# The Walking Dead; 4.13 "Alone" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308 "2014-03-10T00:16:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/61 "2014-03-11T18:18:25Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Fume. > > Well, otherwise I liked the episode. Daryl and Beth don’t squick me out; in such a scenario I don’t think she’s inappropriately young. There’s really no longer a need for a sheltered adolescence when kids have to deal with grownup problems in the ZA world.\ I take your point, but when Daryl meets up with Carol again, he’s going to have to explain to her why he’s doing the nasty with a girl who’s about six years older than Sofia would have been! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/62 "2014-03-11T22:21:01Z")
> [@simster](#): > > It showed that he was quite capable on his own for sure - found a cave - made a nice place to stay - used the top of the truck - resourceful, not insane - almost ‘zen like’ at times. Otherwise - yeah - confusing the way it was inserted - totally unrelated to the overall story unless it was to say “sucks to be alone” Yeah that’s one thing I’ve liked about the last couple few eps. We actually are seeing the characters doing common sense things. Zombie herd? Wait it out in a trunk or on top of a large truck. We complain about them doing dumb stuff and blundering their way into hordes of zombies and the writers are showing us “we _know_ they seem to do dumb things all the time.” So they show the characters not being numbskulls once in awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/63 "2014-03-12T04:38:20Z")
That’s probably what bugs me the most about this show - you seriously can’t outsmart _ZOMBIES?!?_ They’re dead! They don’t have functioning brains! Please show me that you’re smarter than a zombie! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/65 "2014-03-12T12:07:12Z")
> [@Kiara\_Bell](#): > > There’s no way Daryl and Beth will have a romantic angle. Noooooo!!! Carol would kill her. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/66 "2014-03-12T13:58:10Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Unless she had a Sharpie on her (and that would really get the mob baying for blood) - writing in blood seems like a good choice. Blood stains are hard to get out of most anything, so her message is likely to last through a couple of rainstorms at any rate. A big fat permanent marker like a Magnum would be an asset in that world - weigh nothing, write on everything, leave notes and directions just like she did at any turn. But I guess the zombies ate them all. ETA: “Staaaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnssssssss…” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/67 "2014-03-12T14:04:54Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > A big fat permanent marker like a Magnum would be an asset in that world - weigh nothing, write on everything, leave notes and directions just like she did at any turn. I’ll add that to my apocalypse survival kit. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/68 "2014-03-12T15:01:12Z")
I really feel that I would go into a house and look for a marker before I’d plunge my hands into a rotting corpse and write with its guts. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/69 "2014-03-12T15:07:20Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I really feel that I would go into a house and look for a marker before I’d plunge my hands into a rotting corpse and write with its guts. :eek: But you haven’t spent the last two years or so killing them either. I think you’d get inured to the gore. I actually thought she was getting herself a zombie shield, like Rick and Glen did back in season one. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/70 "2014-03-12T15:08:08Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I really feel that I would go into a house and look for a marker before I’d plunge my hands into a rotting corpse and write with its guts. :eek: An excellent point; well taken. ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/71 "2014-03-12T16:27:26Z")
[QUOTE I actually thought she was getting herself a zombie shield, like Rick and Glen did back in season one.[/QUOTE] That was also her intent when laying near icecream truck, they cut that scene out. to make room for the 12 commercials per break…i counted ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/72 "2014-03-13T22:33:17Z")
> [@](#): > > they cut that scene out to make room for the 12 commercials per break…i counted Yeah, 12 commercial breaks with 12 commercials each. Seems like they used to throw us a bone by giving us more than a few minutes of uninterrupted drama at the start of the hour before the nonstop slew of commercials. Not any more. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/73 "2014-03-13T22:36:03Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Yeah that’s one thing I’ve liked about the last couple few eps. We actually are seeing the characters doing common sense things. Zombie herd? Wait it out in a trunk or on top of a large truck. We complain about them doing dumb stuff and blundering their way into hordes of zombies and the writers are showing us “we _know_ they seem to do dumb things all the time.” So they show the characters not being numbskulls once in awhile. Like burning down shelter and fleeing in the middle of the night with no light source into unknown territory. They are dumber than a box of hammers. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/74 "2014-03-13T22:42:54Z")
We record it and fast forward. That will be the next step in digital cable and satellite, making it impossible to fast forward through commercials. Mark My Words. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/75 "2014-03-13T22:43:08Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Like burning down shelter and fleeing in the middle of the night with no light source into unknown territory. > > They are dumber than a box of hammers. That house was a filthy roach infested scum pit \*before \*the outbreak. I’d sleep in a tree first, and I’d have burned it down. It was disgusting! Besides, how many days’ walk were they from the country club? Didn’t seem like it was that far. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/76 "2014-03-13T22:57:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We record it and fast forward. > That will be the next step in digital cable and satellite, making it impossible to fast forward through commercials. Mark My Words. > :dubious: I don’t doubt it for a minute. The only reason tv exists is for us to watch commercials. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/77 "2014-03-13T23:40:42Z")
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**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/78 "2014-03-14T00:03:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We record it and fast forward. > That will be the next step in digital cable and satellite, making it impossible to fast forward through commercials. Mark My Words. > :dubious: It’s already happening with “on-demand” viewing. They only play one commercial for each commercial break…but it’s the same commercial each time and you can’t fast forward through it. ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/79 "2014-03-14T00:36:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Re: Glenn and Maggie, at this point they are entirely definitely by the fact that they are a couple. We have probably learned more about Bob this year than we have learned about Glenn and Maggie in the last couple. This X100, which is why any episode featuring either feels like a waste of time. Glenn’s entire character is his relationship to Maggie. Maggie’s entire character is her relationship to Glenn. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/80 "2014-03-14T01:15:04Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > This thread brought to you by Lightspeed Briefs… > > …and Carl’s Jr. and Progressive insurance ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308/81 "2014-03-14T01:48:45Z")
> [@Roundabout](#): > > This X100, which is why any episode featuring either feels like a waste of time. Glenn’s entire character is his relationship to Maggie. Maggie’s entire character is her relationship to Glenn. That’s about it. I don’t know how these things work - that’s on the writers, isn’t it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-13-alone-open-spoilers/683308.md?page=5)