My TWD world would have most everybody carrying an 8’ piece of rebar with one end made into a sharp point. And my forage teams would have at least two guys carrying 10’ rebar poles.
Then the basement situation would have started with a short game of whack-a-walker.
Lure walker, poke rebar through eye socket from a safe distance, rinse, repeat
I liked Matt Jones’s comment on TALKING DEAD: They’re so concerned with killing zombies that nobody even thinks about things like staph infection anymore, which presumably can still be deadly.
Matt is hilarious. It’s weird to hear him talk intelligently as he’ll always be Badger to me.
Although, they were dealing with a nasty flu in Season 3. But yeh, getting in that gawdawful water and not pegging the zombies one-by-one from above made zero sense. Shit, if I had to, I’d pull up more floor boards and the pull the shelves of food up using rope, leaving the zombies where they are.
Maybe all this rolling around in zombie guts really elevates their immune system?
There have been a few lines between mustachioed army guy and Lara Croft chick about waiting for the right moment. Was that all just about making the speech to try to convince everyone to come to DC with them, or was there something more?
Pole arms should really have made a major comeback by now.
Incidentally, it looks like Carol has a trench spike. Is that recent?
They had a room full of fresh clothing to wear on the main floor - I wouldn’t have had a problem with them getting cleaned up and getting fresh clothes after their adventures frolicking in zombie stew. But yeah, the show really glosses over stuff like that, like how Carol went from covered in zombie guts last episode to fresh as a daisy in her five minute walk from Terminus.
Little known fact: It rains off-camera almost all the time, cleaning our beloved characters spic n’ span, every time.
Thanks. That makes it 31%, or pretty much spot-on for Georgia.
If you watch this show, surely you noticed that the depiction of black folks wasn’t too stellar for the first few seasons, right? Again, credit where it’s due, the show now is willing to depict black people and have them be actual characters with agency. It wasn’t always the case.
Which means now we’ll almost certainly get magically interchangeable, universal suppressors.
I’m not the only one who has pointed out, over and over, that this is a world full of unused supplies - clothes, cars, trucks and every tool imaginable. Fuel might be getting a little scarce. Food might be down to well-preserved stuff. Ammo might be running down outside of military dumps. But this is NOT, NOT I repeat, NOT I tell you three times a civilization that slowly declined and used up its resources - and the enemy doesn’t use any of them, so the AR-15 with the half-full clip is right where the zombie chow owner dropped it. The stashes of food and medical supplies and ammo are right where their disembowled collectors left them.
So there is no reason, at all, for the tribes that haven’t completely lost it to be well-dressed, well-fed, well-armed, well-first-aided and even well-entertained and -groomed. None. No reason for them not to ride around in 4x4s, heavy vans and military trucks. None.
No reason for them ever to try to video-game-craft weapons, running vehicles or splints, or so much as darn a pair of socks.
And yeah, it’s obvious to anyone who’s survived a few months that a strong, lightweight pike or halberd is THE weapon of choice, backed by a big knife and a pistol, and a few sniper rifles. But you rarely see anything but the fortunately-grabbed stick or broom handle, or someone making a caveman-crude spear, which is never seen again.
I am so tired of making these observations. I am so tired of what should be the most gripping and intense show on the small screen being a complete dipshit-fest. The idiots should have died off long, long ago, in a matter of weeks, leaving only those with enough forelearning or hard-earned experience to be doing it all a lot better.
Yeah, the bad ass totally has to grab that whisk off the shelf, because she didn’t have even one spare knife.
It’s comedy.
But who would watch an hour of well-dressed, well-fed, well-armed, well-first-aided and even well-entertained and -groomed people running over zombies in their well fueled 4X4’s?
Doesn’t sound like entertainment to me.
Also in the Emberverse novels. It’s not something anyone in particular did before anyone else, it is just something anyone who puts any thought into how cannibalism would actually work could figure out. If you kill Bob he will rot before you eat all of him, this way he lasts longer.
Not to mention great tasting.
Having had a child, she always carries a package of Moist Towelettes TM.
The better question is: Does anyone NOT think Eugene is bullshitting everyone?
That was shown in the episode. Carol smeared the zombie guts all over a poncho she was wearing. In the later scenes when she’s cleaned up, she’s no longer wearing the poncho.
Unless you mean her face, in which case, fair point.
They’re still in the middle of major fuck-me land with no good direction to go and nothing like a win even imaginable. They just don’t have to be stupid about it.
The “let’s go snatch food from satan’s barf” scene could have been far more gripping and tense if they realized all the dangers - including staph and cholera - and still had to retrieve some of it.
Traveling in a well-armed convoy doesn’t protect them from everything, especially not other humans who want to snipe them and take it away.
Being dirty, hungry, dressed in rags and scavenging is just cheap, stupid, lazy reliance on post-apocalyptic tropes - script-borne “troubles” they can use any way they want even though most of it is completely contrary to their own story setup. Pathetic.
Skip everything else. Where are the millions upon millions of weapons and billyuns and billyunds of ammo rounds in a world that (1) slammed to a stop in a few weeks (2) lost something like 90% of its population and (3) is dealing with an enemy that neither uses those weapons nor has any policy of destroying them?
Oh, and for this episode: What was with the repeated coming-over-a-rise shot? It must have been used ten times, a pair or group slowly walking towards the camera over a long rise. It was too deliberate to be accidental but if there was any meaning - rising from the debris/pit of Terminus? - it escaped me and any overt writing.
That’s one of the most used shots in film making. Every Disney cartoon has it.
Hmmm… we’re long overdue for a Disney zombie musical.
Sure. I’m pretty sure Big has a shot like that near the opening (where Young Josh and Young Susan are walking hand in hand, talking about their days in business).*
But I haven’t seen any recent overuse of it.
I certainly haven’t seen any single episodes where it was used ten times in a row.
It went like this: