The exact quote was “that’s how we were able to…”
My first reaction was that she was talking about the wolves, but I guess it could be referring to their escapades outside the wall as well.
These solo trips of Enid could also have been to leave information for the Wolves of course. In any case, enough reasons to tune in next week;).
It has appeared a few times - at Terminus, at Father Gabriel’s church, and drawn on Rick and Jessie’s hands by her son. From here:
Given that one of the early scenes in the episode was Sam sitting on Carol’s porch again, I think the suggestion is that Sam wrote it for some reason.
That’s industry standard. What usually happens is that the scenes at the beginning of the show are usually longer, since there is more exposition and setup, more dialogue. That makes the initial acts longer, which means the later acts need to be shorter. So when the action picks up and things start to get more exciting, there also has to be less time between breaks so it feels like the show is half commercials. I have seen shows where they let it get so unbalanced that at least one of the acts was no longer than the commercial breaks.
I was getting antsy when she was watching the wolves attack people, and holding back. I was thinking that sure, she was being smart by not exposing herself right off the bat, and would sneak around to find opportunities to snipe them without getting found and ganged up on. Then she started passing up opportunities to take single wolves unawares and I thought WTF? Having her then show up as a wolf so she could walk up and shoot them in the face was brilliant.
Yeah I believe my memory was wrong.
Separately, I meant to add in my original post but I really liked the opening of this episode. I would love short Vignettes about the other characters as well.
This is what earned it a Meh rating for me.
I took a couple-season hiatus from the show and figured I’d give it a shot.
But… no. The stupid, hand-wringing, emo fuck-ups who populate the post-apocalypse ruin it. Shouldn’t these folks have been eaten a long time ago? Can’t they be eaten now?
I dunno. That’s why they call it “drama,” as opposed to “mindless violence.” These people are in a very ugly situation, and their emotional turmoils and inner upset is one of the reasons we watch the show.
That being said, I think there’s a big difference between TWD’s Carol being upset about her lousy afternoon, and FTWD’s Travis basically being a big idiot.
Fantastic episode. Great from start to finish. I’d put this episode in contention for top 5 episodes of the whole series.
Complaining that a show has the normal amount of commercials is bizarre to me. It’s on a commercial network. Of course there are commercials.
As for stupid, hand-wringing, emo fuck-ups who should have been eaten long ago, yes, that’s the whole point of this season. Can such people, who survived almost entirely by luck, be acclimated to the post-apocalypse world?
I assume you’re just talking about the newer characters from Alexandria, but I’m talking about everyone. The only one who shows any survival capability in this episode is Carol. The rest of them couldn’t save themselves from a hot pot of coffee.
Take Rick’s son as an example… in an earlier season, the kid shot his own mother to prevent her from turning into a zombie. Now, presented with an attack from crazed berserkers, he injures one and then responds to “please don’t shoot me!” by walking into range for the guy to grab his rifle? :smack:
There are just no words for that level of stupidity. OK, it’s nice that he’s not Carol and not automatically going for the kill shot, but you do not just walk right up to an enemy combatant so they have a chance to grab your gun. Not in real life and sure as hell not in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.
So, yeah, if this was the coffee-apocalypse, every character would approach every container of liquid they found and pour it over their own head, just to see whether it was boiling hot coffee or not.
Smoking kills. So do Wolves. So does Carol. Get over it, Alexandria.
There seems to be a lot more Wolves than we were led to believe. :thumbsup writers:
Wolves attack took less than 1 hr 15 min, casserole-time. Timer turns clockwise (to the right for the analog-timepiece handicapped). One full turn plus a quarter more. Count-down is counter-clockwise - Ding!.
Morgan continues to chose to allow homicidal maniacs to live. If Morgan had killed the first two wolves he had encountered (last season), there would have been two less wolves when the wolves invaded Alexandria, but the wolves would still invade Alexandria. Morgan then let at least five Wolves escape alive, which means those five will be back.
Aaron could have retrieved his pack from the Wolves walker-boobie-trap at the food terminal. Daryl or Morgan could have gone to the far side to distract the walkers while Aaron retrieved the pack. That doesn’t mean that other wolves wouldn’t have found the backpack and found Alexandria eventually. Bad Aaron.
Make sure you got something worth dying for.
When Morgan was tying up the wolf he had wounded, the wolf said “we’re freeing you - you’re trapped” before Carol shot him. He said it calmly, like they should totally understand this. One of the others said something about how people don’t belong here anymore. So it sounds like this is some kind of cult. Considering the level of violence, maybe there are hallucinogenic drugs involved, akin to the drugging of child soldiers in Sierra Leone. They are also taking some prisoners. For sacrifices? Two of them slit the throat of one of their captives last season before setting him loose at the zombie trucks. They didn’t even try to loot anything so there is more going on than getting rid of rivals for resources or just killing for the fun of it.
It looked like Morgan was leaving the compound at the end. I wonder if he is going to try to find the guy with the gun or go somewhere to contemplate how his no-murder stance is working out?
I, too, found Carl’s idiocy rather telling. Not only will he not stay in the house, but he walks right up to a guy who, seconds ago, was trying to kill his neighbor? I’d like to give Carl more credit for this, but he seems to be the designated Idiot Ball character, even when he’s dissing his father for being too squishy.
On the other hand, I find Daryl’s character development interesting. He started out as a fairly ruthless guy, and second banana to his axe crazy brother, and has since actually developed into a much more caring and human person… albeit lethal with his crossbow, and not too shabby with a firearm, either. I can’t see him being dumb enough to come into grab range of a wounded enemy.
I am deathly curious about the clips we have seen where Daryl is tied up and someone is sticking a gun in his face. Wolves? Or someone else?
There do seem to be more on The Walking Dead. Perhaps there are more but shorter. I’ll keep track next time I edit an episode.
My take was this is the “new” Carl, gentrified by the Alexandrian influence and his desire to look less like a monster in the eyes of the girl (Enid?). The old Carl would have finished the wolf in a heartbeat and looked for more.
If this episode is about “having moments”, I’d say Carl had his when the wounded wolf grabbed his gun. I’ll be interested to see if he goes back to the old “kill them first” Carl now.
More action and much less exposition? What’s not to like? MUCH better episode. I see Nurse Zoey from “Nurse Jackie” has landed on her feet. I wish she wasn’t such a one-dimensional actor, though.
Enid didn’t lead the Wolves to Alexandria, they found the bag that recruiter dude lost with pictures of Alexandria in it. It provided lot’s of detail of the exterior and interior. Recruiter dude found it again on the dead body of one of the Wolves after the massacre.
Did Morgan kill the last guy who was hiding in the house? I assumed he had, but all the questions about if Morgan will ever learn his lesson make me think I might have misinterpreted that scene.
My interpretation was that Morgan realized that if he’d just killed the guy and his friend when he had the chance, Alexandria wouldn’t have been attacked, and quite a few people would still be alive. He then smashed the Wolf’s head with his staff, killing him.
Then, disgusted with himself and everyone else, he walked away, and possibly left Alexandria. However, I don’t think he’s leaving the show just yet. There’s more there…
I could be wrong, though. About any or all of this. If they wanted to get me to see the next episode, they’ve played their cards right.
Nah, one of the guys was surprised to see him, “you live here?” so they didn’t follow him. Boo on him for not killing them all. The stupid continues.
Well, no… as mentioned above, what BROUGHT them was the satchel full of photos that Recruiter Guy left in the car in the deathtrap
But Morgan saw and recognized this particular Wolf from the teaser of an episode last season where the guy had the drop on him… they had a conversation… and then Morgan clocked him and his buddy and left them trapped in a car surrounded with walkers.
I’m not sure why this is better than killing them, but they do seem to have escaped… and when Morgan realized that letting this guy live had killed others…
…well, I dunno. I guess we’ll have to wait to see what Morgan really thinks. It sure did look like Morgan crunched his head good, though.