Only three more episodes left. Will tonight’s episode be the one where the thing happened that AMC accidently revealed? Will the gang be leaving the farm by season’s end?
How much alone wandering would you let your kid do?
That was a bit of “foreshadowing” about the fence, wasn’t it? As if it wasn’t already obvious. How many more episodes do we have in this season?
Carl seems to be not coping in a functional manner. And Daryl’s description of the group is pretty insightful.
I would imagine that Rick, Lori, and Shane have all told Carl (and Sophia, too, when she was alive) to “not wander off,” and to “stay nearby.”
That Carl has disobeyed this admonishment makes him…a perfectly natural 20th/21st century boy.
If we were on the side of a highway and I told my son or daughter not to wander off, I’d keep a much closer eye on them than if my kids were playing in the woods round my house.
He left his kid in a field and walked away. Granted, the field might have been right next to the house, but when the stakes are that high, I’d keep a bit closer eye on him or her.
Oh, gnarly.
HOLY SHIT. I did not see that coming AT ALL.
Wow.
“Doop-de-doop, it’s the Zombie Apocalypse, so I think I’ll go for a walk by myself in a field at night, away from everyone else - hey, look, a disemboweled cow, wonder how that happened…AGH!!! QUIT BITING ME, ZOMBIE THAT SNUCK UP ON ME WHILE I WAS STARING AT THE COW!!!”
So, can we start calling Carl ‘Lucas McCain’?
Now that Dale is dead, I figure if they lose Carl, things would actually starting running pretty smoothly.
Re: Dale - his speech gave an exact description of the world they are living in now; it certainly wouldn’t have convinced me to leave Randall alive.
A lot of boring navelgazing then… Damn! I’m kinda upset about the end of this one. Of all the people I wanted to see dead…
But how the heck did zombies get so sneaky?
I liked Daryl saying of Shane in regards to Otis. “He came back with the dead man’s gun, ain’t hard to figure out” or whatever he said. I knew that was a giveaway during the Otis episode but figured it was just an error in writing, I never thought anyone on the show caught on to it.
So, the one guy trying to keep the group’s humanity gets killed. How about that.
Then again, he was only a tiny bit more useful than T-Dog, who we see for about one to two minutes every episode just standing around.
Did that actor piss off the producers and instead of firing him they just give him the minimal amount of screen time allowed and no lines?
We were so close today!
I was nodding along with the speech - “Yup, yup, yup, you’re damn right that’s the world you live in. If you don’t realize you live in that world, I don’t think you will much longer.” OOOH - I was foreshadowing when I was talking back to the tv!
I’m going to defend Dale, in principle. I do agree that he’s right to a certain extent.
“Survival of the fittest” and brutal pragmatism can lead to certain detrimental unintended consequences.
But…
But the mechanisms of civilization are gone, and it’s tribal rule now. Dale didn’t see/hear to two shady dudes in the bar (the fat guy with the ironic hipster hat asking if there’s wimmins at the farm 'cause he hasn’t had a shot of ass in a couple of weeks), doesn’t argue well for the sort of people Randall was hanging with.
And this tribe can’t take the chance on an unknown like Randall. Lord knows they have enough of their own stupidity to contend with, like taking a gun that doesn’t belong to you, playing Red Light/Green Light with a Walker stuck in some mud, losing the gun you had stolen, or someone walking off by themselves in the middle of the night in a snit…
Had to laugh at Sepinwall’s headline – “Over hill, over Dale”.
My husband watched for the first time, so I missed a lot of dialogue, what with explaining the relationships. I think he liked it enough to watch again. He doesn’t do gory stuff, so this was a good episode to start with.
For a minute I thought Carl’s Walker might find his way to the barn and take care of Randall, and I hoped the writers wouldn’t cop out like that. Glad they didn’t.
I don’t understand why Daryl didn’t share with the group, what Randall told him about raping those girls. I don’t believe for a minute that Randall just watched.
For once, Lori was thinking straight, when she said that driving Randall farther out wasn’t a good idea.
Hard enough surviving in this world, without having to worry about a child’s sensibilities. Takes a lot of fun out of the apocalypse.
It’s the Zombie Apocalypse - do you know where your children are?
Question: In the first half of the season, before the winter break, Hirsch’s family included a boy, a bit younger than Maggie, maybe about Randall’s age. He had a few lines of dialogue, helped out in the search for Sophia, hung around in the background. I just realized this episode that he isn’t there anymore. I didn’t see him at the farmhouse when they were all gathered to debate Randall’s fate. What happened to him? Did he get chomped by a walker, or did the writers just discard the character and hope that nobody noticed he was gone?
Billy? Lori told Carl that he was going to watch him during the adults’ discussion of Randall’s fate. He’s still around, just not shown.
Something seemed off about that last scene. Had that once stuck-in-mud-zombie been feasting before attacking Dale (i.e bloody mouth, etc?) Because there was a beautiful live cow with entrails spilled out all nice just laying on the ground and it went for Dale instead.
If someone wanted to make a poster of that, it would be AWESOME! 
I think more importantly - the sound that drew dale over - was that a zombie cow?
because if so - we’re truly screwed.
That zombie - along with the one last week that kept pushing Ricks gun aside - seem much more ‘thoughtful’ to the predicaments they are in - the one that Carl was playing with kept ‘looking’ at his feet.
Rick should have spoke up more about the actions/words of the two others in the bar - this would have given more credence to the ‘imminent threat’ angle - but the reality is he should never have rescued the boy if he didn’t intend to let him in.
Nice scene with Hershel and Glenn - but I had to ask the wife ‘are glenn and maggie speaking again?’
Oh - folks - if you’re gonna keep a prisoner alive that you have tortured and held a gun to his head - you best keep a gaurd on him, because if you ever do let him go or perhaps decide to let live - he isn’t going to be your friend.
yes mole - the walker that attacked dale had been feasting on the cow - not sure why he stopped as dale approached - but they did bad editing - first shot of zombie he was too clean - as he fought dale - he got bloodier.
Yes, it’s odd Daryl didn’t share that with anyone (other than make vauge coments about how the women would wish they were dead). I can however believe that Randall didn’t actually participate in the gang bang (note that if any female relatives of mine were on that farm I most certainly wouldn’t give him the benefit of the doubt). For all we know it Randall made the whole thing up in a paniced & very poorly thought out attempt to make himself look better.
Zombies have short attention spans and were easily distracted by live meat that’s still moving.