When they reach Wash DC, they find that Congress, debating what actions to take against the Apocalypse, is locked in partisan gridlock. They tried to pass a resolution condemning the Walkers only to find that the resolution would violate the ADA, and so even that was shelved.
I’m thinking Aaron’s group will have something to do with the severed torsos we saw in the prior episode. Whatever that means.
First thing I thought of was using them to create a moat of snapping torsos, intimidating.
Why are the survivors not using Michonne’s patented neutered zombies as free labor at least? Strap The baby to the back of one on a leash, same for backpacks of goods.
Thanks, Obama!
The real world drought is in the southwestern US which is a completely different geography and climate than the east coast.
But … even if there were a drought in Virginia, small creeks and ponds may dry up but larger waterways and the underground aquifier would take months (if not years) to recede, especially with the lack of humans causing drawdown.
The vegetation would also show the effects of a severe drought which was not the case on the show.
Just adding, fair enough if the show set up an ongoing drought in the plot, but if they did, I missed it.
Speaking of vegetation, you’d think they’d all be skilled herbalists by now. I’m sure there’d be a fair amount of edible wild salad greens around.
I had that in mind too. Only so much you can do with snapping zombie torsos!
Good point on zombie-beasts-of-burden. Also, you’d think the cars would be stuffed full of survival equipment: Tents, weapons, traps, water harvesting gear, etc. I’m assuming they made the trip north during the intervening 3 months the show was off-air for the break. You’d think they’d have scavenged a shit-load between now and then. But perhaps they were already near the end of their supply as they approached Noah’s home town? For me, that’s where the writing gets frustrating. You know you’ve got an episode of the gang about thrist, starvation and basic survival off the land… why not set that up in the prior episode that was begging for a B-story?
Having lived in tornado alley most of my life and having seen old wood sheds standing intact next to tornado demolished brick homes, I though nothing of it.
Tornadoes have been officially and scientifically classified as weird shit.
QFT. In the 90s, a friend of mine saw her house reduced to firewood by a tornado that somehow spared the houses on either side of hers.
Once more, set to music this time (hum along, any tune that suits you):
The world of WD died quickly, no more than a month, probably more like two weeks. There are now a tiny number of normals left. The ones who died or turned had little time to use up any resources. The “enemy” does not even foul or ruin resources, much less use them. Every person who was killed and eaten or turned would have dropped their entire stash of resources, where it would lie until the next, now-rare human came along.
There is absolutely no reason to portray this world as anything but a parody of the last man on earth let loose in The Mall of America, or any WalMart. Every survivor should be equipped like a Navy SEAL. Every group should have a Mormon-like tribulations stash. There should be many hoboes or roadies who travel with nothing more than a backpack, knowing that there is an endless supply of food, water, ammo, clothing, cars, gas, tools, medical supplies etc. (barring some erosion from time, exposure, etc.)
This whole Mad Max wasteland-in-the-heartland just drives me effing batty.
Not to mention that stopping in a fruited area, building a small, highly defended and self-reliant base, then expanding it one house or city block at a time is an absolutely ‘duh’ strategy that only seems to be implemented in the most limited way by the most evil-minded, who are evil because it is all a wasteland out there. AAAAAUUUUUGGHHHHHHH!
I can imagine using zombies to carry goods, but no parent from Earth is going to let one carry her or his baby.
Judith is not a burden. Judith is a motivation to keep going–not just for Rick and Carl, but for the whole group, except maybe Noah and Fuckwit Gabriel. Sasha as much as said so in this episode.
I’m from earth and I’d do it, it helps keep Judith alive two ways one by masking her from attacking walkers and two freeing up her parent to dispatch said walker.
Or at least get one of this papoose things and strap Judith to your back Rick.
LOL I have been saying this from the beginning, I give up. Michonne’s “clean shirt” comment was laughable since every super walmart in the south has enough to clothe the group for six months or more.
It seems the writers don’t want realistic post apoc action, they want long after post apoc action with slowly dwindling survivors like The Road. It made sense there!
What if the only survivors of the zombie apocalypse were dullards?
I think this is how the original idea for *The Walking Dead *was pitched to network executives.
I like the idea that our group turn out to be the bad guys this time, but I long ago gave up on the writers of this show. Aaron’s group are going to be the next Big Bad, no doubt in my mind.
I dunno; we’ve seen some people hoarding zombies on this show already. 
Would it have killed them to put just one tiny little shark in the mess of trees and zombies that the tornado left behind?!?
That’s what I was thinking, too - get zombie gunk all over your knife, then cut your buddy with it? That’s not hygienic.
This is the kind of shit that bugs me - they try to do something deep and meaningful, and it’s just gibberish.
They desperately need comic relief. It would elevate the show to the next level - all the best dramas have had comic relief (think Walter White flinging a pizza onto the roof of his house).
Well, now, you might be onto something there…
No. Daryl said “we ain’t them” and Rick said “no, we aren’t them”.
The German for “halt”: “halt.” 
For a group that ‘earns its living’ by invading walled compounds and taking resources found inside, zombie torsos would be a very useful and effective weapon.
What you do is roll up to the walls and call out that you are going to come in and steal all their stuff. A fair number of the inhabitants will come to the wall and shout defiance and work on reinforcing the wall and gathering defensive weapons and such.
Then you get out your handy catapult and start pitching biting torsos over. (They’re easy to handle, as compared with limbed zombies.)
All you need is one good contact between zombie teeth and defender flesh–though you’ll probably get several. Pitch enough torsos and you might even cause a death or two–and immediate zombification. Then the zombies within the walls do your work for you, reducing the defenders to fully-dead or zombified. At your leisure, you can pull down the wall, go in, take care of any slow-moving walking dead, and gather your prizes: food, water, weapons, etc.
How? There’s not one single baby-carrier left anywhere on planet earth. And they just don’t have time to make one out of sticks and big leaves. So there.