Season 9 starts tonight with a 90 minute episode.
Yay! So good. Maggie is awesome. The dead are sufficiently gross. Loved it.
Not bad. If they are setting things up for future conflicts between the various sites that might be good.
People still doing stupid, stupid things though. The whole glass floor breaking thing had me shaking my head. And why the hell did they need that canoe? But, better than pretty much every episode last season.
The ocean girl wanted it. Maybe for fishing in the ocean. That skinny little canoe would be scary in the waves though. Must have been a reason Indians were successful with them.
We need a team to go explore the ruins of Washington, DC. I’ll pick Rick, Michonne, Maggie, King Ezekiel, Carol, Daryl, Janice and…um…Kenny.
Gee, I wonder who might not be coming back?
I kept thinking: They should have had him wear a red Star Trek shirt and not given him a name.
And… they killed Kenny!! 
Good start to the season. I’m guessing we’re now a few years removed from the end of last season’s events but I didn’t think I heard any verbal reference to the amount of time that has passed. The glass-floor thing was a bit of unnecessary drama but I guess you have to punch up the 1st act somehow. The Evolution of Man joke was quite nice. I’m glad they brought back that story line on Gregory, albeit slightly different than in the source material. I didn’t quite follow Maggie’s comment on following, was she saying Rick now should follow her? She is no longer following Rick?
In my defense, I usually don’t miss small details but I am fighting a cold and watched while congested and on cold meds. Things got a bit foggy here and there.
Wasn’t it the Georgia State Capitol Building? On the Talking Dead, some of the cast was on and said they filmed there while it was open and doing business (and Norman Reedus sat in and voted on a referendum, LOL).
I thought this was a pretty good opener. I knew Kenny was a goner because they specifically gave him valuable screen time on the ride back.
That woman with Rick getting the seeds was Jadis, I didn’t recognize her.
Why do you suppose they showed the two kids appearing at the end (to take in the ‘show’) and Michonne screaming to stop, just before Daryl did his part? It made it confusing and took away from the seriousness, but I would think it portends something in the weeks ahead.
It was filmed at the Georgia State Capitol Building as a stand-in for the U.S. Capitol.
I’m fairly certain they said it was a year and a half, which sounds about right given the apparent age of Maggie’s baby.
I think it was supposed to be a “No! Not in front of the children!” moment.
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At least twice on The Talking Dead they mentioned that a year and a half had gone by since the end of season 8.
Someone on the show had mentioned that they would be duplicating the steel plow. I assume they would also be duplicating the Conestoga wagon, and everything else they were liberating from the museum.
I’m not sure why they would have needed a master copy of a dugout canoe. You start with a tree, and remove anything that doesn’t look like a dugout canoe. 
That girl just wanted to go canoe-ing, I guess. Well ol’ Gregory got his. I am so glad.
Daryl is just stupid. He can’t continue to ride around, wasting gas trying to look cool. Looks like Jesus is an integral part of the cast, now.
…I checked out mid-way through last season: I couldn’t take anymore.
But there’s a new showrunner this season, Angela Kang, and from what I’ve heard some of the actors say she’s bringing a new dynamic in behind the scenes, so hopefully that new dynamic will be reflected in what makes it onscreen as well. So based on the first episode: is it worth jumping back in again?
Yes, yes. I am a fangirl, so you might wanna take that with a grain of salt. It was really good last night.
Yeah, the canoe thing was pretty stupid. First, you don’t need an example of a dugout canoe to make another dugout canoe. Second, there are so many better-made (and lighter!) canoes in stores and homes that it’s going to be decades if not longer before anyone needs to start making new canoes.
They should’ve just stopped by a Dick’s and picked up a modern canoe for her.
I wish the writers would do something as they are developing these scripts that makes them realize that “Hey, all the viewers are going to know immediately that the glass floor suspended above hundreds of zombies is going to break. Maybe we should do something different?”
Heck, even something like having it *not *break, and then one of the characters commenting, “I’m really surprised that didn’t break.” I mean, it was designed to hold up under daily use, so I imagine it would’ve been overengineered.
Does the Smithsonian have a glass floor like that? Do women in skirts and dresses ever feel overexposed when walking on it? It just seems like a bad idea to me.
Last time I was at the Museum of Natural History, it had a huge Mastodon in the entryway.