"The Walking Dead"; Episode 4:1 tonight

Ooh, sabotage! Someone on the inside wants everyone dead! Someone from Woodbury?

I’m guessing it’s the bratty girl who insistent on naming them.

Apparently Rick has a problem even carrying a gun now, i could easily see him having a problem with teaching the children to fight.

YAY! The Walking Darryl is back!

Some thoughts;

  1. Teaching the kids about fighting walkers. Rick wants the kids to stay kids a while. He wanted the same thing for Carl and that didn’t happen. I think he still thinks that’s the way to go. However, since there is now a Council and Rick doesn’t make all the rules they must agree with this, with the exception of Carol.

  2. Nothing was probably thought about sick kid because he seemed the wimpy/sickly type anyway and no one was expecting and young person to drop dead. His squeamishness and wanting to leave the class was attributed to his wimpiness and not potential mutant zombie virus. Of note, is the fact that he was serving food to others so if it’s not in the water or the air, it could be the food.

  3. New black guy is an alcoholic who, if he does not get eaten by new zombie kid will end up blaming himself for what happened in the store and head into Crazy Rick territory.

  4. Rick not carrying a gun. He started thinking of the walkers as people or at least that they were once people. This is why he didn’t finish off the woman or her head man.

  5. DARRYL

I’d hate to see it go that way. Your everyday virulent disease is horrifying enough in that situation when you don’t have drugs or any way of containing it. But I guess that wouldn’t lead to enough conflict and this isn’t “Contagion”. :smiley:

You think that’s the reason he doesn’t want the kids learning to kill walkers, and why he has stopped killing them himself? I think it’s more of a case that he’s just tired of all the killing. Actually, I don’t quite get what’s going on with Rick - he’s really not himself these days.

Maybe Darryl is the carrier. He licked his fingers before shaking New Dead Kid’s hand.

They’re doing a lot of product placement for Sweetwater.

I’d be a recovering alcoholic for about as long as it took me to get a bottle open. I know, it’d be a bad idea to have people stumbling around drunk but still… who knows how long you’re going to live in that environment anyway? Besides, booze kills germs, so it would help prevent water borne disease. :slight_smile:

Will someone give Darryl a haircut? Please?

Rick hasn’t been himself for a long time. I think he’s tired of the killing, yes, but I think he has also started seeing the walkers as something other than just something which must be killed.

I guess we’re all doomed then. Oh well.

I just remembered something that bugged me. Hershel is a veterinarian who also had a farm, if one of the farm animals wasn’t acting right why not have have Hershel look at it? Seems like Hershel only came out to give Rick a lesson on tomatoes and carrying his gun.

I was hopping Miss Piggy would get up as a zombie.

Teaaaaaaaa daaaaaaaawwwwwwggggg!!!

So, is it me or did the regular crew get better looking over the hiatus? They all have nice haircuts, and Darryl even seems to have had some eye work. Apocalypse life doesn’t seem so bad…

Yeah, I thought that was just stupid. That, and Rick going off alone in the woods. Why would anyone go off by himself / herself in the zombie apocalypse? It just seems reckless to the point of idiocy.

So, the department store roof could withstand a helicopter crashing on to it. But the moment the wine rack collapsed, the roof couldn’t hold 100 lb walkers?

Piss poor writing there. You can’t bend the laws of physics just cause you want it to rain walkers.

They didn’t necessarily cover it well, but they did cover it. They showed water dripping down onto the shelves in that area, showing that the roof there was rotting out. Then the noise of the rack falling over caused the walkers to head over to that section, and it’s raining zombies.

Why no zombie had walked over there before is a bit of plot magic, but the writers made the effort.

Better question is, how’d the zombies get on the roof to start with?

Ah, I do recall the guy getting dripped on before the shelf collapsed. But it is a bit of a stretch.

Were I a writer, I would have put a huge skylight over the wine rack. The noise summons the walkers. They all climb up on the glass and once there’s enough weight, it collapses and rains zombies in spectacular fashion. Now you get 100’s of geeks on the floor. Chaos ensues and you don’t annoy your watchers.

Or maybe you just don’t annoy me. I don’t know if anyone else was bothered by that. Regardless, it was a magic roof. There’s no flat asphalt roof that would have as thin of sheeting as that one did. And even if the sheeting was rotten, the weight of the asphalt is orders of magnitude greater than rotting corpses. If it had deteriorated enough to collapse, the whole roof would have come down - not just 4’X4’ sections under the walkers.

I gotta work on my suspension of disbelief. We are watching a zombie show, afterall.

They were passengers on the heli that crashed up there.