Abe’s got a woman who likes her man well groomed???
It wasn’t random. Rick wanted Aaron to stop with the psychobabble and answer the question(s). Brutal, yes. Necessary, maybe. Were better options available? Yes.
The great unknown was the driving force at this point. How much time did Rick’s group have before they would be attacked by a larger force? Rick’s group’s priority was to first secure it’s perimeter (eyes on the woods surrounding the shed), followed by the interrogation of the stranger. The stranger was dragging out the interrogation and wasting time could lead to incoming bullets. (But it’s only a TV show.)
He’s got the same eerie confidence the Termini had. It’s the kind of confidence you have when you’re in complete control, with possibly 20 guys with guns nearby.
They mentioned that in the show. She gives him haircuts, so they’ve got trimming supplies. Rick’s beard and Daryl’s hair are by choice, for whatever reason.
Yes, either that, or just bad writing.
Seeing as how the last…every other time ended up badly for the group, I’d say skepticism is the order of the day. I liked how Rick wanted to change every decision point that Aaron was offering, but driving through dark roads seems like a bad idea. Perhaps they could have gone the alternate route in the day, made sure it was clear/safe, then approached the compound at night.
I did think the episode was pretty good overall.
Huge understatement right there. Sometimes, OK a lot of the time, it’s horrible. Just awful.
I hope you can see the difference between being skeptical of someone’s kindness and punching them in the face in response to it. 
I think that was the point. Rick is broken, the combined experience so far has pushed Rick into irrationality. He isn’t making good decisions anymore, even if his intentions of protecting the group are good. Everyone else is pretty fragile as well and at this point and just following along because they’re also too traumatized to question the situation. Rick’s ability to assess and weigh risk is way, way off. It seems Michonne is the only one still thinking somewhat clearly.
The comic books are just as bad or worse. With all due respect to Robert Kirkman for coming up with the concept, they don’t need to let him anywhere near a writer’s table for the TV show.
This show is making money now. They can afford to hire better writers. Writers who have enough sense to disregard Kirkman’s ideas.
Dolphin smooth!!! :eek:
CMC fnord!
Oh sure. But you never know - if you don’t punch the nice guy in the face, the next nice guy may try to eat you after braining you into a vat, or the other nice guy could force you into the zombie version of bum fights, or the other nice guy may try to seal you in a building and self destruct the whole thing!
I actually think he punched him because he was being unresponsive to Rick’s questions. Daryl did the same thing but was a bit nicer about it (told him no one gives a shit).
On a separate note, it was great how when Maggie and Sasha come into the barn with Aaron for the first time, they say, “hey guys, this is Aaron” and without hesitation the entire group picks up their weapons ready to kill him. Like Carol said, even if Rick was wrong, he was still right.
Rick thinks this new guy might be leading them into a trap, so, he sends out a bunch of people to check it out.
These 5 idiots walk down the middle of a road. All together.
Someone said " why don’t they get some newer cars. What difference would it make, they destroy every thing they touch.
They are in the car and run into a herd of walkers, who are walking down the middle of the road. Maybe, the walkers were looking for a trap ?
Then they are driving the mobile home down the road and the goof driving sees the low voltage light and keeps driving.
then he’s too dumb to know that there must be another battery to power every thing else.
Do the writers of this show ever get out in the real world ?
I wish. But it seems clear that the kind of WD viewers who post on SDMB–which is to say, viewers who care about plausible and coherent writing–are a minority among WD viewers as a whole.
Most people tune in to see heads being pulped. As long as the pulping is frequent enough and varied enough, they are happy. They don’t care if the plots are constructed in such a way that the only way to get from one incident to the next is for the characters to be morons.
I don’t know. You’d think that in 2015 American television, making a gay couple the villains of the half-season would be off the table. But this show IS like *Battlestar Galactica *in that its primary audience tends to the right, politically. So…it’s possible.
Again, I’m not talking about SDMB users (the majority of whom aren’t known for right-wing views). *The Walking Dead *clearly does have many viewers who don’t fall into any of the conservative categories: anti-liberal, anti-progressive, anti-diversity, anti-feminism, anti-gay, etc. Not all WD viewers are blue-collar or less-educated or more likely to vote GOP when they do vote.
But many WD viewers plainly do hold one or more of those viewpoints. Just look at how closely the ethos of the show reflects those viewpoints: discomfort with having Too Many Black Men around; an assumption that leaders must be male (even when Rick was having hallucinations and declaring his farmerhood, there was no question of Carol or Michonne taking a leadership role); a skepticism about Pointy-Headed Intellectuals (hello, Eugene and CDC guy!); and most of all, perhaps, the overriding theme of the show: you have to Do what you have to Do to survive. You don’t stop to think and you don’t stop to discuss—you just wade in and start pulping heads.
That contempt for fact-gathering, analysis, and deliberation is very much a part of the value system of the right. A *real *man gits 'er done!
So, yeah: I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the teleplays go in the direction of letting us know that there’s Something Wrong with gay men.
OMG are you kidding me? None of the are even thinking at all.
When they are all there in front of the gates, I’m almost screaming at the TV. “Hey! HEY! Just send one person in to check it out! At the very least, LEAVE CAROL OUTSIDE THE WALLS JUST IN CASE! ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE? DON’T SEND EVERYONE IN!”, at which point I caught myself, and realized it’s just like every other episode.
“Hey, lets all just walk in together before anyone scouts ahead”
Like, you know, “Lets everyone jump down into the dirty pit of water, no no, don’t leave a single person behind, just in case something goes wrong”.
You don’t even have to print them - just view them on the camera’s own screen.
When Aaron was talking about the improbable thickness of the walls (12 feet? seriously?) it occurred to me that if you wanted a large defensible durable structure in the DC area, you should just set up in the Pentagon.
Shade of Lori, though, in taking your eyes off the road while driving and -blammo- walkers. When they were driving in the RV within sight of Washington, I was frankly expecting a repeat.
Rick seems to be going for the biblical patriarch look this season. Not taking care of your grooming is a sign of mental deterioration or of someone who is withdrawing from social interactions. Hiding a gun where he can find it again if need be is probably a smart idea, and seems to indicate that there will be problems with this ‘sanctuary’ in future episodes.
I feel bad for these people if they are nice, because Rick & crew are going to leave that place in flames.
The gay guys are screwed. One of them dies soon. Can’t have icky kissing and stuff. Tara’s girlfriend got shot in the frickin’ face.
He could just hide the gun in his face-rug.
This show made me chuckle tonight, because I walked by a gated community with 20 feet high brick walls surrounding it. Even non gated communities most houses have 6foot plus and higher brick walls for fences! And most of those have broken glass bottles embedded in the concrete on top of the bricks!
I don’t think zombies would fair so well in a country paranoid about crime and keeping out the underclasses AKA riff raff and with no safety regulations or civil courts.
Every house or neighborhood is already a secured compound.
?? Where do you live? I have seen that sort of thing in Central America, and I understand it’s the norm in South Africa, but in the US not so much. My house is easily accessible.