Robert Kirkman is on Talking Dead.
Aaccckkk! Carol: go girl!!
Poor Shiva, oh my!!
Holy shit, they certainly did not shy away from showing the amount of damage a 50 cal does to a human body. Of course it then turned into a pea shooter when hitting Rick’s Jeep…
Damn, Daryl and Rick, what a duo!
I’m not a cat person, but that was one of the hardest deaths to watch on the show. 
They sure focused a lot on those hazard waste barrels during that whole scene.
I thought it was a call out to the barrels in “Return of the Living Dead”. I think it was called trichlorethylene 2-4-6, which caused the dead to rise.
I actually yelled “NO!” at the TV. I didn’t even do that when Negan killed Glenn.
Through that whole sequence I kept wondering why they didn’t just smear blood and guts on themselves and get out of there. That’s what you do when you are trapped and facing a horde. Doesn’t everyone know that by now? The writers never should have introduced that as an escape plan if they aren’t going to use it in all those situations. Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m expecting The Walking Dead to be consistent. :smack:
I screamed like a teenager at the death of Shiva. And it was gory, too!
Shiva’s fate, and Ezekiel’s overconfidence getting a whole lot of Kingdomers killed, was very similar to the comic version. I’m always a bit surprised when the TV show does that.
I was thinking the same thing. If ever there was a time for the zombie guts routine, that was it.
It wasn’t really overconfidence, it was motivation. He explained it to Carol last episode, he had to act like everything was going to be fine for his people. What screwed them was that the 50 cals were in the wrong place from the info they had.
I hate to be the one to complain every Walking Dead thread, but the show is just wearing on me. It has jumped the shark. I wish they would announce that Season 9 is the last so I can start watching again knowing that some plot development will occur.
The show will not allow me to suspend disbelief. The main characters all have plot armor. I knew last week that Morgan wasn’t dead and I knew that Ezekiel was not going to die this week. To kill of a major character anymore, the show needs a season ending cliffhanger and a two hour Talking Dead episode to console everyone.
The “cover in walker guts” has also ruined the suspense for any horde and it pisses me off when characters don’t use it. The walkers are as harmless and as dangerous as the scene calls for.
The “are we just as bad as them if we do X” moral dilemma (with the characters swapping roles and sides) has grown tiresome.
Time to put this puppy to bed.
Shiva was probably the most liked recent character. If her original comic book reason for being there was to inspire Ezekiel through death, I think she earned a better fate. As we know, Judith died in the comics yet is still around the show.
I’m not really into shoot-outs for so many weeks in a row, nor the long-winded speeches. The war has a bunch of Red Shirts.
The walkers have been showed to be more dangerous lately, which means the writers remembered that they were taken for granted.
The tension between Jesus and the others over saving the Saviors is about the only interesting thing, although it is unoriginal and frustrating (Dale, Gabriel, Morgan). There seems to be a subtle split between Rick and Daryl as well after D killed the Saviors which Rick wanted alive.
I’m also in the category of being more sad about Shiva than I was about Abe/Glenn.
I did really enjoy seeing the King break down a bit - it will be interesting to see how/if he address the kingdom and if there’s going to be any tension in the ranks.
This episode was really, really bad. I love Bad-Ass Carol as much as the next guy, but this was just ridiculous. And the whole thing with 'King Ezekiel" was so drawn out I though the only redeeming feature of that arc would be his ultimate death. Instead, they kill the tiger in another ridiculous plot element. Did anyone notice that Carol didn’t have a scratch or spec of dirt on her?
That Savior guy with the age-ass machine gun must be the worst shot in the world the way he kept missing Rick and Daryl. Again, this is just action for action’s sake, and is not particularly interesting to watch.
And the way they kept showing the horde a few feet away form our “heroes”, only to have them set back 10 yards in the next scene was really irritating.
This is setting up to be the worst season of this show so far. Bad writers!!
Best episode of the season so far. Tightly plotted and I could understand what everyone was doing and why. Plus I have liked Ezekiel since he was introduced.
Poor Shiva, I knew she died in the comics but hoped maybe the show would keep her around.
ETA: I still feel bad for the horse from the pilot episode let alone Shiva. Those two deaths mean more than any human character did.
Wouldn’t the guts smeared over you, need to be old guts? Those were newly killed. I mean, say, stinky guts??
It seems to me that people in the show keep forgetting they are in the Zombie apocalypse. Only Carol double taps them in the head, everyone else acts as if the person they’ve just killed is finally dead. Repeatedly. Then shock they’re NOT!
Ezekiel should have woken up and went “Oh shit, stab heads, sorry pal, stab head…”
Tiger had to die, same way Wun Wun had to die, and how Ghost has barely been seen in two seasons: Costs too much…