Herschel is keeping the zombies in the barn [spoiler]in the hope that a cure can be found (some of the zeds are kin). Of course there isn’t and the whole thing turns into a disaster. This is a “happened in the comic” thing but it looks as though this is where the show is going too*. Herschel isn’t evil mind you, just tragically misguided.
The flashback was pretty cool - everyone trying to get away and not knowing what was going on. It was creepy, too, knowing that all those people who were sitting around in and around their cars are all going to be zombified soon.
I think someone brought up Hershel being a strong Christian last week in the thread - I wonder how that might play into it. That he can’t kill, even zombies?
Then my work here is done! 
What the hell, stegon66? Your whole damn post is a spoiler. Can you really just not contain yourself?
Kirkman needs to really dial back on the careless/stupid levels for the group.
You do not shoot until you know your target.
stegon66, please put info from anything other than the TV show into spoiler boxes, regardless of how obvious you think it is.
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I will say that Dale and Glenn’s conversation in the RV is a bit misogynistic. Hilarious, but misogynistic. I expect to be roundly eviscerated for that opinion.
YEAHHHH! Michael Rooker is a guest on “The Talking Dead.” My night is complete.
Is it misogynistic? I’ve heard the same thing before and I never thought it was misogynistic.
I thought it was misogynistic in the sense that he was basically using the idea that “women’s cycles synchronize” for the excuse of “all the women are acting like crazy ass motherfuckers at the same time.” Not that women’s cycles don’t synchronize (because there’s evidence they do) but that women acting like crazy-ass motherfuckers is associated with their menstrual cycle. There’s inconsistent evidence that mood and behavioral symptoms are related to hormonal cycles, and frankly, the idea that women surviving the zombie apocalypse WOULDN’T experience freak-out symptoms is ridiculous.
I would argue that Shane’s behavior in a lot of situations is the equivalent of “freak out” situations, but nobody’s putting it down to hormones.
I freely admit that this is my own bias - that women’s natural reactions to certain things are often put down to “women’s issues,” while men’s natural reactions to the same situations are often put down to “natural reactions”.
Apparently no medical evidence backs it up, but I know any number of women who’ve lived in dorms/barracks/other large groups of women who swear anecdotally it’s true.
Daryl’s definitely growing on me.
I wonder why Chupacabra Merle still had both hands. I know he was a hallucination but they referenced the hands.
I was less bothered by Andrea taking a shot at a perceived walker than by the fact she shot at him when others were that close. In the first place there’s the “slight misfire could kill Rick or Shane or [whoever else went to intercept]”, then secondly there’s the “walkers respond to loud noises”.
And another vote for “Find the missing kid already”, be she alive or be she zombie. Or move on. Either way, this is old.
Naping the cities isn’t a bad idea, so along as they at least do leaflets first (“If you can read this then I suggest you avoid Piedmont Park two days from now”) but I agree that it must have been BIG LOTS discount napalm since it didn’t appear to have done anything noticeable to downtown Atlanta.
Did anybody else expect Glenn to respond to the note
by penciling
?
Me neither
Good episode, despite the lack of Sophia resolution.
I, too, thought the shooting of Daryl was a dumb-ass move because of all the other guys near him who could have been hit by a bad shot.
Walkers in the barn. How do they just stay in there? Doesn’t seem like to much trouble for them to mass on one wall and knock it down.
But still, time to move on. I’m tired of the farm and all the crap going on there. The crew needs to hit the road post haste.
I don’t mind the story on the farm; I do want Sophia resolution, though. As Shane says, they could be halfway to Fort Benning now. Although since it is the Zombie Apocalypse, they don’t really have a deadline here; some of them could go to Fort Benning while the rest stay and look, or they could go after they decide they’ve really looked everywhere.
No idea what on Earth would lead them to believe Fort Benning is in any better shape than anywhere else they’ve been.
I got the impression that the zombies were mostly dormant until they noticed Glenn. Unless they sense prey nearby they seem to just wander around randomly or remain in place (highway migrations notwithstanding). Aside from the occasionaly bird or rodent they aren’t getting much stimulation. And after they got agitate we did get an ominous shot of the barn door shaking.
I thought it was funny that Dale & Glenn seemed to be more afraid of all the women having PMS at the same time than the hordes of flesh-eating zombies.
womens cycles do synchronize, just not for some mysterious reason. put 8 women in a house and with all the variation in cycles its mathematically certain that at some point they will match up…then drift apart again.
liked the episode, liked the hunt for the girl. Disappointed that the zombies in the barn are just there waiting for a cure, (my guess) and not there because Hershel thinks they are actually angels sent to bring them to heaven only the remaining humans see them as zombies because they arent ready to be saved yet.
Nearly every character on this show is an idiot except when they need a heroic moment to liven up 25 minutes of stilted and/or sappy dialogue. If that scene seemed misogynistic I would chalk it up to general ignorance among those characters and not a hatred of women.
I’m certain that two or more of the women on this show will at some point have a conversation about the MEN!! and how they’re being a bunch of stubborn dick-waving assholes in some situation or another. These people are incapable of reasoning and introspection.
As for the rest of the episode:
[Chandler Bing]
Could Daryl BE anymore awesome?!
[/Chandler Bing]
While Shane and Rick are having their little catty walk through the park, Daryl is busy getting speared with an arrow and eating a dinner of raw squirrel AFTER killing two walkers and slicing their ears off for war trophies. Oh and he also found the only conclusive evidence that Sophia may still be in the area(in some form or another…). He did lose a horse though so I have to deduct a half point for that. Total awesome points: Daryl 5,000.5; Everyone else but Maggie and Glenn -1,000; Maggie and Glenn -500(they each get 500 points for boinking a complete stranger during a zombie apocalypse. With a willing partner.)
They really need to take Andrea into the woods and put two behind her ear. So to recap, she:
a) is evidently inexperienced with rifles
b) ignores everyone’s pleas not to fire the rifle
c) fires the rifle at a target over 100 yards away AND that was not even 10 feet from several of her group members–without a clear sight picture!
What a fucking dumbbell.
The last guy to shoot at members of their party got a bullet to the leg and a hundred zombie teeth to the face. “Hey Andrea, here’s a key to the lock on the barn, mind fetching some hay for the horses?”
So that it would be *absolutely *clear that he was a hallucination and not merely shadowing them.