It is my understanding that actors not being used for a particular scene are often utilized as zombies.
And why did stalker extraordinaire Daryl not see all of those hanging cans by the trailers and think, “That’s odd…and deliberate, which is **never **a good combo.” I’m a spoiled southern belle (as a friend says), and I grokked to the cans.
(I did love Chris Hardwick’s comment on Talking Dead that you can apparently herd walkers by throwing a rave.)
Seems to me that the point Rick is trying to make is that in the world that IS, NOW, in universe, one cannot afford the luxury of allowing a dangerous loony to run loose. I found it interesting that when they decided RICK was a dangerous loony, what did they do? Fix him up and put him on a mattress in a prison made of… drywall. With one of his own people guarding him. True, Michonne was the one who coldcocked him in the first place, but I expected (and was right) that she did it to defuse the situation and earn the trust of the Alexandrians, not because she didn’t think Porch Dick might have it coming.
Carol put it calmly and succinctly: “You’re going to have to kill him.”
In a civilized society, plenty of people abstain from rape and murder and gleeful self indulgence only because police officers will stop them and lock them up. Part of TWD’s issue and appeal is: What do you do when there aren’t any cops? This was part of the thrust of this whole story arc – Alexandria has no jail, and its peace and stability are only as durable or as long lasting as there are no folks willing to be… um… “unreasonable.”
Deanna is portrayed as a strong leader, sure… but one who’s never had to really deal with the horrors of the postapocalyptic word. She started out still thinking that the zombies were the worst she had to deal with… well, that, and one drunk abusive doctor, but if we ignore him long enough, he’ll come around. And only when that same drunk doctor ACCIDENTALLY killed her husband did she admit, “Maybe these feral newcomers have a point.”
And thus we will see something more like a real resistance when the Wolves try to breach the walls next season…
The suspiciously hanging cans were pretty obvious. Plus, you’d think that many zombies would give off a hell of a smell. Rick could sense a Walker on the other side of the town wall.
I hate you. Now I’m going to think that every time I see one of the W people. And sing the song.
I’ve often wondered why no one mentions zombie-stench. I imagine there’d be some level of it all the time, but it would get stronger as a horde came closer, no?
The wind can’t always be in the zombies’ favour.
They should be proactive and go out hunting them once Morgan tells them about them. That would be poetic. The Wolves told the story about the wolves getting bounties on them and the natives hunted them all down. Alexandria needs to put bounties on these new wolves.
Actually, I kind of figured that zombies don’t smell as bad as corpses do… until they become truly dead.
We’ve established that a corpse can last for months, even years, wandering around in the sun and weather, looking for a meat snack. In the real world, this isn’t feasible. Even in the absence of scavenger animals, a human body will rot to the point of falling apart in a week, depending on the temperature and humidity… and this story happens in the American South, an area known for its heat and humidity.
Therefore, this zombie virus thing, whatever, retards the putrefaction of animated corpses. Therefore, less smell.
Although one would think multiple truckloads of zombies, sitting out in the sun, would yield SOME clue…
One of my issues with this show from Day One has been that in spite of humans being a rare and endangered species, all they still do is kill each other. That said, not ALL life is sacred; if you’re a horrible person who enjoys killing other people, maybe you don’t get to stay alive. Hopefully we’ll explore that a little bit next season.
As Daryl drives by on his blatting motorcycle - “Shhhh - don’t want to attract walkers.” Yeah, it’s beyond stupid to be driving a loud motorcycle anywhere these days. People will always know you’re there before you know where they are.
Even more fun to sing it. 
I’d do it for free to be able to put, “Member of Zombie Dance Party” on my resume. 
Somebody needs to set all those walkers groovin’ on into the trailer to a nice dance beat.
SHOULD and WILL are two different things. I predict a zombie swarm in Alexandria at some point, and the loss of several lives.
The two sociopaths Morgan put in the car were the same two who had tried to kill him. I thought the two sociopaths at the zombie rave were different sociopaths, but the scene was dark and I can’t be sure.
I used to live near a poultry processing plant. The odor was…indescribably bad and incredibly pervasive. Even so, the locals really only noticed it once in a blue moon, when something made it even worse than usual. You really do get used to just about anything.
I think their olfactory senses have been traumatized that they can’t really tell anymore. That’s how I rationalize it.
Maybe the walkers two years in are more dessicated, more like jerky and less like moldy cantaloupes.
I didn’t catch what it said on the map that Morgan showed Daryl? What was that about?
Great! Now I can tell the fam that I’m singing a duet with GrumpyBunny.
You can get anything that you want
at Alexandria’s restaurant.
Walkers come in
It’s around the back
Just a half mile from the Terminus railroad track
(Yeah, it needs work.)
“Sorry I was an asshole. Come to Washington. The new world’s gonna need Rick Grimes.”
ISTR Abe wrote that after they had a spat and Abe’s team took off for Washington. Later Morgan found that map in the church.
Last season, Abe gave Rick the road map to their destination in DC. It said, “The new world’s gonna need men like RICK GRIMES!”
This map was abandoned at the church. Morgan found it there, and remembered the name as the man he’d met in the first few episodes back in Season 1, and again later after the death of his son. At that point, Morgan decided to head for DC and find Rick.
Later, he saves Aaron and Daryl from the horde of walkers, and when Daryl sees the map and Rick’s name on it, he apparently decides that an old friend of Rick’s must be a solid dude, and takes him back to Alexandria.
…where he walks in JUST as Rick is poppin’ a cap in Porch Dick…
Now that I think about it, I kind of feel sorry for the actor.
He signed on to play a drunk, unlikeable evil bastard whose destiny was to die. Actor probably knew that when he took the job.
But how would I feel about being known to a national audience as “Porch Dick?”
Daryl knew Abe Ford had left that very map at Gabrial’s church, asking Rick’s group to follow. “Sorry, I was an asshole. Come to Washington. The new world’s gonna need Rick Grimes.”
Daryl recognized the map, and had probably known about Morgan from Rick’s stories. The writers should have spent a little time explaining the connection.
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