The basic premise of all dangerous situations is to go into them. Other wise the show would be a long boring scene of survivors living quite well off the remains of civilization.
I think that was it - he assumed she would have left him another love note if she’d gone around, and he did examine all the walkers to see if Maggie was any of them.
Now, why Maggie and crew didn’t go around is also a good question.
And what are the odds that shooting a pistol into a railroad tunnel roof would cause it to collapse, even after a couple of years of no maintenance?
Of course, it only has to work once (and we’re just following the multiverse instance where it worked).
It’s occurred to me that two years in (or whatever it is), we should start seeing some deficiency diseases in the survivors - rickets, scurvy, etc. If they’re smart enough to take multivitamins, maybe not, but the multivitamins have expiration dates, too. Part of living well off the remains of civilization would include growing food to supply proper nutrition, and we’ve seen very little of that.
Canned food and preserved foods contain ample nutrition, including Vit C . No scurvy.
Arr.
Rickets is from a lack of D, again, plenty of sunshine. No rickets.
I wonder if we’ll ever see Washington, DC. If so, Abraham will have to convince Rick & Michonne. That should be interesting.
That is the only way Glenn’s insistence on going through the tunnel makes sense; there’s no reason to believe that Maggie went through the tunnel instead of going around.
There’s also the possibility that Glen is ahead of Maggie on the way to Terminus, so she’d insist on going through and making sure he didn’t get zombified in there.
You’d think the helpful people from Terminus would put a sign out saying “go around this tunnel.”
I wouldn’t be hard to put “doors” of sorts on a tunnel, would it - a dragon’s teeth zig-zag of barbed wire that a human could easily navigate but a walker could not. Once the tunnel is cleared, put measures in place to make sure it stays so.
Of course, I can see it not being a super-high priority, but isn’t boredom supposed to be one of the issues? Stay in one place long enough, and reasonably active people can build all kinds of walker-defenses. Heck, that black guy from the first episode was doing okay, and he was nuts.
I was bothered by the train tunnel. There are very few tunnels in Georgia, and none in the area the show takes place in.
Especially a tunnel so big it takes an extra day to go around it. How’s that work?
Poetic License.
And, it’s “cool”.
:rolleyes:
You sort of have to give up on reality to enjoy the show. I would love to see the series set in some other state.
Well, we met the show more halfway on the giving-up-reality issue when we accepted reanimated and cannibalistic corpses. What we’re asking for is a relative pittance.
Go get your own dang show. I kinda dig having TWD in my state. Some of the locations from the first few shows were within strolling distance of my office.
It could be worse; Day of the Dead had an underground government storage facility/military bunker (complete with a huge cavern system & missile silo) in Florida, at state where you can’t even did normal graves without hitting water. :smack:
Not all of Florida is flat and at sea level. But yeah.
Still, I love the idea of a zombie show set in Florida. At spring break. How awesome would that be? Scantily clad college babes coming in waves. Zombies wearing skimpy bikinis, thousand of them.
No apology needed, just a good natured discussion on a television show. I did want to address your point though about the show needing “comic book” vs. the “relentlessly grim” aspect. To me, the absolute best this show has attained throughout the seasons is when they go back to being relentlessly grim. The low-points of this show, are when they’re back to dealing with comic book like characters and plot points. Examples:
“Relentlessly grim”
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[li]Rick’s comments to the half-walker woman, saying that he is sorry this happened to her.[/li][li]Andrea holding her sister as she dies then turns and ultimately putting her down. From the same attack, the slower loss of Jim to where eventually he is left alone in the woods.[/li][li]Shane arguing to Hershel and others that the walkers are not people and cannot be cured while gunning them down brutally to prove his point as they leave the barn. The final shot (no pun intended) with Sophie.[/li][li]Shane and Otis and the decision made to save Carl by sacrificing Otis. (How many pages of debate over how many threads here on SDMB did that generate?)[/li][li]Dr. Jenner and the CDC. The recording of the subject turning into a zombie. The revelation that was his wife and fellow scientist. The decision of some members of the group to just stay and die painlessly vs. going on one more day. The anger of Andrea at Dale for taking her choice away.[/li][li]Shane and Rick’s final confrontation and the aftermath, including Carl.[/li][li]The revelation of what happened to Morgan and how one can lose ones sanity.[/li][li]Carol having no choice but to kill a child with mental illness due to the risk she posses to her survival or anyone else who encounters her.[/li][/ul]
These are just some of the relentlessly grim moments that were the high points of this show.
Good list, MeanJoe.
That has SyFy Original Movie written all over it. Make it happen!
Holy wow. When did this series become compelling? Did they purge their writing staff between Seasons 3 and 4? Season 3 turned me off so thoroughly that I didn’t even start watching Season 4 until a couple weeks ago. Even then, I mostly had it on in the background. I think I’ll have to rewatch S4 from the beginning; after three years, this series has finally earned my full attention.
The previous episode was excellent. This one was quite good, as well. I’m glad they didn’t kill off Tara and Bob, both of whom I thought would get the axe before they got to Terminus.
I really like how they used the “claimed” group to illustrate just how much Daryl has grown since the start of the show. Season One Daryl would have been right at home in the group, but now he’s just uncomfortable and looking for the first excuse to leave. Joe makes for a good villain; he speaks softly and carries a big stick. He has some good points, but he’s clearly out for number one above all else. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop, when his friendly veneer slides off and we get a full picture of the monster underneath. He very clearly won’t let Daryl leave; for now, he can talk him into it, but once he can’t do that anymore, he won’t just let it go.
I’m actually expecting Daryl to “claim” her as soon as he sees her, to keep her safe. Maybe Beth even gets angry at him because she doesn’t understand what he’s doing. Though I can see it going your way as well. Perhaps someone else from the group finds her before Daryl does. I hope not.
I understand the complaints about Abraham’s group, but they appear in the comic and their introduction is handled somewhat more deftly, so I was just excited when they showed up in the show. Without that background, I can totally see how they come off as, well, off.
I haven’t been excited about this show in a long damn time. By the end of Season 3, I thought the only thing keeping the show from being the worst thing that happened to the franchise was the existence of the execrable Rise of the Governor “novel.” It’s good to be wrong.