"Why tin poke? Cut. Me. Ouch!"
The Walking Dead ***please use SPOILER tags***
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I wouldn't be devastated if it did!
Hopefully Rick will stick 'er in the side with a pointy stick real soon...
(I'm kinda hoping he twists it once or twice too... 
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I'd say preferably before she tells Negan he's there, but maybe he'll bust loose and get two for the price of one ....
Can we done with the junk yard kids. YIKES!! This is stupid side plot. Rick rocks the boxer shorts. 
Can we done with the junk yard kids. YIKES!! This is stupid side plot. Rick rocks the boxer shorts.
his hands were tied IN FRONT OF HIM and he wasn't even trying to use his teeth to undo the knots while he was sitting there waiting for whatever was coming?
Man, I wanted him to feed her face to that walker head.
Man, I wanted him to feed her face to that walker head.
OK, er, what?
Mid-season finale next week. And from the teaser, doesn't it look like an overblown turd already?
Just think, in another reality there's a version of TWD where Frank Darabont didn't get the push after establishing an audience with S1. Must invent Sliders-style gizmo...
So, Rick's Most Brilliantest Ever Plan involved all of that BS with the Pandas because, somehow, he just knew exactly what they'd do and how he could get Jadis to fall into line (fight a zombie on a stick wearing just his boxers. Who knew? Well, Rick did, apparently)? And when did Morgan teach him aikido, to the point where he could batter two opponents with just one end of the stick? Looked like he'd been taking lessons off Neo as well. But why, oh why did the Pandas not just fill him with nice, warm lead once his little scrap in the Trash Pandas' Two-Bit Thunderdome was done?
I just don't get why he'd bother with them at all. They've already proven that they can't be trusted. Hose them down. For mercy's sake, someone please hose them down.
Nice shot of Gabe lying in (his death-) bed lecturing Eugene on the errors of his ways, complete with shafts of light coming through the window. Very Biblical. In fact, perhaps too much so. It was very artfully done and all, but narratively laid it on a bit thick. Add in some choral/'angelic' stuff on the soundtrack and...yep. Pretty obvious too that the dying Gabriel is going to do something heroic as a final redemptive act - one that, perhaps, Eugene witnesses and breaks him out of his spiral of torment and anguish.
Good performances from those two, even if the material isn't exactly at its strongest.
But OK, WTF is going on with Morgan? One minute, he's falling apart mentally and wanders off to be alone, in part, it seems, because Jesus don't want him for a sunbeam. Next thing, he's actually decided to go back to the Sanctuary and join up with the snipers (noticeably, and notably, firing above several ripe Savior heads in the windows; fortunately, though, the Saviors can't shoot for sheet either, so Daryl and Tara were always perfectly safe). Good ol' mentally-unstable Morgan even seems to have recovered his sanity again. Maybe he's just bipolar and forgot to take his meds prior to the Rumble in the...er, Forest with Jesus (who seemed to remember he's supposed to have all these Mad Skillz), then popped a couple of pills and/or recovered some kind of equilibrium.
Or maybe Lennie James wasn't acting in the fight-scene ep and what we saw was his actual reaction to being told about his move to FTWD.
I just don't get why he'd bother with them at all. They've already proven that they can't be trusted. Hose them down. For mercy's sake, someone please hose them down.
Nice shot of Gabe lying in (his death-) bed lecturing Eugene on the errors of his ways, complete with shafts of light coming through the window. Very Biblical. In fact, perhaps too much so. It was very artfully done and all, but narratively laid it on a bit thick. Add in some choral/'angelic' stuff on the soundtrack and...yep. Pretty obvious too that the dying Gabriel is going to do something heroic as a final redemptive act - one that, perhaps, Eugene witnesses and breaks him out of his spiral of torment and anguish.
Good performances from those two, even if the material isn't exactly at its strongest.
But OK, WTF is going on with Morgan? One minute, he's falling apart mentally and wanders off to be alone, in part, it seems, because Jesus don't want him for a sunbeam. Next thing, he's actually decided to go back to the Sanctuary and join up with the snipers (noticeably, and notably, firing above several ripe Savior heads in the windows; fortunately, though, the Saviors can't shoot for sheet either, so Daryl and Tara were always perfectly safe). Good ol' mentally-unstable Morgan even seems to have recovered his sanity again. Maybe he's just bipolar and forgot to take his meds prior to the Rumble in the...er, Forest with Jesus (who seemed to remember he's supposed to have all these Mad Skillz), then popped a couple of pills and/or recovered some kind of equilibrium.
Or maybe Lennie James wasn't acting in the fight-scene ep and what we saw was his actual reaction to being told about his move to FTWD.
Mid-season finale next week. And from the teaser, doesn't it look like an overblown turd already?
"We just have to survive the night!" Well, OK, Coral, if you say so, son. Shame it took 6-7 eps to get there, if surviving one night is all it boils down to in the end. In fact, that could have happened last season, right? Maybe instead of all the oh-so-slow single-character-focus eps that took the story precisely, um...nowhere?
Just think, in another reality there's a version of TWD where Frank Darabont didn't get the push after establishing an audience with S1. Must invent Sliders-style gizmo...
Can we please start a Petition, that eugene will be eaten alive and never appears again ?
My predictions: There will be 2 deaths. I hope one is Eugene, the weasel.
The other should be whoever the traitor is that keeps screwing the team. I have a few thoughts on who that is.
Enid is an obvious choice. She's more of an opportunistic survivor than Eugene. She just flies under the radar because she's young and cute.
Maggie. Rick and his gang got Glenn killed. She might blame them and be blind for revenge. Besides, what would a mother not do to protect her unborn child? If there still is one. She's still not showing. If she lost the baby on top of losing Glenn, she's a woman with nothing to lose.
Daryl could have been turned.
Jesus has been suspect from the start.
Could be anybody.
Neegan could bite it, but I doubt it. Dwight is the more likely Savior to go. No good deed goes unpunished.
The other should be whoever the traitor is that keeps screwing the team. I have a few thoughts on who that is.
Enid is an obvious choice. She's more of an opportunistic survivor than Eugene. She just flies under the radar because she's young and cute.
Maggie. Rick and his gang got Glenn killed. She might blame them and be blind for revenge. Besides, what would a mother not do to protect her unborn child? If there still is one. She's still not showing. If she lost the baby on top of losing Glenn, she's a woman with nothing to lose.
Daryl could have been turned.
Jesus has been suspect from the start.
Could be anybody.
Neegan could bite it, but I doubt it. Dwight is the more likely Savior to go. No good deed goes unpunished.
EXACTLY! Or why didn't
they just shoot him in the head right after he made his (stupid) pitch and they said no? Seriously. What was the point of the stupid train car and zombie fight? What did they hope to accomplish? There was no one but him there--no one to impress or intimidate. He would be just as dead with a bullet to the head, without all the drama. DUMB. On the "Inside (whatever the title of this one was)" on VUDU, Lincoln said he justified Rick's move by thinking that he's using the old chestnut, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer", but meh. I don't buy it. (He also said he was all for Rick having the fight nekkid, but AMC wouldn't go for it--lol. He showed everything but his willy enough times on Teachers that you know he has no body issues )
)This ep was better than the last, but not a lot. I don't get to see the mid-season until tomorrow, and haven't seen any promo (no cable, no ads). Spoiler sites are predicting a major death that will just piss me off, not because I particularly like the character but because it doesn't follow narratively, unless they plan on making another major character a very different person in Feb. I think it's more likely that they'll tease the death, then all will be well after the break (a'la Glenn's Miraculous Dumpster Escapade). And that will irritate me, too.
I loathe it when movies/tv shows think the audience is stupid. Still, there is enough to the show that I keep on going, hoping that Gimple has a long play plan that that in the end will tie up the things that frustrate me. I like the genre (dystopia) and I like the actors. That's enough for now.
About the mid-season finale, I can only say this.
Well, crap.
As I've had some time to digest that ending I'm wondering if any one thinks Carl may have been bitten by a human. The giveaway to me is that little dialogue was spoken during the reveal that might have led viewers in one direction or another. Hmmm.
As a reader of the comics, I totally DID NOT see that coming!
He's gone, though. They're leaving just enough doubt in everyone's mind to keep them coming back when the show starts again in February, but I hear it's confirmed that he's leaving the show.
I can only say that was bit of shocker. I had heard rumors that Carl wanted to just concentrate on college and his music.