The Walking Dead; 4.11 "Claims" (open spoilers)

I think “it’s classified” means, “Nobody told me shit.”
Yes, the tension of his hiding and escape, getting the others away, was good.

The intruding group were a bunch of red neck assholes. :slight_smile:

Why would razors and scissors in this world be scarce? If they’re breaking into houses looking for cookies and cheez whiz, surely there are scissors in kitchen drawers and packs of disposable razors in the bathrooms.

Well, maybe scissors wouldn’t be scarce, but razors would get dull and there’s no factories running to make new ones. But that aside, if you’re wondering through the woods or away from civilization like most of the people seem to be doing, while trying to avoid zombies and bad humans, you wouldn’t have much time to shave and cut your hair, and take a bath or wash your clothes.

(bolding mine)

Which is why I’m very impressed none of them smelled rick as they went thru the house.

No reason to think that they would pick up Rick’s presumed funk over their own. And Rick is only a couple of day’s away from the prison, where presumably showering was at least an occasional thing.

Well, if he had a sharp poking device on him like every single person should at all times, he could give someone a nice poke in the eye. :slight_smile:

This has always bothered me in any number of movies and tv shows - come the apocalypse (or getting stranded on a desert island, etc.), the first thing you do is STOP SHAVING YOUR LEGS! I hand-wave it away because I understand that the movie-makers don’t want women running around with hairy legs and pits, but still.

I read somewhere that disposable razors just don’t get any duller after a certain point, and I think they’re right - you could still shave if you desperately wanted to.

My expectations of the intelligence of the characters are so low that I really expected Rick to climb out of the bathroom window with the scissors, leaving the Uzi behind.

Dumping the most perfect zombie-world vehicle imaginable because it has a hole in the gas tank, though… right down 80 IQ road. (A hint for both Walking Dumdums and RW folks… if you get a hole in a non-pressurized tank, find a machine screw or lag bolt about 25% bigger than the hole and run it in. Use sealant or epoxy for a more permanent repair until it can get replaced or welded.)

since the hole was in the bottom of the tank - they were also out of fuel. (assuming single tank on that side of the vehicle)

Dual if not quad tanks on that model.

Fuel no further than the nearest gas station + siphon + jerry cans… what, they were only going to drive the truck until it ran dry?

If there’s one thing that drives me crazy about the world of WD, it’s that the amount of readily available remaining goods and resources should last nearly the lifetime of the survivors, yet they persist in treating it like a Mad Max scenario where every scrap of metal and drop of gas is worth a village war, groups are lightly armed with old pistols, rags are the fashion and no one seems to remember how to cut hair.

Pretty good episode, and I kept asking… why couldn’t Michonne have been like this all along? I actually like her now!!

I wondered.
But it is a plot device to get Ford & Company hooked up with Our Heroes, so maybe Dumb Ass Smart Guy-DASG-shot all four tanks with his “inexperienced automatic weapons fire.” :slight_smile:

Or the army guy was smart enough to realize that was the tank they were running on - in any event, I don’t think the writers expect the audience to question that they were ‘out of gas’ at that point.

As you said- its a plot device to get them all grouped back together at Terminus.

I don’t know if you’re being serious but Michonne wasn’t like this all along because she was pissed and bitter about the apocalypse. After being separated from a new group of people she’d taken into her heart, she wandered around until she had an Epiphany. She decided wanted to re-join the human race and start talking to them and shit. :slight_smile:

Regarding Rick hiding under the bed — he was scared shitless. Did you count how many times they showed him visibly shaking as he cowered under there? I don’t know if they were trying to convey that he’d completely lost his shit, or that he was scared due to being injured. I guess his injuries weren’t that bad if he can go dropping off roofs onto porches, though.

How do you make machine gun bullets go up under a big truck and make holes in the gas tank? :confused:

Deux ex machina, however one spells it. :slight_smile:

Could also spell it “ricochet” or “spray 'n pray”…

It looked to me like he also swept the tanks with auto fire, hitting them all, and he was dealing with muzzle climb as well

That particular scene wasn’t overly horrible with the way someone unaccustomed to full auto fire would react in a stressful situation, especially someone unaccustomed to the controls on an M4/M16

Carrot Top’s doo is military reg (except for the 'stache) so he trims it at least once a week, probably a bit more often. He obviously shaves everyday.

Everyone’s got their unique look. Comic books (and TV in general) don’t waste time showing us the daily upkeep.

Now, three hours on the road @ 60 miles/hour is almost two hundred miles away. Holy frak that is not walking distance! Time to get a new truck!

Um, 'cuz the tanks are exposed on each side of the truck?

One would think that a truck is what Glenn is looking for, rather than a two hundred mile walk. However, his hormones are governing his thinking, the big guy is messing with him, and it is a TV show based on a comic book. :slight_smile:

Well it was leaking out the bottom, not the side.

He started out just walking away - I don’t think its even dawned on him the distance that has been traveled at this point.

(to be fair - probably not to the writers either).