I’m glad they remembered to finish off Hershel’s head. I think I even brought that up in a previous thread.
Nicotero brought the head prop on Talking Dead, and holy crap that thing was incredibly realistic and creepy. Espcially when Hardwick fed it puddin’.
Milton, the Gov’s science nerd, explained that he discovered during his experiments that if zombies can’t eat (like because they have no jaw) they eventually stop trying and become fairly docile. The original pets not attacking her had nothing to do with them being her lovaaaaaah or friend or anything.
Also, the scene of Atlanta in the background through the apartment windows changed from normal to ruined apocalypse.
Milton also thought that he can communicate with a zombie with some music and bells. Guy wasn’t exactly the brightest pen in the tool shed.
Bit of a hit and miss episode for me.
Most of the Michone stuff was good, I liked her dream/flashback sequence. It was a bit heavy-handed on the whole “I’m little better than a zombie if I wonder by myself” revelation, but I still loved her reaction when she found Rick & Carl.
The Rick/Carl stuff I didn’t care for.
As per usual it was the practicalities and details that bothered me.
It has been well established in the show time and again that zombie skulls generally have the consistency of overripe watermelon, but suddenly an axe doesn’t penetrate a zombie skull and in fact gets stuck. Then in the very same episode suddenly they’re back to watermelons as a katana is slicing straight through skulls.
The ‘pets’ is just terrible stuff. I don’t think it’s been quite so egregious before. So you can apparently wander through the middle of a zombie horde simply because you have a rope attached to a docile zombie. I realise it harks back bad comic book stuff, but the TV show hasn’t had a problem changing other things.
All that canned food lying around, that would be the situation in almost every house. None of the survivors should ever be going hungry, all it would take is ransacking half a dozen houses.
Why do they need to go in and ‘clear’ a house/shop etc. Carl kind of got it later. Just stand at the door and make some noise – the zombies will come running. You just need to check any closed doors etc. No need to get surprised by a zombie lurking in the dark.
I really don’t know how these people survive for so long, they are abject morons.
I loved the last scene where there’s a (Michonne) knock on the door, Rick looks out, turns to Carl and says, “It’s for you.” Almost as much fun as the in-print “Oh #@&*!” for the Grimm mid-season cliffhanger.
He wasn’t trying to communicate with them; he was trying to determine what, if any, memories* they retain from life. It’s a valid line of inquiry, and the CDC (& other overseas labs) was probably doing the same before total collapse.
*It’s clear that they do retain some memories. For example they can walk if their legs (& spinal chord) are intact, climb steps, bite, chew, swallow, etc. And the pilot had Mrs Jones returning to the house her husband & son were sheltering in night after night.
Kinda like this.
The recent loss of Russell Johnson has made the absence of smart supporting characters even more stark.
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I regret dropping cable 5% less every time I read comments like this. It is so unbelievably luxurious to watch stuff with NO, NONE, ZERO, NADA interruption.
I can’t make up my mind on this episode. Definitely some very stupid points with Carl’s behavior, but I can see they’re going to go round-robin on the gang until they’re reassembled in about four weeks. Not a bad way to get some character development and gentle retconning in.
And really, the closing line made the ep for me. WD doesn’t tend to do great lines, but that was a great one to go black on.
Does anyone think Michonne went back to the prison to get that gaudy cat statue?
I think she went back to find the others.
She didn’t go back to the prison.
For a few seconds when she was just stumbling along with the walkers, I thought she’d end up back there.
Interesting piece in Wired: The Walking Dead’s Scariest Element Isn’t Zombies, It’s Memories
The survivors are like Lot’s wife traveling the long way out of hell, keeping their eyes straight ahead as though they’d fall to pieces if they looked back. And they might; the past is taboo because it’s dangerous, and that’s the very thing that makes it so magnetically attractive.
Not all zombies are equal, the older ones are “squishier”. The guy that took Carl’s shoe for example was actually still built like a wrestler.
What bothered me was that there would be any unlooted places within injured walking distance from the prison.
Rick had just taken a severe beating and almost died, he wasn’t in prime brain-axing condition.
Did I see Rick hold up a revolver and tell someone “Have a shell in the chamber abd be sure that the safety is on.”? :rolleyes:
Why? The entire world should be essentially unlooted except by the very small survivor pool. Even early looters’ caches should be right where they were left.
I agree as others have said, it makes no sense for people to murder each other because there should be more than enough resources for everyone who’s left. That was why I was always sympathetic to Dale’s point of view.