The Soaring Society of America? ssa.org
I assume he meant Social Security Administration (ssa.gov). According to them, however, the alternate spelling of “Darrell” was in the top 200 with 13,155 given that name.
I was hoping the baby would be undead. There was a scene right after the birth where Maggie has the baby cuddled in her arm…
ZOMBABY CHEW!!
nom nom.
The just born dirty baby was a fake prop baby (a really damn good one, IMO), while the later clean baby was an actual infant.
Regarding the issues to seasons thing, I don’t know you can actually directly correlate the two. The first season roughly covered the first 5-6 issues of the comic, but the comic didn’t have any of that CDC stuff or anything, and then the next issue after that Carl kills Shane, so he was gone long before most season 2 material was covered in the comic (if at all, I’ve only read that far). On Talking Dead a few weeks past they said that as of issue 102 Sophia is still alive, so it’s like trying to compare apples to applejuice.
I know of a guy that actually has TWO brothers named Darryl.
With our luck, she’ll be immune and they’ll call her Hera…
You just shut your mouth!
This whole “eating” is confusing. Zombies don’t have a metabolism/digestion system that I can tell. Especially as many of them have their mid-sections ripped out. No heart to pump blood to make digestion possible. So do they really eat? Are they just ripping up bodies to have something to do besides wander the earth? Just wondering.
What are the different names we have for the walkers from various groups? I remember walkers and biters.
Well, there are climbers, bombers, floaters, builders, bashers…
There must be a scientific explanation. I blame poor writing 
Right after rick cleaved Tomas in twain, Andrew took a step towards Rick looking almost as if he wasn’t sure what to do. He very reasonably concluded that there was a good chance that Rick had just decided to kill all of them, not just Tomas, and took a tenative act of self defense, then ran away.
It was Rick’s fault for not immediately saying “Ok, this guy had to go, but you guys are cool” given that it was totally reasonable to think Rick was going to kill them all.
I interpreted that scene as Andrew being scared shitless after witnessing his buddy get cleaved in the head, albeit a batshit crazy head. Then the guy starts chasing him down and locks him outside with a bunch of zombies. I don’t blame the guy for being hostile towards the group.
Of course, I think they should have just killed them all and taken their food from the get go, but hey, I can think about this on my couch.
I look at it from the point of view of the virus (or whatever causes the infection). The virus hijacks our built-in drive to eat and re-aims it at other people. The fact that they don’t appear to need to eat anymore for survival is irrelevant, as the virus has given them the drive to consume flesh not to feed themselves, but rather to spread the virus. Pathogens that change the behavior of their host to increase transmission or to complete their life cycle are not unprecedented in real life.
I just finished watching this episode, here are some of my thoughts (most of which have been covered already):
No more Lori! Woo-hoo! I chuckled when she told Carl “You’ll make it. You’re smart, you’re brave, etc” I think “Listen to me. Do exactly what the adults tell you to do, and only that” would have served him better.
T-Dogg is dead:mad: Are the writers trying to stick to this horror movie cliche’? Are they doing it ironically? Was that supposed to be self-referential in some way? Then 2 minutes later…
“Ta-Daaaa! New and improved token black guy! Even bigger and blacker than the old one! You’ll hardly remember his name either!”
The Governor was pretty cold to Andrea last episode when she seemed so smitten with him and his town. But when he realizes they’re really set on leaving he turns up the charm to convince her to stay.
I liked the counterpoint between the short, idyllic scenes of Woodbury (complete with golf and smooth, top-shelf bourbon) interspersed with the longer, violently brutal, death-filled scenes of Rick’s group. I know the Governor is not the good guy that he seems, but Rick’s group sees just as much bloodshed per capita it seems. So far both Rick and the Governor are autocratic leaders willing to protect their world no matter what the cost, who leave a trail of human bodies in their wake. The difference is the Governor actually seems to be doing a good job of the whole “protecting” thing.
The idea of zombie Lori is interesting, maybe she’ll make an appearance similar to the scene in the first season with the zombie wife trying to open her front door?
I think Carol escaped and is alive. My guess is they’ll bump into her when they (we) least expect it next episode.
I’ve been getting a “babies are our future” vibe lately from both the show and from some posters here that I don’t agree with. At this point, babies and young children are a HUGE liability. Think of how many people Carl and Sophia have inadvertently killed so far. Best to wait until you have a relatively stable society before you start having children that won’t be able to contribute to the group for a decade or so. Children are a long-term investment, one that you shouldn’t rush in to. Heck, it might be a mistake for Maggie and Glenn to have a baby even before the zombie apocalypse, yet something tells me all their boning will eventually have consequences.
Mombie.
The scientist guy in the last episode said the walkers have a metabolism, it’s just really really slow. Which sort of explains the zombies that “wake up” like the one that bit Hershel. Instead of starving to “death,” if they go long enough without food or stimulus, they hibernate.
I assumed they were just eating out of instict, and that what they had just sat there in their stomach rotting. But then that scientist guy who makes tea last episode said that that zombies are somehow digesting food and are capable of starving. If it’s the former then eventually their stomachs are going to explode like in Alien (but with rotting garbage instead of a xenomorph).
I can’t get into the show that much anymore. I just can’t find any reason to care about any of these people. And the new people… The governator bores me, as does the chick with the sword and weird duckface. A katana vs zombies is too comic bookish to me. In reality, if you hit anywhere except the neck your blade is going to be stuck inside a zombie while this buddies munch on your butt. Even the neck isn’t a sure thing, and you still have anklebiters if you do manage a clean decapitation. The best use for a katana is stabbing them in the head from a semi-safe distance, and poking a skull like that is a little unwieldy, although with the ease that our group seems to have at stabbing through skulls with blunt objects, I guess it wouldn’t matter (see Glenn stabbing zombie #2 in the forehead and out the back of the head with either a pipe or a broken rake handle in 301).
I did have one interesting thought. As much as I hate Carl and wouldn’t mind seeing him join his mom, or joining some of our fallen brethren farther back in season one for that matter, what if this show is about him? What if this is all backstory to Carl’s rise to power? What if the group all dies off rather soonish and we cut to 5-10-20 years later and Carl is the John Connor of the zombie apocalypse, leading the remnants of humankind to victory?
With his little brother as his best general, or as his greatest rival. No wait, “In a world… where power is all that separates you from certain death… two warlords… brothers… live at peace… yet when they both fall for the same woman… they stand to lose it all.”
That’d be problematic, what with the sister and all.