Much improved over much of last season. Some actual awareness of the situation and plans of attack.
Though the plan of attack of going in hand to hand seems unnecessarily risky. Why go in at all and not just draw them to the fence and kill them through it. When that clears them out, advance to the next door and make noise until no more come and repeat step by step.
But that wouldn’t be good TV so at least was just bumbling around.
When they first walked into the room, twice the camera showed (briefly) a lit LED flashlight on the floor. It’s enough to make you say “Boy, those must be some super batteries…that or someone was just here and scattered…is he cutting his leg off???”
Later we see that a group of people had already occupied that area and must have scattered when they heard the door break down.
It seems what we’re going to have is a situation similar to them invading Herschel’s farm. Kind of a ‘this is our house now’ type thing.
No one got infected after being bit.
That’s another thing. Why was Glen checking her for scratches, I thought we were done with that.
Can any one detail the last five minutes for me? My DVR is shitty and it likes to black out at inappropriate times so all I heard was a bunch of moaning and groaning then saw the last scene where the non-zombie was like “WTF?” ETA: To be a little more specific - I have no idea what happened to Hershel.
I think that comes with Shane being gone. Shane may have gotten things gone faster, but Rick is a bit more organized. Now he’s trying to stay organized, but keep some momentum as well.
I was wondering the same thing as well, and you’re right, it probably is for the extra drama. No, they wouldn’t have killed every last one of them, but they could have made it across the field with only a handful in the yard if they had given themselves another 20 minutes.
Also, it seemed awfully conveniently to have two carabiners connected by some chain ready to go…almost like they stopped at and REI just in case they happened to run across a sliding chain link fence with zombies on the other side.
Herschel got bit, they dragged him into an unoccupied room, Rick cut off his leg, then a group of regular humans, who had, apparently already claimed that as their hideout where like “what the fuck?” since they either weren’t expecting other non-zombies in their hideout or weren’t expecting non-zombies to show up and do an impromptu amputation or maybe they just didn’t know other non-zombies existed. I suppose we’ll find that out next week.
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Considering how many times they ran into zombies on the other side of a chain link fence in the first two seasons, I have no problem with them having developed the tactic (especially since it can probably also work in other situations, such as block a door closed so long as there is something you can hook onto on either side).
Yeah I suppose. I keep feeling like I missed an episode, but the show clearly continued to move forward even when we weren’t watching, which isn’t a bad thing, since it appears to have been basically more of the same thing. Nothing got significantly better or worse.
Why wouldn’t he? They were just in battle. It makes sense to check for wounds.
If Herschal has any chance of survival at all that leg needs to come off now, before the infected blood circulates past the knee. I have no idea if that’s medically plausible, but it’s a pretty standard idea in zombie fiction.
The time jump is surprising. It means more time has passed offscreen than the first 2 seasons put together. That’s a whole lot of character development we don’t get to see. Other than advancing Lori to her 3rd trimester (& avoid recasting Carl) I don’t see much point.
Since TWD is now basically operating under “Romero rules” it’s a good question what happens if Lori’s baby dies before she gives birth. Even if it doesn’t have teeth yet that can’t be good for Lori. I just hope they don’t actually show it onscreen. There’s just no way they can do it with it looking completly ridiculous.
Just because it was part of the post zombie-contact ritual they used to do when they were worried about getting infected. Infection isn’t a concern anymore. I mean, if she’s got a giant bite that’s going to cause some kind of significant bleeding or need a bandage, she’ll probably feel it, but there’s not much that can be done for a scratch that’s small enough that that you need another person to spot it (they have no medical supplies, or even running/clean water).
Back in the first season, if you came home with a scratch, they considered killing you. But now, that’s not a concern. Unless it’s just a habit at this point.
Yeah, that was a nice surprise. They’re working together, not arguing over every piddly damn thing. Even Carl is useful, although why give him such a big gun? 
When Lori told Rick “we have to talk”, I groaned, thinking she wanted to talk about Shane being the baby’s father. Another nice surprise that she was worried about the baby.
I’m fine with them not eating the dog food. They’re just hungry – not starving. And if they were starving and ate dog food, they’d probably puke it all up.
Did anyone else think the owl that Daryl shot was a zombie owl? It looked dead already. (Also, I have bad memories of a really bad horror novel where the animals became zombies.)
ETA: I think Glen checking what’s-her-name for wounds was just an excuse to touch her. They’re so cute.
A bad scratch is all it takes to get a nasty infection in their circumstance.
That’s the last thing you want in a world full of zombies, whether Hershal has some antibiotics or no… a stitch in time, and all; gotta save the medication.
Poor Hershal!
Amy died within minutes due to her injuries. Jim was bitten and became deathly ill. He lingered for a day or two and it’s safe to assume he died (and then undied) not too long after they left him by the side of the road.
Yes, we know that they are all already infected and will turn when they die–even from natural causes–but a bite from a zombie is still known to be fatal by causing some kind of additional or amplified infection. That’s why it was necessary to amputate Herschel’s leg immediately.
They have a whole country full of empty 7-11’s and Walmarts (and, err…plenty of owls to, I guess). I don’t think food and fuel would really be that much of a problem.
If scratches are so dangerous, why in hell are they fighting in tank tops with bare arms and shoulders? You’d think they’d at least put on some denim jackets or something.
I love this show, and I thought it was a great episode, but damn it’s so easy to criticize the writing because writing a show like this without leaving any obvious loopholes or making strategic errors must be really hard.
For example, it was crazy the way they tried to clear that jail. First, as already mentioned they should have just waited for the zombies to come to the fence, then killed them until all of them were down. Then Rick could have gone to the second gate, opened it, and ran back out of the compound and they could have waited for the next wave. Repeat until all topside zombies are dead, without wasting any ammunition, making all that noise, and risking people being killed.
Clearing the interior of the jail should have been done much more carefully, running past crossing hallways was insane, and you just knew they were going to get boxed in. They should have done it one hallway at a time, always leaving a protected exit. For bonus points, they could have blocked off each hallway after they inspected it.
And instead of going around corners looking for zombies, why not just stand at the entrance to that area and make a lot of racket and see what comes out? Why sneak in so you can be surprised by the horde?
Anyway, there are always holes like that. You’ve just gotta roll with it.
The six month thing didn’t bother me. I thought the opening made it very clear how they had survived: they were foraging, going from farm house to farm house scouring them for food and weapons, and using them for shelter. It would be pretty tedious to show them doing that more than once, so they just cut to the next major inflection point in the plot. Works for me.
I think the main problem is that the zombies just don’t seem like they’d be that big a deal. They move really slow, are trivially easy to kill and are pretty much stymied by any sort of barrier. As a result, the writers have to make the characters functionally retarded in order to keep the tension up.
Ammo being scarce is something else that seems most implausible to me. A zombie show like this would almost make more sense in Europe, where people are tighter together and (generally) far fewer people are armed. I suppose that Shaun Of The Dead documentary showed what would happen.
Especially silly since they’re supposedly in upstate S. Carolina (I think, they mentioned Greenville when they were looking at their map). I used to live there, and every third building is a firing range, gun and ammo store or hunting supply store.