The Wolf had no idea the town was over run by walkers IIRC. He was using the doc as a hostage to leave Alexandria. He thought he was going outside to deal with Alexandrians, not a herd of walkers.
I’d also like to point out that Tara and the Doc had a bit of a “thing” a few episodes back, so that may be why she handed over her gun so quickly.
Early on Rick had a hard time and barely survived a horde *inside *a tank. Nowadays, Glen survives a horde first laying underneath his hate-friend protégé getting ripped apart, then underneath a garbage container on wheels, all while screaming his lungs out.
Yeah, but why didn’t he kill everyone before running out? Two were passed out, one had a gun to her head and two had just given up their guns for absolutely no reason.
Because then they’d be dead. The writers wanted the Wolf to escape, but not to lose 5 main characters, so they had the character they established as an unrepentant murder cultist murder no one and quietly exit stage left.
Related: TWD writers aren’t very good at plotting.
But sometimes they are very good at plodding!
When I said out of character I meant the character, not the writers. This is episode was very in character for the writers.
It must be a nice crutch, knowing that a third of each episode is allocated to zombie-gore-effect-of-the-week, and sweaty monologues about Who We Are and How Things Are Now…the rest is filler.
I figured, just grousing at a lousy (half) finale to a disappointing (half) season. Apologies. Someday I’ll learn that this show does premieres better than it does anything else, and stop hoping for sustained improvement.
You’re joking right? I watched the pilot of Z Nation but couldn’t get over the godawful acting.
There’s a reason The Walking Dead is the top-rated show on cable (with this week’s episode scoring a rating in the 18-49 demographic higher than even Monday Night Football, and an overall 14 million viewers). Sure it has some good gore and effects, but it’s also a really well-acted, character-driven show. It isn’t meant to be an answer to “what’s the most efficient way of dispatching lots of zombies?” It’s about these characters coping with an unimaginable nightmare every day, that for them never ends. Yeah, sometimes that means taking liberties with practical logistics and situations that end up being a little too convenient, and characters doing “stupid” things that are easy to criticize while sitting in a comfortable armchair and not actually fighting for one’s life. While I wouldn’t defend every instance of that (like Glenn, which I agree was too much suspension of disbelief), on the whole it’s not nearly as outrageous as some make it out to be either. It’s not the point of the show, so getting hung up on those little details is missing the point.
Let us hope that when Morgan wakes up, he says, “You should have killed him.”
:dubious:
If you stopped at the pilot, you very likely deprived yourself of hours of solid entertainment, though of course personal standards vary.
There are probably numerous reasons, including viewer indifference to plot quality. But hey, that indifference hasn’t impacted the porn industry, either.
I don’t think I’m “hung up” as such, but I do intend to keep mocking the show for its stupidities because that helps make up for the deficits in its writing, bringing the aggregate entertainment value to a level sufficient to justify the time invested in watching and commenting. That entertainment value is the show’s only point, as far as I’m concerned, and this is true of all fictional television shows and films.
As for Glenn’s survival, I said it earlier: yeah, whatever.
Add me to the list that they should have shot the wolf in the head.
Thirty one seconds into this John Wayne montage.
I think he was wounded, running on adrenaline and his only thought was to escape. Keep in mind, during the Wolves attack, he hid in Morgan’s house. I don’t think he has any idea as to how many wolves are still alive and whether or not they were killed during the attack.
I think his main focus is to get out of Alexandria with his hostage, meet up with his pack, then plot another attack on Alexandria. It’s at that point that he’ll “kill everyone” like he told Morgan.
Also - perhaps he was conserving ammo in order to use it outside if he had to.
Yeah, but the people he was out with came home without him and they were concerned that he never gave a signal that he said he would. That’s why she was upset after such a short time. I’m sure hormones didn’t help.
Getting under the dumpster was a little bit of a stretch, I’ll grant, but once under, he stabbed the nearest zombies in the head and used them to hide from the rest of the horde, which I actually thought was a pretty clever move by the writers. A slightly different yet similar take on zombie camouflage and pets keeping walkers at bay.
Considering zombies just tore down a church, I can’t accept underneath a dumpster as adequate shelter, sorry.
Walkers didn’t tear down anything. The tower fell because of the damage it sustained from the molotov cocktail fire and when the Wolf drove the semi truck into it.
Underneath a dumpster and behind several dead zombies shielding him.
You can believe that zombies have risen from the dead and are roaming the earth, but not that Glen could have found that hiding place in light of all of his previous experience escaping all manner of dire situations? To each his or her own I suppose.
A very good point, Sir or Madame.
You can accept the basic premise of a story and still expect the writer(s) to act consistently and fairly within the world they’ve created. Otherwise, sci-fi, fantasy and horror wouldn’t exist.
TWD is plagued by lazy and bad writing.
Glen has always been shown to be a very savvy survivor. He’s come away from quite a few situations that almost resulted in his death throughout the duration of the show. From the first time we meet him in season one he’s shown to be quite adept at surviving this world. All of a sudden you find it hard to believe that he found a way out of yet another dire situation?
Its totally consistent with Glen’s character as depicted thus far.
If they showed Eugene escaping such a situation like that, then that would be inconsistent.