They don’t even have to use their cars as chargers. There are plenty of solar cells located in any medium-sized town. Solar powered chargers can be found as well. Even more common would be gas generators that are sold to consumers for emergency use. Most hardware stores sell them. They would be way more fuel efficient for charging than using a car.
I’m still annoyed by the way they tried to clear that jail. It seemed incredibly reckless and pointless. They already had some nice secure buildings (the guard towers). They had cleared the open areas, and they were sealed off and safe. They should have settled in, built up some fortifications if necessary, and then waited while they regained their strength, had the baby, etc. No need to go rushing into a wickedly dangerous warren of zombie-filled tunnels.
And before going in, they should have just opened the door and yelled, “Yo! Zombies!” repeatedly and waited to flush out as many as they could, drawing them into the open where they could be dispatched easily.
Ah well. Fan-wanking is part of the fun of shows like this. It’s got to be a really hard task for writers to be able to think of everything, have their characters take all the possible strategies into account, and still maintain dramatic tension and move the plot along.
I gather there’s some incentive to clear the prison in relatively short order on the assumption there are food and medical supplies within, but yeah… their specific approach is dumb, even if it somewhat less dumb than their earlier actions.
Prior to this, though, using vehicles to recharge batteries has the advantage of mobility. Once they have another defensible base, then start grabbing solar panels and generators and whatnot.
A little late but just watched it tonight…
The complete lack of character development around T-Dog really irks me. Think about it, every other character has built relationships and has added to the plot line in a significant way. We have developed some feel for these people not only as survivors, but as human beings. T-Dog is just the big black guy who stands around and is marginally helpful. He’s just a body and occasional walker killer. What are his redeeming qualities? What are his conflicts? How does he relate with the other characters? Hopefully this season will humanize the guy a bit. It’s just odd to me that we’ve finished with two seasons and the guy is a non-factor.
Also, I don’t know if it’s been addressed, but I think it is completely stupid that Daryl is still carrying a crossbow for close encounters. A gun or knife makes perfect sense, a crossbow (which takes time to shoulder and load and can’t be used in hand-to-hand combat) does not. Someone needs to put that thing down and pick up a real weapon.
This is correct. They also mentioned Newnan, which is maybe 25 miles from Greenville, GA.
I live in Coweta County, Georgia, where parts of TWD have been filmed.
Remember the church in episode 1 of season 2? I spent countless hours there as a kid, daydreaming my way thru sermons. After seeing the walker being put down in the vicinity of where my family used to sit, I told my sister “Well, I never imagined THAT when I was a kid.”
Good point. Although I get the feeling T-dog will eventually meet up with black ninja sword girl at some point. And maybe we’ll see some chemistry there.
Well I don’t expect them to be seen reading a copy of World War Z but to not acknowledge the fact that the word zombie has been known as a concept for a long time is a bit weird.
They live in a parallel universe where everything is pretty much exactly like our world, except no zombie fiction ever emerged. It just leans too hard on the fourth wall for characters to be acquainted with Romero and company, in my opinion. Characters in vampire, werewolf, or ghost fiction can be seen to draw on age-old lore within the narrative and it doesn’t ring false, but somehow having Rick be a fan of Max Brooks would seem ridiculous. I think it only works when the work is meant to be winking at the audience, like in Shaun of the Dead: “Don’t say the zed word!”
How well was “zombie” known before the movies? If you lived in a world where there was no modern zombie fiction and you saw someone come back from the dead, would you really say “it’s a zombie!”
Before the Romero movies, you mean? There are a handful of references in books and movies (Bela Lugosi’s 1939 “White Zombie” which may be the first movie to use the word), but no, not well known. But keep in mind the word “zombie” wasn’t used in Night of the Living Dead at all. And considering it came out in '68, and the subsequent influx of zombie-related movies/fiction thereafter, it would be hard to imagine the majority of these 30-somethings in The Walking Dead wouldn’t have an idea of zombies. It must be considered there is a complete disconnect between zombie pop culture and the world these characters live in. Otherwise, it just looks like they’ve all lived under rocks for the last 40 years.
Or Romero didn’t exist in their universe, like literal zombies don’t in ours. The concept may be there, but without Romero to popularize them, zombies are just another kind of undead monster, like draugrs or jiangshis. Have you heard of those?
Or we could choose to believe that they don’t say “zombies” because they know that zombies are purposely reanimated dead who are controlled by the houngan, the head voodoo guy. And they know “ghoul” doesn’t fit because ghouls are grave-robbers.
“Walkers” fits perfectly, because that’s what these things do.
I watched I Walked With A Zombie yesterday. Excellent movie.
They did address this briefly. They do not know if the walkers in each section of the prison are contained or if there is some other breach. If there were a breach then luring all the zombies inside would inevitably lure the unknown quantity and potentially unlimited number as well. So they needed to explore the perimeter first, make sure it was secure, then dispatch the ones contained. Otherwise they could have had hordes of zombies streaming in with no way to stop them. This is what Ric did on his initial push into the prison - he closed the gate first then they cleaned up what was inside.
