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I think Glen is dead. The way they fell Nicholas and Glen's heads were. In the same direction. If he had landed on Glen as a shield, we should have seen his head. We did not. The only conclusion I could draw (along with the agony on Glen's face) is that he was literally being torn apart. I don't see the way he died as a cout. I felt it was very true to character. He went out on a mission in which he was trying to save others with the guy he gave a second chance. Brave, noble, and eternally optimistic in the humanity of others. That's Glen.

Ok, so, if the candy is bad for you and you can't have it, why do parents let their kids go trick or treating? Or if you only want them to have a certain amount, why do you let them continue to trick or treat after they have what you think is acceptable? Why not ration the candy to last weeks or months? Why are parents too afraid to put their foot down that they feel the need to abdicate responsibility to a plush toy? Those switch witch people irritate me.

I think the idea of the Switch Witch was the Witch brought new gifts to replace the candy not that the witch was the gift. So, let's turn Halloween into a gift-giving holiday...yes, that sounds good.

I potty trained my son on a training potty and then on the adult potty without a special seat. He did gone and has never fallen in. My nephew is being potty trained using this: http://www.amazon.com/Bemis-1483SLOW-Whisper-Close-Toilet/dp/B004CT50UA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1445130151&sr=8-2&keywords=Toilet+seat+with+potty+training

No, that was Carter tonight. Pete was the guy who killed Reg in last season's finale. Pete wasn't put out of his misery in the traditional sense (though he was a pretty miserable person, so I suppose strictly speaking he was put out of his misery).

I think that car was the neighbor that Madison and Travis acknowledged when they got home. He was putting water in the car, and was coughing. And then at the end, he was the one eating the birthday party planner.

As frustrating as it is for the characters not to tell Alicia what they've seen, I think it makes sense. They don't know what is going on, and they don't know the walkers are (un)dead. Before the world goes to crap, the moral code is still "Thou shall not kill" and this early in the ZA, it makes sense that morality still reigns. And they probably think they killed someone (or now for Madison, two people). It doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't jump at the chance to say, "Hey, we killed someone today." Yup, it frustrates me (almost as much as Madison and Tobias driving around with their windows rolled down), but I can totally understand their reluctance.

Not considering the consequences of her actions doesn't appear to have stopped her from actually taking those actions before.She isn't saying things on camera because she is high and can't accurately formulate coherent thoughts, not because she is Clarence Darrow.

So, the outbreak is being managed like Ebola...disposal of dead bodies is of paramount importance and the way things spread is people who don't know protocol. I can totally buy the idea that the ZA's ramp up was slow, especially if the information was being withheld from the populace. While it is important to advise the medical professionals, and most deaths will happen on their watch, there will always be unelected deaths, and I bet that is how this gets out of hand. What surprises me though is that there are still so few people on the outside who know. The immediate disposal of bodies and not observing religious protocols isn't causing people to ask what is going on?

If I remember correctly, didn't the first episodes of TWD make a big deal of not being put at night because that is when the zombies were most active. I think as the ZA has gotten further along, the zombies don't mind the sunlight as much as at the beginning.

The Zombie Drop is the new Mic Drop. Just walk off the stage...

I really don't understand Nicholas. If he is so dang scared and he has been nearly killed at least once (though, really, what is the likelihood that it only happened once), and has failed on his runs at least twice (though, really, what is the likelihood that it only happened twice) why is he so heck-bent on going out on runs? Do those who do go outside get some special perks that we don't see? Do they get banished if they ask to be reassigned? (I don't think so, we saw Tobin from the construction site run over during the fight, so he is sill there). Is it male pride? He isn't good at it. He doesn't like it. There are other things he could be doing that are less dangerous but still can sooth his "manly" pride (turns at the bell tower or wall patrol or converting a building into jail cells). I just don't understand why someone, especially someone who has seen the consequences of failure outside the walls isn't jumping at the chance to make something up to get him reassigned inside the walls. We know where he falls in the fight or flight spectrum...why doesn't he?

It is an interesting juxtaposition between Rick's "broken window theory" from last week which says we have to pay attention to the small crimes to keep the big ones from happening and Deanna's "the good of the many outweighs the good of the few" theory of a doctor helps more people than an abuser hurts.

Rick had just eaten. Tune Casserole and vein do not pair well without a good chianti.

That's OK, he's not a Catholic priest. He's an Episcopal priest.

I think that the idea that FPP will be believed relies upon the idea that everything was idyllic before CDB came to town and now everything is going to hell in a hand basket. But they have lost people before. They lost 4 on a supply run just a week or two ago. They keep alluding to the things they have lost, and for some of them, it was real, live family members (I assume those 4 had loved ones with them in the ASZ). So, the idyllic vibe pre-CDB is simply an illusion--or delusion. It isn't like welcoming CDB into the ASZ was the same thing as eating the forbidden fruit. Death was there already, albeit probably not at the same level that is likely about to happen. And I am constantly wondering where the grief is for those who were lost on that supply run. Our guys have seen so much death, I can understand being numb to it all, compartmentalizing, or getting over it quickly, but is Alexandria so numbed by loss that no one grieves the loss of 4 members? If so, ASZ is even more suspicious with their happy little façade. It must be really hard to keep your faith in a loving and merciful God in the ZA. I bet there are a lot more atheists in the ZA than there were before. Maybe Deanna is one of them, and therefore has little respect for the maniacal ravings of a man of the cloth. And when those birds telegraphed the arrival of walkers at the construction site, I had a history geek moment thinking of the animals flushed out ahead of Stonewall Jackson's surprise flank attack at Chancellorsville. Anyone else make the connection? Just me? I was the only one history geeking out? Well, that happens often enough, you'd think I'd be used to it by now. :)

I don't mind the idea of striving to return to normalcy and building a community per se, but I do think it really idiotic to make that a top priority, before, oh, I don't know...perimeter security. I mean, even pre-ZA, there are communities that protect themselves better than this (gated communities with security guards, homes with security systems, shopfronts with barred windows or security doors). Even before walkers appeared on the scene, the threat has been other people. If these people wouldn't have ever met pre-ZA, that tells me that we have a wide swath of socio-economic backgrounds represented, so not all of them lived a charmed life pre-ZA and some of them have got to have seen that people are always the biggest threat. And even if they can't see the human threat, they can't be totally ignorant of the walker threat as they have already lost people on a run, so I just don't understand how there isn't vigilance, if not hypervigilance, on the part of this community to ensure that their innocents can stay innocent. I think Deanna's desire to create a government before even ensuring border integrity and security to those within is ridiculous. I am not going to get into the echoes of how it mirrors DC politics today, but will say that she strikes me as one of those Homeowners Association Presidents who thinks they are more important than they really are. She can't control much in this world, but damn it, she will control the grass mowing schedule (except apparently not in ASZ because the grass is far from manicured). I don't remember what it was (if there was just the way Dr. Pete talked to Jesse at the party or if there was actually something I saw in the last scene) that read controlling douche, but I though Rick reached for his gun to assure himself that if things went bad, he was prepared. I go hiking alone sometimes. I take pepper spray. I never intend to use it, but I like to check occasionally while I am out on the trail just to make sure I can get to it quickly in the event I need it. I do the same thing with my camera, too. I understand not wanting to let your guard down. They've seen horrible things and if the town is run as incompetently as it appears to be with such lax security, I'd be even more on my guard, because heaven knows these ASZ folks aren't going to be able to have my people's backs if they can't bother to put someone in the clocktower, or have a perimeter detail, or do they even have an alarm system?

Well then, that makes sense. The heads/torsos that avalanched into their Suburban when they were trying to take off had a "W" carved in the foreheads. Looks like the "Wolves" were not animals but another group of people. Though we may never find out.