"The Walking Dead": Any fans here?

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PrincessLeppard

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Uh, some of these people in Alexandria can afford to miss a meal or two. So calm down, food pantry raiders.

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halffull

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Looks like Daryl maybe losing it in next weeks episode. He looks pretty zoned out.
 

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LESBIANS!!! :cheer: :biggrinbo:respec::cheer2:

Loved seeing the new Doc taking action, even if it was just reading a medical journal. How To Save A Life, indeed! :40beers:

I wish somebody amongst all these people had been a watch of Big Brother. Expect the Unexpected. It's like everybody is always winging it instead of having a plan as well as a back-up plan and then a back-up plan for their back-up plan. At least Maggie didn't say no to Aaron joining her. And didn't try to sneak out on her own without him. AND realized when it was time to turn back as their plan (#1, anyway!) was not going to work.
 

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I don't believe they are back yet - that's the thing.

They are. When Deanna is on her porch looking out at the start of the episode we here a dialogue in which someone - Michonne, I assumed - talks about Glenn having said he would light a fire or give an other sort of signal, and not having done that.

That's why Maggie is worried Glen might be dead.
 

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Oh yeah, thanks. I might have been too distracted from them not showing Rick's escape from the herd to notice Michonne at the gate. Did they show what happened to Rick's hand? It was bleeding so much.
 

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I'm a little surprised they didn't show how Rick got out of the RV with so many zombies around. They went straight to him running for the front gate.

They did kind of show Rick's escape - he just out ran the zombies. But that scenario is beyond reasonable suspension of disbelief. That and glossing over Michonne's return really doesn't make any sense. The writers must be doing too much smokey smoke.
 

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan cast as Negan on TWD:
http://comicbook.com/2015/11/10/jeffrey-dean-morgan-cast-as-negan-on-the-walking-dead/

The Walking Dead's most vicious villain has been cast, as Jeffrey Dean Morgan has signed on for the role, THR reports.

The search for the character's actor has been extensive, and went back to last year as the TV show approached his arrival according to the comic book's timeline.

The sixth season finale of the AMC drama will introduce the villain, they report. It will be directed by Greg Nicotero.
 

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I have to confess that while I love reading the thread I really have not watched the show at all this season. I am so tired of everyone Rick & Co. meets being either really evil or really stupid. :shuffle: I'll just add it to the shows I intend to binge watch when I am on vacation in January. :slinkaway
 

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They did kind of show Rick's escape - he just out ran the zombies. But that scenario is beyond reasonable suspension of disbelief. That and glossing over Michonne's return really doesn't make any sense. The writers must be doing too much smokey smoke.

Michonne's return is something they should show. So many Alexandrians died from within that group, and showing how Michonne tell their relatives (including Betsy) would have been good, emotional material. I'd rather they show that than the pantry reid, or the bit with Deanna's son. Instead the moment went to Rick again.
 

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I feel like much of you do, in that we love this show, but we're frustrated by it at the same time. I think it's because of the actors. We know these people are both smart and talented, it comes across in the work they do on the show. At the same time, we have a writing team who has these "cool ideas" and they go more with that cool idea than they do in how these characters will deal with that cool situation they find themselves in. "A quarry full of walkers!!!!" They just go with that and how to make it big and bold and more awesome than anything the audience will have seen before. Secondary to that is what the characters will do, how they will handle problems that come up. Myself...I'm more into the characters than the cool situations they come across each season. The writers are the opposite. That's why I get frustrated. I know that Andrew Lincoln, Melissa McBride, Danai Gurira and Norman Reedus are smart people and they bring that intelligence to their characters. And the writers seem to be more into a quarry of zombies than into these actors I enjoy so much. :(

One example of this is when the quarry plan went wrong. Any of these people could have come up with the idea to have two pickup trucks drive side by side with two to four people in the back of each truck with a pitch fork on an extended handle (or whatever would have worked best) and just slowly picked off zombies one at a time. They had miles to keep driving pitch forks into zombie heads and they could have whittled the horde of zombies down by a lot...maybe even all if they drove the zombies away from Alexandria until every last zombie was flat on the ground. But it's more exciting to have Alexandria surrounded by zombies...so the writers chose that instead.

Uh, some of these people in Alexandria can afford to miss a meal or two. So calm down, food pantry raiders.

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The Alexandrians are Zzzzz.

More examples of misdirected writers. I can't believe a whole community could be THIS soft. They had Aaron and his partner out scouting, as well as others out scavenging. So there's bravery there. When you're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, you all gotta step up to the plate. You can't sit at home on the couch and decide if you might leave your house to garden for an hour or two. Everyone should have been doing an hour or more every day of defense training. For a whole town to be so wimpy is just another example of writer's error... :soapbox:
 

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One example of this is when the quarry plan went wrong. Any of these people could have come up with the idea to have two pickup trucks drive side by side with two to four people in the back of each truck with a pitch fork on an extended handle (or whatever would have worked best) and just slowly picked off zombies one at a time. They had miles to keep driving pitch forks into zombie heads and they could have whittled the horde of zombies down by a lot...maybe even all if they drove the zombies away from Alexandria until every last zombie was flat on the ground. But it's more exciting to have Alexandria surrounded by zombies...so the writers chose that instead.

Alternatively, they could have picked the zombies off one by one while they were in the quarry, in which case the suicide mission of herding the zombies away from the community would have been unnecessary. Instead, the zombies suddenly find a way out after years of confinement.

I can't believe a whole community could be THIS soft. They had Aaron and his partner out scouting, as well as others out scavenging. So there's bravery there. When you're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, you all gotta step up to the plate. You can't sit at home on the couch and decide if you might leave your house to garden for an hour or two.

I though that was explained well by the fact that the zombies had been walking into the quarry, getting stuck there, and accumulating. When Aaron and partner went out to scavenge, they didn't go that far, or didn't encounter the quarry.

I try to find it believable that the community was been unaware of herds and protected from them. It's conceivable, albeit improbable, that a large herd would not have surrounded the community for several years of apocalypse. Given the size of the United States, it is possible that some communities would be get lucky and be spared for awhile, especially rural communities.
 

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I sure hope so!! Next week is episode 7, right? That's when we're supposed to find out what happened to him, so I hope it was him!

Also Daryl better get his bow back; I'm pissed those people took it from him.
 
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