When has he ever done anything but sulk in the background until a few walkers needed ventilating?
I think this episode doubled his total number of lines in the series.
After Daryl wacked zombie splatter at Beth in her new outfit she took off the white sweater that got bloodied but in the next shots the shirt she had on underneath it was covered in blood. Once they left the country club, the shirt was dirty but without the blood.
yep - and its not like they didn’t have more new ones in her size.
To me, Beth’s face essentially showed that, even if she changes her clothes, she doesn’t change the situation. Everything’s gonna end up covered in gore, anyway. So, in exasperation, she was like “why bother?”
Not saying I agree with it, but that’s what I got out of it.
I totally agree with this and it’s one of the things I find unrealistic about most post-apocalyptic stories. Although I suppose if the show was all about all the sex and rape that was going on it would be depressing and tedious in a different way. But IMO one of the most realistic things in the show was Lori and Shane hooking up, and Andrea and the Governor doing it asap. If I were Beth I would have been the one making moves on Daryl because he is hot, rescued me a lot and it would be in my interest to have him want to keep me alive for as many reasons as possible. But I’m a bit of an ho in theoretical improbable end of the world scenarios so maybe that’s just me.
Well, I basically agree I guess, and I’m not really trying to argue, but one of the things I like about sci-fi/fantasy shows is because they skip some of the real life depressing stuff I don’t need to be constantly reminded of. I like idealistic future scenarios where blacks and whites don’t immediately start killing each other, and men and women can get along without constant rape, etc.
I wonder sometimes how humankind’s instincts to preserve the species would kick in after an apocalypse; would the women (and the men) start to hump like bunnies so everyone is pregnant all the time? I suspect they might.
I’m surprised there’s not more kids than just Lil Asskicker, however young kid actors are a royal PITA for a production company. They will use kids as little as possible.
I rather doubt the zombie virus rendered the living sterile.
We’ve seen some of that. In season 2 they captured a guy who was with one of the bad groups. He related a story about them coming across a father with his daughters, raping the women, and then just leaving them at their camp. In this season we had the guys Rick encountered who upon finding a woman had been in the house recently expressed their desire to rape her.
Maybe I’m an optimist but I think most people would attempt to help one another following the apocalypse. You’ll get some bad eggs, sure, but when faced with an existential threat I think most of us would be able to play nice.
Yeah, I don’t think there would be widespread raping, and as for consensual sex, I would think most people’s first priority would be to find other survivors either in an already existing town or city, or create one, secure it from the zombies and human thugs, and after that settle down and start families.
I doubt it, that’s too abstract a concept and seems like a bad pickup line. But they’d start getting knocked up once the excess pills and rubbers are used up. Which would take what, a couple months? There’s probably a warehouse out there stacked to the rafters with millions of condoms, but no one will find it and distribute it.
Once stable communities are set up and it’s back to the lifestyle of ye olden days where everyone is a farmer then family sizes might start exploding for the same reasons they did back then. I wonder if modern notions of women’s rights and liberal societal attitudes would remain, or if they’re a hothouse flower that can only survive during prosperity.