# "The Walking Dead"; Episode 4:1 tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138 "2013-10-13T14:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/121 "2013-10-16T16:51:02Z")
I’m waiting for the reveal that shows Rick listening to music on his earphones… and his earphones aren’t plugged into anything. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/122 "2013-10-16T19:13:18Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I will admit that when Rick found the buried 1911 handgun and magazine in the garden plot, I was hoping the producers wouldn’t have him do something stupid with it like, oh, I don’t know, slap the mag in, chamber a round and fire at a zombie with it, seeing as the barrel was likely obstructed by dirt, and the gun would end up catastrophically self-disassembling in his hand (colloquially referred to in the gun world as a “Kaboom”) > > Thankfully, even though the characters may be stupid, they’re not \* THAT\* stupid, the weapons consultant did their job on this one… [nitpick] Yes - but he didn’t clear the chamber. I am taking a wild guess that this was because of the actor’s unfamiliarity with guns.[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/123 "2013-10-16T19:53:38Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I’m waiting for the reveal that shows Rick listening to music on his earphones… and his earphones aren’t plugged into anything. …and he’s listening to “All along the watchtower”… …all this has happened before, it will happen again… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/124 "2013-10-16T19:57:45Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > [nitpick] Yes - but he didn’t clear the chamber. I am taking a wild guess that this was because of the actor’s unfamiliarity with guns.[/nitpick] True, after all, he still insists on using that stupid and ineffective “broken wrist” grip on his Colt Python .357 Magnum, it’s a wonder he can hit anything at all with that grip ---
**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:** [October 16, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/125 "2013-10-16T20:08:41Z")
Did he try to work the side and see that it was stuck? ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/126 "2013-10-16T20:49:16Z")
He did not attempt to work the slide. A very small nitpick but you know we all watch and enjoy the show differently 🙂 I attribute the limp wrist grip to be a product of how the scenes are filmed. When they do the shots of Rick facing the camera, a more realistic grip would obscure his face more. It bugs but I can give that a pass. Not clearing the chamber is just bad safety. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/127 "2013-10-16T21:18:12Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Not clearing the chamber is just bad safety. And then he threw it into the wheel barrow. I thought they just put that in to show that he has taken a strange dislike to having firearms about. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/128 "2013-10-16T22:27:04Z")
I’ve only scanned the thread, so forgive me if I missed it, but did anyone else watch the brief preview of next week’s episode on TALKING DEAD? I’ll spoiler-box it just to be safe: Supposedly it was the very first scene of the episode, and it showed an unseen person with a flashlight at the fence in the middle of the night, quite deliberately feeding a rat to a walker. I assumed, watching it, that it was one of the remarkably stupid kids Carl was chastising for naming the walkers in the season premiere, and that possibly this has been going on for a while, explaining the growth of walkers at the fence. Thoughts, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/129 "2013-10-16T23:40:18Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’ve only scanned the thread, so forgive me if I missed it, but did anyone else watch the brief preview of next week’s episode on TALKING DEAD? I’ll spoiler-box it just to be safe: > > Supposedly it was the very first scene of the episode, and it showed an unseen person with a flashlight at the fence in the middle of the night, quite deliberately feeding a rat to a walker. I assumed, watching it, that it was one of the remarkably stupid kids Carl was chastising for naming the walkers in the season premiere, and that possibly this has been going on for a while, explaining the growth of walkers at the fence. > > Thoughts, anyone? I agree. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/130 "2013-10-17T00:40:06Z")
I predict it’s one character you’d never expect… It’s either Rick, Daryl, or Michonne… I’m thinking Rick, after effects of his trip to Crazytown ---
**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:** [October 17, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/131 "2013-10-17T01:40:49Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I predict it’s one character you’d never expect… > > It’s either Rick, Daryl, or Michonne… > > I’m thinking Rick, after effects of his trip to Crazytown I’ve gotten lost. What are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/132 "2013-10-17T01:54:16Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I’ve gotten lost. > What are you talking about? He’s talking about the someone doing something in the preview for next week. Keep up! 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 17, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/133 "2013-10-17T02:13:47Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > He’s talking about the someone doing something in the preview for next week. Keep up! 🙂 Sorry, I had my ear buds on. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/134 "2013-10-17T02:28:17Z")
Were they plugged in? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/135 "2013-10-17T02:57:54Z")
> [@Glazer](#): > > Were they plugged in? Plugged in? Plugged into what? ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/136 "2013-10-17T03:16:32Z")
Did anyone notice that the twitchy damsel-in-distress was played by Kerry Condon (Octavia in HBO’s ROME)? I had to IMDB it. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/137 "2013-10-17T05:49:24Z")
I think you guys have kinda answered my question about why I watch this damn show. At least half of the reason must be to figure out ways to stop the zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/138 "2013-10-17T06:06:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Plugged in? > Plugged into what? Sorry, it was a reference to a post up thread. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/139 "2013-10-17T22:32:41Z")
> [@Glazer](#): > > Sorry, it was a reference to a post up thread. [Fog Horn Leghorn]That was a joke, Son, I say, that was a joke.[/Fog Horn Leghorn] ---
**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:** [October 17, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138/140 "2013-10-17T22:35:39Z")
> [@wedgehed](#): > > Did anyone notice that the twitchy damsel-in-distress was played by Kerry Condon (Octavia in HBO’s ROME)? I had to IMDB it. I’d do her, after I took the knife away and she had a bath. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-episode-4-1-tonight/671138.md?page=8)