They’ve shown that zombies go into “sleep mode” when no one is around, the zombies were probably laying down on the ground.
And still would not “surprise” the occupants of a car, I think, given the arrangement of things in that scene.
I will note that the survivors don’t seem to notice walkers unless they start approaching or being threatening; we’ve seen them just glance at ones in the distance and tune them out many times. Still, I don’t see how a dozen just appeared in that large cleared roadway and got right onto them without being noticed…
Funny you should say that. As I watched that scene I thought, “what, is that supposed to be front wheel drive?” Because I thought they worked on the front and I didn’t think they would show a FWD car so assumed they had made a mistake. Or maybe I didn’t look carefully, there’s so much other idiocy I can’t catch it all.
Just when I can’t take anymore …“Look, there’s a Zombie! This is the best show on TV!”
Is it possible that this episode was a trial ballon by the new showrunner? Maybe an attempt to gauge fan response to a more self-contained episode structure with less manufactured people drama? Or was it just an easy way to save money by having a whole show with only 4 speaking roles?
Looked to me like they put it under the front wheel.
I wonder how much money they really saved. Only 4 speaking parts (& 1 guest state), but the sets were all new (though some of them could just be redresses of existing sets).
I’m trying to figure out exactly how far they’ve traveled, because this episode made it seem like they went in one big circle near Rick’s hometown and it doesn’t make sense that he didn’t know about the prison.
The show started with Rick at a hospital near his home, which was a suburb of Atlanta. They traveled towards the CDC in the metro area, then when that blew up, had to high-tail it out of there. They spent some time at Hershel’s farm, which was probably a few dozen miles away though I don’t remember if that was ever said exactly. I thought they went out of state by then. After Hershel’s farm, there’s about 8-10 months which was unaccounted for during the jump from Season 2 to 3, time which they spent wandering in circles apparently trying to avoid a large herd of walkers (I vaguely remembered them saying something about that). They never found the prison at that time, which was fanwanked away by me at first because I thought they were much further out. But apparently that was only a few miles away from Rick’s hometown.
How come Rick didn’t know about the prison? He’s in law enforcement! He probably sent many people there personally! It seems that so far, they’ve simply made one big circle from Rick’s town, to the CDC, to Hershel’s farm, then the prison, which is close to Rick’s town. It doesn’t make sense that Rick had to stumble upon the prison, he should have been intimately familiar with it. It made sense when I thought they were in another state, but not when the group apparently haven’t left the general area where the show started.
It wasn’t a large clear roadway, they stopped in the middle of what was obviously a massacre. There was rotted bodies inside the cars, they probably just assumed the ones on the ground were more dead bodies rather than sleeping zombies.
This show needs a Walking Dead/My Cousin Vinny crossover episode.
Hah! When the wheel started spinning I yelled out "y’know when your car gets stuck in the Alabama mud, and one tire starts spinning and the other does nothing… "
Entertainment Weekly did aninterview with Robert Kirkman about this episode and he explains just that:
Exactly - I expected some noise and a sounds of a fight - and then carl shoots michone as she comes out the front door - putting a bloody hole right thru moms head in the picture.
I can ignore Rick not thinking about using a prison for home because he could have assumed they would be full of either walkers or inmates. Maybe he dismissed prisons altogether and only liked this prison because there were few walkers and it was right in front of them. Maybe it just came at the right time and had the right look.
I’m not sure she killed any zombies. They were still alive when they walked away from the building. I did think it was odd that it only took her 15 seconds (yes, I checked) to go around back, sneak in, get the photo and go back to the front. Also, for sloppy filming, the photo was dropped right in front of the door, right where the zombies were when she went back in to get it.
I get the impression that Michonne smells like a walker all the time, and that all of living in that world have long since burned out their olfactory sense.
ETA: Does anyone else get a romantic vibe between Rick and Michonne?
She said upwards of five words to him. For Michonne, that’s sexual tension.
If she gets any more talkative, she’ll be in chick flick territory.
The interview snippet with Kirkland above answers this, but you’re missing a step in between these two. After the CDC blew up, they decided to go with Shane’s plan to go to the army base 100 miles away. Some indeterminate amount of time into this 100 mile journey they came upon a traffic jam on the highway, which is where the herd showed up and scared off/killed Sofia.
Teleporter, the hilt of her katana has a site-to-site transporter module embedded in it
How good could even a fresh zombie’s sense of smell be if they aren’t even breathing?