The Walking Dead; 6.06 "Always Accountable" (open spoilers)

Thanks.
It was said by an actor that she had low blood sugar?

I was deathly curious how, in a world where civilization has collapsed and the dead walk, and it’s been that way for a year or two, how in hell there could be a viable source of insulin, much less a living diabetic who needs the stuff. Insulin can be made, but requires a working laboratory, power sources, and a herd of sheep. Somehow, this bunch don’t strike me as boffins or shepherds.

Girlfriend’s theory is that the voice on the radio WAS Glenn, which means that later on, Glenn will NOT be murdered by Negan.

My theory is that she is right; Negan will kill Morgan instead, because not only will it hammer down the futility of Morgan’s philosophy, but it will continue the tradition of killing off the show’s black cast members.

Bets?

I’ve only read the thread this far. We have to time-shift, so it’s kind of like I’m posting ‘live’. :stuck_out_tongue:

The insulin thing reminded me of Alas, Babylon. Since it’s a 1959 novel, I hop I’m not spoiling anything. There’s an incidental character who has diabetes. Since there is no electricity, she eventually dies because her insulin went bad without refrigeration. (This was in Central Florida.)

When I saw that Tina was insulin-dependent, I thought to myself that she’s a goner anyway. Assuming the insulin had survived – What? Two years? – it would be consumed and there would be no more. Tick-tock.

I’ve boxed what seems like a spoiler for future events from the comics, which should be boxed.

No, I don’t recall it being explicitly stated.

This has been bugging me. Tina (the diabetic) got killed by the two walkers in the greenhouse. so why did Darryl and meth head dig two graves? Seemed like they should have dug one (for Tina) or three. If those two walkers were such good friends of theirs, wasn’t Tina? She was the one laying down the flowers so if the walkers were close enough to the rest of the group to be worth burying, I’d think that Tina would be as well.

And you’d think that Darryl would be the one saying ‘you guys can dig, I’m gonna be going now’.

As I said upthread, “No good deed goes unpunished.”

Where do we get “meth head”?

Absolutely nowhere. Someone upthread called the guy a crackhead version of Matthew McConaughey and I ran with “meth heads” from there*. I probably shouldn’t have. I know the dead girl’s name is Tina. Let me see if I can figure out the other two…
It appears to be Dwight and Sherry. I don’t know if that was said in the show or if people got that from the comics. I only spent a few seconds on Google coming up with it (not that it really matters if it’s correct).
So, Tina (dead, diabetic), Dwight and Sherry are the three (well, two) that Darryl is probably going to be looking for to recover his crossbow from. What happens after that, I’m not sure.

*It was just an easier way to know who were talking about since we have one group, sort of split up, might be getting back together, but in the mean time, we have two new groups to talk about and we don’t know what to call them, but we have to give them different names so we can talk about them.

Maybe because one person usually digs one grave at a time. Two people digging = two graves first, then one later.

It was on the cooler that was in the bag Daryl took, it had a big sticker on it saying “Insulin, keep cool”.

If that’s actually the case, then it’s just, yet another case of really, really shitty editing in this episode.

“An actor saying she had low blood sugar” was not on a big sticker on the cooler.

Nah. Doesn’t need the TARDIS. All Glenn needs is a Sonic Screwdri … er … Sonic Sunglasses. :slight_smile:

Regardless, I agree with you.

I don’t remember if anyone said anything about low blood sugar or not, but there was a sticker on the cooler in the bag with Daryl’s crossbow. That, to me, was why he came back, to give them the cooler. Honestly I only remember the cooler because I rolled my eyes at the insulin still being good.

Kind of trivial, but was anyone else distracted by the hairstyle on Tina the Diabetic Girl?

As soon as I saw her the first time, I thought that hair cut (a bob? I know nothing about women’s hair) looked like something that would have to be maintained. Two years into the apocalypse, I doubt she would have hair that looked that stylish and neatly cut.

Just one of those things that kept distracting me when I wanted to focus on the storyline.

While you’re probably right. That’s one of those things to look past. TWD really falls apart if you start poking holes in it. It’s better to just accept what they give you as true.
Carol would need a trim at least once a month and have to be styled every morning to look like she does, same for Rick and Abraham. T-Dog would have needed to shave his head on a regular basis. The only person with realistic hair is Daryl. As much as I hate the Justin Beiber look, he’s been growing out his greasy hair and brushing it out of his eyes since the start of the show.

What was up with Abraham and the freak-out, or whatever it was when he climbed out on the fence to try to retrieve the RPG launcher from impaled soldier zombie?

And I had a hard time picturing the scenario in which impaled soldier zombie managed to impale himself on the fallen over, horizontal fence. Was he trying to climb over it for some reason, got impaled, and the fence later fell over?

Whatever Sasha said about not killing walkers just to kill them sunk in. That really was one that didn’t pose a threat. FTR, I’m still an advocate of killing any walker you can kill without putting yourself in danger. Any walker you dispatch is one less out there. People are having kids and a much reduced rate so there’s, more or less, a finite amount of people, and thus, walkers out there. Kill’em if you see 'em.

I couldn’t quite figure that out either.

A living person wouldn’t have been able to impale himself on a fencepost and a walker wouldn’t have been able to climb a fence, so it wouldn’t be that.

I think it was just another “cool looking walker” they [creators/writers/FX team etc] thought up and wanted to show off.

Not only that but the main plot, whatever that is by now, continues to stagnate. The trio that captured Daryl and whatever group they came from was just completely pointless.

And dammit, if Glenn is under that dumpster or not, if that’s his voice on the radio I may be done with the show (not really). There was no way - NO WAY! - for him to escape the predicament he was in without suffering fatal injury.