Am I the only one bugged by the inexplicable absence, then reappearance of Herschel, all without actually seeing him once?
And what was with all the self-cutting this episode?
And they way they’re handling the kid they saved and kidnap is both beyond retarded and seems out of character for Rick, at least it did at the end AFTER the kid helps him save Shane.
Not a bad episode, if only for the action, but it has nothing on last week’s.
Did a week pass between the previous episode and this one? (Rick to Shane: “I’ve been wanting to say something for a week.”)
I was wondering about the train of thought that led Rick to think they’d probably have to kill Randall. Did something happen at the farm in the mean time? Sure, Maggie didn’t say she knew him, but maybe he looks a bit different in a Zombie Apocalypse? I wouldn’t recognize someone I wasn’t close with in high school. And isn’t it telling that she doesn’t recognize him as some distrustful guy of ill repute?
It seems the last few episodes have had things happening that were poorly explained – like they happened off screen and we were supposed to know,somehow. Last week’s “Triggerfinger” made it somewhat clearer that Rick had been gone for too long for Lori’s comfort, having been gone for hours, despite it seeming like only a few minutes in “Nebraska.”
I think the problem is that* he* knows Maggie, not the other way around.
He might know where she lives, so he could come back and possibly lead a raid on the farm if he meets up with his old gang or new people. It’s even possible that they suspect that what he was doing in the first place.
Is there any evidence that Randall still has a ‘crew’? From what’s been shown, the guy who drove off and left him may have been the last of that (I haven’t watched previews, so they may have shown something there).
They had Randall for a week - I’m guessing that they questioned him about his group, and must be satisfied about that.
Also on that week thing and kicking Randall out - it seems safe to assume that there was a discussion on that, and this was the outcome. Shane obviously still thinks he should be killed but he’s decided to go along with this choice - that leads me to think that there was talking/yelling about the issue, and this was the outcome.
I hope that Andrea gets let back in - Lori seems to understand what she did, even if she doesn’t fully approve. They couldn’t keep a death watch on Beth forever - Andrea more-or-less lanced the wound, and resolved the issue. And she seemed happy that she’d chosen life (as Andrea herself did after her suicidal moment).
Annoying Lori bit of the week - let’s let the big strong men protect us, while us wimmen folk cook and clean. I was very surprised Andrea didn’t jump on her for that.
So, we learned that scratches are what cause the infection, right?
I, too, did not like the whole flashback thing in this episode. I don’t see what purpose it served. And the idea that you can cut yourself and leave a little blood to attract the Walkers seems to ignore the fact that you’re then left with a bleeding wound that is likely to attract many more Walkers later.
I don’t mind flashbacks, but it just felt unnecessary in this episode. I think the writers were thinking, “No one wil watch unless they know walkers will be in the episode later.” It would’ve been a lot more tense not having any idea if there were zombies at the place.
Why isn’t the washing machine at the farm working? The fridge and everything else is.
I loved Andrea telling off Lori. I’m half hoping the baby turns out to be a zombie and chews it way out of Lori.
I don’t get all the hate for Randall either. He was alone and probably joined up with the first group he could find, purely for survival. Sure, he shot at Rick but that was after he found out his friends were dead. For all he knew, Rick was the bad guy.
I think the guards died a natural death and were reanimated. I thought it was funny how the zombie security guards were still doing their job.
Way to go Shane. The zombie’s were contained in a building and now they are running loose. I think they need to kill every single zombie in the area and not let them wander.
Yeah, I wonder about this - it seems like they should be able to do a house-to-house cleanup in the town close to the farm. Somebody stays in the idling pickup, someone stays at the door, a couple of people go through and do clean up. It looks like Herschel has some old time farm equipment, so the cleanup crew can use scythes to lop off heads so that gunfire doesn’t attract attention.
If too large a shamble (and they do seem to bunch up), haul ass out of there and come back the next day.
It’s so easy to think of things they should be doing, which they are not.
For example, if I were holed up in a farmhouse (or any other place, really), I’d be thinking about laying in a tunnel exit for escape in the event you get surrounded and cut off (either by zombies or by marauders).
I’m pretty sure gender roles have gone back to the stone ages right along with society as a whole. The longterm priority is to repopulate the human race. To that end, you don’t want women out there on guard duty or going into town or whatever it is the guys are doing. The guys do the dangerous work because they’re expendable. The women need to be kept safe at all costs.
Though I’m reminded of the Maggie we were first introduced to, and I cannot even begin to reconcile the Maggie we now know with the one who rode in on horseback to kill that zombie with such aplomb and whisk Lorie up on her horse to bring her back to the farm.
At first Maggie was the Glen of the farm people, the one who rode into town to get supplies. She even went on an actual supply mission into town with Glen. So why wasn’t she the one to go drag Hershel back? Good thing she didn’t, as that fat Philly guy would have had a field day blasting through old man Hershel and cowardly Glen to get to hot Maggie.
Did it seem to anyone else that the walkers were moving much faster in this episode. Previously it only seemed that living got caught through sheer numbers, but they were really closing on Shane getting on the bus.
“Runners.” They were “runners.” Or “speed-walkers” at least.
The speed of the walkers has been wildly inconsistent. There have been half-assed attempts at explaining this, mostly rationalizations that newly-turned zombies move faster than old ones. But there was nothing fresh-looking about the zombies that were zipping after Shane.
(I understand the zombie extras get a little over-enthusiastic sometimes and move more quickly than they should.)
Not to mention that the zombie is coming for you anyway - it’s not like they needed to give him the scent of fresh blood to get his attention.
This is kind of bugging me - what natural death would (presumably) young, healthy guys have died? That took both of them?
We have Variable Speed zombies in this show - I’m fine with that. 
Continuity is not this show’s strong suit; once again I was noticing that they sure aren’t as careful not to get zombie blood on them as they used to be.
The Lori/Andrea fight was kind of interesting; I don’t think it would take long for men and women to get back to ancient roles, and I can see women fighting against that and against women who aren’t doing what the other women are doing.
Well, I wouldn’t dig a tunnel, but I can picture building an “alleyway”, i.e. a path leading away from the house, walled in on both sides with high mounds of dirt or scavenged wood or something with a study gate at the end, so if the walkers are attacking the house, you have a clear path to a few hundred yards away. On the assumption the the walkers won’t recognize or understand the significance of the pathway, of course.
Yeah, Shane should have been able to outrun them easily. But it seemed like he kept having to change direction, all that fencing and the other obstacles.
I totally forgot that Randall had been at the farm for a week and had probably seen Maggie there. So why did he suddenly say “I know Maggie”?
The dead security guards – puzzling, the way they were laid out. That’s how you’d find a couple of guys who committed suicide together. But that can’t be, because how would they have done it? Arsenic from the nurse’s office? (Not.)
I think the whole point of smearing the blood was to get the Walker to stick his head in, so he could stab it. But that ended when he lost his knife.
Shane and Rick laid them out like that. They were the first zombies they knifed at the fence right?
For all the griping–this was the best episode since the return from hiatus.
Dehydration. Drinking anti-freeze or another poison.
I didn’t get the zombie walking alone in the field. Shane sees it, then sees it again…what was the significance of this? Was he supposed to tell Rick, and the fact that he didn’t tell him shows that he’s still not entirely on board with Rick’s plan?