# The Walking Dead; 5.11 "The Distance" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377 "2015-02-23T00:35:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/1 "2015-02-23T00:35:28Z")
[QUOTE=AMC] After withstanding a spectacular storm, Rick and the others meet what appears to be a friendly person, but find themselves mistrustful. [/QUOTE] So is Aaron friend or foe? More importantly how long will the writers keep us waiting to find out? Danai Gurira and Paul Feig are on **Talking Dead**. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/2 "2015-02-23T02:23:37Z")
Oh shut the FRAK up LPITA, you’re scaring Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/3 "2015-02-23T02:33:30Z")
Was the car towed by the RV or something? One dude with two vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/4 "2015-02-23T02:41:16Z")
Well, that’s one way of repainting a boring old crapdilac red… Nice horde battle… Still don’t trust Aaron, he’s hiding something, Rick’s suspicions are very valid, nice observation by Michonne about the lack of people in the photos… ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/5 "2015-02-23T03:16:16Z")
Nice! Advancing the plot…seems weird about no people in the photos. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/6 "2015-02-23T03:20:21Z")
I just don’t see them making the loving gay couple evil. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/7 "2015-02-23T03:22:25Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Well, that’s one way of repainting a boring old crapdilac red… > > Nice horde battle… > Still don’t trust Aaron, he’s hiding something, Rick’s suspicions are very valid, nice observation by Michonne about the lack of people in the photos… My theory was that something had happened to the population of the settlement and only Aaron and his partner were left. They left and came back and everyone was either dead from a plague or just gone–a Roanoke situation. The settlement itself was still secure and supplied and basically these two guys were trying to find people to repopulate it. The end with the sound of kids on the other side makes me wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/8 "2015-02-23T03:31:29Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I just don’t see them making the loving gay couple evil. Yeah, this isn’t Battlestar Galactica(minus the loving couple part). ---
**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:** [February 23, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/9 "2015-02-23T03:32:21Z")
This episode was okay. I liked the consideration of whether and how to approach unknown others. I like the ambiguity of Aaron and Eric. There was some pure grade A horseshit in the middle with the whole car thing - I didn’t get how the RV got separated, and it made no sense that Glenn would have to gun it. There is also no way that you’d get arms under the hood unless it popped all the way open. I also find it distracting how some characters are not in some group scenes, but suddenly appear later in others. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/10 "2015-02-23T03:48:45Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > My theory was that something had happened to the population of the settlement and only Aaron and his partner were left. They left and came back and everyone was either dead from a plague or just gone–a Roanoke situation. The settlement itself was still secure and supplied and basically these two guys were trying to find people to repopulate it. > > The end with the sound of kids on the other side makes me wonder. Kids playing right by the gates with zero guards on the walls or anywhere else is pretty suspicious though. And those impregnable walls did not look as tough as Aaron made them sound. ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/11 "2015-02-23T04:00:44Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Was the car towed by the RV or something? One dude with two vehicles. There were two. Aaron said, truthfully, after he was captured that he had one other person with him. What I don’t get is how they got the car and RV to the barn. He also said they left the vehicles where they did because the road was blocked by debris after the storm. Yet somehow Rick’s group just made the vehicles appear back at the barn. ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/12 "2015-02-23T04:03:57Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Well, that’s one way of repainting a boring old crapdilac red… > > Nice horde battle… > Still don’t trust Aaron, he’s hiding something, Rick’s suspicions are very valid, nice observation by Michonne about the lack of people in the photos… Why the hell do they keep using ancient cars when there are millions of more recent cars available? It is driving me crazy. In earlier seasons we got new car product placement, so that’s the only reason I can figure. They don’t currently have a company willing to pay for a car placement so they use old ones instead of giving free advertising to current vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/13 "2015-02-23T04:06:57Z")
It could be a recording of kids playing, to get people to let their guard down… Agreed, those walls do _not_ look very durable, they may be walker-resistant, but rifle bullets would still pass through, they look like nothing more than corrugated steel And the preview of the “gatekeeper” telling our Mötley crëw to surrender their weapons? No frakking way, that’s a bad call, that one requirement would destroy the minimal amount of trust Aaron had built with the group. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/14 "2015-02-23T04:19:19Z")
> [@theR](#): > > There were two. Aaron said, truthfully, after he was captured that he had one other person with him. > > What I don’t get is how they got the car and RV to the barn. He also said they left the vehicles where they did because the road was blocked by debris after the storm. Yet somehow Rick’s group just made the vehicles appear back at the barn. My thought was that those two guys couldn’t clear it by themselves but four people could. But that seems like it would have taken more time than they had left. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/15 "2015-02-23T04:31:53Z")
> [@theR](#): > > Why the hell do they keep using ancient cars when there are millions of more recent cars available? It is driving me crazy. > > In earlier seasons we got new car product placement, so that’s the only reason I can figure. They don’t currently have a company willing to pay for a car placement so they use old ones instead of giving free advertising to current vehicles. For the love of–there AREN’T millions of new cars available. The world’s been picked over. In the immediate aftermath of the ZA, they were able to find newer vehicles, but in the years since all the best stuff has been taken by other groups. Also, they can’t be too choosy in scavenging vehicles, because they have to take the cars in the best position to be moved, which may not be the newest ones. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/16 "2015-02-23T04:47:17Z")
Hey Rick, you can be cautious without being an asshole about it. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/17 "2015-02-23T05:07:55Z")
I KNEW I’d [seen the actor playing Aaron before](https://www.youtube.com/user/MarquandR). He’s a fantastic impressionist. This character he’s playing has a bit of a Kevin Spacey tone to him, though he looks vaguely like Topher Grace. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/18 "2015-02-23T05:22:54Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Hey Rick, you can be cautious without being an asshole about it. Take that back. There is no evidence that Rick is capable of not being an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/19 "2015-02-23T05:25:38Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Take that back. There is no evidence that Rick is capable of not being an asshole. I expect better manners from a small-town Southern boy. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377/20 "2015-02-23T05:29:54Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > …And the preview of the “gatekeeper” telling our Mötley crëw to surrender their weapons? No frakking way, that’s a bad call, that one requirement would destroy the minimal amount of trust Aaron had built with the group. Eh, I try not to extrapolate from the sneak peeks too much since they tend to be way out of context. Also that’s a basic common sense rule for any survivor community; the gang had the exact same rule back at the prison. Tonight was the first episode I actually liked since the hiatus. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-11-the-distance-open-spoilers/713377.md?page=2)