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She did, I was unclear if that was canon or her estimate based on the number of named characters and extras she encountered. It works, though there could easily be more people depending on the size of families and how many people other than CDB are sharing a house.

... While doing an interpretive dance to convey his joy.

I look forward to Morgan putting Jessie's metal working skills to good use in constructing traps and defences for the community. He ought to be able to see past the notion that who we were still matters and get her to move beyond making eye-pleasing lawn art projects.

I'm going with the notion that he was moving towards the location of the meeting to warn others when he got to the house with barking dog, paused because it was likely barking for a reason and the sound would attract the walkers anyway. I agree about the lighting being horribly off, I'm sure they were trying to convey the idea that it was dusk, but the light changed too abruptly between consequent scenes and made it seem like a long time had passed between Rick spotting the open gate and encountering the walkers. It would have worked better if they'd shot it all in the dark with the gate being backlit so it looked like the dying rays of the sun were hitting it. I think they really screwed up with lighting and how it made the timeline appear.

Also? They were around a bonfire and the red could simply be reflection, in fact it wouldn't even need to be reflection from the fire, it could be from clothing or *someone's* intensely clown-colored hair.

I thought that move was kind of telling on Deanna's part, that and an earlier comment about being the one to make final decisions on certain matters. The meeting had not been called to discuss whether they were going to expel Rick, she had already decided to do so and the meeting was intended to persuade the rest of the community that it was the right way to go. A-and then her husband got his throat cut by a homicidal Rage-ape so all bets were off and instead she had Pete executed out of simple revenge. I don't think Carol was necessarily restraining Rick in that moment in order that Pete be given the opportunity to harm someone else, at most she was willing to risk the possibility, it was more that he expose his truly violent bullying nature to the meeting, so nobody could continue looking the other way because it was a "private matter" or continue maintaining the posture that the fight was due to rabid-dog Rick's unreasonable, dangerous nature. Rick had the gun, he was going to shoot him to stop him and defend himself, Carol was ensuring he do so when it was clear who the real problem was. What happened to Reg was not predictable. It was arguably an accident, but an accident that happened when Pete seemed intent on doing violence and probably killing at least one other person, so it was certainly murder nonetheless. It was completely Pete's fault no matter if Carol stayed Rick's hand or had wound Pete up previously, which I believe she did. At first I though Pete had a machete, not the katana, partially because there had been a shot earlier of what looked like someone taking a safety guard off a large blade that looked like it could be a machete, but on rewatch the weapon he had looked more like the katana. I enjoy Glenn and Maggie and I've always found they had a pleasing warm chemistry, not hot by any means, but a believably connected couple with no cloying shmoopiness. I'm not going to apologize for hating on canned soups. I hates em, but I'd still choke them down long past the stale date in the zombie apocalypse if they were intact and what was available, not use the resulting slimy casseroles as floor decorations as did Deanna and Pete. Then while the casserole sat like a rock in my stomach, I'd go stare at a thistle and wonder if it was worth going near those spines just for a few edible morsels.

I hope we do get some time-jumps. Besides the incredible shrinking baby and Carl being damn near twice his original height, almost everyone in the cast has aged noticeably. Of course, it's possible to fan-wank that the latter is the consequence of the stresses of life in the ZA. They need to catch up a little to how time is passing in the real world. There has been too much of stretching weeks over months, months over years in the current timeline.

My husband's favourite movie line ever was something that was swapped in to satisfy a censor "You fuzzy sock-suckers".

Yeah, I still loathe his pathetic, whining ass. That scene gave me a lot of the Maggie I love, so it still worked for me. To me the show was drawing a direct parallel between Gabriel's actions and those of Nicholas (my most hated), along with the way both men were treated with in response to phenomenally vile behavior.

The sad fact is, most published recipes for tuna casserole call for canned soup, some upgrade to jarred "alfredo" (not alfredo at all) type sauces (also yuck). Anything I cook that calls for canned crap gets a substitute of something that doesn't taste like sadness and making do. Carol might be able to get flour but I doubt she'd have access to butter or fresh milk, at best she could get something canned, like evaporated milk, so yeah, I think Carol's casserole would be made with canned soup, unless she dispensed with the sauce entirely. In conclusion; Too much canned food in the zombie apocalypse! This is why they need a settlement, If only so they have fresh food in season and the leisure to make their own dog jerky and strawberry jam for the rest of the year. Also now that they are further north, how much canned food would still be intact if it could be subjected to a sustained hard freeze? Shall we hand-wave that along with a low local zombie population, the ASZhats also had remarkably light winter conditions?

I think it means that wolf-douche was a self-aggrandizing idiot, who told himself and his victims an elaborate, meandering, illogical story to make robbery and thrill-killings into something big and important rather than petty, squalid and cruel.

No street lights, I was just told not pester bears. Winter was fun. We could sled next to our house or go out of sight and push snow off a small cliff until there was enough to jump into. And the bears were asleep. Bears are assholes.

I'd eat it all except the Burger King, I'd choke down Carol's tuna casserole, but cry about my life afterwards. Why is canned cream soup so damn nasty? Once you have a secured area, like in ASZ, there is a lot of fresh food you could grow instead of relying as they do on some community members to go out and scavenge cans. As far as that that goes a lot of garden weeds are good, dandelions, purslane, amaranth but these idiots don't even seem to have a community garden to weed. They are probably more worried about running out of weed & feed to keep the lawns flawless, than running out of food. Even if the food depot hadn't been a trap, how long would the cans last amongst 40 plus people? Along with improved security, CDB needs to hand out hoes and seed packets and they could use some of that solar power they are using for frivolous amusements on running food dehydraters. I sort of understand that it's more a set dressing issue but there are ways around that that don't necessarily entail dealing with living plants.

About the wee band-aids everyone keeps mentioning, you use a lot of those type because they act to reduce or eliminate the need for stitches. I had to look at a few of those after my son went flying off his bike last summer.

Damn idiot father Pee Pants. When I speculated he was going to leave the gate open, it was a joke, because I did not expect even he would be so damn stupid.

I think he has been able to function for a long time, but from what we are seeing, which is pretty sketchy, it looks like he goes for periods where he has a measure of control and is if not sober, then tippling at a maintenance dose so he has a low-level buzz but isn't noticeably drunk, then something, like the party, sets him off and he starts binge drinking so he's getting obviously intoxicated, openly hostile and violent. Typically, if his disease is progressing and it more than likely is, those periods of sobriety or somewhat controlled drinking are getting shorter and the heavy drinking is getting more severe. I'm skeptical about his ability to perform with full effectiveness when he's on a tear, I'm sure he can do his job, but I'm dubious that there aren't unnecessary risks to patients when he is as badly drunk as he was when he attacked Rick. I'm sure he has done amazing things, I'm sure he can still do amazing things but the times he has that capacity are getting smaller. Eventually the physical effects that heavy drinking has on the human body are going to render him ineffective, even when he's not actively bingeing.

I think they've told them some things, but left out details, for example, they may have told her the prison was over-run, but not the full circumstances. I'm fairly certain that they've left a great deal out of what happened at Terminus, because Carol wants to be discreet about her part in it. However I think Terminus is kind of moot anyway, because the full story is so bizarre and extreme that it could have the opposite effect on Deanna and lead her to conclude that Rick's people are irrationally paranoid because of a unique situation. Also even otherwise fair-minded people tend to not only victim-blame but also see victims as having being defiled and damaged by their experiences. I think almost every experience they could use to illustrate the extremity of life outside requires complicated explanations. The only thing I can think of that would be uncomplicated would be their encounters with large walker herds, to which the ASZ answer would be no worries, because... wall.

That's what bugs me about their conundrum. Pete only has the power they've given him. The extent of his drinking makes his skills irrelevant and if he refuses to exercise them unless allowed access to copious amounts of alcohol and the freedom to beat up others, then his skills are also irrelevent. Either way his choices make him unavailable to be of use. If he refuses to contribute to the community, they don't need to provide him food, shelter or even sanctuary and they sure as hell don't need to be providing him with the quantity of alcohol he has been consuming. He is free to leave, which isn't going to happen ... unless he is irrationally drunk and goes trotting out the gate under his own steam. The point has been made earlier in this thread that Pete's drinking may be at a point where it is no longer safe to cut him off entirely, but even so, it doesn't correlate that he needs to be enabled to binge-drink. He's not good or useful to anyone in his current state. Moreover, the audience knows, even if Deanna doesn't, that he is happy to assault anyone who crosses him as his attack on Rick demonstrates, so the idea that his tendency towards violence is a manageable "private" matter is an illusion. Rick is the one who came off looking like a rabid dog in the fight, but Pete is the problem for the community. ETA This. That moment pissed me off. This community seems to have a culture of drinking and enforces it with the kind of well-intended, genial bullying that gets my back up in real life. I hate Pete, but poor Pete for having these idiots as his neighbours.

Maybe Dr. Drunky Pete lets Tara die out of spite, then while he sits there chuckling and mumbling at his cleverness, she reanimates and bites him and it fans out from there with no-one realizing the shambling incoherent fuck-bucket is actually undead until he's bit several people. Nicholas panics (shocking! Twist!) and shoots wildly, killing Mrs Neidermeyer, the noise attracts Unfair Wolves or walkers or unfair Wolves and walkers to attack, perhaps entering through a gate Nicholas or Father PP didn't close because they were too busy squealing over the Dr making unwanted house-calls and performing surgery with his teeth. ETA I hope my spec is wrong, because I like Tara, also, it might make Alanna the mystery guest on Talking Dead and she's kind of a dud as an interview.

From AMC; Sunday, May 31 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. http://blogs.amctv.com/halt-and-catch-fire/2015/03/halt-and-catch-fire-dials-up-season-2-on-sunday-may-31-at-109c/ I don't know what the lead-in for the show is and I think lead-in was one of the issues for the show's first season.

Article about the upcoming season with a clip; http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/25/halt-and-catch-fire I love that Icicle Works song. Glad to see Yo-yo.

i don't believe someone else could have done it. Only the other person wearing a constable uniform was appropriate and that person is Michonne. The fact they made a point of having her wear it when she had been wearing different clothes all throughout the episode told me all I needed to know about why Rick was dealt with in that way. Bad-ass is a hoped for bit of bycatch, but it's not what they were specifically fishing for in that scene.

I wonder if they lost any of the dumber ASZhats to the often fatal practice of taking helium hits directly from the tank?

If we start threads for comparing specific episodes to the comics, It might be best if they go directly into a subforum. I'm not really interested, to be honest, I haven't read the comics and I don't often look at the existing comics thread.

My current speculation is while people are focussed on the iniquity of the Rickhead and what to do about him, Drunky Pete is going to fatally assault a family member and that poor soul will turn and bite someone.