It’s quiet, which is useful anyway when noise draws zombies. It’s doubly useful to a hunter, for the same reason. Have we seen Daryll cope admirably with a knife against a group? I’m sure he could, even if we haven’t. I expect he’d just go round a herd, though. If the group have to go through one, he’s worth getting ‘carried’ (if anyone dared call it that).
Fair point.
I thought it could have been slightly Daryl’s fault. Aaron said he always runs, but after Daryl horse whispered him he may have become more trusting, which allowed the zombies to corner him.
No?
I also expected Daryl to starve carving our some stakes, but maybe the meat was contaminated, assuming that’s how it works.
Again, fair point, but shouldn’t he at least have a sidearm as a second weapon for herd situations?
I should think a .22 semi auto carbine and a back pack full of .22 shorts would be a relatively quiet zombie killer.
I don’t know why there is an argument on this point. After Carol shot the zombie, she told her group that she had to expend the ammo to match her cover story of leaving Alexandria to go for target practice. I believe the way it was phrased and by the way the scene was set up that it was Daryl who left the compound with her to supposedly help her practice. Remember, she would have had to check out the weapon because this was before they stole the handguns.
I may have some details a little off since I didn’t re-watch it, but I’m certain she said she had to take all those shots as part of her cover for leaving the compound.
Thanks for fixing that typo. 
I thought that whole scene was pretty lame. Surrounded by walking mounds of rotting flesh, a horse just stands there and then gently lays down while being attacked? Yeah, no. Expect lots of kicking, swinging weight around, and trampling to ensue. Even if it did go down, it would put up way more of a fight.
Not closing a window behind you when sneaking into an armory was the big mistake
But, we got to see and hear what can happen when you are out there too long …
I thought the same thing when Rick lost the horse in Atlanta.
But realistic horse scenes are expensive.
I would be very surprised if AMC would kill off that character–one they own outright (as opposed to those partially owned by comics creator Robert Kirkman), and one that sells tons of merchandise for them.
Yes, I believe this to be the storyline. (Based on pure speculation; I don’t read the comics.)
Rick’s group was targeted by Deanna through her agent Aaron partly because she knows her son Aiden is a lousy leader, and some counterweight or possible correction for his hot-headed destructiveness will be provided by Rick’s more competent crew.
But the group was also targeted, I believe, because of the existence of Judith.
The Alexandria group has been there for two years or so, eating well and living relatively free of stress, and it includes several women of childbearing age.
Yet (as we’ve been told explicitly) there are no babies or toddlers.
My guess is that Deanna speculates that Rick might have, through some accident, sperm that works. Maybe because he was in a coma for some period after the unnamed Zombifying Event, that could actually be true (though of course Deanna doesn’t yet know the details of Rick’s life that might account for his being able to sire children).
Jessie has been offered up as first broodmare, to see what happens. If she catches, then Rick will be asked to service the other ladies.
That’s not how it works in high-budget television/movies (and this is VERY high-budget). If there is some dumb ordinance they can’t get around, they just shoot a mock set or use special effects or whatever to get it exactly the way they want it on screen.
They obviously weren’t planning to encounter a zombie; not only are such things unpredictable, but Rick and Daryl were surprised she took so many attempts to get a headshot. Seemed like a spur-of-the moment decision to me.
Getting Rick to sire another kid would also be a great way to bond him to the community. Judith is bad enough, but dragging two kids through the ZA would be nuts.
If ammo was scarce, she could have just pocketed the unspent rounds and her story is exactly the same. No need to waste the ammo.
I saw this as a pretty obvious metaphor. Daryl is the horse. The message is if he keeps running he’ll get caught and die eventually. Come in and be domesticated and you’ll be cared for.
I thought the moral was “if you spend too much time out in the wild, you revert to what you really are.” IOW, allowing yourself to be domesticated will be the death of you, like the horse. Or something.
This.
I thought the same thing.
Children are not an burden to Rick. They’re reason to continue.
There’s two seasons of The Walking Dead spin-off on the way
It’s a prequel of sorts, about the early outbreak and collapse, in the LA area.
Actually they have specifically said the struts are outside because they film in a real neighborhood and couldn’t build them in peoples property.