Despite widespread apparent belief, there is no such thing as an ‘obligatory Family Guy clip.’
Nor was there an obligatory South Park, SNL or Monty Python reference.
This has been a public service announcement.
Are we not talking about Abraham getting cut by Sasha while she went off reservation? I’m thinking he’s done for…
I once saw a demonstration of a police attack dog attacking a well padded policeman trainer. All of the commands for attack, stand down, halt, flee, etc were given by the handler in German.
The handler stated that the dog was trained to respond to voice commands from any human. Having the commands in a language other than English was one way of keeping the target suspect from giving successful a “halt” command to the dog attacking him.
I assume Rick’s Walking Dead (™) reference was his way of telling the others how he, personally, keeps putting one foot in front of the other, day after day. Daryl, who is more of a TCB (taking care of business (Elvis-style)) kind of guy, immediately rejected Rick’s motivation. “We ain’t them.” Rick, I assume, tried to clarify by responding, “We ain’t them”, but failed to explain how “We ain’t them” is different from “We ain’t them”. That part of the script must have blown away during the tornado. 
This was my thought exactly. Yes, the group would probably spend lots of time walking slowly, discouraged, thirsty, etc. But so I really need to see that much of it? The zombie killing storm was slightly unbelievable, too.
But, it was still better than the last episode. Let’s see what this Aaron fellow’s all about.
This show seems to answer the question: what if there were a zombie apocalypse and the only survivors were dullards?
The writing is just awful. No decent character development. No decent comic relief. Just a bunch of dullards moping around talking about how miserable it all is. Yep. It sure is miserable. For us, too.
Back to comic relief: in my experience, even in the worst circumstances, people tend to cut up and find the humor in the situation. That just doesn’t happen on this show. The few times the characters take a moment to kid each other about something, there is always a note of melancholy, and the humor is dry as dust.
I love the premise of this show but wow is it poorly-executed.
Have they ever done any flashbacks? Maybe that would help with some character development, at least.
So, in all seriousness, why is it one of the highest-rated shows on the toob? Is a large percentage of the audience stupid, or so uncaring that the gaping plot and story line holes don’t bother them? Do tens of millions see it as sheer fantasy (and thus free to make up all of its own rules) despite its dogged, determined, absolute grip on realism?
It is to wonder.
ETA: It occurs to me that in the final analysis, Gilligan’s Island was more “realistic” than* WD*. (I’m serious. Schwartz insisted that the prop makers build all the Professor’s junk according to the strict limits of the setting, no cheating. Some of it was amazingly rendered.)
I just think people are enamored of the premise. It’s interesting to think about trying to survive an apocalypse. That’s why I watch the show. It is frustrating as hell to me that it isn’t better-written.
That and zombies are just hot now; look at all the zombie walks and events that started long (1-5 years) before the show did. Forty/fifty years ago it was vampires and 30 or 35 a mixture of werewolves and vamps. Twenty years or a little longer everything was space related and that bled into a lot of robots. Now its Zs.
Eggs-actly. Around these part, many uber-serious K9 and guard dogs are given police-style commands in German, Polish, and Dutch while civilian-style commands are given in English. Something about reassuring the public that their dogs are just like the dog next door. Until they have to bring down a bad guy.
(Funny story, many years ago, I witnessed a K9 demo at Bass Pro Shops. Beautiful dogs and one was BIG GSD. Maybe 120 lbs. It had a 3" leather collar that appeared to be normal sized on the neck of this beast. :eek: Anyway, I thought I had heard the handler give the big dog commands in German, I turned to the sales clerk and asked if she had heard the handler speaking German. She gave me an odd look and said, with a straight face, “Well, they ARE German Shepherds”. I was stunned but didn’t laugh until I had left the store.)
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I respectfully have to disagree.
:DThe lack of fresh water is puzzling.
Do they not possess a map?
I believe they stated they were 60 miles from DC which would place them somewhere (east?) of Fredericksburg, VA, since they’re obviously not on the I95.
They would be crossing the Rappahannock River at some point very soon.
My wife questioned why they didn’t head for a port and commandeer a boat and sail up the coast but I’m assuming they may do that at the Potomac when they get to it.
Yeah, they don’t get many lucky breaks, and when they do, they usually pay for it soon afterwards. It was almost a message from God directly to Gabriel. He took off his collar, then they get saved. Should he have held onto his faith just a little longer?
I wouldn’t have drunk the water. That was way too suspicious. I wonder if that guy following them could have anything to do with this? I forgot his name again. It’s hard to imagine he could track them this far. Are they still leaving any clues behind as to where they’re going?
In the comics this philosophical premise seemed to be pointed out at the audience too, the readers and viewers are the walking dead.
I mean why try to survive? Why does any person get out of bed or eat or bother to do anything when inevitably they will be dead one day?
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As with most popular shows, the audience relates to the characters and the Perils of Pauline-style cliff hangers. It’s a tried-and-true formula. And some of the characters must be sexy.
You just have to overlook the many flaws. Why isn’t everyone deaf? Repeatedly discharging firearms within the concrete walls of the prison guarantees that everyone will need to learn sign language or carry a chalk board.
OTOH, some people object to nonsense. A bridge MUST have water flowing underneath it. They don’t seem to realize that the presence of a bridge doesn’t guarantee the presence of water. At some point in time it was necessary to build a bridge to cross over water, but during a drought, the bridge remains but the water is gone. That’s not a flaw but reality. To each their own, I guess.
I enjoy the show for it’s characters and the creation of the various forms of government that are introduced. The claimers, the Governor’s Woodbury, Dawn’s patrol at Grady Memorial Hospital, Hershel’s farm, etc. How will our heroes overcome and adapt this time?
It’s either overlook the flaws or watch the news. :eek:
I feel like I keep saying the same things over and over about this show (which begs the question: “Why am I posting, then?”), but:
The weather has apparently been bone-dry for weeks. Small creeks and streams have dried up. The survivors are desperate to find water.
And somehow, these people who have been living off the land for, what, two or three years now, can’t tell that the sky is clouding up and rain is coming? Not only is it a complete shock to them when it starts, but it’s actually a massive storm and it manages to sneak up on them? I’m not Grizzly Adams, but even I can tell when it’s about to rain … especially when it’s been dry for a long time.
I still don’t know exactly what the deal was with the walkers at the door in the middle of the night. Was that a dream? If it wasn’t, why on earth was such a big horde interested in storming the barn? The storm would have masked any sound the group might have been making, but apparently most of them were asleep when the attack came, so they were quiet anyway. There was no reason for a group of walkers to charge the barn.
If it was a dream, why were there so many walkers strewn around the outside of the barn the next morning, impaled on the fallen trees ex machina? And, if that was a small tornado or storm strong enough to topple the trees we saw, how did the barn itself survive? It didn’t look to be in great shape to begin with.
The Southern United States is currently suffering a real world drought. Lake water levels have receded, streams have dried up, rainfall doesn’t occur often enough, and the water table has dropped. Wells no longer hold water.
Daryl was digging in a stream bed to see if there was any water under the dirt, sand, and dead frogs. Nope.
You don’t remember this?
This puzzled me as well, but I guess it was real.
I think we were supposed to think the wind slamming the barn door while everyone was asleep brought all the walkers out of the woods.
If they have the guts to actually have lead a Terminus style revolt in the new Ned Flanders compound, and actually be unequivocally wrong in his actions I will forgive all!
Ok they can leave out the cannibalism and systematic rape, but I want to see a damaged Rick going power crazy.
I felt pretty “meh” about the episode. I get that they were showing us what a never-ending slog the life after the ZA would be, and that it would be difficult to find supplies, but I agree with those who point out that the group does the same dumb shit over and over again. No planning, no prep, nothing. Just “oh, we’re out of gas, let’s all go for a long walk!”
I also wasn’t fond of the zombie attempted-break-in scene where the crew was saved by deus ex tornado, nor with how it cut to Maggie waking up. That was a WTH scene.
Given the heat-n-humidity in the Southeast, you’d think the vast majority of Wave 1 and 2 walkers (the ones stricken right off the bat and immediately after TEOTWAWKI) would rot and be pretty ineffective after a few years. I’ve seen some pretty large animals going back to the earth. There’s a large tendon between the head and shoulder that takes a while to decomp, but the rest of them should be losing muscle mass and connections at the bone at this point. Limbs should start dropping off!
At some point, yes, you’ll have random walkers, as time goes on the volume would be greatly reduced. Something you have to watch for, but not a daily threat. Kind of like alligators (I’m a Florida girl and we grew up knowing we had to watch out for them. Snakes, too.). People who die with groups of survivors around them will be dispatched one way or the other (through the brain, or burned), so that should leave the ones that die on their own.
(My friends and I here in New England have a running joke about zombiecicles – how effective would walkers be in the winter here? Hey, it’s a valid question.)
Hope this wasn’t too rambly. I’ve been thinking this stuff for a while.
Also, I’m more sad about Tyreese than about Beth.