On the cars, they do need more of them. All they have is the Winnebago and that boxy station wagon, and Daryl’s bike. Do they all sleep in the camper?
Maybe they’re not concerned with vehicles since they’re so close (?) to Fort Benning.
A small country church would not even have a big cross. The stained glass windows were also out of place.
What the hell happened to Rick’s accent? Last season, the southern accent was subtle and refreshing, compared to other shows like True Blood and Justified. Now he sounds too twangy and whiney.
Yes. After all, what could possibly go wrong between where they are now and Fort Benning!
Agree. He had some accent slip-ups this episode.
Just for those who don’t know, he’s English. The Vampire Bill of this series.
Overall I thought it was a good episode. Certainly started strong in the suspense department with the herd of zombies on the freeway.
That said, it had some flaws.
- Too many monologues. I realize that the writers were just trying to establish character conflicts to set up the upcoming season, but did they have to lay them all out end to end in one episode.
- The search for Sophie. Yes it was only there to set up them in the woods so Carl could get shot so they could bring the farm in, but it was a bad set up. The comic just had them out hunting for food (iirc) which worked out just fine as a setup.
3)Andrea needs to stop whining. Seriously. If she wanted to die so bad, why the hell was she worried about having Dale’s “blood on her hands?” They both would’ve died simultaneously in a fiery cataclysm. Was she worried her ashes would feel the guilt? Also I damn near cheered when Laurie gave her the gun to shut her up. - More Glen! Favorite character from the book. More Glen! Okay that really isn’t a big problem, but still. More Glen!
I’m still liking the show. Appearances from George Romero on the bumpers and Jesus in the episode itself shows that Walking Dead respects the original zombies. It’s still capable of bringing the suspense, and I hope the characters stay as strong as they were last season. Jon Bernthal is doing such a good job at making Shane a more sympathetic character than he was in the comic that I hope he sticks for longer. Unfortunately Rick is becoming the troubled leader stereotype. Instead of understanding that he’s struggling with his decisions, we’re being told in great detail through many long speeches that he’s “burdened”
When they gutted the Zombie, I half expected the little Kitner boy to spill out all over the dock…
That’s a Jaws reference for you youngins’
I was surprised that this is getting better ratings (which I assume means more viewers) than Mad Men.
Don’t get me wrong, I like this show. But it’s not as good as Mad Men, and I’m surprised it has a broader appeal. It definitely fills the Lost void.
After the episode, when the showed some behind the scenes footage on that “Talking Dead” show I was shocked when I heard him talk with an English accent.
The British, Aussies, and Kiwis are taking over American television. :eek:
British and Aussies and Kiwis oh my.
British and Aussies and Kiwis oh my.
British and…
Yeah, if Lori’s pregnant that’s just another burden they’re going to have to deal with in a couple months (or find a clean coathanger). Also given the timing the baby’s probally Shane’s.
Last season most of them were sleeping in tents (one of many profoundly stupid choices they made at the camp. They’ve only been away from that camp for about 3 or 4 days. I think the advantages of having a large vechicle like a motorhome they can live in outway the disadvantages (like extremely poor gas milage). Still all this travel can’t possibly be sustainable. Gasoline is only going to get harder & harder to find. The Grand Canyon might as well be New Zealand as far as they’re concerned.
Did anyone catch the scene of a fleet of helicopters flying by in the season preview? Nice call back to season 1; I hope it’s something that’ll be addressed this season instead of just a random background thing.
I have lamented elsewhere on these boards that there are so few young American actors who can pull off a role that calls for any macho.
Seems like all Hollywood produces of late is effete pretty boys.
It’s more than a bit of an advantage, it’s an insurmountable, game-ending advantage. It’s why humans can hunt down and kill any land animal on the planet just walking on foot and carrying spears whittled by hand.
There’s an actual name for the style of hunting where you just walk after your prey for days until it finally drops from exhaustion, though I can’t remember it off the top of my head. The two animals I remember specializing in it are humans and wolves.
In that context, zombies are quite frightening.
I don’t know about you, but they’re frightening to me in ALL contexts! 
Persistence hunting.
Agree most of the comments. Exposition could be less clunky, story could be less cliched, but entertaining enough.
If she is pregnant she is doing remarkably well. I am at the tail end of my first trimester and I guarantee I would have been eaten by zombies weeks ago, no question.
I liked the episode, but only because it has zombies and suspense and lotsa blood and guts. I find the soap opera tedious and the supporting characters lacking. But I enjoyed it more than not. I’m just a sucker for the zombie/post-apocalyptic genre.
This is one of the things I think about when I ponder how I will get by in the post-apocalyptic world (pick your civilization-ending catastrophe), and I plan on obtaining whatever vehicle seems the most appropriate to the landscape/situation at the moment, then driving the hell out of it until it gives out, then picking up a new one. Hell, almost every town has at least one car dealer to take stuff from.
Now, if at some point I were planning on traveling a long distance during which I could not count on picking up another vehicle readily, I might opt for an older vehicle (like the Bronco or whatever it is that Rick’s family is driving) if it meant that I stood a reasonable chance of repairing it myself if it broke down. But in the metro Atlanta area? I’m picking whatever I feel like driving and just going until it breaks down. I would probably make some concessions toward fuel efficiency, but with all the cars lying around with gas in their tanks I don’t know that its a huge concern at the moment.
Zombie-resistance and all-terrain capabilities would seem to be the order of the day at this point in the show.
How are they getting gas, by siphoning it out of cars? In “The Stand” didn’t they figure how to get gas from the tanks underground at gas stations? (Of course there were more characters in that book who presumably had the knowledge and the energy and ability to do so.)
So far, they seem to be siphoning. I don’t think it would be too hard to find a hand pump somewhere and pull gas out of the storage tanks at gas stations, unless there was some kind of run on gas with people fleeing, and therefore gas stations are dry. Still, I suspect there would be a fair amount of fuel to be found.
And in the show for which he is probably best known in the UK, “This Life”, he had the very masculine character name of “Egg”.
Egg.
I had a “Jesus, that’s where he got to” moment for Season 1 Episode 1 when I just had to look him up as he seemed familiar.
Have any of you actually siphoned gas from a tank?
Is it possible to do it without getting a mouthful of Mobil?
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