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I’m glad you mentioned this; I too found Book Sara much more confident, authoritative, a commanding presence, etc. Actually, several of the characters suffer when translated from book to show; I prefer the non-jackass version of Kreizler and the street-smart police reporter version of John as well.

. I pretend this zombie virus is actually the Kellis-Amberlee virus from Mira Grant's Newsflesh book trilogy. (Cure for cancer & cure for common cold mutated, so no one gets either of those anymore, but everyone's infected and reanimates after death.) This helps a great deal.

Ha, me either. I tried to come up with a list once and drove myself nuts. (Even (F?)aegon could be presented as a little brother, and Jon would be one too since R+L=J would give him two older half-siblings.) I've decided to quit speculating for now - there are a lot of little brothers in the Seven Kingdoms and a good many of them have reason to be just as unhappy with Cersei as her actual brothers are.

I got the "Oh crap" and am mildly worried about Carl and Judith, but am hopeful that Carl will be able to handle things as I've already worried enough about Judith's fate between the bloody carseat and her run-in with Martin. :) Of course, it would certainly count for the "pissing people off" part if something happened to Rick's family while he was off being greatly concerned about Jessie's family. (But it would probably also piss people off if Rick demanded that the ASZhats deal with Jessie's abusive husband and she ended up dead immediately anyway. And it would be chilling if Sam had locked himself in the closet not knowing that everyone is infected...)

Pete pulls an "If I can't have you no one will" and kills Jessie during a final beating while Sam is hiding in Chekov's Bolted Closet, and the last shot is Jessie's eyes reopening? (ETA - sorry, that wasn't terribly clear - I was thinking maybe Pete had already killed Jessie and possibly other family members before going to the meeting, and the last scene might involve the others finding this out at his home....)

Oh gosh, that's how I read it too - it seemed like a really bad omen for Noah at the time, to have him doing optimistic things like talking to girls and asking about architect training and thinking about the future in general. The brand-new law enforcement feels that he's always on duty so he should remain sober (well, most of the time), but the town's only doctor is OK with being drunk in the middle of the day? I hope he has assistants to help him deal with Tara's head injury. I was just thinking this apocalypse had a shortage of religious wackiness. So thanks for that, Father Gabriel.

I was hoping there was just enough truth in her lies to be convincing. I imagine she did clean, garden, and have dinner on the table by the time her Ed was home (if she didn't want a black eye or dislocated shoulder). She misses that stupid, wonderful man every day (emphasis on stupid, I guess - maybe she dug deep and remembered him being nice while they were dating). She did cook and do laundry and have few other useful skills, and was provided with protection (by an almost entirely different group). Then she was a den mother (teaching the prison kids survival skills). And she'd love to become involved with the community (so she can spy on Pleasantville).

Agree with all that. ^ I like the character a lot and think she's just very depressed after Mika/Lizzie and not being able to talk about it.

I'm a latecomer to the show (binge-watched Seasons 1-4 over summer) and it FINALLY hit me who the Daryl character reminded me of - Eddie Dean from Stephen King's Dark Tower series, who also started out as a guy who loyally followed his jackass of an older brother in a variety of unproductive endeavors. Whew. That was bothering me.