# The Walking Dead: 5.13 "Forget" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563 "2015-03-09T00:18:46Z")\ **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:** [March 9, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/1 "2015-03-09T00:18:46Z")
[QUOTE=AMC] As Rick and the others continue to acclimate to their new surroundings, they consider a return to normalcy. [/QUOTE] Kevin Smith, Ross Marquand, & a mystery cast member on **Talking Dead**. ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/2 "2015-03-09T01:07:25Z")
The first house the group stayed in had all the photos removed from the frames and the frames were neatly piled. They made a point of showing this. The house Sasha is staying in apparently still had all the photos. Is there going to be an actual reason for the difference? ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/3 "2015-03-09T01:13:16Z")
And Rick just mentioned how easy it would be to climb up the supports. šŸ˜‰ ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/4 "2015-03-09T01:14:02Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > And Rick just mentioned how easy it would be to climb up the supports. šŸ˜‰ Yep. I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/5 "2015-03-09T01:48:48Z")
Ok, creepy, scary Carolā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/6 "2015-03-09T01:52:32Z")
Carol tells the BESTEST stories ever!!! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/7 "2015-03-09T01:57:16Z")
Have they never heard of PTSD? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/8 "2015-03-09T02:05:10Z")
Iā€™m coming around to the idea that this is the creepiest situation theyā€™ve been in yet - our gang do seem to be the bad guys now. And yeah, PTSD out the wazoo - can they not give these people a bit of space to decompress a little?!? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/9 "2015-03-09T02:09:14Z")
And where does someone who has spent almost all of the ZA in a safe place get the nerve to tell someone like Rick about how weā€™ve all lost so much? He should have turned on his heel and walked away from her right then. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/10 "2015-03-09T02:12:31Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Iā€™m coming around to the idea that this is the creepiest situation theyā€™ve been in yet - our gang do seem to be the bad guys now. And yeah, PTSD out the wazoo - can they not give these people a bit of space to decompress a little?!? Agreed, though I think whoeverā€™s carving the Ws into the zombies will turn out to be the bigger bad. I loved the visual demonstration of just how precarious their situation is at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/11 "2015-03-09T02:35:27Z")
As an aside, Alexandra Breckenridge (plays Jessie - was on ā€œThe Talking Deadā€ tonight) has the worst voice in the history of the world. I cannot stand listening to her nasal vocal fry. I was thinking that Carol, Daryl and Rick might be planning to give the Alexandrians a demonstration of why they should be a touch less complacent, but maybe the W carving group will do that for them. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/12 "2015-03-09T02:36:22Z")
I thought the douchey guy from last week was Diannes son, this weeks guy was not the same right? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/13 "2015-03-09T02:49:45Z")
Man, Iā€™m so hungry I could eat a horse. Anyway, three weeks ago I was pretty much ready to give up on this series, but the Alexandria storyline has, by damn, rekindled my interest. Some great stuff tonight: the awkwardness of the cocktail party, Rickā€™s deep scariness, Aaron and Darryl bonding, and Carolā€™s speech to the kid, which for me was one of the supreme moments of the whole series. Also glad to see they are, at long last, working some dry humor into the proceedings. Aside from the ā€œdeath or cookiesā€ scene, the spaghetti dinner and Michonneā€™s wordless bit of business as she looked at herself in her uniform cracked me right up. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/14 "2015-03-09T02:51:45Z")
Oh heck, Iā€™ve been posting in last weekā€™s thread. In summation, Carol and kid best scene. Darryl looks like a likely season-ending casualty because there is some humanizing of him in this episode and Norman Reedus is a guest on the last ā€œTalkingā€¦ā€ this season ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/15 "2015-03-09T02:52:36Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Agreed, though I think whoeverā€™s carving the Ws into the zombies will turn out to be the bigger bad. I loved the visual demonstration of just how precarious their situation is at the end. I think youā€™re spot on. I think they are very much depicting our gang as the threat - as the bad guys - at the moment. However, I think it would really be too much of a risk to have our protagonists really proactively engage in morally questionable behavior. Carolā€™s threat to the kid and Rickā€™s kiss and creepy stare at the end are already challenging. I bet they will take them up to a moral brink and then have the external threat eliminate the moral ambiguity. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/16 "2015-03-09T02:53:40Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I thought the douchey guy from last week was Diannes son, this weeks guy was not the same right? She has more than one son. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/17 "2015-03-09T02:54:51Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I thought the douchey guy from last week was Diannes son, this weeks guy was not the same right? I thought Deannaā€™s Frat Boy son was named Aidan last week; her son this week was named Spencer (I think). Itā€™s possible she has two sons, of course, or Iā€™ve misunderstood something along the way. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/18 "2015-03-09T02:58:28Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > ā€¦I was thinking that Carol, Daryl and Rick might be planning to give the Alexandrians a demonstration of why they should be a touch less complacent, but maybe the W carving group will do that for them. They just raised an interesting point on **Talking Dead** about whether the Alexandrians know everyone has a dormant infection & will reanimate unless they died from brain trauma. On one hand I can buy them being that sheltered & ignorant, but on the other could they really have gone 2 years without anyone dying of natural causes? :dubious: Especially when they have elderly residents? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/19 "2015-03-09T02:59:17Z")
Ooh, maybe the W on the zombieā€™s forehead was actually an M for Morgan! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563/20 "2015-03-09T03:00:19Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > They just raised an interesting point on **Talking Dead** about whether the Alexandrians know everyone has a dormant infection & will reanimate unless they died from brain trauma. On one hand I can buy them being that sheltered & ignorant, but on the other could they really have gone 2 years without anyone dying of natural causes? :dubious: Especially when they have elderly residents? It doesnā€™t seem likely - they _must_ know by know that everyone re-animates if their brain isnā€™t destroyed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-13-forget-open-spoilers/714563.md?page=2)