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I don't think it would matter. It's like when the hijacker grabbed the kid's toy, he didn't have to do that. I think it could be part of the psychology of trying to keep a hostile crowd under control, that you think you shouldn't show any kindness or willingness to compromise because it might be seen as weakness. Keeping in mind that the hijackers didn't originally plan have to keep control of the airplane and the passengers for this long so they might not have thought through what it would be like to keep a couple of hundred people under control for 5 or 6 hours.

I think the risk would be that the plane could be shot down or forced down maybe? That's what the pilot told Sam (Elba's character), that if he didn't respond to Baghdad air traffic control, that ATC would contact the Iraqi military and presumably from there the choices aren't going to be great. The people on the ground do know, by the end of episode two at least, that the plane has a problem but they don't know what it is, which is maybe why they're not scrambling fighter jets to interdict. I agree on the binging! I was originally going to wait until it was completely out, all the episodes, but I couldn't resist and started watching now.

I am enjoying this show a lot. It's partly because there hasn't been much else that's caught my attention so far this summer and also because, although I haven't had to fly anywhere lately, I know several people who've been on an airplane recently or trying to get on an airplane and it's been total chaos, flights canceled and delayed and just a big mess. Fortunately not because of a hijack though! I don't think Idris Elba is capable of a bad performance, he's good in this very contained role, having to depend a lot on using eye and head movements to communicate. I thought it was smart, the way he sets things up to communicate with the pilot. Who, by the way, I think the actor playing the pilot is really good because I kind of want to hate him for the way things went with the co-pilot but he's very skillfully presenting himself as a good guy now. I don't know what the motives are here but it seems possible that whaever the hijackers think is happening is possibly not what is really happening or that there are possible two conspiracies? I think this because I have the impression that the hijackers aren't especially keen to kill anyone whereas the man on the ground at Neela's house had no problem taking her and her family out as well as Dubai when he showed up. Other than the hijackers and those guys at Neela's house it's not clear who is involved but obviously there has to be more than that because apparently several of the hijackers have seemingly legit passports but those people don't actually exist. That seems like a very high level conspiracy is in play. And I wonder about the guy who got on the plane right at the end, when Sam (Idris Elba's character) encouraged the agent to let him on. The guy in the seat next to Sam, I thought how typical, there he is pushing for action becuase the bullets are supposedly blanks but then when the time comes to do something he freezes . And did the one hijacker, the young guy, did he help Sam, there at the end of episode three? I can't tell who that was. I need to rewatch that part, it all kicked off so fast.

The one in Las Vegas anyway.

That's a lot to think about and answer! I found TWD to be must-watch, appointment TV up until Negan killed Glen and Abraham. I have only watched intermittently since then so there are things that went on after those deaths that I don't really know much about. The whole Whisperer arc, for example, I am not really familiar with it. My favorite episode is the opener to Season 5, "No Sanctuary" when Carol goes full ninja and rescues the group from Gareth and the others at Terminus. That scene where Rick and Daryl and Glen are lined up at that trough? I think that was the single most terrifying scene in all of TWD, or at least in the top 3 or 4. I found the Terminus group to be the scariest of the villains. My most favorite character is Rick and I think Andrew Lincoln is an excellent actor, actually probably somewhat under-rated IMO. I also liked Shane and Tyreese and Glen and Tara and I always found Abraham and Eugene fun to watch. My least favorite characters? Probably Jadis, at least of those characters who were around for more than one or two episodes. And I was never a huge fan of Deanna, at Alexandria. I like Tovah Feldshuh, so it wasn't the actress, I just found the Alexandria group to be unbelievable, they seemed so untouched by the ZA, really the same with the Commonwealth. I am also not a big Princess fan. If I could be any character on TWD, who would I be? Well I'd want to make it to the end so I guess I'd say Michonne or Carol or Maggie but leaving that issue aside, I'd say Sasha. Of the women characters, she was my favorite. Of course in a real ZA I'd be one of those people in the bus that never made it very far out of the prison.

I'll watch the Rick/Michonne series in the hope it will reveal why he wasn't wearing shoes as he walked among the chomping dead heads. Just kidding. I have always thought that TWD is really Rick's story, at least those were the episodes I enjoyed the most, when he was still on the show. I watched episode 1 a few days ago, just to remind myself of where it all began. I didn't think this final episode was all that great and there were a few times I laughed out loud but I did appreciate that they showed the faces of those who didn't make it to the end, several of those were my favorite characters. And it did end where it started, Rick looking for his family.

I am wondering about The Warden, if there is some hugely surprising reveal ahead and who it could be that WOULD be a surprise. Was that kid walker someone Maggie knew or is it just that it seemed to be a kid. It has been many seasons since anyone on TWD acted at all sentimental about a Walker. That speech on the bus, it reminded me of Ben Hur, "we keep you alive to serve this ship, row well and live." And then after with Negan and Ezekiel, I was getting a Shawshank Redemption vibe, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. With the train and the convenient cargo that Daryl spots and quickly took advantage of, it seemed very Steve McQueen and The Great Escape. Lots of little movie vignettes kept coming to mind. I wonder if giving Negan a wife and having her be pregnant, is it supposed to make the audience like him more. I don't hate him as much as I might otherwise but that's mostly because I like the actor (Dad from Supernatural) but also because I refused to watch most of the episodes involving the Saviors so I just know second or third hand about everything he did.

She procured some better wine for the party (see earlier episode, New Haunts). Found a well stocked wine cellar in a mansion nearby and there ya go, Elijah moves way up the list.

Something I didn't understand: why would Aaron and the good Father be required to take orders from this other guy, to ignore their own experience and judgment and do whatever he said, especially once the door opened and the first two happy settlers ventured out and seemed anything but. They did look alarming, I thought, those first two, very Mad Max-like. And their leader, he reminded me of Merle. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out if there had been some way that maybe Merle had survived or this was an alternate but parallel timeline or maybe he's another brother or a cousin or something. It was the call back to the Governor with the wall behind them with its ornaments that also put me in mind of the Early Days. But I also thought of Terminus and Gareth with the reference to meat, could any of these people have crossed paths at some point? I'm not even going to spend time on the fact that there was yet another gasoline powered vehicle conveniently available. And random horses tied up in the woods? And the return of someone no one's really even missed, not me anyway, in his hooded poncho, looking like something out of Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit, although maybe I've just got films made Down Under on my mind. So are there friends of Bill W. in the Commonwealth?

This kind of thing seems to happen to Daryl a lot. And all I can think about is not what's happening to him but Dog. Daryl benefited from the water treatment, that's the cleanest I've seen his face in awhile.

I feel sort of bad that I can find so little to praise about TWD these days. I want to say something that is positive but I can't think of anything. I like Daryl and Carol as characters, I always have, but I've decided that they aren't all that interesting as a duo anymore, not like they were in the past, which I know is probably because of the writing. They were much more interesting when they were wandering around Atlanta trying to find Maggie's sister Beth, for example, than they are now sauntering down the conveniently clear path in the woods for what seems like no particular purpose. Looking for food I guess? I don't know. I don't really care. But at least we get to see Carol macgyver a rat trap and then go all medieval on some drywall. And Daryl foolishly crawl under a car that's perched on the edge of a ravine. And I'm left to wonder things like would batteries for a flashlight still be available? And lightbulbs for a lamp? And how are they keeping Dog fed?

I'm assuming that the dissociative nature of the character's thoughts and actions resulted from getting conked on the head when she was thrown into the train car or possibly just before that when she was wrestled to the ground and it wasn't meant to be an indication of some longer term illness. But what do I know? Only this. This was a crappy episode. Possibly the worst ever. I don't care about this character Princess at all. I don't find her interesting or enjoyable to watch and this episode was tedious, pointless and annoying. So it had that going for it.

I wonder why the show runners / casting directors, whoever made the decision, thought that the actress cast to play Virginia was the best choice. It's not that the actress is bad, it's just that her appearance, her voice, her mannerisms make it hard to take her seriously in this role. I find her comical and I can't imagine that's the reaction they were going for. That guy with the ruptured appendix sure did turn awfully fast. I didn't really understand what was going on there at first. Are June and the other character just driving around looking for people who need medical assistance? I guess that was part of the set-up so that later when she decides to save Virginia in return for a promise of a hospital we could understand why it's so important to her. That was kind of ridiculous, though, the idea that all she has to do is find some leverage over Virginia and eureka! she'll get a hospital. Stocked with what? Although I realize that in both this show and TWD the characters find supplies magically whenever they need them. I appreciate horses being used for transportation and not as walker food although every time one appears on the screen I'm terrified that it's going to get attacked.

I thought your cartoon strip was hilarious and I certainly couldn't improve on it myself. I'm not that talented.

I find it hard to believe that clearing a fairly small herd like that would have been so terribly difficult to figure out. I get that it was a plot devise, Ginny's way of identifying someone with leadership skills, but I think the test could have been made a little more difficult. Also, it's hard to believe that she would trust whichever person did pass the test. I posted on the real time thread that Dakota was like Carl from the mother show, which meant the early seasons Carl doing stupid stuff that endangered other people. But I guess she's really more like Alpha's daughter, a supposed betrayer although we'll have to see how that plays out. Are there really that many bodies for her to throw at the various problems? The attrition rate has to be pretty bad.