CletusMusashi

Just a simple silly rhymey-poem, because I'm too tired to count syllables. Daryl Dixon Give up hope Beth is gone so sit and mope Smoke and ponder why life's bleak all day all night all fucking week Daryl Dixon has no care about his odor Just his hair And I want to ask of Rick's best henchman Are you a redneck? Or a Frenchman?

I think the jokes about Jenn not wanting to buy a wiener from him would be flying pretty fast. She'd probably be making them right along with us. The New York thing would not matter. Judd was a New York doorman. Some words just sound funny, and "doorman" is one of them. As is "coconut." Suffice it to say that nobody on TWOP ever gave that guy an inch. But, just like with Vince, the vast majority of it was due to the material he gave us. Man, those were good times. The same season also featured a "fishmonger," and we used the word as often as humanly possible, but she was just never as ridiculed as Judd was, because Judd acted like an insane fool. As did Vince.

They will.

I don't think making their "wards" into faster runners was very high on the Grady list of priorities. Honestly, he's lucky they didn't just chop off the entire leg and replace it with a sewing machine.

Oh, but wouldn't it be great if they tried? "Hi, Rick. This is Oscar." "Wait... who?"

If anything, he seemed like he was trying to do the Svengali eyes, as if he could force his willpower into Joe's brain.

As much time as he spent fumbling around in the water, I for one am very disappointed that he did not emerge with sandwiches.

Based on the title, I'm going to guess that it's going to be a zany amnesia episode. We'll find out that the reason FPP hasn't been seen lately is that he got hit on the head, forgot who he was, and wound up having an awesome action-hero solo adventure, before inevitably getting bonked on the head again and returning to his usual uselessness. I don't suppose it's possible to grow coconuts in Virginia, is it? What can I say? I'm a traditionalist.

He's supposed to be the face of order, yes, but how much "law" will play into that remains to be seen. I kind of hope next week we see CDB reading through an enormous pile of ASZ laws trying to memorize and make sense out of them all. But that means the writers would have to figure that out as well, so I'm thinking Rick'll be playing not just a cop. but a lawmaker as well. "Death penalty for wandering into the woods? What are talking about? Coral does it all the time!" "My friends can't carry assault rifles into City Hall? Screw that!" "Daylight savings?" BANG! "Not in my town." By the way, I fully support him on that last one.

The most benign thing I'll say about his behavior is that the isolation of the island probably increases his neediness to a level that he's not used to feeling. He seems like he might be one of those clueless guys who get rejected by 20 girls in a row but still hook up with number 21, because they're simply not introspective enough to accumulate any sense of self doubt from the other rejections. But when the dating pool is more limited, he can't just keep accepting "no" and moving on, because, to who? So tries his usual strategy, which is keep trying, except this time it's still being shoved at the one girl who he thinks he might theoretically have a chance with. In RL, when he does get rejected by absolutely everybody, he can still at least call up his friends and smoke a doobie with them. On Survivor, he neither has a crowd to mix in and out of, nor any kind of actual social support network. All of to which I say: get the fuck over it, Coconut Boy.

So is that where Morgan lives?

Can't get to it. Daryl's built a nest, and he's very territorial.

I think a good idea would be to put up another fence further out. Another solid, opaque, ASZ style fence, not just bars or chain-link. And write warnings all over it: Contaminated Everyone Dead ASZmunchers inside Danger Do Not Enter Tonight Only: The Comedy Stylings of Carrot Top Pile up Rick's old clothing and Daryl's possum guts around the inside of that final perimeter, and I think you'd be pretty much left alone.

I liked seeing Glenn smack down that ASZhole, but I didn't like the choreography. I had the same problem the time he punched down Abraham. Glenn leads a very active lifestyle. Fighting, running, walking, climbing, lots of grabbing and carrying supplies, I accept just fine that he's strong. But strong people can still have some technique. Rick is a strong guy, and Rick is all over the place when he's brawling. Daryl too. I think the fight directors could do way better for Glenn than just stick him with "Glenn strong. Glenn punch you hard, silly red-shirt." A couple more seconds of action, a few more blows attempted by the opposition, maybe Glenn himself landing a few minor shots before the actual knock-down.. that's all I'm saying. Stylistically, he's not meant to be The Hulk. He's meant to be Spider Man. I suspect they may want to avoid giving him any obvious karate or jujitsu moves or whatever because, at least in his case, they want to avoid ethnic stereotyping. And I can respect that. But there is a huge spectrum of action between having him throw roundhouse kicks at people and... moving around a bit more, like we've seen him do in actual combat plenty of times. Fresh in from the battlefields as he is, Glenn should, if anything, be approaching "social" dominance fights with a little bit too much seriousness.

You know, this Sunday was the first time I ever maxed out the number of daily "Thanks" you're allowed to give here. I'm sure I've come close before, but never actually hit the magic number.What is it? 99? 100? But on Sunday, I hit it early. I did not even use up that quota the night that Carol blew up Terminus. Or the night we discovered that there was such a thing as "lollicops." Hopefully this conveys some idea of how much fun this ep has been to discuss here. And still is.

Most of their landscapers are in Georgia.

1. Daryl is rebelling against the ASZ by using rancid possum guts as deodorant. 2. I've got a few guesses. Hypothesis A: Rick has absorbed massive quantities of tannins, from all the acorns he eats. He has learned how to crush them up, eat them raw, and then regurgitate them back up for Judith, like she's a baby bird, after most of the tannin has been absorbed into his own system. He's been very slowly increasing the levels that he lets her digestive system deal with, so that eventually she would have been a lot less sunburn-prone. And it would have worked, too, if it weren't for that meddling ASZ! Hypothesis B: Rick is still dirty, because there were only 963 bars of soap in the entire town.

Enid didn't do anything because she's a secret ninja who knows she could kill every boy in the room in about three seconds, if she wanted to.

I've been picturing her upbringing as more like the relationship between Nicholas Cage and Chloe Moretz in "Kick-Ass."

Keeping a strong untrustworthy guy around for challenges doesn't make the same sense that it used to. These days, tribal shuffles are the norm, not the exception, so he may well end up working against whatever team you're on. However, at least he'll be an obvious merge target.

Or quit. And still been ignored.

I want to see a scene where Carol sneaks over the wall to check something suspicious out, and she sees Enid, also checking it out, and they just sort of look at each other silently, keep going with their secret agendas, and then sneak back the ways they came in.

My favorite town name suggested was Ricksburg. But what would you call its natives? Ricksburgian is as bad as Alexandrian. And Ricksburger? Probably too soon. (if there were still a Carl's open, he'd go berserk!) ASZ is workable with. And what will the ASZ turn out to be filled with? Unfortunately... probably ASZoles.

But Rick was never a sheriff. He was a deputy. We saw him and Shane at work, with no big silly hats anywhere in sight. Then one day he woke from a coma with a temporary penchant for sheriff cosplay. Then he got over it. But Carl was problematically impressionable, so the odious trend was perpetuated. I give them one season before Judith is wearing the damn thing.

If Rick and Michonne were the alphas, they would not both be single. The only way an alpha in a wolf pack is alone for any real amount of time is if their mate died recently and everybody else of appropriate level is currently paired up. Lone wolves are not a part of a wolf pack. Lone wolves are either individuals so weak that they were bullied out, and if they're lucky they eventually lose their virginity to a dog or coyote... or they are simply the last survivor of their pack being shot to death. Daryl is neither of these things. Oh, he is free to be a completely human, completely metaphorical lone wolf. But not as a part of a metaphorical wolf pack. And, all wolves are den mothers. Not even just all females. All adult wolves, of both sexes, put way less thought into dressing like Little Red Riding Hood's grandma than they do into feeding their pups something besides acorns. Although as far as the dressing up like a harmless grandma thing goes... I suppose you could make an argument for the metaphorical lupinicity of Carol.