ChipBach

This episode was akin to this weeks episode being cancelled. I can't find myself looking forward to any of the story lines if I have to wait a month to come full circle to a story line that I might be interested in = it is a bit too much work... I was confused. The Oceanside group was dogged on secrecy, however, not knowing how many people are/were with Tara, and/or may be in the area, yet when slightly provoked (very slightly) they unleashed an incompetent hell's fury of shooting to kill one relatively slow unarmed person. That should have warned any possible accomplishes (or Negan's band) within miles of their location... And then she honors the wishes of the group that just tried to execute her. And the folks that killed Beth. They weren't Saviors were they?

Yeah - I didn't take that as "gay panic". I don't feel Nick is homophobic at all. I think he honestly couldn't tell what attributes of the model were "attractive" or how to see "attractive" from someone he wasn't attracted to...

I wish they had the nuts to use the painting of Tony Soprano and Pie-o-My...

This was the worst part of a pretty bad episode... Binding your legs into roller skates (so if attacked you have no ability to flip them off and run) seems like a decision that would have been automatically eliminated by the end of season one. Bringing the skates back to Alexandria for good old teen skatin'? That would have made a little more sense... Ruining a perfectly good vehicle to render a few really slow walkers pissed me off too. How do walkers "sneak" up on Enid anyway? She was in the open, alone, and could have easily dispatched them with a knife once she heard them a half mile away. (How does she not hear the car approaching too???) The way the scene was edited, you would have thought she was on the very edge of death. And why wouldn't Gregory just say "There are two women here from the other group, look around, you'll find them"? Was "dramatic reveal" the only option?? I agree with all the other stupid moves (the watch, the bonefires, the complete non-reaction of the hillside folk)...

At least their mini-teaser-episodes are just as boring as the show...

I would guess any robot that has been engaged in orgies would lead me to suit up. I don't understand is why they have to get her at all... Can't they just send a message for her to go to a hidden Disney door? They wouldn't have to take the park down for a second.

It's impossible to stop Negan now that he has all the guns in the world... Geez. There are over a several hundred million guns in the US and over a trillion bullets... We're acting like twenty five guns is the difference. Also - isn't the expectation from Negan that they are going to forage for "stuff"? One good recon/search mission in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia should bring the Alexandria Cabal back to fighting strength.

With the Bernard reveal, I could make an argument that if they tried, Ford, et al, would simply smart her up again. Now that we know Bernard was really tied into the Matrix all along, I'm sure many know of Maeve and her growing independence...

Yep. Being a little gun-geeky, I was always shouting at the TV for the crew to pick up their spent casings. You can reload a bullet, you'd need a factory (or a free pass to WestWorld) to make bullets from scratch. They should have trash cans full of used brass...

I am actually looking forward to Dwights demise much more than Negan. Dwight put the arrow in whatshernames eye in an unprovoked ambush and has been a douche ever since he stole Daryls bow. As for Daryls hair... I have no opinion.

Ya know... The only real thing that bothered me in this episode is that another group had yet another name for the dead. Does every group have to have a different word for the dead who came back to life? "Wasted" doesn't even make sense. How were they wasted? Wouldn't there be some common moniker used on the TV when the breakout first occurred that was used to describe the dead? Wouldn't "the dead" be a pretty simple one that apparently no one has thought of yet? Grrr. Thank you, I needed to get that out of my system. Back to your show, already in progress... Seems that wild boars would be flourishing if they can actually eat the dead. Easy pickings.

Thank you GHOULINA - I am assumed the original post was written by a youngster who thinks middle aged people need to try to look 25 their entire lives. I can think of nothing more ridiculous than a person sweating hair color during a Zombie Apocalypse to look younger. I think this is why Carol is a fan favorite, she appeals to people in their 40s/50s that can see beauty beyond the obvious advantages of youth... I dig Carol just as she is.

At least bashed enough to rationalized using a new actor...

Apparently all the nice RV's are unavailable in an apocalypse - Only really crappy RV's are on the road... I watch The Walking Dead too...

Then they are stupid if they found a matching crap RV...

I didn't hate the episode until I got caught up here... Thanks guys... ;-) Actually, great points about the "Dale Memorial Winnebago Ride"... Maybe the point was to see how adept Rick was in killing some Zombies with his bare hands? Like a job interview? At least someone FINALLY articulated that the camper was a piece of crap. I still contend that there must be thousands of new bus-type campers (bigger and newer) than that piece of dung. That was about all I appreciated from Negan. I was hoping the writers would have done a better job of pointing out that Rick was willing to sell-sword his peeps for trade of goods. This is a fairly slippery slope that may have been partly caused the braining of two of his people.

NFL?

Watching a presidential debate?

Unfortunately - I think they are going there...

Bingo Peach - There are definitely parallels - things seem to be simultaneously spinning out of control in both the ZA and USA regardless of who wins the election, we seem to be set on some ongoing confrontational politics for the next four years. I don't know if I need to be "entertained" by the same dynamic on TV... I also agree with those who are getting worn out from the sadistic routine of this show. I am not sure what the show can do to continue to be entertaining with out bad guys, and the next bad guy always has to be bigger and badder. I guess you wrap the show up once you have told all the stories you can or run it into the ground for the moola and we have to decide for ourselves when the show jumps the zombie shark...

I liked the idea of Andy, I just didn't think the actor had any chemistry with Haley. I also like the idea of a Phil Jr. and thought they could have sustained a longer story line with that type of character. Please don't bring Dylan back, there are enough dumb people on the show.

I found it strange that Travis didn't want to go bury Chris. He couldn't have been more than a mile from the hotel. This way he could have seen for himself. He made a big show of burying the cat Chris murdered but his own son draws flies in the middle of the road... I found it uncharacteristic that the Bro's would tell the truth. There was nothing to compel them to be 100% honest that they shot Chris. Simply "I don't know, we argued over water, he split"... No reason to tell the dude they murdered his son, and these guys seemed like pretty efficient manipulative liars anyway... And now if they bring Chris back later because the Bromigos lied about his dispatch, how can you make that happen??? Bad writing. If they lost the actor at the 11th hour, they (the writers) should have just had him disappear. I feel it would have been an interesting way to deal with a primary character, just gone, leaving the parents to wonder. That leaves them the ability to bring Chris back later too... I can't watch the show anymore, it's not even fun to yell at the TV because it is soooo stupid.

I think Will's comedy is better in short doses. It tends to repeat itself.

I would add the little dap-will-do-ya of blood that repels walkers instantly. No guts, no goo, just a spritz of old blood and you've totally defeated the zombie angle of the show. Why people aren't dabbing a bit 'o blood on them when they wake up is curious. The walkers would only see other walkers and just leave. The need for tons of guts dangled around you would make the process too unwieldy to do too often which is why Grimes, et al., do not use it as a "go to" move... I'm hoping Negan has enough swings for this entire cast...

Do you know how much replacement glass costs in a Zombie apocalypse??? No??? Well... I bet it's a lot...