I loved Andrew Lincoln on TTD period. When Scott M. Gimple said something about writing the show for next season, and Andrew asked, “Am I in it?”, that was beyond adorable.
The things we definitely know about the Termites:
They are actively recruiting people to come to Terminus.
They have perimeter patrols.
They do radio broadcasts.
They feed people who show up at Terminus.
There are quite a few Termites, and they are armed.
They take things from new people who show up there and lie about where they got them.
They have a shrine/candle room full of candles, names and strange sayings.
They did not kill hostile newcomers when they easily could have - they locked them up instead.
They do not welcome newcomers with an armed committee; instead they welcome them with one woman and a barbecue.
None of this adds up to anything that makes sense to me. I have an inclination to keep track of everything we know about Terminus and see if the writers do too, once they start in on Season Five, or if there will be a bunch of hand-waving and forgetting what they already showed us.
I still can’t think of any explanation for the piles of human remains that doesn’t involve; cannibalism, feeding people to zombies, and sky burial. This is cliffhanger is a lot bigger & darker than any of the other season finales.
Good point.
I didn’t think Joe was speaking literal either. I wonder how much attention people are paying to what day it is. It’d be very easy to loose track if you weren’t keeping a journal now that the calendars have expired.
Wait…what? Everyone else in our intrepid band of survivors that’s now captive in Terminus has been shown to enter Terminus. Tyreese and Carol and PITA have not been shown entering there, nor are they in the boxcar, so the assumption is that they are not yet there.
As for Beth, that was mostly a WAG. Either she’s been kidnapped by someone from Terminus that set up the supplies-stocked funeral home as a trap, or it’s some other group or lone operator that got her.
And the bones were laid out on blue tarp, in what appeared to be a separate area enclosed in chain link fence. The tarp didn’t look like it was covered in violent blood splatter.
Who was the guy that was wondering out alone with no weapon that was surrounded by walkers when Rick was showing Carl how to set a trap? Was he someone who was excommunicated from Terminus - he had no weapon. Maybe he was the live bait sent out by the Termites?
That is curious. He yelled out for help–which seems like every adult has figured out to be a bad idea. It also seemed like they gave up on him rather easily… he wasnt even surrounded when Carl came up on him.
I also think it wouldn’t be that weird to to run into the occasional LMOE (last man on earth). (in Coulson Whitehead’s Zone One a large part of the story shows lone survivors occasionally meeting up and moving on)
That bugged me. Just run away dude. Right after that the group saw more walkers on the tracks eating something, so the guy may have been with that person.
We just watched the recording.
Rick ripping the asshole’s throat out was out fucking standing.
Where did you guys see the bones? I missed them.
And damn these guys for making us wait a year for the next episode.
They will feel pretty stupid when they find out that they are screwing with the Wrong People.
:rolleyes:
I’m just speculating (and am not a reader of the comics), but: Yeah, cannibals. By using the broadcasts, they keep a fresh supply of meat coming into the trap.
(That’s why this episode includes the scene of Rick showing how to set up a snare for obtaining fresh meat. Parallels!)
My theory on Mary serving up “a plate” to each newcomer: the Termites let the newcomers chow down on the meat…then inform them what they’re really eating. Those who display disgust or anger are relegated to the holding pens. The tiny minority of people who are pleased (or at least stoical) at the news that they’re eating Long Pig have shown themselves worthy of potential membership in the Termites.
This episode made me think of the Iliad. In the poem, there’s a scene where Hector returns from battle and meets his wife and son on the city walls and they talk. She tries to hand him their son but he he cries in terror. Hector’s still wearing his helmet which is frightening his son. They have a good laugh, Hector takes his helmet off, and his son calms down enough to be held. I interpret that to mean that while Hector’s prepared for war he’s a monster and when he removes his helmet he’s a civilized man again.
It looks like Rick learned that sometimes he’s got to put that helmet on if he wants to protect what the civilized man loves.
I got the impression that was kind of the point. His clear incompetence in the face of what amounted to a very minor threat is why Rick stopped Carl from helping him. That dude was just dead weight who might have gotten everyone killed. Best to just let him die quickly and move on.
