Man, that sure is one hell of a popular house, ain’t it? First Rick and Carl find it, then Michonne, and then the random bad guy scroungers. Don’t they know there are other houses in the area?
When Glenn asked the scientist guy, “Okay, so what caused all of this?”, I kinda cheered. All too often in shows like this they drag out the explanation, instead of doing what every real, live human would do when presented with someone who knows what’s going on. Then my spirits were crushed with the reply: “It’s classified.”
What? What the hell? Are you afraid the walkers are going to hear your super-secret plan to save the world? :rolleyes:
So, what was the guy doing sitting quietly in the bathroom? His pants were up and the lid was down. Was he just relaxing in there? And why did he not yell out, instead of mutely getting killed? And nobody thought to investigate the ruckus going on in the bathroom?
I agree that there was some good tension in Rick’s escape, but it would be great if the writers could combine tension with plot in a way that advances the story. This reminded me of the episode with Andrea eluding the gov for the whole.show, only to be caught at the end. I guess this did make Rick et al leave the house and stumble upon terminus, so that’s good.
The Glenn et al pieces were just so full of stupid it was hard to bear. And what happened to the pool of gas under the truck. It’s flowing out at one point, and later Ford is lying on his back fixing it (with a wrench???) and is completely dry.
Don’t get me started on the whole bit with Dr. Mullet calling quietly twice to his colleagues and then, instead of just walking away from the walkers, standing around in the middle of them .
I hope Lara Croft showing up is straight out of the books because that seems like the stupidest zombie-world outfit ever. Let’s maximize the bite-accessible zone, why don’t we.
The scene towards the end where Rick, Carl, & Michonne are walking past a solitary old brick building is barely a mile from where I live. It used to be the community grocery & post office.
I finished the first season of Six Feet Under, then watched this. The gulf in writing/acting was hilarious. I guess one good thing is Rick had to kill someone. I was thinking he’d somehow get away clean.
Didn’t we hear the other scavengers shouting, and shooting, as Rick escaped? I assume that means the guy Rick strangled reanimated as a zombie, since it was the clear the first guy to be choked didn’t die. I think we even got a shot of Rick opening the bathroom door a tad to let the zombie escape the room and rampage, but I’m not positive on that.
Unless he had a bucket of water, there was no reason to have the lid up and his pants down.
I was wondering about the lack of investigation of that fight - but apparently this crew spends a lot of time beating on each other. No one investigated the bedroom fight, either - so presumably internal fights are SOP.
My plot-hole of the week is why the guy who saw Rick under the bed while he was getting choked out didn’t say anything after he woke up. I guess he thought he was hallucinating?
Rick killed bathroom guy - then opened the door so the zombie could escape.
So - truck has been driving for 3 hours - I’m going to assume that the driver was not taking it ‘easy’ - seemed to be traveling at a good rate of speed -
Its atleast 90 (30mph) or 180 (60mph)miles from where they picked up Glenn and not-maggie - and Glenn thinks they are just going to walk back quickly and pick up the trail?
I was amazed by the suspension of the bed Rick was under … that had to be the flimsiest bed I’ve ever seen. What were those supports made of, rubber bands?
It’s because coreographing a fight scene where a guy has his pants down his ankles and a piece of poop hanging from his butthole would be difficult and the end result silly. It’s one of those cinematic license things where the viewer is supposed to understand what’s going on even if they’re not portraying it exactly as it should be, like people slipping on banana peels.
I know. But you’d think they’ve have left the lid open.
Also: I was wrong about Michonne outside/Carl and Rick inside. Obviously.
Oh and I was intrigued by the sudden appearance of white cobwebs this week. Maybe it’s an Arachnophobia tie in, and there’s a big giant spider living in the town’s most popular house? It just seemed weird.
