That always bugged me a little, but only as a very minor nitpick.
It wasn’t like she was remembering her house, which would have made some sense. That house was just a place she and her husband & son found and had been squatting in for like 3 weeks.
True, but it was likely her most recent residence, perhaps stored in a different part of the brain from whatever building she’d think of as her actual home. I thought it was a nice touch, a small part of what made the pilot episode far and away the best thing TWD ever did. It’s also reminiscent of Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, which is never a bad thing.
Something I overlooked…
I agree that Dale could be grating, but a voice for the idea that not everything had changed, that right was still right and wrong was still wrong, was a welcome one for me. Once you’ve decided that an apocalypse means that in addition to no (or few) external barriers to evil, there should be no internal barriers either, you now have a species unworthy of survival.
Dale’s death came immediately after his moral stand on not executing Randall, arguably Dale’s finest moment. He tried to use a democratic process, and he was in the right. It was a good note to go out on. Now, Herschel seems to be stepping up to the plate as the elder voice of wisdom, he might serve as Dale 2.0, the less grating version, who’d never hide a bag of guns in the swamp.
I think this is just a problem with the pacing of the show. At some point the tension of walkers everywhere will have to be replaced by the tension of islands of survivors fighting each other. They’ve just jumped to the later too fast IMO. I think they could have done a few seasons of the group surviving alone with only a few encounters with others before they settled into this “who gets to own this area” theme but here we are. Maybe they didn’t expect the show to go more than 3 seasons.
Now, now. I really liked the part where the walkers in the outer yard were hopping over the shark in a conga line.
I thought that it showed Merle was more educated than the group thinks and he knows they believe he’s stupid.
I heard him say the ‘fine library’ as a really sarcastic comeback to Hershel, since Hershel most likely believed he wasn’t the type of man who would be able to quote the Bible.
I don’t disagree with you, it just bugs me when multiple characters have gone from Woodbury to the prison, supposedly a “Red Zone”, on foot, with no trouble whatsoever.
The ratings have been stellar from day one, so they should have.
So anyone remember back in Season 1 at the CDC when Andrea wanted to stay and die in the big fireball and Dale sat down beside her to force her to save him (and thereby herself)?
Betcha wish that scene had ended differently, huh? 
This episode was pretty much everything that was wrong with Season 2. A bunch of non-stuff happened that wasn’t especially interesting, and the stuff that was supposed to be interesting involved people you pretty much don’t care about.
For example: Rick sees a flash of white in the woods. Is it Laurie? Is it not Laurie? I don’t care, and it doesn’t advance the plot any. We already did the bit about him seeing her and following her and knowing it’s not her.
Andrea makes a walker pet. They spent a good portion of the episode showing her doing this. So what? We knew that this was a thing - Michonne did it already. Watching Andrea do it was gory, but ultimately it doesn’t change anything about the story.
Andrea in the prison was weird. She gets there, everyone is really wary, lots of incomplete information is exchanged, she starts to leave in a huff, Michonne is mad at her, so then…they let her come in to hold the baby and give her a gun and a car?
Merle in the prison was weird. He’s proven himself a threat to the group literally from day 1. He shot Michonne in the leg, he abducted Maggie and Glenn, he threw a walker at Glenn… so they give him a big knife and duct tape, and his claim to be just following orders makes it all okay?
Beth sings for a long time. Yeah, saw that before. Group bonding, yada yada yada…
On Talking Dead, even Retta made a comment about the writing. I can’t remember exactly what aspect of the episode they were talking about, but she was making the point that something they did just didn’t make much sense, but when they wrote it they thought it would be cool.
I felt like the stuff in this episode could have been about a quarter to a half of an episode.
With any zombie show, you get to a point to where you are like “when are they going to do something about all these these zombies?” Like Woodbury and the prison are behind walls. Why wouldn’t you be spending 6 hours a day on the walls rattling cans to attract zombies and then safely dispatching them with a bunch of pole-arms?
And jaw-dropping!
Then how would we have gotten to see her ass? Andrea isn’t any more or less stupid than Rick or Daryl, dunno why the focus is on her.
Hardly. We’ve see it all before. I found that whole sequence to be pretty toothless.
I hope it didn’t curb your enthusiasm for the show
Stupid for not taking that car and just driving off somewhere where she doesn’t have to choose alligence between two armed camps full of a-holes and dumbasses.
I’d just like to give a shout-out to Carol, who I think may have developed more than anyone - from mousy, abused wife to bad-ass recommending tiring the Gov out in bed and then offing him.
Or, like, clearing the outer field a few pole-axed walkers at a time, instead of cowering and claiming they can’t spare the ammunition.
And it looked like Andrea was on board with it, but then decided to opt for a plan that doesn’t involve her being torn limb from limb by an angry mob.
Seconded. I look forward the scenes with Carol and Daryl. That is an interesting relationship without all the angst of every other relationship in the show.
I’ve yelled this at the screen more than once. What do they do all day? They aren’t killing walkers and the sure as hell aren’t talking to one another. They could take out a dozen walkers in a minute at the fence. Of course, then they would have to haul the bodies away, which would be a pain.
When is Daryl gonna tap that?
My chin is still up, hoping for better drama next week.