SnarkyTart

The facebook page has a pretty nifty picture of Jared getting his face bit off (by a walker, not by Morgan or Rick...unfortunately). I tried to bring it over and post it, but wasn't able.

From The Spoiling Dead Fans Army facebook page: If you're like me, you're also asking, "Who the eff is Jared?!?" I looked it up for us, and Jared is the longhaired savior dude who killed Ben (Henry's brother) and escaped from the goat pen at Hilltop when Henry let all the saviors get away last episode.

I could (easily) be wrong about this, but I've always assumed the contestants were given some kind of memo before their celebrity mentoring session. The memo would tell them who their celebrity mentor is, and provide a list of achievements. I don't think the show would risk having a contestant go in the door for the mentoring session, see Julia Michaels, and ask "Who are you?", have Adam say, "Why this is Julia Michaels, silly!", only to have the contestant say, "I still don't know who she is!" Still, it would be kiiinda fun for it to happen.

That's a very good decision. I did watch it. Even after reading the spoilers first and knowing that I was supposed to see Dwight shoot Tara with an arrow, I can't say that I actually saw this happen with my own eyes. The whole scene, which lasted maybe a minute or two, was (per usual) shot in darkness. I barely realized it was Tara that Simon and Dwight were sneaking up on. In perhaps a total of one or two seconds, you see Dwight and Simon pause in their pursuit, and you see Tara fall, evidently shot. As I watched it, I couldn't have told you which of the two, Dwight or Simon, shot Tara. And I couldn't have told you she was shot with an arrow, as opposed to a gun, a slingshot or a thrown knife. Really, for all I could actually see, Tara could have just fainted and fallen down, and not been shot at all.

I really dislike Tetch, and have since he first appeared. Besides being an uninteresting character, the show has overused the super power of "You will do whatever I tell you to do, and kill yourself or others if I say so", e.g., Fish Mooney, Ivy Pepper and Tetch. As much as I likewise dislike Fish and Ivy, at least neither of them were obssessed with the rape/incest of a sibling. It would make me happy to have him die...soon. The Bruce/Selina scenes are nearly always a highlight for me, as they were in this episode. I really enjoy the two actors together and agree that their relationship is well-written.

He could get there the same way that zombie blood/guts can suddenly infect someone exactly as if they were bitten. In other words, via Scott Gimple hand waving now that he oversees both shows. Right now I'd bet even money on either possibility.

This was, for me, a relatively satisfying conclusion to the first season. First I had to get over over my hope from the brilliant first few episodes that this was going to be a complex, somewhat sophisticated (for primetime TV) series about the psychological/emotional evolution of an autistic young man navigating life, relationships, and career. Early on, it seemed that story would unfold with Shaun and Glassman's relationship at its center, both of whom are outstanding actors and have great chemistry together. Then Glassman was sidelined for most of the series and Shaun's role became mostly an equal part of an ensemble cast. The show essentially devolved (for me) into a hospital procedural, and, worse of all, the writers started dropping anvils on my head about transphobia, Islamophobia, workplace sexual harassment, and other hot-in-Hollywood topics du jour. I almost gave up on it, but Highmore's acting kept bringing me back. The finale kind of returned to its roots...a show about Shaun Murphy, with Glassman as his mentor/father figure/friend. It was enough to make me tune in for Season 2. And, yes, I did cry when Shaun hugged Glassman, and when he said "I love you more".

That's exactly what I was yelling when I finally watched this episode. Had we ever seen her before? Were we even supposed to know who she was? Stupid. Stupid stupid stupid show.

Just be sure you're not around anyone when they sneeze because the zombie virus might be airborne now! If you took out every scene that's filmed with such bad lighting you can't see what's happening anyway, you'd have about 45 minutes per episode that you could use to explain the "New Rule".

Oh, yes, I especially enjoyed this part:

And the crowd says amen...sniffle

I dunno if I have it in me anymore, Angela. Something broke inside of me when I read that they were going to taunt us with a 20 foot tall Negan--smirking, leaning and rhapsodizing about his bodily functions on the screens of all 750 AMC theaters for the S8 finale. That might have been the point where such breathtaking Ozymandias levels of unbridled hubris kilt me dead. We shall see.

It's gotten so bad, folks, that I can think of nothing to say, and that's a rarity for me. I read this spoiler post almost 24 hours ago...and still I've got nothing. It could be fatal.

Co-sign to your comments @Kostgard. I haven't been this frustrated with Gotham since the writers had Fish Mooney taking over the show. The Ivy character has always been boring to me, in all 3 of her incarnations. There's simply not enough there there in Ivy's storyline to carry a major supervillain role in Gotham, and Peyton List doesn't have enough charisma to elicit any interest in her solely as a character. Every minute with her on my TV is a minute I spend waiting for someone more interesting to take the stage, and every single character on Gotham is more interesting than her. I'd be way more entertained by Robin Lord Taylor sitting alone in front of a fireplace silently sipping from a teacup than I would be by yet one more scene of Ivy blowing the pollen off a flower into someone's face, and watching the blowee shamble around croaking, "You're so beautiful". It was otherwise a pretty satisying episode for me. It was great to get plenty of my favorite pairings in this episode. Please, Show, end the Ivy Pepper storyline permanently.

I think they've already filmed all the episodes up to and including the final cut to Top 10. If Katy continued drooling on guys through the rest of the auditions, Hollywood rounds and final cuts, the only thing they could do now is go back and edit all of it out. I wonder if they'll do that.

Or, her plopping her (fishnet stocking-clad) bare foot up on the desk and forcing the contestant to come to her and take his ticket from between her stinky toes. That actually grossed me out! Yuck yuck yuck! I liked alligator boy a lot. He had a great voice, a chill vibe, and X-factor for days. But I'm a little worried about how he'll fare on a show that rewards variety and versatility in what the contestants sing. I looked him up on youtube to see his past videos and, while he clearly knows who he is as an artist, he has a definite wheelhouse that he never leaves; same genre, same tempo, same vocal range/style in every single song.

Oh, Jeez I love that. So, who's in for Season 9? The show can't miss with these great storylines of our favorite characters: Negan's Incarceration Monologues Jadis as the Biggest Baddest Ever, Alpha of The Whisperers Henry as Carl 2.0 Tara as the Hilltop leader (when Lauren Cohan leaves for her new TV series)

So far it's watchable. As a longtime fan of The Voice, that show is experiencing the worst season of auditions in its history. Going into the last of 6 weeks of auditions, there hasn't been a single contestant yet that I cared to hear anything more from. That's a first for me. So I was pleasantly surprised this first week of auditions on AI to already have at least two contestants I'm interested in hearing again: Rhagu and Alpaca Wig Boy. And there were at least a couple more who were as good or better than any of this season's contestants on The Voice. I was pleasantly surprised by the new judges' panel too. I was anticipating Katy Perry with dread, fully expecting her to rival the "Me! It's all about me me me!" of JLo. I found Katy to be entirely likable as a judge, at least so far, and not showing the diva tendencies of JLo, Mariah, or Nicki M. That's encouraging! I'm not a fan of country music, so didn't know anything about Luke Bryan. I also found him quite likable. Lionel was just kind of meh for me, but that's a huge improvement over some of the judges who've been on this show. As always, way too many back stories, way! But that critique is somewhat neutralized by the lack of joke auditions that had begun to dominate the last few seasons of the original American Idol auditions. Actually, there were only two last night that I recall - emo worm-burping guy and wannabe Broadway girl who couldn't fathom that she didn't get a ticket. Onward!

Or from this season where Jadis wrote the big red letter "A" on the container where she imprisoned Rick.

Agree on all points. Here in the fourteenth season of the show it's the first time ever there hasn't been a single contestant so far that I was looking forward to hearing again in the Knockout Rounds. There are only 2 more blind audition rounds left, right? To be honest, this is a little frightening.

Last season it would have taken an extraordinary singer/performer to keep me tuned in despite how much JHud's every word was like fingernails on a chalkboard as far as I was concerned. If she never returns to The Voice, it will be way too soon for me. This season the talent has been so underwhelming as to be, for me, the worst series of blind auditions in the history of the show. But, in spite of that, I'm staying tuned for Kelly. I find myself looking forrward to seeing her every week. I say this as someone who didn't see her during her Idol run and hasn't been a big fan in the meantime. Now I'm on the Clarkson Train. When she did that impression of Alicia, strutting about and being all "damn sexy", I laughed so hard. Love her!

See, I figured the reason they were suddenly adding title cards was so we could remember who the hell these people are: Enid? Remind me again, who is she?

AMC has released some promo pics for the upcoming season. So, if you're keeping score and still wondering who will be back after the great dam debacle, the promo pics show: Madison, Nick, Alicia, Strand, Luciana, and TWD transplant Morgan.

In case anyone still cares, this is from screenrant.com, who bothered to take the time to try to decipher the glimpse we got of Coral's letter to Negan... Since it can't be said enough, this is not the OG Coral we came to know through the previous 7 seasons. It's Coral the Cheesemaker/Peacemaker who suddenly replaced him during this season from hell.