And in case you (Chefguy) didn’t see the first one, the cop who’s the other beast back was Rick’s partner. It hasn’t said (excpet maybe in the serials) but I’ve wondered if the affair began before Zombie-Zero Hour.
Merle can’t get back in the building, though. T-Dog stopped and went back and made special care to chain and padlock the roof door after he lost the key. If Merle does get that hacksaw and get out of the cuffs, he’s gonna need to find another way off that roof.
And if we disregard all that, he still beat a guy up and held a gun to his head. I’m not really seeing the moral ambiguity of shooting him. It would be far less morally ambiguous than, say, cuffing him to a pipe on the roof of a building filled with zombies.
I’m loving this show so far. I have no problem with the zombies being able to do a little more than shamble and growl. Climbing chain link fences is a little more than I expected, but it’s not like they were scrambling over effortlessly, and while a two hour movie can get away with monsters that are no threat if they’re ten feet below you, a tv series needs to keep surprising you. I also have no problem with them eating things other than humans because, well logically, why wouldn’t they? (Poor horsey. :()
I just hope that when it comes to it, they don’t spend too much time agonizing over the whole Rick/Lori/Shawn thing. I’m already bored with Lori, as evidenced by the fact that I’m not entirely sure that’s her name, but I can’t be bothered to check.
That’s right! I saw him lock up the door and just processed it as T-Dog trying to keep the zombies from getting to him, but it was a chain and lock thing.
For those of you complaining of the zombies not being to your liking, I have one thing to say - this is my favourite post-apocalyptic zombie show (read: the ONLY post-apocalyptic zombie show). 
No flashbacks as of #78. I suspect that the first two seasons will get no further than, say, #48 or so. Then again, Darabont may well take lots of liberty with the source material…
Part of what makes TWD novel is that the whole storyline is post-apocalypse and is about the survivors - the undead are not playing a huge role in the storylines.
One would think that after using the hacksaw to get his cuffs off, he’d be smart enough to use the hacksaw on the chain as well.
Good news everyone!
http://io9.com/5684850/walking-dead-gets-a-second-season-twice-as-long-as-the-first
The chain is on the inside of the door.
That is one of the things I find interesting about it. It was always less a zombie story than it was a survival after civilization falls story.
And it’s not tight. You’d definitely be able to fit a hacksaw through. For the purposes of television drama, you’d ABSOLUTELY be able to fit a hacksaw through.
I think the reason I am not enamored of the racist redneck (played by a character actor who totally made me play “Hey It’s That Guy,” and apparently he has a brother, shown in the trailer for next week, who’s played by another character actor that made me play “Hey It’s That Guy, Round II”) is that that level of complete and utter idiocy would not have lasted this long in a zombie apocalypse.
Anybody who just wants to randomly, indiscriminately shoot at things in a situation where stealth and quiet is going to keep you alive, and who’s going to go out of his way to piss off anyone remotely able to help in the survival situation, isn’t going to still be alive at this stage of the fall of civilization.
I did notice that I’ve spent far too much time on the Zombie Squad boards when during the first scene of “Wife and partner of supposedly dead cop get freaky in the woods” all I could think and say was “that there is BAD situational awareness.”
Yup. Though I haven’t watched it yet.
Lotsa stuff on the DVR.
Don’t feel too bad, I’ve never been on that site before (I know once I do I will lose weeks of my life) but I thought the very same thing.
Did you not like the particular episode or not like the limited story you imagine the show has left? Zombie movies and now shows are equal part monster stories as well as “Lord of the Flies” stories.
Merle the Racist Redneck is played by Michael Rooker, definitely a Hey, It’s That Guy for television. If you look him up on imdb - he appears on several more episodes of the show.
I haven’t read the graphic novels, but I think the future of the show depends on the development of an actual story line apart from surviving the walkers.
You know you want to 
Yes, you will lose weeks of your life. And have a weird mindset for the next several months. It’s totally worth it.
I was wondering about this - did T-Dog do that to protect Merle from the zombies, or to keep Merle from coming after him if he escapes?
Eh, a lot depends on exactly where the guy is when the world goes to pot, though. For example, guys like him tend to be familiar with the insides of drunk tanks - the other survivors could have found him there.
Much of the graphic novel is set in a prison for exactly this reason - if you want to survive a zombie apocalypse, you can do worse than a building specifically designed to contain and control the movement of human-shaped critters.
True. However, I personally think that even if he was found by the others in a protected situation in which his idiocy hadn’t gotten him killed already, he (and they) wouldn’t have lasted that long outside of that protected situation. This can’t be the first time since the zombie uprising that he’s basically thrown caution to the wind to shoot things and/or randomly insult, torment, and assault other survivors.
Obviously, stress does weird things to people. It’s possible that he was a thoroughly unpleasant and yet still in control person until the department store, and the stress of being surrounded pushed him over the edge.
In any event, it’s a small thing. I’ll not enjoy his character (or his brother’s, if the trailer for next week is any indication) while onscreen, but there’s plenty of other good stuff.