Rick and Jessie, without involving Carol or Sam, could have explained everything that had happened - up until the moment Rick began pointing his snubbie at the gawkers.
Rick found out that Drunk Doc was abusing his wife. check. Rick uncover the fact that the Alexandrian leadership knew Drunk Doc was abusing his wife. check. Rick questioned Jessie about the abuse. check. Drunk Doc drunkenly began an attack on Rick. check. Rick attempted to detain Drunk Doc. check. An innocent window is shattered, which means Sam now comes from a broken home. (What? Too soon?) check. Rick subdues Drunk Doc. check. Case closed.
It would then be up to the Alexandrian leadership to dispense justice.
Ouch. I feel for them - which reality are you living in? Because it sounds like the one so many posters here pretend exists - where everyone else is as clever as them and has the same clever priorities. Granted, my knowledge of US politics stems largely from The Daily Show, but you definitely have some stupid, functionally useless individuals in high-ranking positions. Why should Deanna be any different? Why should any of the priviliged incompetents inhabiting Alexandria be any different?
I made the same point in another episode thread. Yes, they built a pretty stupid wall, and not just because of where the show was filmed. Because the people within the walls have more self-belief than practical knowledge, bolstered in the past by a system designed to offset their idiocy on to those with less power and influence. It’s why they don’t have an inkling of what Rick understands. It’s why they don’t have proper defences and cameras (and chocolate, though I appreciate I’d need an essay to justify that last one, and I can’t be bothered). They’ve been lucky enough, so far, hiding behind their walls recreating a lifestyle which is no longer tenable. But let’s not pretend it’s not realistic.
the graffiti was a bit amusing, at first glance it looked like it said " wolves not fair" due to the stone wall it was written on. at second glance you could see it said " wolves not far".
of course, jokes of unfair wolves were mentioned.
thus far (ha ha) the unfair wolves seem to be into dissection .
I’m thinking the Wolves lay siege to Alexandria; Deana & co are utterly unprepared to deal with it without Rick & co. I just hope Deana survives the bloodbath to realize just how naïve she was. Bonus points if Wolves end up loosing and she has to adapting to sharing or ceding leadership to Rick afterward.
I got the impression that the doctor beating his wife isn’t much of a secret from anyone except the newcomers. Everybody knows, but nobody acknowledges it for fear of offending the only doctor (the last doctor on the planet as far as any of them are concerned).
Is it bad that I wondered if the zombies outside & being so close to death killed
the woodie he’s bound to have had, or just made it harder.
It also answer that pesky question about whether the lack of babies has some deeper in universe explanation like humanity going sterile, or the writers just haven’t bothered to write in any babies beside Lilith. Agreed it’s not going to happen.
My pet theory is that babies born after having been exposed to the latent virus in their mother’s womb turn out to be immune, but of course there’s no way to really test this without killing Lilith. I have no idea how scientifically plausible that may be, other than it’s a lot more scientifically plausible than zombies are in the first place.
I was wrong. On re-watching that part, the fence turns in such a way as we only see the top of it and I thought there was nothing there.
However, just prior to that we see zombies approaching from the tower POV and they pass by the back of the false front of a house (the same house where Carl spots the girl in a window just before our group enters Alexandria) which has been painted black to make it look like all but the front part of the house burned away (?), but it looks more like the front part of a false house front painted black.
I guess I was agreeing with him so strongly that it didn’t look deranged to me - it looked like a man desperately trying to convince people of something dead obvious to him, that they just aren’t getting.
Pointing the gun at them wasn’t a good idea, though. That could be chalked up to adrenaline, though - he was still totally amped from the fight.
Obviously the community doesn’t like Rick’s group. However, Deanna know in herself that Rick’s group is asset in the community that she want to build. On the other hand, Carol see herself in Jessie’s condition.
I wonder if Rick & his band of Merry Men are exiled, would Enid go with them? She’s obviously not satisfied with a life behind walls. At least one parent is dead. She can handle herself and she’s growing attached to Carl.
I was sort of right about the town knowing what the doctor (who reminds me of Gary Busey) was evil, but turning a blind eye to keep his services as doc. They can’t just wait for the next graduating med school class. And forcing him to behave wouldn’t guarantee that he’d treat them properly. I think public shaming would work better. If he has any shred of self-esteem, he’d want to behave so that people didn’t think he was a drunk wife-beater.
One thing in the Fight I noticed, Evil dad threw his son (maybe wife, Not sure) off him while fighting, but then rick did the same thing to Coral. Was this some kind of attempt at making them look equally deranged?
So in Alexandria there are only 3 possible ways to deal with domestic battery: 1) death, 2) exile, and 3) do nothing. Does anyone consider calling a town meeting and telling the doctor that everyone knows about it and it WILL stop or else?
Deanna was a Congresswoman! She hasn’t set up a system to punish non-felony crimes? Maybe have a rudimentary court system, a small jail, or a batters counseling group? Something? Anything but exile being the only punishment.
