Yeah, Terminus is creepy. I assume there are snipers everywhere and someone loosened the chains on the gates when lookouts spotted the group a mile away. Still, what’s it going to be? Some weird cult religion? I hope the writers can come up with something more original. Where are all the walkers that would be crowding the fence? C’mon, there were permanent walkers at the prison. Someone has to be clearing them out, but as we know walkers are infinite.
Boring episode, and that’s a shame so close to the finale. Couldn’t care less about Daryl and the hillbillies. Don’t care about Maggie & Glen. Don’t care about Abraham & friends, though I’d like to. Right now they’re boring weirdos. It was mildly clever of Mullet to trick them back into helping Glen, but it makes the other two look dumber. Eugene seems to be downright avoiding Washington.
Oh and that one walker dragging its face across the barbed wire was really contrived. I noticed the fx guys show off a cute new way to be gross with walkers every week, but it’s so obvious it should be a drinking game. And a skeleton walker? Did I really see a skeleton walking around?
Good point about the chains. I have no idea why they would do that.
They are red necks, not hillbillies. Darryl has taken up with the guys who entered the house Rick was in, and were talking about raping women. They are bad guys, and Darryl will be against Rick in the finale. Contrived, but mildly interesting.
I thought the zombie’s cheek on the barbed wire was, forgive me, cool.
:rolleyes:
What could make Daryl’s situation interesting (and I think this may be what the writers are going for) is that Joe could be a better, less completely insane Merle for Daryl. I don’t think Daryl has been with Joe’s group anywhere near long enough to develop that kind of loyalty to Joe, but the writers might be trying to force that dynamic.
The whole mullet-savior-scientist, soldier-mustachio-guy, and hot chick characters/storyline is just really unbelievable to me. It is taking me straight out of the show and back into 10-year old boy comic book territory.
Mullet-savior-scientist: Seriously? We’re supposed to believe this guy is a top scientist who has figured out the cause of, and cure to, the zombie apocalypse? The guy with the mullet who looks like he spent the majority of his life living off his mom’s social security checks while living in her basement and playing online video games? The guy who had a girlfriend but you know… she lives in Canada. Compare this guy to Dr. Jenner at the CDC. Dr. Jenner was believable as a scientist. He was believable as someone who was the last one at his post, out of his depth, but desperately still trying to get to answers. Dr. Jenner couldn’t figure this out with all the technology and resources (that obviously dwindled) at his disposal but we’re supposed to believe this guy did?
Soldier-mustachio-guy: Okay, so you have a totally unbelievable mullet-savior-scientist-guy. Yet how do you have someone believe him? Create a character who must truly be so stupid as to be duped by this. Enter soldier-mustachio-guy, who clearly was not the best and brightest our U.S. military ever produced. Why do I imagine that before the ZA, this guy wasn’t even smart enough to be a grunt?l Honestly, I don’t even believe he was military because really… no one in the military has that absurd mustache and haircut! It is straight-up video game “military” Sgt. Rock type cliche. If they were even remotely being serious, or expecting us the audience to take this serious, this guy would look like Eric Bana’s Hoot character from Black Hawk Down. I’m thinking again this guy was the 35 year old who never could join the military (scored too low on ASVAB, flat-feet, inbreeding, whatever…), but sure played a bunch of Call of Duty and paintball. ZA happens, he dons his fatigues he bought at the Army Surplus Store and instant soldier of fortune fantasy fulfillment. As fake and full of shit as Mullet-savior-scientist.
Hot-chick: She makes no sense what so ever. Post-apocalyptic stereotypical “hot chick” cliche - fit, big boobs, wholly inappropriate clothing including short-shorts and boots, basically sexy as hell. She is obviously intelligent. So she must see through these two clowns she is following. But hey… she doesn’t have to make any sense because boobies.
Over and over again this show actively insults our intelligence. They make up for it with some shining moments of brilliance but at this point it is wearing thin.
I don’t think you are expected to believe it - I certainly don’t, and Glenn doesn’t either.
Yeah - not too bright. The Army does have some of those guys. The hair and beard - it’s been something like two years, and no one is going to write him up for it any more. They had a bigger group at the start (hot-chick mentioned eight people have died). He wasn’t necessarily in charge at the beginning - but he’s big, he’s focused, and people tend to follow that.
Not sure how she got tied into this at the beginning (although maybe she is Army), but at this point, what better option does she have. This is the remnants of her team.
Oh yeah. Cause short shorts are the outfit you want to be wearing while slogging around the Georgia woods, fighting off zombies, mosquitoes and every other goddamn thing that wants to take a chunk out of your legs.
We the audience aren’t supposed to believe Mullet, but are we supposed to believe the other two do? Mustache is a military guy who needs a mission even if it’s an imaginary mission, and the hot chick loves Mustache and will follow him around but at some point they’ll have to let the audience know they don’t believe they’re saving the world either.
It’s annoying, but that’s the comic book part of the show. Certain characters get a signature costume or uniform.
What makes you think hot chick is intelligent? I know there’s a rule about women having to be more intelligent than the guys around them, but I’m not seeing all that much intelligence. I wouldn’t need a map to tell me which direction north is on a sunny day. She drove around in circles and only figured something was up after three left turns.
And she was wearing a crop top in the first scene. It makes no sense that she would be clean, half-dressed, and dolled up in that environment. Everyone else had matted hair and was coated in muck. If they were going for the sex angle, at least make it believable. Get a rocker chick like Pink who could pull off sexy and tough. All three of them seem like a sitcom cliche. The producers really screwed up when they decided this was how to play the characters.
