The first episode was depressing!!!
They are in South Carolina? I didn’t think they’d ever leave the Atlanta area.
I don’t mind them playing with different artistic styles once in awhile. Hey, they’re artists. I’m a little bored with splitting the team up all the time though.
I decided before the mid-season break I was going to root for the priest. He was already helpful. Ty got a decent burial. He can help them stay civilized, at least until he goes nuts or something.
What the heck chopped up all those bodies? The stone fence looked like it had been hit with a tank or something too. Didn’t notice any tank tracks. Black smoke monster?
Rick can lose the beard any time now.
I didn’t really like it. I think at this point in the Zom… Walker Apocalypse, standing around staring at things lost in thought is a death wish. Even if a FB friend hadn’t spoiled it by making a comment about Tyrese it was telegraphed early on that something was going to happen to him when he got all fatherly with Noah. Once he started staring at those pictures I could tell it was going to happen then.
I don’t know what their cast budget is but it seems like whenever they get a few new characters it sets off a mass killing of old characters. I know it’s dangerous times and all but it seems like the method of choice to kill them is to have them do something stupid. Maybe it wouldn’t be so grating if they found ways for the characters to die without having them resort to the old standby of Stealth Walkers and Stupid Alivers.
I’m sure I liked spending 30 minutes watching Tyrese die as much as the rest of you did. I guess the writers are now ar-TEESTS, or something.
Frankly, anyone who lets his guard down for more than a few seconds deserves to die. What a god awful episode!
I liked it as an overly tortured plot device to give Beth a proper goodbye.
Didn’t knock everyone out like a mid-season opener should.
If you listen closely to the radio broadcasts Tyresse was hearing in his head, there were ominous tones of “vigilante” groups cutting the arms and legs off their enemies, and some sort of Rebels v Republic sort of thing. With the walkers with their limbs cut off, and what seems to be talk of a move to Washington, I have a feeling the series is about to make yet another very, very dramatic turn.
I liked it a lot, but seriously there were just too many black dudes in the cast. I mean there were 3, AT ONE TIME!. clearly one of them had to go :rolleyes:
I liked the strange camera work, the surreal broadcasts. It was nice to get something other than super stupid for a change of pace.
That said the torsos were super creepy and I am sure we will see them soon.
I liked the episode. I enjoy when they try different things.
There was graffiti referencing someone or something named Wolf and that town looked like more happened than just being overrun by Zombies: the houses looked like they were hit with weapon’s fire and someone cut all those people in half. They were setting up the next Bad Guy I guess.
Actually they are near Richmond VA. They blew through SC, NC, and half of VA with practically no reference to it other than the SC road sign. It was confusing as heck, but pretty sure I’m right. Rick referenced that they were less than 100 miles from Washington. That is true for Richmond.
They are definitely in Richmond. That was where Noah was from. Something else I forgot to mention, at first when I saw the wall I thought we were starting…
[Vague Comics reference below]
…the Hill Top story line. It’s possible we still might be but this place definitely wasn’t it.
Oh God how I hate that damned priest! I want him to die oh so very much. Tyreese was a thousand times more valuable than that cowardly scum. I hope that he gets offed in a very painful way very soon…
Well, now you have all of him gone.
One other thing. Were they saving on money paid to cast members by having only half the group in the episode?
The voice on the radio reminded me of the broadcasts during “Night of the Living Dead”. All outraged over “the murderers” stalking the land!
Why was Rick frantically digging up Tyreese at the very end?
It seems like once a season the show has an “artistic” episode, where they try a different style of storytelling and filming. While I appreciate the effort, it usually comes across as rather ham-fisted. Last night’s episode was no exception. On Talking Dead, I heard at least two–and maybe three–references by cast members/showrunners to this episode being like a Terence Malick film. :rolleyes: I can maybe see the influence, but it was like a 10th grader’s version of a Terence Malick zombie film. :smack:
Aw, I liked Tyreese! Also, he was comfortable enough in himself to carry an M1 carbine instead of a Badass Gun. 
The biggest vehicular issue I can see in their situation is the availability of fuel. Cars and trucks are very reliable nowadays, and it’s not that difficult to keep speeds low enough that you don’t run into a jumble of abandoned cars that were too far away to see two seconds ago. Fuel might be an issue because everyone was driving their cars to try to get somewhere safe, and Our Gang might have trouble finding cars with fuel still in them. But there are plenty of people – and their cars – that didn’t try, or who were unable, to get away. You need electricity to pump gas, but there are plenty of generators around. Or use a soup can on a rope. So my ‘biggest vehicular issue’ isn’t much of an issue. It seems that they have plenty of fuel when it’s not necessary to the plot that they run out.
I’d still like to know why no pilots survived the ZA, though.
I was thinking, and the SO actually said, ‘Parking the car two miles away seems like a great idea now, eh?’ It actually was pretty silly rushing Tyreese back to the car. If the wound needed to be cauterised, they would have to do it where they were.
The ghouls are quite noisy, which is weird because they presumably don’t have functioning lungs. Except when they need to sneak up on people. Then they’re quite stealthy. Tyreese had survived long enough that A) he should have ‘grown eyes in the back of his head’; and B) he should have known better than to walk ahead without checking that his six is clear. Plus the ghoul should have been making noise.
I guess I wasn’t the only one that didn’t know what the hell was going on. I also thought that just being bitten didn’t actually do anything, it was just the dying part that made people turn.
I think it could have been done better so as to not be so confusing. When the cannibal showed up I thought he was still alive and was getting his revenge. Oddly enough I thought that he made the most sense too.
I hope they were nice enough to Tyreese to knife him in the head, it sure didn’t look like they had and it would really suck for him to get up and have to claw his way out.
He wasn’t. Everybody threw a shovelful of dirt on the grave; he was finishing the burial job.
I am beyond tired of these people doing amazingly stupid things to get killed. We’re now, what, three years into the zombie apocalypse, and we’re still seeing folks who should have survival instincts hard-wired into their psyche being incredibly unaware of their surroundings.
This one was particularly egregious, because Tyreese saw the walker’s shadow and heard the walker in the other room. Letting the walker sneak up on him from an adjoining room goes beyond “suspension of disbelief” and is well into the realm of “suspension of any semblance of storytelling.”
If you (writers) want to kill off Tyreese, then do it logically. Tyreese goes in to kill the walker, but the kid is wearing an old football helmet so that Tyreese’s first shot with the hammer doesn’t work properly. Or the door was rigged somehow to slam back into a person when it opens (which would make sense, given how the neighborhood was fortified as a compound) and it catches Tyreese off-guard. Or SOMETHING other than “this person who has survived for three years after the zombie apocalypse becomes momentarily stupider than dirt.”
Tyrese died of exsanguination doe to amputation. But the zombie bite hit an artery-- you had to look quick because they only showed the blood gushing out a few times.
Which makes one wonder-- what is the use of doing the amputation and creating more damage if you can’t cauterize the wound right away? Just apply a tourniquet and get the hell out of there. Or, fucking cauterize the wound before leaving!