Captain I0

I know they touched on it a little by the end of last season, but I'm still suprised at how well the almost heel to face turn they did with Howard has worked. You really see now that he really does have some respect for Jimmy, and does see his value but just has been playing the bad guy for Chuck for so long. And even though he still seems to have deference to Chuck and almost a certain amount of fear, he's up front and honest about things..."I didn't stand in his way". Even suggesting to Chuck's face that he knows Chuck wants him to stand in the way of Jimmy's success.

Don't forget that she's only pregnant because she lied and said she was on the pill to trap a kid, who was going to use a condom, into knocking her up. It's sad that they wrote such a drastic change in her when she got into puberty, but she's really been nothing more than a sexual predator for three straight seasons at this point.

I don't understand why so many people give Carol such a pass for her shit. It's not just Sam's breakdown, the kid may have freaked out without her, but she set so many of these events off in the first place. She started when they got to Alexandria by playing Rick not only against the town, but playing him against the rest of CDB too, trying to get him not to trust anyone. She then delibrately pushed prochdick in the incident that set him over the edge to get all throat slicey on Deanna's husband. And as dumb as what Morgan did was, he was right that in the middle of the Walker attack was not the time for Carol to try to deal with any of it. So much went to shit because of the things she did. She's really only had one redeeming moment in years (albeit a big one, in the terminus rescue) I'm ready to see her die.

Anyone who defends Carol in this ep is as batshit as she is. Whatever you think of Morgan's dumbassery over this unfair Wolf, he was right about one thing. "now is not the time" And Carol just effed it up the whole way. There was no need to kill this guy in the middle of a walker horde attack, or really for her to kill him at all. All she would have had to do is tell Rick and she would have gotten both of her wishes granted with a dead Wolf and exiled/dead Morgan. And even if she was convinced that he had to die RIGHT NOW, she still was a moron for trying to attack Morgan with a knife. She could have called his bluff. She could have tried to go for the Wolf and seen if Morgan was really willing to kill her over him, but instead she goes after somebody bigger and stronger than her with a knife...mensa material there. But, really, I won't go as far as to say it's out of character for her. She's been nuts since the Prison. Taking it upon herself to kill people in their group and burn them, without consulting anyone was bad, but it was understandable. Rick was still crazy and the group didn't have any real leadership. She crossed a line, but you could understand the thought process. But, the only redeeming thing she's done since then (which was a big one) is the attack on Terminus. Last season she went Yoko, trying to get Rick to break up the band. Whispering in his ear and trying to isolate him from the rest of CDB. She also intentionally set off Porchdick M.D, likely in an attempt to get him to do just what he did and get himself killed..taking someone else with him. So, no, I wouldn't say this is out of character. She's proven herself to be working a different angle for CDB than anyone else in the group and doesn't really have any interest in doing what's best for the group, or even for herself, at any given time.

Parkman was working for Renatus last episode. This was the stupidest "reveal" ever, not showing his face for like 2 minutes, as if it was supposed to be a shock that it was him.

"Deadite" is first used at the end of Evil Dead 2, when Ash is sent back in time. In fact, assuming the issue is legalities over the rights to AOD, there isn't much to worry about in regard to referencing AOD, with the exception of S-Mart. If they can use anything from Evil Dead / Evil Dead 2, we already see Ash get sent back in time and be predicted to be their savior...After ash shoots the demon in the past, they say "Hail he who has come from the skies to deliver us from the terrors of the deadites!". So as long as they don't say any proper names (Duke Henry, Sheila, S-Mart), they should be able to reference basically what happened in AOD.

Why do people keep saying that Morgan letting the wolves live lead to this? The timeline doesn't work. We saw in the previous episode that it was Carl's girlfriend that led the wolves to Alexandria. She was marking the trail for them to follow. And she was there before Rick's crew arrived. Which means she had already marked the trail to Alexandria before Aaron and Darryl went out, and left Aaron's backpack. Sure, we'll have scenes of Aaron feeling responsible and Morgan too in the coming episodes. Before the eventual reveal (to the group-we've already been shown) that it was coming regardless, because of whatever that teenage girl's name is and they'll have to figure out what to do with her.

Why are people upset with Morgan over Glen's death? He just let a couple random wolves live. It's Carl's girlfriend that led them to Alexandria. I hope Glenn is dead. I like him and all, but it would be a cheap, lame and unbelievable misdirection if he survived. Even if it was Nicholas neing eaten in that scene, his ability to survive under a pile of a hoard of walkers just diminishes the zombie threat.

But this is a bit of a circular argument that fails to connect with your original reasoning, is what I'm saying. You are claiming that it only matters what Joe thinks of Anita. So, from Joe's perspective, if Anita can't consent due to programming, then she's simply a programmable appliance. If she's more than that, then she has some ability to consent, which he asked for.

This sounds like a very strange definition of rape.Joe thinks she should be respected but has sex with her anyway after checking if she objects? I just fail to see this adequately explained as rape. Adultry? Maybe. Creepy? Perhaps. But rape? I can't see anywhere in which that fits the standards of rape. Lets say it was his cousin rather than a machine. Or his coworker. Both would be considered innapropriate relationships. Both might be women he thinks should be respected. But having sex with them wouldn't be rape, unless they objected to it. Which we've edtablished Anita didn't.

The problem is that your analogy breaks down because there is no raping or molestation taking place vis a vis Joe & Anita. We have been provided pretty clear context in this show. There was a molestation attempt by Toby. There was a rape attempt by the teens at the party. There was a "rape" attempt by the John at the brothel. There was also unwanted sex at the brothel. However, none of that is the case in the Anita/Joe situation. Again, in this case consent was clearly asked prior to even accessing the adult features and consent was asked after enabling them. Reciprocated actions were given prior to enabling adult features, by Anita, suggestive of "desire" to participate as much as a robot would be capable and once those features are enabled, it's not a matter of "not minding", but having the personality of wanting to. We've been given a clear range of different sexual interactions and I would say that Joe and Anita's was clearly meant to show another case, which wasn't meant to be at all like the unwanted examples above. The question of what being programmed to want this means can be explored, but if we accept being programmed to do anything as them not really "wanting" to do it, then you've deconstructed things too far as there is really no point to their existence. Your question "is it rape if they are programmed not to mind"? Is a loaded question. I'm assuming intentional, but maybe not so. However to answer it anyway. If the issue of sentience is not a question, then the answer is an obvious no. A machine can't be raped any more than a vibrator can, which is also programmed to give sexual pleasure, just not as sophisticatedly programmed .

This is way off-base. What the kids in the party were going to do is akin to be being a "roofying rapist". No matter what Joe thinks of synth's level of sentience is, what he did is not. If you knock someone out with a roofy, it doesn't make them want to have sex with you. It makes them unconscious. Joe had the capability to make somebody want to have sex with him & then had sex with her. To bring it back to your point, he either thinks the synth is an inanimate object and therefore was masturbating with an adult toy, or he thinks they are sentient and what he did was commit adultery. But he didn't rape, or force himself on anyone. He first verbally asked for consent to turn on her adult options and then verbally asked for consent to have sex. That's pretty far removed from roofy rape on the spectrum of sex crimes. There was not even any reason shown to think that Anita didn't "want to" have her Adult options turned on as she initiated physical contact with him many times throughout their conversation before he went through with it. In fact, there was certainly some suggestion leading up to this point in the series (I haven't watched past this episode) that Anita was actively trying to (and wanting to) replace Laura in many ways in the family and this would be another logical step for her to take. So, if you take the "He thinks she is sentient" stance, many of her prior actions could even be construed as attempts to seduce Joe. It's science fiction, so there isn't an apt allegory in real life. And rape certainly isn't one. Now, because we, the audience, know she actually has a fully sentient personally hidden underneath her synth one it certainly creates more uncomfortability in how we see her treated than other synths we know to not have emotions. And I imagine this will set up issues down the line when Mia gets control of her body back, but I have to totally disagree with your characterization of this situation.

A habitual user, or even someone just used to coke binges (actually, probably even more so, somebody that is used to binges) could definitely handle that much coke. It's a lot, but that happens all the time. He's definitely playing with fire, and a batch that's more potent than he's suspecting could end him any night, but the odds are he's not going to go into cardiac arrest on any one given bender like that. The comedown was him crying and breaking shit, so I wouldn't say he was perfectly fine at all from it. The effects of Coke are very short lasting. We got the high and the comedown all in a few hours.

There's no doubt that it's extremely short-sighted and petty by the ex-wife, but it doesn't have to be about challenging his parenthood, per se. I think it's mostly about severing the connection between Ray and her son. But, I don't think it's that well thought out by her. Why she wants her son to find out his biological father was a rapist is cruel and unusual. Not to mention, the rapist could, in theory petition for some parental rights himself. He probably wouldn't get them and likely wouldn't want to, but he could try and make things messy if he wanted to.

He is most certainly listed as father on his birth-cert, so yes, it's not as simple as one paternity test can remove all his paternal rights immediately. However, Ray has other issues that have already restricted his visitation rights. Hence why he's also being drug tested. And she hasn't turned him in for it, but she also knows he brass-knuckle beat a kid's father at Chad's school. We don't know if anything happened between them when they were married. But Ray certainly has more than a little temper and it wouldn't be that hard to argue that he's a threat. We've seen him yelling at Chad and scaring him early on in the season. I'm no lawyer, but if it also turns out he's not even genetically his child, I'd have to think they could come up with a pretty slam-dunk case to take away most, if not all, of his paternal rights. Furthermore, Chad believes Ray's his father. Take that away and Ray's not much more than this scarey guy that yells at him at his Mom/Step dad want him to stay away from. Chad's just a few years away from being able to make some decisions on his own about if he wants to spend time with Ray or not.