CletusMusashi

A lot of child walkers are stuck in places we won't see them. Attics, basements, bedrooms. Even of those who were out wandering the streets, no doubt a lot of them got stuck in holes and ditches that a taller zombie could have pulled itself out of. Also, I would assume little zombies are easier to kill. As long as they don't all sneak up on you through a cornfield or something.

Or they could do a season in the 1950s, a season in the old west, a season in King Arthur's court, a season in Bedrock... there's also no reason they can't into the far, far future, to stop the (hopefully talking monkey) time traveler who originally brought the most critical part of the plague technology back into our time. Damn you all to hell, you filthy stinking apes!

Holy crap, I would have LOVED to see Herschel treating everyone dog-style (no, not like that!) Cones around the neck when injured, flea collar on Rick, maybe even getting Shane neutered...

I honestly enjoyed both episodes tonight. Frankly, these last two episodes were better than the first four combined.

He keeps a ready supply of Acme Worming Gel in his hair for just such an occasion.

Wish granted! Herschel confronts Shane immediately. Shane drives off Herschel and his family at gunpoint. The Greenes all end up working for the Governor. Glenn goes too. Shortly after they get there, Merle arrives. When he starts crap with Glenn, the Woodburians try to kill him and he runs away, eventually rejoining Shane. Having Merle back as part of the group rekindles Daryl's loyalty to Shane, which had been wavering. Andrea never meets Michonne or the Governor, because Lori gets tired of Shane cheating and kills her. So MIchonne never slows down enough to meet the other characters. Judith is assumed by everyone to be Shane's daughter, and is nicknamed Lil Asskiller. Carl falls for Shane's bullshit story about being his real father. They show their emotional bond by Coral giving Shane The Hat to wear. Lori still dies in childbirth, but Shane keeps her around anyway, like the Governor's daughter. Except with more zombie sex. Without Herschel, when the flu breaks out, everyone at the prison dies. Except Lori, who has just enough trace memory left to realize that The Hat means something. So she puts it on and shambles her way to Woodbury. The Governor falls in love and marries her. Now he has a complete family. Most of Season 3 consists of the wedding ceremony, which is filmed in real time. Beth sings a lot. I wish that Father Gabriel were played by "fluffy" Latino comedian Gabriel Iglesias.

There could be a valid point here about her acting failing to elevate the material. She was actually better at acting silently than at acting noticeably. I thought a lot of her quiet, stoic schtick during the Grady arc was extremely well done, but I'm not sure even it truly "stands out" compared to some of the silent scenes that have been done by, for example, Rick or Michonne. Emily's acting usually makes me say "She's not a bad actress. People are kind of rough on her." Andrew's makes me say "Rick may be an idiot, but that is one hell of a great actor."

I suspect a tad of hyperbole in that last sentence. They showed Maggie, for example, working on the fence right next to Rick. But.. yeah. They did seem to "need" to keep Beth weak so that the heroic men could still have their traditional roles. At least until the only plan the writers had left was "kill this character off on schedule." During the later parts of the Dawn arc, I honestly have no idea WTF they were doing with her! Well, look on the bright side. The worm has turned. Nowadays, the damsels in distress tend to be played by Eugene or Father Pee Pants. Somehow it's not an improvement.

I like her. Don't think I've seen the actress before, but she's nice to look at and her character carries a large percentage of the show's watchable moments. She deserves to be a on a better SyFy show. Maybe Cole can go back in time and prevent "Being Human" from getting cancelled? The first name is a bit much, though. How about calling the thread: Dr. "Cassandra..." Really?

I'm glad to see somebody besides me wasn't a big fan. That hour felt like a not-very-fast-moving two hour pilot. The original movie, besides being much better acted and directed, was just one movie. They told a story, the movie ended, and they moved on. Everybody liked it, yet nobody wanted a sequel. That's kind of a hint that it's going to be problematic to make a series out of. The bad guys in this thing are idiots. Who the hell lets a time traveler take any kind of clocklike object out of his pocket and mess around with it while you just stand there and look at him? Even if their first thought is "Nah, that can't be a time machine. What is this, the Syfy channel?" it could still be a bomb or something. Maybe it emits a gas that doesn't affect people with strangely altered metabolisms? Do not let the enemy reach into his pocket, take something out, and start playing around with the settings on it! Needs more monkeys.

And Eugene's hair grew into a mullet to symbolize that there was something fishy about him.

Maybe he misinterpreted her explanation. The actual idea is that the hair is a symbiotic organism that feeds on darkness, drawing it out of him and into itself. Up til now it's actually been beneficial, but after a while it can be too much of a good thing. If you don't believe me, ask Tyreese.

I figure if Daryl's hair ever becomes a serious danger to the group, Carol's hair will do whatever it has to.

That hairdresser should be fired immediately. I am not joking. The level of incompetence really is that bad. I mean, if they just wanted to add a few shades to it, so it was like built-in mood lighting, or lack thereof, I could maybe see that. But darker people turn brunette? What the hell is this, "Buffy?" Not to mention, he hasn't gotten darker. Daryl tried to kill Rick with a knife when they first met. These days... he's practically Fonzie.

She keeps a whole personal grooming kit stashed in her hair.

Heh heh. RhuBob.

No, it's different. You parted your hair in the middle, so you could still see. I've had long hair that was combed back, I've had long hair that was cut short in front (although I never obsessed over the fashion aspects of it the way Eugene does,) I've had short hair, no hair, for a very long time I shaved it all off except a ponytail (got an annoying bald spot when I was in my 20s, but still wanted long hair,) and now that I'm older and more evenly bald on top, all I do is trim the sides. I let the back grow as long as it wants to. What do all these things have in common? None of them obstruct my vision. If Daryl had always run around with emo hair, we could fanwank that maybe he was just used to it. But he started the zombie apocalypse with a buzz cut. I just don't think that the lifestyle he lives is conducive to sacrificing one's ability to see where one's crossbow is pointed.

You know, that reminds me. The Seminoles would rub fish oil on themselves as mosquito repellent. Daryl could be doing a similar trick. To me it looks more like motor oil or something, but the specific chemical details don't really matter. He might be rubbing a little bit of it all over his skin, and that extra heavy glump of it on top is just an easy way to keep it handy for when he needs a re-coat. Now all we need to explain is why he likes having hair in his eyeballs.

This has come up before, although I'm not sure which thread it was on. My argument then, as now, was/is that Carol at that particular point in time was not a useful tracker or warrior or even person to have in the woods with you when zombies are attacking. She was a useful member of a society. And what societies do is division of labor. if she could handle doing all the cooking and cleaning for those who were the big tough capable ones, then they could damned well put as much effort into finding her daughter as they would for, say, Coral. For somebody as worried as she was at the time, combined with how useless she herself would have been (at the time! she did get better!) doing the search herself (the group would have had to waste a good field person babysitting and/or finding and/or rescuing her, when that person could be searching for her daughter instead,) I think her decision-making ability was very commendable. And the fact that she sometimes came across as bitchy, at the group of heroes whose leader had run away and left her child in zombie peril, simply proves that she was human. As for the subsequent reactions... by the time they opened the barn, she had already accepted the death and grieved. Off-camera, obviously, because the stories of other characters in most of S2 tended to eclipse hers. But we saw the wheels for it turning earlier in some of her interactions with Daryl. And once she'd realized her daughter was almost certainly dead, she was still going to carry on, because there were still people around that she cared a lot about... then the zombie surprise wasn't that much of a deal breaker any more. She'd seen people she knew turn before. Once they turn, not so much to worry about any more. Just one more more Walker. The original person? Still dead, just like before they got up. She used up her worrying when it mattered. When it was still plausible that Sophia was alive.

One thing that surprised me a lot was the age of the squires being historical-accurate, rather than Hollywood-"accurate." Young noble boys training to be knights would be hooked up with a squire position, but they were always the minority. Most knights would choose an experienced, but common, man-at-arms to fill the job, and in those cases it was a permanent gig, not a step toward knighthood. It's so weird to see them get a lesser-known fact right on a silly anachrofest like this that i wonder if they just didn't have anybody younger auditioning.

Even though I like cats, the part comparing Father Gabriel to one is brilliant. And I love the name "Team Short Bus."

He's getting ready to play Squiggy in the "Laverne and Shirley" reboot.

I thought the bald eunuch was meant to be a jab at Varys on "Game of Thrones."

In my opinion, S2 was the last predominately good season. However, S3 was the last predominately interesting season. That's not to say that S2 wasn't interesting. Only to say that, once you scratch the admittedly rather flashy surface, there isn't as much to S3 as one initially assumes. However, at least it had none of the weird borefest episodes that they started trying to sneak in on us later on. Spoiler Alert for Season 4:

The Executioners had the best song. Kind of an odd choice to shove that one into the background, while letting weaker numbers take over their scenes one hundred per cent. The "Jackass in a Can" number wasn't bad, but could easily have been much better. If you're writing a musical, it is okay to care about singing ability, energy, background music, etc. Half-assing it doesn't make anything funnier. However, the lyrics and tune were catchy enough and the premise enough fun that underproduction didn't completely ruin it, either. I just think they undersold it a bit. And the "omg look how fun e jews r" song was an embarrassment to comedy everywhere. Oh, I don't really care if a joke is a little bit politically incorrect. You can poke fun at anybody you want, as long as you're entertaining. Mel Brooks' "Inquisition" number in "History of the World" is hilarious, and that's about Jewish stereotypes being tortured! But this thing was such an incredibly long stretch of literally nothing except "Haha, look! Jews!" that I just sat there, gaping, forcing myself to sit through it because I knew that the rest of the show, by definition, had to be funnier than that. Seth MacFarlane or Trey Parker might have pulled off something funny using the same subject matter, but that's because they know when they're beating a dead horse, so they''ll beat the damned thing until it spins full circle. It takes a very special mixture of talent and insight to pull off. Maybe it's a good thing the cast isn't more diverse. At least we won't have to sit through the "Me Rikey the Flied Lice" song.