# The Walking Dead 5.04 "The Slab" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411 "2014-11-03T02:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/101 "2014-11-04T19:44:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You ask too much. > :rolleyes: No, I google too little. From wackopedia: “ **Slabtown or Slab Town** was a red-light district established in Atlanta in the 1840s, and located off Decatur Street (on the present site of Grady Memorial Hospital).” O, the whore-er. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/102 "2014-11-04T19:49:47Z")
Missed the winder: ETA: If someone had given me this list of Atlanta communities and invited me to pick the red-light district, Slabtown was not the one I’d have picked: [ul] [li] **Beaver Slide** [/li][li] **Buttermilk Bottom** [/li][li]Darktown[/li][li]Jackson Row[/li][li]Jenningstown[/li][li]Lightning[/li][li]Shermantown[/li][li]Slabtown[/li][li] **Tanyard Bottom** [/li][li] **Tight Squeeze** [/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/103 "2014-11-04T20:20:39Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Just a nitpick, but this episode was titled “Slabtown.” Which makes no real sense, either. NM, I see you found it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/104 "2014-11-04T20:25:46Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > No, I google too little. From wackopedia: > > “ **Slabtown or Slab Town** was a red-light district established in Atlanta in the 1840s, and located off Decatur Street (on the present site of Grady Memorial Hospital).” > > O, the whore-er. So, Belle Watling-ville. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/105 "2014-11-04T20:29:12Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Either way - fishing is involved. “You’re not really here for the fishing, are you?” ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/106 "2014-11-04T20:33:27Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Missed the winder: > > ETA: If someone had given me this list of Atlanta communities and invited me to pick the red-light district, Slabtown was not the one I’d have picked: > > [ul] > [li] **Beaver Slide** [/li][li] **Buttermilk Bottom** [/li][li]Darktown[/li][li]Jackson Row[/li][li]Jenningstown[/li][li]Lightning[/li][li]Shermantown[/li][li]Slabtown[/li][li] **Tanyard Bottom** [/li][li] **Tight Squeeze** [/li][/ul] You could add the current major Atlanta thoroughfare of “Beaver Ruin” to your list. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/107 "2014-11-04T21:04:33Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > “You’re not really here for the fishing, are you?” I bearly laughed… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/108 "2014-11-04T21:56:54Z")
Somehow I’m guessing you still can’t get a parking space in Midtown on a Saturday night. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/109 "2014-11-04T23:06:39Z")
Carol and Darryl will not hook up. She is a mother figure to him. She doesn’t have the hots for him or anyone, really, being an abused wife all those years. I can see Beth and him deciding to ‘repopulate’ the earth, someday, maybe. Only as their duty. If I were Beth, I wouldn’t leave my ‘family’ for anything. Knocked up in zombie world? F that! ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/110 "2014-11-04T23:18:25Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Beth just isn’t interesting enough to spearhead a Quentin Tarantino episode of ER. Neither is Quentin Tarantino. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/111 "2014-11-05T00:29:32Z")
I haven’t had time to read the thread, and now it’s three pages long; so I’m going to post without reading, and it will already have been said by others. I’m glad to have found out where Beth is, but the episode felt like a ‘moving the pieces into place’ one. I didn’t really buy the Dawn character. I could see her motivation, but I don’t think the actress pulled it off well. She’s supposed to keep discipline, but her ‘control’ of Gorman just seemed like lip service. I don’t believe a woman like her character is supposed to be would allow rape. Either she’d win a conflict and females would be relatively safe, or she’d lose and wouldn’t be in her position. I’m also not satisfied by the escape scene. ‘Oh, we need an escape scene and some more zombies. OK, let’s just do this…’ Next week will be Abe and Maggie and Glen. In two weeks we’ll go back to the church and find out who came with Darryl. I’m guessing it will be Noah, who escaped from the hospital and I’m guessing joined up with Darryl and Carol. That gives Rick & Co. the path back to Beth and Carol. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/112 "2014-11-05T00:32:44Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Aside to _Homeland watchers: Anybody else find it funny that tonight’s Walking Dead_ episode had the whole clozapine/clonazepam mixup as a minor plot point, and then in tonight’s \*Homeland \*the fact that Carrie is taking BOTH of those exact same drugs (along with two more!) is also a minor plot point. Is Big Pharma doing product placement, or something? Yeah, I noticed that. I watched Homeland right after The Walking Dead, and as soon as one of the drugs was mentioned I thought it would be weird if the other came up too. And then it did. > [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > I thought she was going to go for the garage door and poke the walkers though the gate with the convenient metal rod that doc showed her. When the doctor said “I want to show you something” (or whatever he said) and revealed the walkers, I was expecting Beth to say something like “now let me show _you_ something” and take the pole/rod from him. _Stab_ “That’s one.” _Stab_ “Two.” _Stab_ “Three…” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/113 "2014-11-05T01:17:39Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > When the doctor said “I want to show you something” (or whatever he said) and revealed the walkers, I was expecting Beth to say something like “now let me show _you_ something” and take the pole/rod from him. _Stab_ “That’s one.” _Stab_ “Two.” _Stab_ “Three…” I said to the SO, ‘What, they don’t have crowbars in that building?’ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/114 "2014-11-05T01:22:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I didn’t really buy the Dawn character. I could see her motivation, but I don’t think the actress pulled it off well. She’s supposed to keep discipline, but her ‘control’ of Gorman just seemed like lip service. I don’t believe a woman like her character is supposed to be would allow rape. She’s a cop. She said that the patients should “keep my (officers or people) happy.” The police violence was illustrated not only with the lollypop, but in how they put Beth on the ground and handcuffed her. I believe it is the classic situation where some grow food and some protect them, and the protectors become the ruling class. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/115 "2014-11-05T01:26:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I didn’t really buy the Dawn character. I could see her motivation, but I don’t think the actress pulled it off well. She’s supposed to keep discipline, but her ‘control’ of Gorman just seemed like lip service. I don’t believe a woman like her character is supposed to be would allow rape. Either she’d win a conflict and females would be relatively safe, or she’d lose and wouldn’t be in her position. I think the excuse was implied toward the beginning. She allows some things to go on “for the greater good”; I assumed she meant things like rapey cop guy. One of the cops said something like “She was supposed to be mine” about Beth, so it seems there’s some, uh, servicing going on there. Quim pro quo. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/116 "2014-11-05T02:13:08Z")
Yes, she allows rape to go on ‘for the greater good’. I don’t buy it. That’s what the script said, but I don’t believe that the type of person Dawn is supposed to be would stand for it. It doesn’t seem true to the character to me. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/117 "2014-11-05T02:32:42Z")
Lazy lazy writing. Worst episode ever. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/118 "2014-11-05T02:33:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Yes, she allows rape to go on ‘for the greater good’. I don’t buy it. That’s what the script said, but I don’t believe that the type of person Dawn is supposed to be would stand for it. It doesn’t seem true to the character to me. I think of Dawn as another Claudius Nero Germanicus. The Praetorian Guard made him Caesar and allowed him to remain as Caesar. Claudius was aware that the Guard could replaced him at any time, if they ever thought they had a reason to. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/119 "2014-11-05T03:51:30Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I think of Dawn as another Claudius Nero Germanicus. The Praetorian Guard made him Caesar and allowed him to remain as Caesar. Claudius was aware that the Guard could replaced him at any time, if they ever thought they had a reason to. Good point! ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411/120 "2014-11-05T04:12:30Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Lazy lazy writing. Worst episode ever. You must have just started watching this season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-04-the-slab-open-spoilers/703411.md?page=7)