I had a momentary lapse of attention there. 

Also getting sick of Rick's shit. 

kaitlynmichelle

The apple sauce bit had me eyerolling. He seemed to be all about what can I do to make you trust me, and he's not willing to just eat the damn apple sauce? Overall it was a good episode though.

I liked the subtle nod to Dale with Glen knowing all about RVs.

ashley8918

larrygaga said:

My biggest question is why did they turn the car off when they drove into all the zombies and had to stop?

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Omfg, H was screaming at them at this point. "WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU FUCKING TURN THE FUCKING CAR OFF?!"

ashley8918

The apple sauce scene was dumb as fuck. I'd eat just about fucking anything with little hesitation, if it kept someone from killing me.

That whole thing made me instantly dislike him. I don't care how good he might turn out to be. To me, he will always be the giant shitbaby who wouldn't eat apple sauce.

ETA And if he hated apple sauce so much, why didn't he fucking bring literally anything else? It's a pretty logical guess that they are going to be distrustful of you, and you will probably have to prove to them that it's safe.

larrygaga

I'd eat anything Rick told me to eat


*waggleS eyebrows*