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Rick and the group are still having trouble assimilating into Alexandria. Will a new threat bring them closer together or drive them further apart?
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Season 6 starts tonight with a 90 minute episode followed by Talking Dead.
See what happens when you throw shit in the quarry!
My money on the person honking the horn being Father Gabriel.
I liked it, but the switching between black & white and colour was really annoying. I would’ve preferred if the episode happened in chronological order. I really like that were getting to swarms of zombies piling up on each other ala WWZ (book, not movie). 
Loved it! Holy shit, there was a lot of great stuff in that episode. I kinda dug the time jumping, and the black/white and color technique.
One of the best episodes of the entire series, methinks. Enjoyed the mechanics of walker herdin’.
Hyah! Get along little zombies!
With that said, they kind of over-telegraphed what was going to happen to skeptical plaid-shirt guy, and once again pulled the bit where a zombie is somehow invisible as long as it’s off-camera.
Why didn’t they just fire bomb the quarry? They also could have used a truck and had a couple of people in the back shooting walkers. This way they would have had more noise and they would have had taken out at least a few hundred of them.
I liked it, far more then any of the Fear the Walking Dead shows. Took me a bit to figure out why they were going from B&W to color.
Yep. One of the best of the entire series. I thought Gabriel as the horn blower too, but is that too obvious?
Man, the stark contrast between this world and FTWD was palpable. Just really makes Fear feel dull and slow.
Agreed. One of the best episodes of the series. I liked the way Rick nixed the Father Gabriel idea out of hand.
I would have given more thought to killing them in the quarry instead of the ridiculously dangerous plan they came up with.
The length of the commercials are getting ridiculous. Yay! One and a half hour episode? 11 minutes of action, the rest commercials.
I had thought about the logistics of taking care of them in the pit, but there must’ve been ~100,000 of them. Yet, short of dive bombing them or napalm, how could it be done?
I agree that it was one of the best episodes of the series. The depiction of the mass of walkers was really effective. It was also great to see them taking on a challenge and depicting the planning, execution and troubleshooting. Instead of the usual hamfisted and plodding character development, they showed how it is possible to have a large number of characters get attention and also advance their own arcs efficiently within the context of an interesting episode narrative. That is so out of character for this writing team that it really is worth taking note of and giving them kudos for pulling off.
With that said, this was an insanely stupid, convoluted, hairbrained scheme that should have been the last option. It doesn’t make a lick of sense, especially when it doesn’t involve leading the walkers directly away from Alexandria. It also doesn’t make much sense how the camp could have confined so many walkers for so long in such a large space with just a few tractor trailers.
I also didn’t like how easy it was to keep all the walkers on the road, and to draw them back with a little gunfire. Especially at the point where the guy is screaming and bleeding, and there are walkers who were through the treeline and could see Rick and company. A few gunshots would teat them away from live meat?
Still, the strengths of the episode finally made it posible to suspend disbelief for the dumb parts.
It was pretty obvious that Carter was going to be Walker lunch, no?
Good episode, with lots of tension and great dialog. Carol is still Ms. Junior League. Love it.
Excellent episode, though I too found the black and white and the commercials towards the end to be a bit much as well. Guess with a show that popular, they need to make money off it.
I think Carter’s idea of just reinforcing the quarry to be the best one. OK, so more zombies show up—keep building the wall higher and higher and stronger as they arrive. It’s now part of the daily routine.
I think Rick’s idea, while there was logic to it, was too risky and it looks like its going to blow up in his face at the end.. I kept asking myself, where are the walkers going to go, and how can your guarantee they won’t swarm up and come back? At least with the quarry you know where they are and can control them.
BTW, fire bombing won’t work, I think it was the Guv who tried burning the zombies in a trench and they still lived.
As for the horn, its a head scratcher. Gabriel and Deanna are my top picks, though maybe someone from the mysterious Wolves is behind it? Theres also the Porch-douche’s kid, who would have motivation to discredit Rick as well.
Enjoyed it but had company over and there was conversation throughout. My fault, really for being so engaging and interesting.
But Ethan Embry is a C list actor, isn’t he? Don’t mean that as any sort of insult. I thought he’d have a presence this season. I thought it was strange that he was just a one-time character.
On Talking Dead though he seemed like he was desperate to be on the show and would take any part.
I was trying to see if there were any continuity errors in the number of bandages Rick had in the B&W vs the Color scenes, but I lost track. Anyone else try to key in on that? I did see that he was down to just 1 in the last B&W scene, so if he had more than one in the first Color scenes, that would be an oops.
I was semi-keeping track. The face band-aids diminished as the B&W scenes went on, as far as I could tell.
To be honest, I found all those band-aids on his face to look quite comical at first.
It had a real Marv from Sin City vibe.
Cutting the episode in half and telling the first half in flashback was very effective for opening with a sense of disorientation about what was going on. That was resolved pretty quickly, though. Usually telling large segments of narrative out of sequence like that is effective when there is some tension to resolve in both pieces, or when success with the contemporaneous portion relies on some achievement in the flashback piece that remains unclear until the end. Here, there really wasn’t much point and after the first five minutes it became a bit tedious and felt more like an affectation than anything else.
Many, perhaps most, would survive, but they would be a lot less mobile and much less of a threat.
It’s the Wolves.
Given the Wolves involvement towards the end of last season, it makes sense more than someone from Alexandria doing it. We see from their trap last season that they like using zombies as weapons.
I think the Wolves also found Aaron’s bag after he and Daryl were rescued from the trap by Morgan. The bag had at least the pictures of Alexandria that Aaron used in the recruiting, probably more.
That’s what I was thinking!