Yeah, now he thinks Carol is cool.
In fairness, so do I.
I don’t think there’s any way the writers can win on this (possibly) abusive household thing. Of course, it’s **obvious **the drunken porch dick is the abuser, they always are! Right? But then, nothing is ever as it seems, so wouldn’t it be a twist if the mom was the abusive one - the kid destroyed her statue after all, dad probably gets drunk and gets out of the house to escape, obviously. The weird vibe from him could be either a) he’s a creepy drunken jerk or b) he’s psychologically exhausted, damaged, and somewhat detached.
I can see either way, but I definitely see signs that they’re setting up some kind of “twist” reveal where it’s not the dad, most likely the seemingly so sweet mom-lady (also interesting is the fact that unlike *almost * everyone else, she’s played by a not-completely-unknown actress). The question, for me, is how far does it get before we find out? Does Rick get something going with Jessie and find out she’s batshit crazy up close before offing the husband, or, more dramatically (and likely, IMO), does Rick and/or Carol do away with Pete without proper investigation and then once Rick moves in she goes all psycho behind closed doors? Will Rick et. al. be able to look back at the mistake they almost made, and see what they’re in danger of becoming; or will they have to look back at the mistake they did make, and have to face what they have become? And will any of it matter to whomever writes the next episode anyway? 
I don’t remember anyone explaining why previous Alexandrians were exiled.
Carol and Sam may be close to being exiled for stealing food. Usually a big no-no in groups where food sources are limited. And Carol has violated the “no guns” inside the walls policy.
Yeah, I think I’d like to know the rules before I signed up, especially if I were expected to be a constable.
Lostitis. Rick & Deanne would have lots of conversations about the whole history of Alexandria. No one will ask anything important until the story needs it.
No one mentioned the “run away and leave your friends” system to anyone before they all went out to forage & build walls?
I’m going to give the sound guys the benefit of the doubt on this one and say this is it. They know what different bikes sound like. Shit, they’re probably hyper-attuned to all the different sounds around them, since, you know, it’s their job.
Back when DVDs were still all the rage I remember listening to the audio commentary for The Bourne Identity. When it got to the Mini chase scene, the guy said they tried all kinds of different sounds for the Mini engine. They started with the actually Mini sound, and they said it sounded like complete shit. Long story short, they ended up using a 600cc sport bike sound with the frequency lowered so that it sounded like it was in the 6-7000 rpm range (instead of 10k+) but still had a nice sing-songy zing like a sport bike. And holy crap if I never noticed it, because it was the right call. The sounds in that scene are engaging and exciting, accuracy be damned. Even though when I watch it now, it sounds exactly like a 600cc sport bike with the frequency shifted.
Same here. I know what different bikes sound like, hell I actually owned a Nighthawk 750, but I wasn’t really paying close attention to what it was and Daryl burbling along on a V-twin just sounds right.
Someone in another one of these threads from many seasons ago said ABC - Always Be Culling. And in reality, yes, of course. Also, scrounge up some rain coats and keep them covered in zombie blood, and then for good measure chop off the arms and lower jaws of a bunch of zombies and take them on every run. If Glen were really a good leader in the ZA, those are the sorts of rules he’d implement – general good sense policies that are proven to work and save lives. Instead, Team Grimes’ plan is generally “don’t go out with idiots because idiots get you killed.” That’s a cop out, IMO. At this point they should be able to come up with a plan that ensure that even idiots don’t get killed.
All of that is beside the pointed of TWD, and if you go into each episode hoping that they suddenly start behaving rationally, you’re gonna have a bad time. The best part of this episode was the revolving door dilemma. It was a bit trite, sure, because the “sacrifice others to save yourself” meme is basically one of 3 things that you can do with these sorts of stories. But the visual is new at least, so we get another one of these conundrums with a cool visual, and then to make it even better we get Glen stuck in a glass box forced to watch his buddy get ripped apart.
Watch it for the visuals, which are few and far between but even 5 seasons in are still pretty good.
What did Porch Dick Drunk Doc Dad (PDDDD) say to Rick when he brought over the beer? He said something about his wife very early in the encounter, but I can’t recall what it was. I know he said he knew Rick lost his wife, but before that, he said something about his own wife.
Since you owned a Nighthawk, take a look at Feral Daryl’s kick start lever. I think they mounted the lever to a useless custom plate because they thought a post-apocalyptic bike should have one.
The only bike I know of with four cylinders like that is the Honda 750, but upon hearing it, I decided that it couldn’t be. 
I think that sums up my love-hate relationship with “The Walking Dead” - I’m completely captivated and enthralled by every episode, probably because I’m thinking that THIS time they’re going to get smart and do the right things! Talk about Lucy and the Football syndrome.
It’s two years into the ZA - if they ain’t started making a plan yet, they ain’t never gonna.
Damn, I just watched the episode and thought the same thing. I guess it was pretty obvious. And yeah, why is the only remaining black guy a douche? At least we have a couple kick-ass black chicks. Were there any black guys in Alexandria? I remember a woman talking with Sasha at the party but I don’t remember seeing any guys.
Awesome and pretty accurate.
Everybody seems to have some sort of PTSD and different coping mechanisms. Carol has turned hard but I don’t think she’s crazy. Sasha, on the other hand, is at her breaking point.
Not to mention corralling and being strong enough to take down a horse that only moments before was rearing up at a human and if it did that with the walkers, that were much more threatening than Daryl, it probably could have taken a lot of them out.
It was mentioned that a bullet to the brain might have been kind for Aiden but I think maybe there was an intentional thing because Aaron and Daryl did that for the horse.
I also don’t understand why they don’t do the zombie guts camo more often. Sure who wants to really cover themselves with that shit but if the choice is between being a bit stinky and getting torn apart, I would take stinky. Also, they don’t really need to have skin contact with it. Put the raincoat on inside out so the slick surface faces in, then the guts will stick better on the inside which is usually cloth. They should have some stored zombie chum that they can refresh the coats with before runs. Then add some protective armor of some sort; arm and leg bracers and definitely something around the neck and shoulders because that’s where everyone seems to get bitten.
Also, where were Glenn and Noah’s knives when they were trapped? I thought everyone had knives, too?
And yeah, we all complain but we keep watching and at least we will have some plans and learned what not to do when the zombie apocalypse happens.
i seem to remember that glenn said something about being out of ammo. that would explain why he didn’t shoot deanna’s son or the glass to get out of the door.
Which is why I watch it for the visuals, and finding out what kind of a hot mess they can get into with their lack of plans.
You know, if they were really bad people then once the front area was cleared Glenn and Noah could have just pushed the door and went out together and fed the other guy to the walkers inside.
I also have to wonder why Noah was ever put on the scavenging team. He was not really that experienced as a scavenger since he had been safe inside the hospital for a while and he was gimpy. Sure the walkers were usually slower (except for the stealth ones) but if they get in a situation he’s the one who might get left behind as bait. Makes me wonder if that was Deana’s plan with putting him on the team.
I was under the impression that Drunk Doc had fixed Noah’s gimpy leg shortly after he arrived at Alexandria. Noah wasn’t limping in the last episode.
Noah demonstrated an interested in learning new things. How to build stuff, how to shoot, how to scavenge, how to build an Alexandria that would last until he reached Reg’s old age.
The Nicholas escape plan was to leave by the front door. Which he did. Instead of fighting his way thru one or two approaching walkers, he chose to return to the revolving door of death where he was trapped by dozens. Unfortunately, Glenn and Noah entered the RDoD at the same time. Trapped! Trapped like actors in a TV show.
Glenn and Noah weren’t raised to abandon the living at the first sign of trouble. Nicholas may have grabbed the rifle he had dropped outside of the RDoD and fought to free the others but that was not Alexandrian policy, and definitely not Nicholas’s modus operandi.
You know what would be a neat twist? If the doctor wasn’t beating his wife and kid, and it was actually the wife doing the beating. He just gets drunk to dull the pain or cope or whatever. Might also explain why the kid’s not as scared of Carol as he should be, if he’s used to a woman actually using violence against him, not just the threat of violence.
(if this has come up in the comic, I don’t know about it, I don’t even know which of these newbs, if any, are even in the comics, most of which I haven’t read)
Wow Noah turned out to be a useless character, all he did was get Carol hit by a car, Beth killed, and Tyresse killed. I was hoping he’d at least have a good arc, find some way to redeem himself (and no, just asking to learn to architect wasn’t enough after the stuff he’s caused), but nope. Just zombie chow. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the character, which I why I wanted more for him.
Ironically, the Mullet seems to be having just that sort of arc in the same episode, stepping up finally and doing the right thing. Now if Rick’s husband beating girlfriend would just give him a once over with the scissors.
I guess Noah was never intended to last long. Being optimistic and hopeful about the future and wanting to be an architect pretty much doomed him. Don’t be too optimistic & hopeful on this show. Just ask Bob.
On Talking Dead, the actor said he knew that he was a goner when he read in the script that Rick put a blanket over a sleeping Carl, and then Noah.
I wish people would stop saying Noah got Beth and Tyrese killed. Beth and Tyrese were responsible for their own deaths.
Also, how did a doctor fix the kid’s leg that fast?