OK- I saw that part. I though I had missed more. Yeah, why didn’t he tell anyone?
They lowered them down as zombie bait one at a time but the rope kept breaking.
I’d hoped we’d get to see some more Steven Yeun flesh but alas not.
Maggie protested about shooting the well walker and Maggie / Hershel exchanged a long glance when our crew discussed what would be done when and if they found Sophia if she had been bitten and become a walker.
Then, Hershel demanded they all turn over their guns, while on his property.
Hershel seemed a little concerned when Rick asked if they could move over to the barn. (We can say that now, right? They mentioned it in the show and it was an obvious plot point, I think.)
Interesting.
I agree that Daryl didn’t say anything so as not to get their hopes up.
I think Daryl is more interesting right now than any of the main characters. Though the Glen/Maggie pairing is coming along well. The actress they picked for Maggie plays the character well.
Shane look slike a member of the O’brother, where art thou? cast.
If we hadn’t heard her pee, someone would have complained about that, too.
Merle looked like a halucination to me, but you never know.
:smack:
Also, did anyone else fine the short, grumpy exchange between Rick and Daryl out of place?
Like they added it in later, it just didn’t make any sense to me. It’s like they had to remind us that Rick and Co. were there. Their story has been pretty dull.
Really interesting to see what they do with Daryl. Still wouldn’t be surprised to see him die, just because he is a cool character.
I really don’t understand all the complaining here. This show is about what happens to people trying to survive. It’s not always exciting. And lest we forget, this season is 12 episodes long. It’s going to take time for some of these plot lines to come along.
You’re assuming he can write. 
This one was OK. But did we see Daryl leave for his search with only one arrow?
And yeah, lowering Short Round into the well was mega stoopid.
TV series often have what are called “bottle episodes” which have a very limited scope. An example would be several characters getting stuck in an elevator together, forcing them to work out their differences. The money saved on the bottle can then get spent on another episode.
I hope they have been holding back because they have some big stuff planned for later in the season. However I’m afraid that they just don’t have the money to make the kind of show we want to see. Most, if not all of the advertising would have been pre-sold based on the performance of the first 6 episodes. While it did well, it isn’t that much of a track record. I would think that the budget for next season will be considerably larger.
On next week’s very special epsiode of the Walking Dead, dyslexic woodsmen-America’s hidden victims.
Dale: TDog is freaking out. Are you sure you gave him the antibiotics and not the meth?
Darryl: The meth is always blue! I never learned to read! sob
Don’t give them any ideas!
I don’t usually say this
You guys are too tough on this show. It was fine!
You are wanting a different show from what is being given. You need to come to peace with that or you will just grow to hate the show more week after week. This show is part soap opera and will most likely always be.
Last episode and this episode was actually a milestone for me. My wife, who absolutely HATES horror movies, watched them both and seemed to really like it.
THAT should scare you because if SHE likes it, then this is not really a zombie show 
That’s easy, because it’s not. It’s a drama about people that happens to involve walking dead all over.
Saw a quick snippet about the new Hell On Wheels by one of the actors from that show, comparing the two.
Both have an obstacle to overcome (walking dead bodies, the frontier conditions/native Americans/etc) and the story is about how people are changed and affected by the situation they are in.
Kirkman says that all the time about both the comic (uhh, ohhh) and the show.
It’s about the people, the dead that are trying to eat them are just something that happened and this is about how that event has and will change the characters.
Loving the show, personally. I think some viewers are wanting Resident Evil or something, with gun fights and scares all over.
Does anyone else have the feeling that the farmhouse and people are not all that they seem? Something is going on there, but I’m not sure what yet…
yeah, I think they foreshadowed that a bit more obviously in the last episode.
They want them gone after they find Sophia (unless the agree to abide by their rules), they don’t want them to go stay in the barn and they want them unarmed.
Who knows what’s up?
Well, I have an idea, but I can’t post it here.
I think if you have one zombie-tainted well, your nearby wells are in danger of contamination too. As zombie juice enters the groundwater it is going to form a plume in the general direction of groundwater flow. Now maybe they are lucky and that well is “downstream” from all the others.
When Maggie reacted badly to the well walker death, I was expecting her to say she knew the guy, or he was family or something. That would have been a neat little twist.
She never really said what caused her to react that way, did she?
Glen asked her if it was because she had not been around it as much as they had on the road, but she never really replied.
No idea if that matters, but I took notice of that.
Especially given her total 'non-reaction, just something we gotta do" approach to clubbing the walker when she was introduced.
Excellent, I hadn’t thought of that.
I agree. I think some folks just want a non-stop zombie-killin’ fest. And I think that would be boring to most people.
With all the god talk, I’m starting to think that this farm family are “End of world” Revelation types.
Just my .02
It’s not that we want a zombie killing fest. The characters are changed by their experiences, and forced into situations with difficult choices, like Shane with Otis. That was well done. The problem is that the show is light on experiences and tough situations, and long on talking about the consequences. And if it plods along at 1 episode per day or less, it limits how much can be explored.
If a character is going to go through a significant change, and grow into someone they never expected they might become, it takes time. How much of a character arc can we expect to see in less than two weeks of their life? If they had found Sophie two episodes ago, we could already be seeing how the experience changed her, how it affected her relationship with her mother, contrast her with Carl to see how much less child-like she is after fending for herself in zombie-infested woods. One night alone isn’t really enough to do that though, she needs to be gone several days, like Daryl’s nine-day experience. Unfortunately at the present pace that means they need to drag that storyline out for weeks.
One big rule in writing is “show, don’t tell”. It is even more true in television, which is a visual medium. There is so much storytelling that can happen through actions, expressions, editing, production design, etc. With the assistance of all of those non-verbal tools, you can get a lot done with a little bit of dialog, which is important in such a time-constrained medium. If you let the writers do too much writing, you can fall into the trap of creating radio on TV.
There was a Buffy episode called Hush, where after the first act everyone’s voices were taken away by an invading evil and the rest of the show played out without dialog. Joss Whedon has said that he did it as a challenge to tell a story visually without being able to use dialog as a crutch. I keep feeling like this version of Walking Dead is more like a stage adaptation of the comic than TV. In a comic there is very little room for dialog, and yet the issues still get adequately explored. It doesn’t take a 4 minute monologue at a crucifix. Some things aren’t directly tied to plot, and can be interspersed along the way without making everything happen at once in the same setting.