So did Carl eat any of the long pork he was given before the firefight?
Not me. The two weren’t dying, they were just sick. Granted they were sick with something that might have killed them, but it just as easily might not have.
Carol didn’t kill them because they were becoming zombies. Hell, they were locked up tight in jail cells so it wouldn’t have mattered if they became zombies. She killed them because they were normal people who were sick, and Carol wanted to reduce the chances that other people would catch it.
Then after she killed them, just about everyone got sick anyway.
From what I recall, there was a boy who opted out of Carol’s weapons class because he didn’t feel well. He died later that night. Not even Ebola kills that fast. From Carol’s perspective, the two other people who fell ill were goners within 12 hours or so. Rick wanted to wait, but at the time, there really didn’t seem to be time to go get antibiotics. Of course the writers decided the other people who got sick could somehow hang on until however long it took to get antibiotics but I don’t blame Carol for mercy killing the two patients.
She didn’t mercy kill them. Her sole motivation was to prevent the spread of the sickness. So instead of letting them live inside locked jail cells, she killed them, dragged their dead bodies outside and lit them on fire. This left a massive blood trail outside the locked cells, so if it spread by body fluids she made it worse. If it was airborne, she made it worse by herself getting within range, and then going about her day interacting with the rest of the group.
Word.
No. His dad bit a chunk out of the guy’s neck before it got to that point.
And she did all this outside of the decision-making structure of the group. That kind of loose cannon stuff is not conducive to stability. Rick was right to bounce her. (I still think that whole thing was just way too abrupt a departure from the character they had developed for Carol. But that’s water under the badly written bridge.)
If I didn’t already have such a cool sig, I would steal that.
Heh, heh. I know the readers here are geeky trivia addicts, but many are pretty young. I wonder how many people have no idea what you’re talking about.
The early episodes are a little inconsistent before they decided on the “rules”. There’s also a scene where the Zombies try climbing a ladder.
Didn’t Rick list the katana as one of the items he’d buried in the bag with the guns and compound bow?
I thought this too.
I would not think she would part from it going to a new place.
Gareth calls them “the archer” and “the samuri”, so she must have had it when captured, so it is somewhere at Terminus.
I don’t understand that reasoning (Rick’s, I mean). The decision to “let someone turn” can really come back to bite you, in the very literal sense of the word.
Oh, I UNDERSTOOD it. There were so many walkers around that one more didn’t matter, and allowing someone to turn is an indication of ultimate contempt. In this world the second-worst fate a person can imagine is becoming a walker (the worst is probably being eaten alive).
Which is why it bothered me. Letting the butcher turn was exactly like letting Mary be eaten alive; it’s an example of Rick’s losing his moral compass. Which I’m sure was the point.
I notice it every time I open this thread. 
Regarding Rick losing his moral compass, that’s something this group has struggled with since just about Day One, and they will continue to struggle with. I think it boils down to, do you want to be right, or do you want to be dead? There are so many ways to die in this zombie apocalypse, and only a few ways to live.
It’s one thing to be show no mercy in the sense of doing whatever it takes to survive. It’s another thing to utterly dehumanize your opponent. Regardless of whether the butcher deserved to be allowed to turn, or whether Mary deserved to be eaten alive, allowing such a thing was bad for Rick & Carol on a–I hate to use this word – on a spiritual level.
I dunno. Those guys were about to butcher and eat them. I think a little “F*** You!” was in order.
On a spiritual level. 
Red Wrigglers, the Cadillac of worms!