CletusMusashi

Hey, couldn't you just kill all those zombies by driving a fire truck over to the pit and squirting them?

The bandaids and the black and white kept making me think "Sin City," but some of the massive crowd shots made me think "The 300."

I like that Rosita is giving the townspeople gun lessons. It's good for her to have a more important job than Official Walrus Shaver. Also, I like that Morgan actually takes care of his weapon, simple and easily replaceable as it may be. Compared to all the times we've seen Michonne use her sword and then put it back in the sheath still dirty, it's nice to see a touch of realistic concern for something that keeps its owner alive.

As soon as the counter-revolutionaries or whatever you want to call them busted Eugene, I knew exactly what was going to happen. They were going to tie him to a chair, and at the end of that mini-arc he and Olivia were going to be having wild passionate mullet sex. OK, obviously I "knew" wrong, but it just seemed like that's where they were going to go with it. Did anybody else get that vibe? Just me?

One thing I liked about the black and white: toward the beginning there were actually some night scenes that I could see.

Really? The secret invitation-only gated community of Alexandria has signs with literal arrows pointing to it?

OK, if Rick keeps saying "fuck you" to FPP I may eventually vote for him.

Carol had Sam steal it for her.

Uh oh. A black guy. With locks. Does this mean Morgan is in danger? Or Michonne? Well, he knows how to close a gate, so I can guess who he's not replacing.

Oh, good, there he is. I missed you most of all, Father Pee Pants.

Let's do the Grimes warp agaaaaaaain!

Waiting for the show To drink I've got lots of beer And for food? Acorns.

Now that he's actually there, I'll be happy if Morgan can just keep from dying.

On the one hand, it's kind of weird not having "The Strain" on tonight. But on the other hand, given his tendency to wander randomly off-plot, I don't think it's too unlikely that Gus might suddenly turn up "The Walking Dead" tonight with a luchadore.

Okay, first and foremost, I think we need to go into this season understanding that the series has evolved. And, while the characters themselves still think that Romero was the guy who played The Joker on Adam West's Batman, the writers themselves are at least five years more genre-hip than when the series began. And even at the beginning, they respected the hell out out of ZA-horror's fundamentals. The "not knowing zombie rules" thing? That's NOTLD 101! They may not always play a trope in the direction that we expect, but they do know the fundamentals of traditional horror! And that makes me think, based on the episode title... that this is going to be the beginning of the story arc in which Eugene meets his grandfather's boss' grandson.

Also, on the rewatch, I find that the whole fight between Rick and Tyreese develops a lot more organically than I remembered it. Tyreese is flipping out over a violent murder, on top of all the other trauma he's been through lately. He responds so badly to Daryl trying to chill him out that Rick is obligated to try something, which of course doesn't go any better. The whole scene might actually age pretty well, if it weren't for the fact that ultimately it won't matter anyway, because soon Tyreese will be flanderized down so much that the idea that he ever voluntarily fought anyone becomes ludicrous.

About damned time you show up, woman! I blame you for my inabillity to keep watching the spinoff. I mean, sure, the fact that it's a lump of shit wasn't doing it any favors. But it didn't help that even our heckling didn't seem like it could maintain critical mass. This strange little group has endured Brillip, Beth, Carl trading his shoe for pudding, and Tyreese spending an entire episode hallucinating Brillip and Beth. And endure we did. But, sometimes, it really does take a village.

Funnest gag of the week was probably Roberta playing charades to describe Doc, and even the Mennonite women knowing that he was a stoner.

Did Murphy just.. forget he could control zombies? Somebody might want to start asking what zombabies eat. Won't it be great if the giant cheese wheel just keeps on appearing every week?

I've found that just about any sandwich on which lettuce is good becomes better if you substitute raw spinich leaves.

I thought this one was hilarious. Probably the most entertaining episode I've seen yet. Yes, the list of "Firefly" comparisons continues to skyrocket, but I don't need one hundred per cent original. What I need, or at least want, is fun. And this was good silly fun. Zaniness suits it.

I feel like we missed a couple of episodes.Last season's ending was not one that should be followed by a jump forward in time. Major is way more interesting with Ravi than he is with Liv, so let's actually see his conversations with Ravi instead of extrapolating them. Show us a little more argument with the mother, and with good writing the anger would feel more justified. Let us actually see the new roomie move in, before any hint is given about Max Rager spying. Also, did Peyton just fall off the edge of the earth? Is she still talking to anybody? Is she still going to work? If we're supposed to forgot about her for now, give us a hint.

I also don't see, if Abraham is allowed to show up with Fet, why Eichorst couldn't just show up with his business associate Simon Bolivar. The two of them could easily use super-speed to kill all the mooks, then make Creem tell them where the book is. A few episodes ago, they knew how to do that trick. Now, they just think.. what? That if someday somebody makes a TV show about their adventures, that doing the same thing twice might be boring? I wish they'd decided that about the Zach-napping.

Back then, the only way to keep Carl inside was to shoot him.

By the way, how many gunmen are maintaining control of Auction Island? A dozen maybe? Seems like Quinlan could have just gone there, kicked some ass, and gotten the book weeks ago.