I don’t know that Glenn being alive is so much lazy writing as it was manipulative. I don’t think for a moment did I believe they killed him off, but the outcry about it all was pretty extreme. And I think the producers knew it would elicit such a reaction.
Pretty anticlimactic with Glenn living. But I would have left Enid out there. OK, brat, you go get yourself killed. Or worse. I’m getting my ass back to Alexandria!!
Not ‘trapped’, and not ‘surrounded’. It was more like…
Yeah, that. I don’t need to see it. I have an imagination, which is not unaccustomed to exercise.
It looks like my prediction that the writers want to turn Glenn into the Kenny McCormick (or Rory Williams from NuWho) of TWD is true
New rule in TWD drinking game, shout “Oh my god, they killed Glenny” and take a drink whenever Glenn gets killed
Wow! That’s impressive. You’re like my hero or something. What are you even doing watching tv when you have an imagination!?!
The rest of us - those of us without imaginations - kind of feel like bullshit is going on when the people who make up a show or write a book set up a predicament and then just have the protagonist show up later on. But we, unlike someone with your superpower, take in other people’s storytelling instead of just imagining our own.
Loved the episode. Loved the tension building between Morgan, Rick, Carol and Michonne. I’m really looking forward to seeing how Daryl, Abe and Sasha’s return plays out with the herd moving in through the broken wall. Glenn and Maggie’s reunion should be fun to watch as well.
I actually thought the way Glenn survived was pretty smart. He stabbed the walkers that were trying to get at him and their corpses actually provided a barrier to protect him from the rest of the herd.
I have not watched the episode but accidentally found out Glenn’s fate on social media. And I hate it. I mean, I didn’t want to kill the character, but he was in an absolutely impossible situation. Impossible! I don’t care how you tell me he did it, he could not in any realistic way have escaped unbitten.
Imagine I’d actually said what you’re insinuating…hang on, you have. That puts you in the second class of people I referenced: those with an imagination, but unaccustomed to using it. Indeed, you object to using it, it seems. You can’t even imagine taking in the storytelling of others and imagining your own for the bits they didn’t waste time and effort spelling out for you.
There really wasn’t a ‘predicament’. Rick was neither ‘trapped’ nor ‘surrounded’ - it’s not that hard to imagine/assume that he stepped out of the open door and legged it away from the scattered, shambling [del]horde[/del] bunch.
I’m pretty sure the last scene was the RV completely overrun by walkers.
It wasn’t that many.
The last scene was a massive horde on the left side of the RV approaching the road heading past it toward Alexandria. A small amount had made it as far as the road, and a few had already gone past the road/RV still heading toward Alexandria.
It would be trivially easy and painfully obvious for Rick to step out the door and start hoofing it.
They were not surrounding the RV, or paying any attention to the RV at all.
OK- thanks for clarifying.
Agree, that wasn’t something I’d though of to do. Scoot under the dumpster as the zombies were busy devouring what’s-his-face, then create zombie insulation all around you until they wander off and you’re out.
I bought it.
I didn’t think they wandered off, i thought Enid distracted them. You could see a can rolling by behind them and them slowly turn around and go after it, that couldn’t have happened randomly.
First, that doesn’t make any sense. Why would they be ignoring the RV, since Rick just fired a bunch of handgun shots and then automatic weapons, killing a bunch of people? The walkers suddenly aren’t drawn to loud sounds and dying people?
Secondly, the episode ended with shots looking out of the RV windows to the horde approaching it, and then an overhead shot of the horde approaching. See screen shots here:
It’s clear that the horde would prevent any easy exit from the passenger side. I don’t honestly remember if there was a driver side door on this RV, but most don’t have one, right? Perhaps he broke out a driver’s side window or maybe there was a roof escape.
However, if the implication wasn’t supposed to be that Rick was in peril, why have the shots from inside the RV looking at the approaching horde outside, and then go to the expense of the overhead shot to indicate just how many walkers there were around the RV? What is the storytelling there, and why set all that up just to say “Well, it’s obvious that he would get out of there, and just how he did it”? It makes no sense.
I they cut thirty seconds of Rick leaving the RV, they have another thirty seconds to sell advertising. 
It was a few walkers beginning to come out of the tree line towards the R.V. Describing it as a “horde” or “surrounded” is dramatic license to say the least.
Yes, and someone corrected me and I thanked them for clarifying my faulty memory.
My apologies. I had started my reply and got distracted with work. Came back, hit submit, and missed the other responses.
Don’t watch any early Jean-Luc Godard films! 