A group having a funny language doesn’t surprise me at all. It doesn’t take generations. Making your own language is one of the simplest ways of forming bonds and closeness.They don’t talk that way because they don’t know any better; they talk that way to declare they are one of the group vs. people outside the group.
My guess is that Jadis’s odd Mad Max type society is just another version of what Ezekiel is doing with the Kingdom. She latched onto something that works, keeps people in line and has a loose cultural reference that people can understand and follow. She could probably talk and act normally in private if needed.
That episode was garbage, literally. I hated every moment of it.
Not only was it filler, but pointless filler. How did all the emos end up at the dump together? The stupid verbal quirks, that pointless dance of forming the two circles around Rick’s group, that trial by spiky walker…sheesh. All of Gabrielle’s lines were so much the writer talking and not the character. Rick’s character was sent right off the rails having to grin like an idiot while the emos waved their hands in the air.
And when they went to the “up up up” posing like a comic book panel there where everyone could see them and then pushing Rick into what must have looked like his death to Michonne. Conveniently there was a pipe there so there was some filmsy excuse for her not launching into a killing frenzy when she sees Rick pushed to his presumable death.
We didn’t learn anything about this new group.
EMO “We’ve been eating from cans and staying hidden.”
RICK “Wow, no wonder we’re not making any progress in the zombie apocalypse, we’ve spent all this time waiting patiently in the drive through lane at the burger shack!!!”
EMO “We need guns.”
RICK “So do we. Remember how I told you that guy Negan keeps taking all our stuff. I thought you said you were some kind of super scavenger.”
EMO “Sometimes the cans make our tummies hurt. And nobody has had a tetanus booster in a long time. Which is really, really dangerous considering where we live.”
EMO “We waited long at the boat.”
RICK “Really? The canoe was right there. Took me like ten seconds to figure it out.”
EMO “We were busy scavenging for matching outfits and hair products for everyone. You don’t think THIS just happens do you?”
They dialed the stupid up to eleven on this one.
I’m fanwanking it as them living in a waste dump for several years, drinking lead and mercury infused well water from the dump. Heck, they probably flavor their food with lead paint chips 
I just love when two people are standing there pointing weapons at each other and talking .
This show is getting worse and worse.
Watching The Talking Dead now. The Dead Live Quiz just confirmed that it was ‘the exact same truck’ used in Smokey And The Bandit. How cool is that? 
I was almost getting a Pakled vibe off Ms. NotaRomulan…
“We look for things…we look for things that make us go”
I agree. The writers are building drama. Not every episode can be a blockbuster with a side order of 4th of July fireworks.
Daryl couldn’t tell the already depressed Carol that any more of her friends had died. Carol had fled because she couldn’t stand losing any more loved ones. She’ll be back to her ol’ self in another episode or two.
The new group, the collectors(?), act like a hive. Bees who won’t expend any more energy than they absolutely have to, which is not very bee-like actually. When they filed thru the entrance of the junkyard central courtyard, they reminded me of cockroaches wandering around aimlessly. Until they formed up in two circles around their new hostages. The hand signals are an interesting twist. Silent and effective. Good for stealth operations. Plus the new language is difficult for others to decipher.
Ya know, that’s as good an explanation as any.
Considering the filler accusation, it is indeed possible that the writers wrote the first and last episodes of the season, the revolt begins and the revolt succeeds, and needed something to put in between.
:dubious: Has it really been 5 years in-universe since the zombie apocalypse? I know they’ve been really vague about the passage of time, but I was thinking it’s only been about 2-3 years.
Corrrrel was about 10 when the show started.
Is there some reason people keep calling Gabriel Gabrielle in this thread?
What is the optimal way to create an armored zombie? Do you trap it, risking getting bit? Or do you take some random guy, and kill him either during or after putting the equipment on?
Wait, so we’re buying Gabriel’s story about getting jumped by a Garbage Goth pissed she didn’t get the boat stuff so Gab just packs up all of Alexandria’s stuff and goes with the Goths?
Doesn’t make much sense.
Pretty sure it’s only been two years since the apocalypse, child actor aging in real time notwithstanding.
Googling “Walking Dead timeline” brings up this article which says that when Beth was killed at the end of season 5, it was 514 days after the apocalypse first broke.
According to Talking Dead it was the real deal. Pretty cool!
Yep.
As I understand it, Gabriel was on guard duty and failed to do his job. Gabe was captured by the new group (Collectors? Garbage Goths? Trash-collecting bees?) and taken by force to the dump/home/HQ of the new group. The new group also looted all of the Alexandria stores.
That’s the writer’s story and they’re sticking to it. 
Gabriel sure didn’t look to be operating under duress when he was cleaning stuff out. Especially since he climbed down from his post in the tower to go get the supplies.