You are very close, Trinidad.
This is about as low security as I’ve seen a “fence”:
Most are higher and less nice looking, and more secure.
EDIT:Before someone gripes at me, yes there are civil courts here of course. But when a sidewalk runs by a river and has a forty foot drop with no railing even…yea seems like the litigious nature of life in the USA isn’t here.
Congratulations on having a pre-zombie-proofed country! 
I think the place is on the level and felt bad for Aaron but I understood Rick’s reaction. He is basically like a victim of abuse. They have seen so many false hopes fall apart so spectacularly that Rick just lashes out at anything.
Why would Aaron refuse to even take a taste of the food he was carrying?
If someone right now minus zombie apocalypse asked me to take a bite of food I MADE to prove it wasn’t poisoned I’d do it without complaint, I mean why not?!
Again maybe it wasn’t a good idea to sent the picky odd ball guy out on diplomatic missions right? Send the personable people person right?
I thought he said the compound was so big that Judith could be tucked away inside a house so far from the wall that nothing outside the wall would ever hear her.
That’s one of the things that kills me about all the time they waste on “character development” on the show. If they spent even half that time on actual character development, they would not end up with a bunch of characters who do things for apparently no reason. Essentially they have a big bunch of indistinguishable characters. There’s no particular differences in the motivations, goals, desires, or morality of any of them. They just differ in their preferred weapons or costumes (e.g., the kid with the hat and the chick with the sword).
At this point, they simply choose one or another character to serve as a plot device or bas relief for some contrived tension. For example, pretty much any of the characters could have been made to serve as counterpoint to Rick’s harsh reluctance to check out the camp. There wasn’t anything about Michonne’s background or experience relative to any other character that demanded she step up. It was just that suddenly two episodes ago she started complaining that they needed to find a place to bunker down.
Yeah, no character development, no comic relief. Bad writing.
I said he looks like the love-child of Topher Grace and Terry O’Quinn. 
And of course the Asian guy was driving. :rolleyes:
So, I’m having trouble coming up with which flavour of horrific this new settlement is (is it called Alexandria?) - we’ve done slaves, cannibals, imprisonment (“for you own good”), “claimers” (mafia boss kind of thing)…what’s left? Black market baby-selling? Evil scientist experimenting on people? Oh wait, we did that already.
I too think the children playing is a recording.
Was driving through a zombie infested road in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night while also trying to sneak up on people who might be hostile Rick’s worst plan yet? I can’t complain too much since it led to some fun mayhem, but I couldn’t help but laugh. The only reason they’re not all dead is because zombies respect foot paths and didn’t envelope them all from every direction.
I also like how Rick keeps using his iconic (I guess?) pistol instead of a rifle or SMG.
I keep thinking Michonne should be able to kill an entire army of walkers by herself. Their heads are so mushy and the skulls don’t seem to degrade the blade even when she slices through it horizontally, which I’d think would be a horrible idea. So it’d be like stabbing hundreds of watermelons.
If the camp is evil, maybe it’s a bunch of gay guys who rape women with turkey basters and that’s where all the kids came from. OK, maybe that idea needs work, but you can’t tell me it’s stupider than the cannibal camp.
I think they missed the most obvious, easiest way to see if Aaron was trying to help or hurt them. When he said that the water on the road was a gift from him - hand him a cup of it to drink. Don’t let him see which bottle you poured it out of.
If he drinks without hesitation, the water is good as are his intentions.
Or, you could punch him in the face and drive unknown roads in the dark. Cause that makes for better TV.
They were driving from Richmond, VA, to Washington, DC, when they met Aaron. Getting near the settlement in this episode, they could see the Washington Monument in DC.
It’s Alexandria, VA, a suburb of DC. Maybe the settlement doesn’t take up all of what is now Alexandria, but that’s where it is and what it is called.
I doubt they brought any of the bottles from the road with them to the barn. They were in a rush, and the didn’t trust that water; they wouldn’t have taken the time.
The scene of Rick force-feeding the apple sauce to Aaron was uncomfortably reminiscent of Beth being forced to suck the lollipop in the hospital. I think that was intentional.
No, they brought at least some of the water with them. When he mentioned leaving it for them they looked at them on a nearby table.
Unless those were completely unrelated bottles that they decided to look at.
The show’s ethos also includes nihilism, and holds religion in contempt, so it’s not a perfect match.
As for what’s going on, I predict that Alexandria’s basically good folks, who are involved in a war with another group (the ones who raided Noah’s neighborhood and were collecting zombie torsos. So, Aaron and his boyfriend’s job is to find fresh recruits to man the walls and fight the war. Sort of a good news/bad news situation for Our Gang, they’re signing on to shelter and medical care, but also are drafted into a conflict with raiders.
I think this is wrong. For all it’s flaws, the show has been pretty consistent with characters and their shifts.* Michonne in particular has shifted quite a bit and slowly. The change in Michonne largely happened when it was just her and Rick and Carl on the road which is more than just two episodes ago. Michonne as counter balance to Rick makes sense because they essentially became the family unit (mom, dad and two kids).
(*I think the only time things have come out of the blue is after a time jump between episodes or seasons-- like Rick the farmer–where we don’t necessarily know what has transpired to get there)
I do think it’s an issue right now where they have a group in the double digits and there’s just never going to be enough time in episode to give everyone their due.
Interesting idea; I don’t think our gang would mind that too much, as long as they felt that they were fighting for a group that is actually good for a change.
I’ve come up with another couple of possibilities; the first one is that this is a super-religous settlement, and that’s where the conflict comes from.
The second is that this is indeed a truly good settlement, and as others have speculated, our group is too damaged to live with decent folk any longer, and manage to Wesley Crusher themselves into getting kicked out of Heaven.
ETA: Remembered another data point I thought of; this actually is a good group, and they’re a smart group, having done things right since Day One of the Zombie Apocalypse. So, sooner or later, our bunch of chuckleheads will burn the place down.
The only thing we know for sure, is bad shit is going to happen at some point.
They were told to speak unto the rock for water, and instead they blew the fucker up. No promised land for you!
I just want to say that, continuing the image search from your link lead me to this mash-up.
Hah. It’s even funnier if you know the original pitch for Bob’s Burgers was that the family were actually cannibals who ran a burger joint.
