I only saw Ed, Amy, and Morales getting bitten. I don’t think Shane did.
I didn’t see Shane get bitten either, but I could have missed it. There was a lot going on in that scene.
You’re probably right. But I thought I saw Morales hitting zombies with a baseball bat right after I saw the person I thought was Shane get bitten. Are there more characters who look sort of similar to Morales?
I think Morales’s bite didn’t put him out of commission in the fight.
Count me as someone else who is more or less on Daryl’s side in everything that went down. He was understandably upset about his brother being left handcuffed on a roof without food or water, which is a pretty grisly situation even for an asshole like Merle, and asshole or not, he’s Daryl’s bother. Rick even told Daryl he completely understood, and that Daryl was justified in being angry about it, so there wa nothing wrong there.
Daryl also showed an ability to calm down and listen a little bit, to work as a team and to show some respect for both Rick and Glenn.
He did nothing wrong at all in trying to quiet that kid down that snuck up on him, nor in shooting Filipe in the ass (remember, Daryl is clearly very experienced with a crossbow and a good enough shot that he could have killed Filipe if he wanted to, but chose a relatively harmless butt-shot instead).
He was also distressed and angry that Glenn had been taken by the Vatos. Daryl already had the bag of guns, so his anger about Glenn being taken showed genuine concern for Glenn as a person and a team member, nothing selfish. He was then willing to risk his own life in a confrontation to get him back. All of that shows Daryl to possess a lot of good character traits, regardless of what a dick his brother is (and we don’t know that we know all there is to know about Merle either).
I’m actually liking Daryl’s development as a character and strikes me as somebody that anybody would want on their side.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the weirdest part of the episode: if you dig a bunch of holes and don’t tell anyone what you’re doing, you’re liable to get chained to a tree for eight hours. Yeah, he took a swing at Shane, but they left him locked up way after he calmed down. I kept waiting for him to be zombie bait.
I have to say that this is the slowest paced six episode arc ever. They wasted 3/4ths of an episode on Los Vatos–a story that went nowhere. I can forgive a 22 episode show wasting time like this, but surely they more interesting places to go in a six episode first season.
Also, the grandma breaking up the Mexican stand-off made absolutely no sense. “We’re going to shoot each other, no wait, abuela says not to. Let’s let the heavily armed strangers into our compound then.”
In this episode, yeah. But what about the last one, where he attacked someone with a knife?
Right after he found out they abandoned his brother? dunno about you but i’d react the same.
In a moment of rage against somebody who’d just told him that he’d abandoned his brother to a pretty gruesome fate.
Yeah, and it wasn’t a serious attack, either; he calmed down pretty quickly.
Shane wasn’t bitten, nor Morales - who was pretty awesome at the zombie killing. A white man, a black man and a white woman that I didn’t recognise were all killed. Andrea was covered in blood; presumably there needs to be more than just a bit of blood on your skin for you to be infected.
It sure looked serious, and he only calmed down because he was held down by force.
So who was the white man that was killed that I thought looked like Shane?
It didn’t look serious to me - he basically held a knife up and waved it around without actually attempting to stick it in anyone. He calmed down in less than 2 minutes - yes, he was held down, but only very briefly.
I think the zombie-snack white bloke did look a little like Shane, yeah.
he shot the guy in the ass with a bolt covered in zombie goo, unless he loaded up during the scene with a fresh non zombie killing bolt or something.
I dont know if that will come back later or not, it would be pretty cool a few weeks down the road to have them find out he turned zombie and ate all the old people.
Good point. Daryl doesn’t seem to grasp the whole “infection” concept. I really doubt he’s keeping seperate sets of arrows for zombies and food or sterilizing them. He probally really did intend on causing a flesh wound, but that guy is going to end up a zombie. Hopefully the rest of his group realize this when the fever starts.
It was a bit silly, but I think it helps once you see that they really, really didn’t want to shoot anybody and the tough guy gangsta’ attitude they pulled earlier was mostly just an act.
Yeah, it was all bravado. They weren’t gang bangers. Plus, they didn’t want to distress the old lady. The whole point for them is protecting thse people.
Are we sure the arrow in Filipe’s ass still had zombie goo on it? I though I remembered Darryl wiping some of the arrows down, but maybe that was a different part of the episode.
Why would that arrow have had zombie goo on it? He hadn’t shot a zombie for at least half an hour; the planning session with Glen had come in between. Plenty of time to clean/reload.
We still don’t know how the zombie infection actually spreads, anyway.
Anyone else puzzled by the big fuss about the bag of guns while the original shot of the tank they’re next to showed a barrier of sandbags next to it with a .50 machine gun with ammunition belt attached?
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Well, it didn’t bother me, as there is no evidence that anyone in the group knows how to handle a .50, and the choice of simply picking up the bag ‘o’ guns and running, rather than taking the time to break down the MG and attempt to run with a lot of really heavy gun parts, seems clear.
The Zeds are slow, and only head shots stop them. Popping accurate rifle and shotgun rounds at them makes more sense than spraying MG bullets.
Well, technically blowing them apart either stops or seriously inconveniences them. 
But agreed that a heavy emplacement weapon isn’t going to be as useful as something more portable and precise.