Proving you were paying a lot more attention to episode than I was. I was trying to master Windows 8 and only glancing at the tv occasionally.
I loved the episode, because things happened.
That said, I suffered the inevitable disappointment of the second (after Merle) villain of the story turning into a cardboard cutout. Well, at least there’s not much point in debating the relative morality of the Governor’s actions. Just give him a Black Hat™ and move on.
Also a bit puzzled that Michonne didn’t tell the group about Andrea, but I chalked it up to her having used her word quota for the day on explaining Woodbury’s defenses, and there’s only so much information you can convey via scowling.
The determination of these characters to act against their own interests is starting to sour me on the show.
Well I’ll say this much about Andrea : she’s done one helluva job keeping her underwear in good shape…
I kinda felt the opposite. There was a lot of lead up - but no delivery. I mean, I understand that they have to build up to the mid season finale - but I wanted something to happen.
The scene with the gunva and Maggie was just a bit too uncomfortable. I kinda knew it was coming, and it did blatantly paint him as the bad guy, I just didn’t like it. Poor girl has been through enough with the undead.
I’d like to see Glenn take him out in the next episode, but I’m guessing he’ll survive until the end of the season. I’m predicting that Daryl hesitates in front of Merle and Glen kills Merle - both to save Daryl and to get a bit of revenge.
I liked how the Gov used the same lines with both Maggie and Adrea “its over now” or something to that effect.
Michonne, pure shit writing, or she has a long term plan of some kind that we have no inkling of at all and is completely out of character for this show leading me to believe its pure shit writing.
she knows about this group, she knows their history with Merle, she has no logical or even halfway logical reason not to say the words “Andrea” or “Merle” and thus give vital info to the group who is going back to the town to save a friend and she is re armed and coming along with them so her silence on this matter is actually putting her own life in danger.
in short fire who ever comes up with her part in these stories, cause they suck.
loved the episode otherwise.
It makes me wonder if the dog’s death was what sent Paranoid Hermit over the edge from just being a hermit to being irrational. The dog was dead and decaying, but it didn’t look like it had been that way for very long.
He was bluffing Merle, naming a bunch of names to try to claim that they had more people than they really had. He lost that bluff when he named Andrea. That’s why Merle leaned in close and sneered “Really” after that list of names.
I thought that was a great way to show that he really doesn’t have any feelings for anyone, including Andrea. Threaten a woman with rape, dismemberment of her boyfriend, and shooting her boyfriend in front of her, then drive home her helplessness by forcing her to cuddle up next to him, and then use the same words with his current bed partner.
Well, I liked the zombie action, the reanimated old guy, the reunion between Carol and the group, and Glenn pulling a Black Widow on that poor walker while tied to a chair.
Michonne didn’t mention Andrea and Merle because that would have been counterproductive to her own agenda. She wants to get in, get revenge on Merle, and maybe get to Andrea one more time. She was shown snooping in the preview, so I think she wants to find something to confront Andrea with to get her to leave.
She needs the prison group to get her in. She can sneak in by herself no doubt, but if there are a bunch of people with her, and they get discovered and a fight breaks out, she might be able to slip away and do her thing while everyone is distracted. She needs them to be committed to fighting, and if they knew they were going to encounter friends and family on the other side it would weaken their resolve. She thinks Daryl might want to join his brother, and if they knew Andrea was in there, they might want to go get her back too, or at least talk to her.
Telling them ahead of time makes everything much more complicated. They are bound to find out once they get in and start fighting, which will cause all kinds of confusion, but by that time the group will have served their purpose as far as Michonne is concerned.
Imagine how it is going to look from Andrea’s side. The group that left her for dead appears and begins attacking Woodbury. She doesn’t know Glen and Maggie are there, and no doubt the governor will tell her that they want what Woodbury has and are trying to take it rather than go through the application and approval process. She would remember the encounter with the other band during the farm days, and from Woodbury’s perspective Rick’s group is the same.
Actually they are the same. And it’s possible that Woodbury has had to fight off previous armed bands that weren’t interested in cooperating and playing by the rules. Murdering the guardsmen may have been a pre-emptive strike to avoid a repeat of some earlier bad experience, and not simply a move to preserve the Governor’s power based on a hunch.
It could certainly send me over the edge. It’s been a year since the zombie apocalypse began and he’s managed to keep his dog alive that long, then suddenly it dies. It didn’t look like there were any bite marks on it so it probally wasn’t killed by a walker. He could’ve just woken up one morning only to find the dog dead.
Yeah, think of how upset Tom Hanks was when his volleyball drifted away. And he didn’t even have zombies to contend with!
This! About time someone mentioned that. My first reaction: Nice ass and thong! :eek: My second reaction: so thongs are still in style, even with the Zombie Apocalypse?!? My third: how in the world do you go 12+ months (or however long it has been) of the Zombie Apocalypse and keep a pink lacy thong in that good of shape? I think all three reactions happened in 1.5 seconds.
Then I went back to my first reaction for a minute longer…
I’ve had a crush on Laurie Holden since the mid-1990s. Yes, she still looks great!
Or the Governor just gave her some new underwear & clothes.
Can someone explain to me how the doctor’s experiment wasn’t the stupidest, most pointless thing ever? He wasn’t studying the disease (or whatever you want to call it), the death or the reanimation process. Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think he even had a stethoscope did he? He was simply trying to determine if a freshly turned zombie could recognize it’s name. How could anything on earth lead him to believe it could? And what good would it do anyway?
Cause when Fubaya bites it and becomes a walker, the guy behind him yells “Fubyya!” and when he turns around the other guy can whack him.
I assumed it had to do with the Governor hoping there was some chance to ‘cure’ his daughter.
I was curious why Andrea didn’t mention the time they spent with the guy at the CDC. He talked about (and showed a video of) his study of the zombification process, which would have helped answer what they were trying to figure out with Mr. Coleman..
I was thinking the same thing! Her lacy white underwear and Maggie’s nice black bra. I guess they hit a Victoria Secret while on the run. Much higher priority than baby formula.
I can imagine that given the lack of laundry facilities, looting fresh undies while on the run is the next best option. When the dead arose, the store probably didn’t get cleared of underwear.
When they got to the prison, they were happy about the food in the cafeteria. However I bet they were almost as excited about the lifetime supply of toilet paper that is probably stored somewhere.
That’s gonna leave a rash, what with all the running, killing and living in the dirt.
But I thought this episode moved the plot along well, with less soulful gazing into space and more shit’s gonna hit the fan next week type action. Any bets on whether Merle takes a crossbow bolt through the skull? And Glenn (or Andrea) takes out the Gov?