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flutist4fun

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  1. I don't know...I'm always cheered by how well the posters on these threads, at least, are able to call out the bad guys, see past the BS, and generally show really good judgment and compassion. I have high hopes for humanity, based on the amount of time everyone here spends debating right and wrong and personal responsibility. Come the ZA, I definitely want to be with y'all. (Still waiting for someone to tell me the rendezvous point, though. ;)
  2. I agree with this (though I wouldn't EXACTLY call it a payoff, sob). I'm horrified by the murder, and the sadism, and scared and sad about the long-term impact on the group, more so than for almost any other death on the show. Who it was, is secondary, for now. Though I did have a moment, when Negan said he was going to kill someone, where I thought, Damn! Why couldn't they have brought Spencer along!
  3. I don't want Maggie to die. But the possibilities for Glenn's character development, if she goes, are really...kind of...awesome.
  4. Seems like that solves the problem of what to do with them.
  5. Hilltop guy should have mentioned the pot-growing. It would have given Rick and co. a whole new strategy. They drive up to the door, say Hello, we'd like to buy some weed, and we'll pay with these delightful goodies from Carol's Bakeshop (the Saviours have got to have the munchies, yes?). CDB/ASZ are now safe from Negan's tools b/c even during the ZA you don't kill off your customers. Yay for capitalism.
  6. This. It was a perfect, blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment. The show has many of these, and they're always rewarding.
  7. Funny you mentioned this b/c I've been thinking about the Judith problem. I'd hate to see her get killed (especially b/c of what it would do to Rick), but having to cart a baby around really limits how much badassery the group can get into. Here's my spec: I think someone from CDB gets kidnapped, and they all have to go on a mission to save the person. Rick now has Jessie, his platonic friend, whom he trusts and who owes him her gratitude for dispatching abusive Doctor Pete, and so he can leave Judith safely behind the ASZ walls in Jessie's care (once they're sure ASZ understands how to keep the gates locked). Rick and all of CDB go off on the rescue mission, which could give us a full season of mayhem and craziness out on the road without a baby slowing the group down. Yet, knowing the timelines on this show, only a few weeks would actually pass, so Rick doesn't have to worry about having "abandoned" Judith or her forgetting him. (I'm basing this on nothing at all. I've never read the comics.) it's just a way of getting Judith out of the way for a while, so Rick is not so tied down.
  8. Just catching up on S7 now and I'm surprised to hear people calling Kevin a dick. I've never liked him, but I understand his behaviour. Jackie betrayed him over and over, and I'm sure he feels justified in screwing her over now with the second mortgage. It's not right, of course, but being betrayed by the person you love makes you crazy with hurt and anger. I totally see where he's coming from. Same with her "friends" at work. They know they've been lied to and betrayed, especially Zoey. Laughing at Jackie is just a way of blowing off a little steam, getting some of the anger out. I think also that the show is saying, this is the mess an addict makes in life: Everybody gets pulled down because of the lies and the muck. Edie Falco is great, but yes, Jackie is a force of chaos and destruction--actually, a hurricane!
  9. I agree a time jump would help for Carl, and who knows, they might finally get Judith walking, or at least past her first birthday. ;-). But I REALLY want to see a lot of the reunion between Morgan and Rick. I feel like they've teased us for so long (in a good way) about those two, who barely know each other in terms of time spent together, but somehow seem so connected. Maybe they could move the story along but then give us a lot of Rick and Morgan in flashbacks. Or something. But I hope we get to see it.
  10. I'm not an apologist for Sally (I think she's an awful, narcissistic mother), but I don't think she left after Sarah died. I think she was in the act of abandoning her family (packing in her room when Sarah came looking for comfort, Sally sends Sarah off with Danny, then leaves), and I believe is on the bus when somehow she hears what has happened...maybe she hears the news since they wouldn't have had cellphones then. I'm pretty sure that was the sequence of events, so Sally didn't abandon her family AFTER the drowning. I guess it doesn't matter much though; she is still a pathetic mother IMO. I'm wondering, is there anyone who sees any redeeming features in Sally? Just curious.
  11. Wow. Could they have packed any more stupid into a single episode? Meg acting all freaky and suspicious, first with the traffic cop, then with Marco. John leaving the hospital after a heart episode. Kevin living up to his useless reputation by being passed out from booze and coke when John needs him to help hide the body while he’s having his heart issue. And Sally just now twigs that the kids aren’t telling her what’s going on. Not to mention her ‘You don’t give up on family.’ Hypocrite alert! Wasn’t she in the act of abandoning her family when Sarah drowned? Didn’t she allow her husband to terrorize her children? In the first half-hour of this episode, there wasn’t anyone I didn’t want to smack. Except Marco. Btw, the look on John’s face when that guy asked him to run for sheriff…when he’s fresh from murdering his brother…was kind of priceless. Now Meg says she can’t lie to her mother? Please. She just said that ‘lawyers are good liars.’ And she’s lied to everyone (hey, Marco) through this whole series. Meg, we know you can do it. And Kevin is barely an adult himself, so the fact that he and Belle are planning to glue their marriage back together with the help of a surprise baby…well, that’s just a world of hurt waiting to happen next season. I liked this last ep well enough, but it was less suspenseful than some of the others. We saw everybody four days after the murder first, so there was no reason to worry they’d get caught with the body. I’d have been a bit disappointed in the ending if I didn’t already know there’s going to be a season 2. I did finally feel some sympathy for Sally when Danny’s body was discovered. So now the woman’s lost two children and a husband. And her living children are all liars, LOL. Have to say kudos to all the actors in this series, I think they totally sold their twisted selves and their dysfunctional family unit. Hope Chloe Sevigny comes back too, she did a lot with her role. I’ll miss Danny in the next season; I suppose he’ll be back in some flashbacks, but it won’t be the same. I hope they do something more interesting with SonOfDanny than just make him a chip off the ol' creepy block.
  12. Whoa. I wasn’t expecting it to go down like that. Thought it would be more of an accident. I’ve continually been switching sides too, as the Rayburns all try to top each other in lying, cheating and general bad behaviour, but I’m still feeling a little sorry for Danny. He’s been kind of screwed his whole life (and now he's been murdered). It sounds like Dad was a complete psycho and everybody suffered from it. Yet he dies and gets the nice funeral, like he’s a hero. (Though it’s still hard for me to believe Sam Shepard was a bad dad, haha. Though I totally buy Sissy Spacek as a bad mom.) And now John will be messed up too. Like Danny with Sara, although that was an accident, I don’t think John will ever recover from drowning his brother. I liked John admitting to Danny that he’s had a better life and apologizing for not sticking up for him, but that was just before he killed him, so… I think the apology gets cancelled out. Totally agree that Kevin is a tool. With all that’s going on, he's drinking and doing drugs, waving a gun around and whaling on John over the phone to ’take care of it'?? And why did he point the gun at Danny on the roadside? He couldn’t really shoot him on a busy highway in broad daylight. He’s so lame, I was laughing at him along with Danny. He is truly the younger brother who always messes up and counts on his older bro to fix it. I did like both John and Danny finally talking straight to their mom, John telling her to listen to his warnings and trust him, and Danny calling her out b/c she'd never protected him. Finally! Not that she will learn. Meg has the right idea: leave town. And yay, Marco has seen the light and dumped her. And he’s not taking crap from John either. I have no idea how they will end this, aside from I guess showing how John hides the body. But I really want to see Sally…what? Suffer some consequences? That’s harsh. I guess I’d just like all of them to get away from her. But I don’t think that’s going to happen.
  13. Or you could look at it this way: 26 weeks works out to a nice, slow, deeply analytical rewatch of 2-3 episodes per week. :)
  14. John yelled at Danny that he wasn't supposed to take Sarah out in the boat without an adult, and Danny yelled back, We're the only adults here! I don't know how old Sarah was, but she looked somewhere between 10 and 12. It's a good point about the life jackets, especially given the family business. They run boat charters; you'd think all the kids, particularly the older boys, would have boating safety drilled into their heads, and throwing on a life jacket would be automatic. To put it bluntly, drownings would be bad for business. The more time I spend with this family, or even just think about them, the more I kind of despise them. But it's a great show. ;)
  15. I thought they were partners b/c they are usually seen working together, but maybe not.
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