# The Walking Dead; 8.13 "Do Not Send Us Astray" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178 "2018-03-25T23:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/21 "2018-03-26T17:47:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Knowing that anyone who dies turns, I would think there would be a 24 hour armed guard around anyone who was injured or ill. Exactly. Or just isolate them so they can’t get up in the middle of the night and start eating everyone. Really, at this point they should know that they live in a world where all it takes is someone to die in the middle of the night from a heart attack or falling down some stairs or whatever and now there’s a zombie in the house. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/22 "2018-03-26T17:50:21Z")
The violence made up for the stupidity. It’s still a zombie story, after all. I’ve already made the decision to overlook a lot of bad writing. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/23 "2018-03-26T18:03:52Z")
I thought Maggie looked a bit shaky. What’s the deal with Rick and Michonne. She’s gonna die because our Hero Rick can’t have a lasting love interest. That and her movie career is taking off. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/24 "2018-03-26T18:10:39Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Exactly. Or just isolate them so they can’t get up in the middle of the night and start eating everyone. > Really, at this point they should know that they live in a world where all it takes is someone to die in the middle of the night from a heart attack or falling down some stairs or whatever and now there’s a zombie in the house. An advantage of the prison was that they could lock themselves into individual cells at night. They’ve already done that. Just some of the bad writing that doorhenge refers to. ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/25 "2018-03-26T18:11:26Z")
Is it just me or did Hilltop pick the worst location to put their graveyard? Need to run down from the rear watch tower to inform somebody about something you saw? Careful not to trip over the gravestones. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/26 "2018-03-26T18:21:38Z")
I thought the graveyard was a little small for the amount of killing that went on. I noticed one thing when the zombies first came in the big house I heard a baby crying. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/27 "2018-03-26T18:38:39Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I thought the graveyard was a little small for the amount of killing that went on. > I noticed one thing when the zombies first came in the big house I heard a baby crying. It was that baby they “found” in the savior compound they attacked, which they basically decided to keep for themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/28 "2018-03-26T19:38:49Z")
I thought this episode was okay but “Dopey Kid does something Dopey” is a a well this show has gone to a few too many times. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/29 "2018-03-26T19:59:06Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I thought this episode was okay but “Dopey Kid does something Dopey” is a a well this show has gone to a few too many times. That plus the whole funneling in through a choke point like lemmings when they’ve previously shown they had enough heavy fire power to level all of Alexandria and then standing in a big clump when going towards the house just drove me nuts. The Saviors go from unstoppable to utterly incompetent depending on what the episode needs, it is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/30 "2018-03-26T20:25:11Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I thought this episode was okay but “Dopey Kid does something Dopey” is a a well this show has gone to a few too many times. As soon as Carol said “stay in the house Henry”, I thought we had a new Carl. And he did not disappoint. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/31 "2018-03-26T20:43:02Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > As soon as Carol said “stay in the house Henry”, I thought we had a new Carl. And he did not disappoint. Come the real Zombie Apocalypse, we’ll have to kill all the children if we wish to survive. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/32 "2018-03-26T20:53:07Z")
On the other hand I liked the battle scenes. They were exciting to watch. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/33 "2018-03-26T21:18:14Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > As soon as Carol said “stay in the house Henry”, I thought we had a new Carl. And he did not disappoint. Did Carl do monumentally stupid things other than shoot a kid for the hell of it? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/34 "2018-03-26T21:39:05Z")
So the cut Rick had that conspicuously got referred to twice this episode, was it from Lucille? I thought I heard a bat-thunk sound when he ran into the house after Negan, only to be met with a swing… But yeah, I don’t really see how infectious zombie guts fit with the reality of the show as we’ve seen it so far. They spent entire seasons covered in zombie guts and various wounds, and this only now comes up? And what is it they’re dying of anyway? They already have the virus, after all. Or is this supposed to be the extra viral load that tips them over the edge? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/35 "2018-03-26T22:26:48Z")
I am not sure they know. Eugene has some ‘splaining’ to do. ETA…Morgan, one of my favorite characters is gonna run away, alas… ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/36 "2018-03-26T23:19:52Z")
Re: Commercials for next season of Fear How can Morgan change shows? It’s set on the other side of the continent in a world without much in the way of transit and also set a few years in the past from when the main show is currently set… Makes no sense… unless there’s a time jump. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/37 "2018-03-26T23:21:56Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Knowing that anyone who dies turns, I would think there would be a 24 hour armed guard around anyone who was injured or ill. Or everyone not 100% sure to survive wounds/illness gets kept in hard restraints overnight. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/38 "2018-03-27T01:33:27Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Or everyone not 100% sure to survive wounds/illness gets kept in hard restraints overnight. I’d prefer both. When did Dwight shoot Tara? We watched it and fast forwarded through “Terror” on Comcast and didn’t see it. The last we saw of her was arguing (again) with Darryl inside a building at Hilltop. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/39 "2018-03-27T01:46:53Z")
At the big shoot out that was Maggies plan in action. Tara was beside a car and shooting a gun toward Simon and Dwight. Simon had an axe and Dwight had a crossbow. Simon started after her with bloody axe, And Dwight said I got it and shot her in the shoulder. Remember they have no fire power because they were only supposed to infect every one not kill per N egan’s order. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178/40 "2018-03-27T01:53:16Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > At the big shoot out that was Maggies plan in action. Tara was beside a car and shooting a gun toward Simon and Dwight. Simon had an axe and Dwight had a crossbow. Simon started after her with bloody axe, And Dwight said I got it and shot her in the shoulder. Remember they have no fire power because they were only supposed to infect every one not kill per N egan’s order. Thanks. The credits rolled after the graveyard scene on comcast, and we had an hour of “Terror”. All I can think of is that I scheduled Terror despite talking Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) out of watching it, “Because everybody dies.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-8-13-do-not-send-us-astray-open-spoilers/811178.md?page=3)