# The Walking Dead; 3.08 "Made to Suffer" (open spoilers)

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**Created:** [December 3, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-3-08-made-to-suffer-open-spoilers/642799 "2012-12-03T00:07:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-3-08-made-to-suffer-open-spoilers/642799/110 "2012-12-04T05:33:53Z")

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> [@wheresmymind](#):
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> What was Zombiedaughter looking at when the Gov let her out of her cage? It looked like a huge bowl of strawberry sherbet?

Raw meat/flesh of some kind.

> [@wheresmymind](#):
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> Seriously Michonne, would it hurt you to say “I’ll go take a look around?” before ducking off into the night?

Or “Andrea, the reason I’m about to kill The Governor is…” Michonne is seriously committed to the idea that Andrea should trust her on principle and without evidence.

> [@wheresmymind](#):
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> …aaaand Oscar’s down. I guess with the introduction of two new black people it was inevitable. Lord knows they couldn’t possibly have THREE of them on the show at once.

Of course not. Whenever they show two of them at the same time, we get scared.

> [@wheresmymind](#):
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> Terrorists? Come on, that’s so 2000’s.

Agreed, they may be attempting some lame political allegory, which these writers are in no way equipped to handle.

> [@voltaire](#):
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> That’s the least part that bothered me about Michonne’s reaction to Penny…
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> Oh noes, how dare you keep your zombie daughter chained up alive with a bag over her head?!? Everybody knows that you’re supposed to keep them chained up with their bottom jaws removed!! What’s this barbaric bag shit?!? Surely, I must kill her to put an end to her months-long indignity and misery.
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> Michonne is pretty much the last character who should have been the one to discover and kill Penny.

That’s a good point, but on re-watch, she raises her sword to kill Penny, as she kills every zombie she can, then The Governor yells “Stop!”. Michonne ends up killing her anyway, but presumably to spite The Governor, rather than out of a desire to end indignity and misery. “She doesn’t have needs” sounds pretty dismissive of zombies as victims.

Speaking of that scene, after 8 episodes, Michonne got a non-scowling line! Her delivery of “It’s ok, I’m not going to hurt you” was positively warm and human.

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