If you go to AMC’s website and watch the “Inside Episode” video it makes it pretty clear about Carl, and Lori and Shane’s conversation.
On another note : has anyone else noticed the angel wings on the back of Daryl’s jacket? Symbolic perhaps? It was, after all, Daryl who made the realization about Randall’s neck being broken and he was the first one to suspect Shane was BS. “This guy weighs a buck twenty five soaking wet and you’re saying he got the jump on you?”
I love how this is playing out. Can’t wait for the finale and next season. Despite some of the nit picking and criticism, I still think this is the most entertaining show on TV right now.
The Inside Episode video explains that Carl followed them into the woods to help look for Randall and instead he found Shane and Rick. Carl was trying to redeem himself because he still feels responsible for Dale’s death.
Was the black, bald actor sick or something? I feel like the last time we saw his character was back in the CDC, but he just reappeared this episode to help carry some boxes.
On the same note, isn’t there another member of the Hershal household we never see. I vaguely recall there being another male along with the guy Shane shot, but I don’t think he’s appeared since.
The cast isn’t that big and they’re all in the same place, its sort of weird that they sideline characters for long stretches.
1.) The look on Carl’s face was never one of fear over the zombie - always appeared to be anger @ dad - editing on the scene was insane - he never said a word and if he was worried about zombieSHane - then he should have said ‘Dad look out’ or anything at all.
2.) What Shane did get from Randall was the location of the other group - about 5 miles out camped out on the side of the highway - of course, no one knows that now.
3.) Carl was watching the fields and the area where Shane had built the lookout tower thing.
4.) There was a gunshot when Rick Stabs Shane - he had managed to pull the gun inclose when he faked shane and stepped inside - there was a shot to the side. Second shot is Carl shooting Shane.
I’m pretty sure the writers just forgot about them. TDog has had not a damn thing to do since he sustained what should have been a mortal wound (that was never really mentioned again) in the season premiere except for shoot a few barn zombies. The other kid, Jimmy, has had less than that to do, although we do see both of them wandering in the background every once in a while. In the last episode Jimmy was supposed to be watching Carl during the big what-to-do-with-Randall powwow (leaving one to wonder why he doesn’t get a vote) and he was hammering something in this one. You’d think they’d have had him pop in on the suicidal sister, since he’s supposed to be her boyfriend.
They both have had token appearances throughout the episodes on the farm. The male you’re talking about was shown nailing boards over a window in this episode and wrangling cows in the last episode. I think T-Dog has made an appearance in every episode on the farm, or nearly so.
On another note, is the name “T-Dog” in homage to South Park? “T” = “Token”?
Yea, looking at the cast list, it looks like T-Bone and Jimmy are just recurring characters instead of part of the main cast. I’m guessing if they appeared in every episode the producers would have to make them fulltime cast members and pay them more. So they get limited appearances.
Still its disorientating when your supposed to have a handfull of people living in a confined area, and yet two of them vanish for days on end. I honestly thought T-Bone had died at some point, so it was weird seeing him show up.
Is there any chance this “everyone is infected, you will turn when you die” hypothesis is wrong and that there’s some other explanation for what happened with Shane? Like maybe the infection is being transmitted in another way (eg, airborne virus, etc) or some wound he received that got infected?
This is confusing the hell out of me and it changes a lot in the story to me if everyone is simply going to turn into a zombie just by dying of natural causes.
Yes it can. Rick kept having flashes of a walker going berserk and whatnot while he looked at Shane’s dead body. That’s because he knew Shane would come back. They also were trying to show his discomfort at what he had to do next but then he got distracted by Carl and was probably also supposed to be somewhat in a state of shock.
At least, that’s what I thought they were trying to portray in that scene. The writing and directing in this show definitely could be better, in my opinion. Despite this episode finally going somewhere, some of the dialog was still awful and it often seems forced.
What’s so confusing? It certainly changes a lot, making it even more morbid and desperate. The point of the show is to see what happens to people and their motivations under those kinds of desperate conditions, no?
Why would Rick keep the fact that people automatically zombify on death a secret from the others? Seems like it would be a good thing to let people know about in case Rick isn’t on the farm when Hershall’s liver goes out.
You do have a point, there. However, in the Season 2 premiere, Rick broadcasts on the radio to Morgan, and says something along the lines of “Someone told me…it doesn’t matter.” This was presumably to remind us about the Dr. Jenner whisper, but you’d think that if it was “people can become zombies even if not bitten,” that this would be critical information that Rick should share with everyone for their own safety.
Still, I concede that my original conclusion about Rick and Shane isn’t necessarily valid.
Randall had the same situation. No zombie bites and reanimated immediately after dying. Don’t know but seems to me the virus is accelerating in some way.
All that, plus while he may have been *told *that everyone reanimates even if they hadn’t been bitten, he hasn’t *seen *that happen. He may have been waiting to confirm. Also, the only person he’s seen reanimate after a bite was Amy, and it took hours. Jim was still alive when they left him, and it had been a day or two since he’d been bitten. Shane popped back up like an inflatable punching clown thingy. I’m sure he wasn’t prepared for that.
I saw it as Randall playing Shane and trying to lure his captor back to his original group. Like someone else said, I didn’t see them revealing anything new. Shane already knew the group was made up of rapists and thugs.
His name is Theodore, but it might as well stand for Token.
