I totally agree, especially when coupled with how Shane was acting with Dale later on, it was practically written all over his face. I only meant to explain that Dale doesn’t have any literal psychic powers and that the show isn’t going down that path, since someone who hadn’t seen the episode was confused by people talking about “psychic Dale” in the thread.
I see Rick obeyed Zombieland Rule 25 - Shoot first!
I wasn’t arguing with you Jilaad, I was backing you up.
Am I the only one who laughed when Daryl called Laurie “Olive Oyl”?
Actually, i think it’s a writer who is not a net asset to this TV show.
It really bugged the fuck out of me. Rick and Glenn went into town for one reason and one reason only: to get Herschel to come home. The only reason that Lori gave for leaving was to bring Herschel back. What was the point of her going when there were already two guys doing exactly the same thing? And if Rick and Glenn couldn’t do it, how was she going to do it alone, when she’d never even been into town before?
Worst plot development ever.
You are not. My wife and i both chuckled.
Just like others, I was a bit :dubious: about her going out alone. But now that I think back on it, I can’t remember if Rick and Glenn were aware that the girl had collapsed and urgently needed Herschel’s medical attention. I don’t think they did, because I imagine that would be one of the first things Rick would have told him upon finding him in the bar, and I definitely don’t remember that fact being communicated to Herschel. So, it makes a little bit of sense for her to go out with the news that Hershel is urgently needed, which would convince him to return quickly, in case he was stubbornly refusing to.
From another perspective, I have a feeling that the writers just needed an excuse to get Lori alone at the same time that the three guys in town encounter the new people.
Maybe the new people are the ones who find Lori, and they might not be pleased to learn she’s the wife of the guy that just killed their two scouts…
God I hope Lori is dead. Her whiny incompetently-manipulative ass is really getting on my nerves. She’s still the flighty, neurotic housewife she was before the world went to shit, and those kinds of people shouldn’t be able to survive.
Did anyone else notice the zombie she hit kinda looked like Glenn?
No, they definitely knew that she had collapsed. That was the reason that they went out. I just looked at it again.
After Beth collapsed and they got her on the bed, Glenn was in the bedroom when Lori came in and said “She might be in shock. Where’s Herschel?” Glenn said, “We can’t find him anywhere.” Then, after finding the bottle in Herschel’s room, Glenn and Rick headed out.
After they left,Beth’s heart started racing, and it was clear that she was getting worse, but Rick and Glenn knew that she had collapsed. In the bar, Rick says to Herschel: “Let’s finish this up back at home. Beth collapsed; is in some sort of state. Must be in shock; i think you are too.”
Dale came right out and asked Shane how he had Otis’s gun, not in this episode but during the first half of the season. And later, Shane implicitly confirmed Dale’s suspicion when they had their gun confrontation in the swamp.
I don’t know why so many people keep derisively referring to it as psychic knowledge. It was a smart but reasonable leap in logic, and presented to the audience in a pretty clear and straightforward manner.
First Dale sees Shane acting a bit off during the service for Otis. That initial suspicion led him to realize that Shane had Otis’s gun, which wouldn’t be possible based on the story Shane told. When Dale asks about it, Shane gets angry and defensive. When he came right out and accused Shane of killing Otis, Shane reacted with a Jack-Nicholson-esque “You can’t handle the truth!” self-satisfied but unspoken confirmation.
I know it’s in vogue in these threads for everyone to piss all over the stupidity of the writing, but it’s possibe that the stupid we’re making fun of is more of a projection on our part than what’s actually being presented in the show.
I agree with you about this.
What was the reason for that arm falling off when they were driving away in the pick up truck? I was expecting it to start twitching and threaten to scratch her resulting in a dramatic scene where they had to ‘kill’ the arm, or worse, it actually does scratch her.
Either that, or we hear someone in the pile mumble “I’m not dead yet”.
I thought it was to show how disconnected Andrea now is between the dead and the living, and in particularly the dead she cares about and the walkers. “We bury the ones we love, burn the rest.” While sensible, it was also pretty cold. And the way she picked up the arm and just heaved it onto the truck was like she was picking up garbage. She is now in complete survival mode (ie. our needs come first) and doesn’t even realize how disconnected she is to anyone or anything outside their circle.
I think, just to show that cleaning up zombies is a messy, gore-filled business. That they are now in a world that requires them to pick up a disembodied arm (you could see the weight when she picked it up, just added a blech of realism for me).
So Daryl is the new Sawyer now?
I was pretty ‘meh’ over this episode. The thing with Lori was beyond stupid, even for this show. I hope that walker she hit gets up and chews her face off while she is still tangled in the wreckage.
Why did Glen even bother carrying a weapon if he is too chicken or slow to use it? Surely he had teh drop on the fat man and should have taken his head off before Rick got a chance to swing around. For a ‘going to town’ guy, he is pretty slow-witted. Farm girl should shop around some more instead of settling for this albatross.
:smack: And now I remember why I didn’t ask the question last night…because I figured it out. Then I forget the answer and asked again.
Next question. Where is everyone? ISTM, that the amount of dead+living+walkers should be the total of the living population before this all started or close to it, right? So why does it look like a ghost town everywhere they go? I was going to ask why they bother burning the Walkers* The other living people know not to touch them and animals can’t get sick. But then, we don’t come across that many Walkers to begin with so they seem to have plenty of time on their hands.
OTOH, I suppose a lot of people are probably bunched up at the various places they thought would be refugee camps which have since been overrun.
*Have they considered the ramifications of Walker ashes/fumes being airborne?
Anyone else find it fishy how those Philly dudes questioned them about the farm? It almost seemed like they pretended to guess at where they were staying, but then they brought up “Farm? Are you staying on a farm?” and wouldn’t let it go. I don’t remember Rick, Herschel, or Glen visibly reacting in a telling way when they got to “farm.”
It just didn’t come off as a random guess to me.
This crew never considers the ramifications of anything.
He’s been that since he called Glen “Short Round” many episodes ago.
I agree that the arm falling off thing was a) just a demonstration of how rotted the Walkers bodies are and b) to show what life has become for the living-- picking up an arm and throwing it in the back of the truck is just SOP now.
I don’t recall it word-for-word, but she was giving Rick some kind of shit about how Carl is growing up cold and scary because he would have killed Zombie Sofia, too. Jesus Christ, woman, open your eyes and look around - your kid is growing up in the zombie apocalypse - he doesn’t get to be a Precious Snowflake and still survive to breeding age. That world is over.
Yup.
I thought the business about The Farm was very bad writing. “So, where are you guys staying? At The Farm, perhaps? Tell us more about The Farm. How many people are at The Farm? This Farm sounds pretty sweet. Any chicks at The Farm? Okay, let’s all head for The Farm.” Maybe the bad guys were psychic.
The other thing that still bugs me is how IMPORTANT the farm seems to be to everyone. These people have the choice of living (surviving)* anywhere in the entire world*. Yet they seem fixated on this one location in rural Georgia.