CletusMusashi

Trunk Walker is very upsetting.

Great dramatic scene with Michonne and Sasha. Then Sasha ruins it by resheathing her knife without wiping it. That always infuriates me! Also, I'm jealous of Rick's pecs. Nobody looks like that just from collecting soup cans and fighting zombies. When does he find the time to work out so much? Maybe Abe is sharing the Shake Weight?

Did Daryl's ears gets bigger? When they poke out he looks like Dr. Cornelius.

Maggie is awesome. Bitch slap that useless priest!

Way to keep your baby from getting sunburned there, Rick.

Just got home during the credits! What'd I miss?

I've recently learned that none of the information they've released about the new show was true. It's actually about the zany road adventures of Brillip, Mika, Lizzie, Bob, Martin,Beth, and Tyreese.

Tyreese didn't die 'til they were seperated. Enough said, methinks.

Governors don't die. They come back as ghosts. And Beth? As a singing ghost!

That family must have a terrible priest.

Granted, I'm not sure how available salt still is in their area. But smoking is relatively low-tech. People have been doing it for thousands of years. Only problem is, most secure places to spend a few days preserving meat tend to have a broken fence or an overgrown gutter or a dented lawn gnome or something. Which apparently proves that the only place on earth that anybody can smoke a deer is in Washington D.C. And... now I'm kind of wishing that when that bullet had exploded through that deer and into Carl, that it hadn't been Rick there, but Yakov Smirnoff. Just so he could say: "In Soviet Russia, deer smokes you!"

About Rick and Lori's expectations of women: I was about to chime in with a joke about how Rick really doesn't seem to care that much any more about getting his laundry done. But then, just as I was about to post, I started to wonder.He did travel an awfully long way to make Noah happy, didn't he?

Maybe that's why they're keeping him off camera for a while. When he eventually shows up, they can extrapolate that he mistook laxatives for vitamins, or went on the "Eugene eats first" diet, or found a ShakeWeight somewhere and has been using it in the car like a madman.

If all they know about the "wolves" is that they're operating nearby, I'd say that "nearby" is pretty much the last place you want to settle. Especially if you consider that somebody near Washington is running around carving "W"'s on their victims. Sounds to me like Bush is pushing for a third term, and Cheney is running around turning all who oppose into campaign logos.

"Zombie Lake?"

I agree about "The Body." It could have been effective, if I'd known it was "real," but with Dawn appearing shortly after SuperJonathon and the Dracula castle, I simply assumed that everything I was watching was an alternate universe, and that soon things would revert to the actual show. Even now if I rewatch it, a big part of my brain just sits there defensively grumbling "Well, how the fuck was I supposed to know? What, did everybody else get a magic decoder ring or something?"

I hate them making her the one who pushes for D.C. She is probably the last person on that show who would choose a crowded high-profile city surrounded by swampland to settle down in. If you want to settle down so bad, just do it already. There's fixer-uppers all over the place. But, that's not The Plan. Apparently she's suffering from a very rare type of breakdown that only affects people by causing them to do exactly what the writers have been insisting on for a year anyway. Goodbye, Michonne. Hello, Generic Enabler of Plot Devices.

And also, who goes through all the trouble of dismembering body after body after body,and never once thinks to try a head shot?

The Washington idea just gets worse and worse. At least originally, they were following an anecdotal claim that there was a useful group there. Now, not even that. Even if they magically knew exactly what research facility to look around in, what are they expecting to find, exactly? A whole room full of "Acme Zombie Cure" smoke bombs? There might be something, of theoretical potential cure-use, but not one of them has the training to know what the hell to look for, in the unlikely event that there even is anything there. And they can't fix a broken fence, but they can de-zombify a huge crowded city? What, do they think the zombies will just leave Washington when their term limits expire? If even Michonne is going to be this stupid, can we at least streamline things a little bit and kill off Abe and Eugene?

His schtick about how much Beth wanted to go there with him could have been less "actual truth" and more "him saying whatever it takes to manipulate Rick and Friends." In that case, mission accomplished. He even succeeded in killing off the only other guy who can wash diapers!

OK, that clears up one question then. Tyreese ate her.

"Pretentious" sums it up pretty well. Character death is fine. But it should happen within an actual story. We didn't spend an entire episode watching Shane on his death bed. Or Dale. Even Herschel, despite all the martyr flags they were flying above him, had to share his death episode with an actual storyline. But when it's time for Bob to go, he takes up half an hour. Beth dominates a three-episode story arc. And Tyreese? What exactly happened this week? They're going to Washington for no reason? OK, that's zero things. They found a bunch of half-torsos? OK, that's one thing, but it's one thing that only takes up a couple minutes of the show, so I'm going to want more. And Tyreese got bitten by a zombie and died. That;s literally it. Except for the writers bombarding us with a bunch of head-up-the-ass artsy-fartsiness.

Well, Judith had more of a mother figure. But they just killed him off.

This is exactly what I feared. Certainly nothing I can take seriously as a dramatic series, so, basically a comedy... except with no laughs. Odenkirk, as usual, does nothing technically wrong. He's not a bad actor in any way that I can specifically put my finger on. In fact, he has a great sense of what is funny, and a long history of associating himself with, and even writing for, really brilliant hilarious stuff. But he himself, on camera, is a comedy vacuum. I just never laugh at him. He's one of those guys like Ricky Gervais who I know I'm supposed to find hilarious, and must be some kind of illiterate barbarian if I don't, so when the punchline is over I'm still sitting there waiting for it, and feeling vaguely guilty for not appreciating him more.

That's why MIchael Cudlitz has been throwing up after every meal.