Season finale tonight. AMC’s been airing a marathon of the season this evening. After tonight no more TWD until what I assume will be October.
I haven’t seen the last show yet, but re-watching last week’s episode, I’m taking this opportunity to call that Rick’s wife Lori will be pregnant next season, and she won’t know whether Rick or Shane is the father.
I’m sure I’ll be back later after the last episode. 
Holy crap - out of the frying pan and into the fire!
That Winnebago should have been vaporized by that blast wave - not even a scorch mark on it !!
Probably what Jenner whispered to Rick just before they bolted. The look on his face was pretty grim.
Either her or Andrea.
You’re probably right about what Jenner whispered to Rick. In the books it was never revealed who the father was and it eventually became a moot point…
Aside from filling in the hospital backstory from the premiere episode, this ep seemed rather…forced, my least favorite of the series, every “problem” was telegraphed from miles away
Shane feeling resentful towards Rick, and being all rape-ey towards Lori
Lori not wanting to have anything to do with Shane, feeling guilty about their affair and not telling Rick
Rick being the “moral voice” of the group
Andrea being shell-shocked and suicidal about her sister
Dale being the “father figure” Andrea and the group needs
Jenner being the stereotypical “Scientist with something to hide”
It was clear that the base was going to end up being “sterilized”, and that Jenner would try to lock them in with him, only to relent at the last moment
the only “surprise” I saw was Jacqui deciding to stay behind and breathe in fire
Nice that the grenade came into play…
However, isn’t the Winnebago still on it’s last legs, needing a radiator hose, and aren’t all the vehicles dangerously low on fuel?
Once again, in their retreat, they neglect to pick up some useful weapons left behind by the soldiers outside the building…
…And, even after all of that, Rick didn’t even point his .357 at anyone…
Not the best end to a season, rather predictable and anticlimactic, come to think of it, due to all the whiny interpersonal crap, it felt more like a soap opera (The Undead and the Restless?)
Y’know, if you’re gonna commit suicide, putting a bullet in your brain is a lot easier than sitting around and waiting to be ‘decontaminated’.
I’m tellin’ you, the Schwartz is strong with it… 
You’re right about the Winnie and needing fuel, but they are dodging zombies as they’re fleeing from a building that’s about to blow up. Taking time to stop and pick up weapons would be idiotic even for these people.
They spent way too much money on the CDC sets. I’ve no idea what the real CDC lobby looks like so no complaints there (& it’s the one place were aesthetic design makes sense), but the rest of the place should’ve just looked really plain and underwhelming. Actually the lounge are wasn’t so bad, but that big computer room? :eek: Is there any RL reason why it’d be set up like that with all those workstations (with CRT monitors) close together like that all facing a large flatscreen?
I liked that even after all their research nobody still has a fucking clue what’s causing the dead to rise. Just like in the comics. To me no identifyable pathogen strongly suggests that reanimation has nothing to do with bites and all who die reanimate unless their brain’s destroyed. It’s also the only way a holocaust like this could occur.
Oh, and Shane and Daryl threatening Jenner with death unless he opens the door after he’s sealed them all in there together for a mass mercy killing? :smack: Not the best way to motivate a suicidal person. And Shane’s a cop, but doesn’t even know how to take a pulse? Was his uncle the sheriff or something? 
Or he told him that whatever’s causing it isn’t transmited via bite (bites only kill) and they’ll all eventaully become zombies if they die with intact brains.
So, if the military were shooting everybody - alive or undead - at the hospital, why didn’t the soldiers who burst into Rick’s room not shoot him? I would’ve thought that a comatose patient hooked up to life-support (in a hospital going to hell) probably was more likely to turn into a zombie than a frightened nurse! The soldier had his sight trained right on him, but didn’t fire? WTH?
It occured to me during this episode that if they needed to find a secure stronghold to hole up in, food, supplies - why didn’t they just take everyone back to that nursing home they found? It was barricaded pretty well, the inhabitants didn’t look like they were hurting, but probably could’ve used more helping hands, and given that they were hanging around to help the helpless, I doubt they’d send Rick’s crew packing. Why the panic at the end of ep. 5 about where they were going to go?
I was glad to see the hand-grenade come back into play. In ep. 2 when he snagged it, I knew that it was going to come back into play, but forgot about as time went by. Glad the writers didn’t. But - why in the world did the abused woman take it? And how did Rick forget about it?
The whole CDC storyline seemed contrived, with far too many plot-holes - like, why did Jenner bother taking blood samples if he simply expected the facility to blow up in a day? (Apart from the obvious plot-point that he could then whisper to Rick that his wife is pregnant - with Shane’s baby!! Dun-dun-DAH!!)
Sorry to see Jaquie opt out. Of all the rag-tag survivors, she was one of the ones I was hoping would develop into a real character, instead of simply being another gawking frightened face standing around in the background.
THE WALKING DEAD DRINKING GAME:
Sit down to watch “the Walking Dead” with a bunch of drinking buddies, crack open a bunch of brewskies, and -
- Every time a zombie lurches into screen, take a drink.
- Every time a surivivor is shown staring wide-eyed, open-mouthed in the background but doing nothing, take a drink.
- Every time Rick & Shane get into a fight, take a drink.
- Every time Darryl the red-neck threatens someone with a weapon, take a drink.
- Every time the blonde cries, take a drink.
I can guaruntee you, you’ll all be crocked before the first half-hour ends.
I really liked this episode - I thought the people were acting more like desperate survivors rather than people who were too stupid to live.
Well, the CDC was a bust, but they did get some valuable information there (and a hot meal, a hot shower, and one safe night’s sleep) - they now know that they can’t expect anyone to pull their fat out of the fire, they know the dead re-animate in minutes to hours, they know that destroying the head is indeed the killshot, and they know that there is no cure at the moment. I’m sure next season will have Shane giving Rick a hard time for making them go there, but it really was a valuable experience.
I am also liking Daryl more all the time - he really is a survivor, and they’d do well to listen to him more.
They don’t have to take the time to check the weapons, just grab-n-go, they can then check them out once on the road or when they find a safe place to stop and recuperate
I was more entertained by the puppet-episode of the Simpsons tonight than the finale of TWD
I wasn’t expecting non-stop Zombie Bashing in this ep, after all, they’re bunkered down and the zombies can’t get in, but the writers could have explored more of the “how and why” of the Zombie contagion, or had Jenner deliberatly infect one (or more) of them to get some “fresh samples”, heck, even have Rick and Daryl go back to see if ZombieJim has become Undead yet to get him as a “sample”, or some other Evil Mad Scientist stuff
nope, we get whining and navel-gazing, and Shane getting all rape-ey, it was a Soap Opera with Zombies this time
6; When Rick points his .357 at someone, take a drink
7; When Andrea points her Ruger 9mm at someone, take a drink
8; if they point their guns at each other (R+A) drain the can/bottle/whatever
9; When Glenn does something amusing (Woohooing while speeding around in a hotwired car, when he says something amyusing like “ooh, I’m never getting drunk again”) take a drink
10; When Daryl angrily references his brother or his brother being abandoned, take a drink
I thought that kind of sucked for a season finale. The whole locked-in scenario was contrived and generated no tension since the audience knows they can’t all die. Dale creeps me out with his constant, avuncular caretaker act. He’s coming off a little smothering, and Andrea was not worth saving.
What’s with this blast that’s supposed to be almost as strong as a nuke having a blast radius of about 14 feet? And what kind of security is it to have breakable windows in the lobby (the grenade was a little deus ex, by the way).
Also, I think it’s about time somebody told Rick that Shane was porking his wife. The meaningful, silent looks are getting a little tiresome.
Hopefully next season will be a little better.
Don’t know if the back and forth on where exactly the CDC was got resolved in last weeks thread, but in the last shot of the building this time you can see the skyline of downtown Atlanta in the distance.
To be fair I doubt Shane had much practice taking a pulse while being on the lookout for the U.S. Army who is busy murdering civilians within 40 feet of you.
I’m with Diogenes, as a series finale this one pretty much blew chunks as there were too many unresolved issues. The first being whatever happened to Merl. The second being where the hell are they going to now that the CDC was a bust?
More Chekovian.