CletusMusashi

Because the alternative would be two hours of Chris Hardwick.

Poor guy. The biggest thing he's gonna be remembered for is the doo rag argument. Here's the last thing I'm gonna say about it: I would have actually rooted for him harder if he'd been faking his outrage. Back in the "Men versus Women" season, when Rory had been screwed by a tribal swap, he actually psyched himself up a little bit to try to pull a race card, because it was about all he had left and he was trying to stay in the game and win money. He openly and self-deprecatingly admitted to the audience that he was only doing it for strategic reasons. I kept kind of waiting for an interview with Jamal where he said something similar. "Yeah, I totally just screwed with that poor Jack kid. Now he'll be too busy apologizing to me all night to sneak and off and strategize with anybody. Oh, well. Hopefully he'll laugh when he watches this." But it never came. So Jamal's offense at saying doo-rag instead of mandana or whatever the hell you're supposed to call them, (and the answer is not "buff." Nobody except Jeff Probst calls them buffs,) was apparently quite sincere. And I think that's silly. But I never thought it made him a villain. We've seen some real pieces of shit on "Survivor." Jamal isn't even one of this season's worst people. He's just a person who is PC about certain topics, one of which is, apparently, the correct terminology for haberdashical accessories worn by black men on reality TV shows. But even there, he's not one of those people who only care about issues that affect him personally. On the Feely Dan issue, he was perfectly willing to stick his neck out and make waves. He does have a pedantic way of speaking. I've seen the word "mansplain" used in regard to him a lot. Valid enough criticism. But he's not prejudiced about his targets. In his final TC, he saw a man in need of some 'splaining, and, as they would say on a certain other forum, he put on his 'splainin' pants. I'll miss him. I mean, I never hated the guy, and he was never boring, and there are fewer and fewer people left who I can say that about.

An alpha bitch scary and shiny has a beta besot with her heinie But his pants are ashitten because she is smitten with a fool talky and his tool tiny

Dan knew quite well, probably from experience, how to apologize for the gropiness and make it sound sincerely heart-felt. He might even have sold that performance, if a minute before he hadn't still been snarling "You're really not gonna shut up about this crap, are you?"

There was one conversational moment that made no sense at all to me. Why did Lena say that her getting that the medallion was the only way she could have stopped Lex? If I understand correctly, Lex needed the medallion in order to flood the atmosphere with kryptonite. But he didn't get it, because Andrea did. So he didn't flood the atmosphere with kryptonite. So, mission accomplished. If Lena wanted it to study, or is just plain angry at her friend for misleadingly tricking her along to help, and then pocketing it and lying, I am totally fine with that. But there was no extrapolation leading me to believe the medallion had some kind of "make your brother not be crazy any more" power, so that one part did sound kind of random.

We need you back, Carol. Burn them all!

I didn't get the vibe that they were trying to do an Odd Couple schtick. I was getting more of a "wise cracking protagonist goes to boot camp" thing. It was kind of like "Stripes," you know, except for Bill Murray not being a mass murderer, thief, rapist, terrorist, yadda yadda yadda. They did both start their introductory discussions by talking about underwear, though.

I think Daryl carries so many diseases already that there's no room for the Walker virus. Maybe if he'd bitten everybody else they'd be as immune as him.

About the luau: Maybe we're supposed to believe there was geothermal heat involved. About Eugene's new love interest: I wouldn't mind if it weren't for how badly it bodes for Rosita's chances of survival. She's one of the characters I actually like, but if the writing room decides that she is primarily there to motivate Eugene, then they can easily kill her to give him man-pain while still having somebody on the show to continue motivating him. About Negan not being killed for constantly forgetting that rule one of Whisperer's Club is do not yell about your balls all day in Whisperer's Club: I've got nothing. Unless maybe Coral sent them a note before he died. About the infirmary: Security needn't even be that complicated. Just take a bit clothesline about three feet long. Tie one end of it to the bed frame. Tie the other end around the patient's ankle, enough to keep the foot from pulling through but not enough to be uncomfortable or circulation-threatening, using an easy to loosen slip knot.The can still sit up, lie down, shift their legs around, roll over, and if they need to get up and pee or anything they can remove the rope, do their thing, and then put it back on. But you know who doesn't know to loosen a slip-knot? Dead people who've turned into walkers.

Well, there's a girl for Eugene. Which means Rosita is dead, doesn't it?

Fucking Sinbad is on Talking Dead? Is it 1994 already?

It's better than hearing about shitting pants.

Doesn't Alexandria have a water purification system anyway? What, did everybody just get bored and decide to walk outside and drink straight from the river?

That's not how a luau works at all.

Um, you know... the jacket does come off...

Maybe by throwing lots of acorns?

The horde is the last thing you want to find! Alpha you can shoot. An entire zombie horde, not so much.

But... they're doing it wrong! They don't even have any balloons.

God damn it, now these two are playing with their nuts?

Poor Eugene. Even people from The Kingdom think he's a bit much.

Morons. They put the gag too high.

So everybody is sick from one zombie's guts in the river. Meanwhile, the chick that cut her hand open while gutting it is just fine.

Nah, make a casserole. This week is Carol-centric.

So do they.

I'm seriously starting to wonder if Negan has convinced himself that he never did anything bad to Coral. I mean, Negan is just Kirkman's mouthpiece, right? And Kirkman has had a few years to convince himself that he never did anything bad to Chandler Riggs. So maybe he's not even being written as having repressed the memories. Maybe he's being written by someone who has.