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Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Is there a TV rule that says you can't have steady pacing during a season? This season started off fantastic, and now we have 3 boring eps in a row. What was the point of walking us through the Daryl and Carol show only to get us back to where we were three episodes ago? Yes, Carol was abused. Yes, she and Daryl are different. Yes, Carol is taken into the hospital. And sooooooo ... now can we learn something new? Yes!

Closed captioning. I use it regularly, partly because I tend to watch DVR'd TV when everyone else in the house is asleep. But use it, it will save you eight rewinds! This show is starting to feel like Sons of Anarchy, Wild West Edition. Each week there is a death or gratuitous blood or gore. I don't understand the direction. The way they write women characters is what it is for me, I guess. But I don't know what we are supposed to be learning from the show right now. The revenge angle was lost long ago. The railroad history angle has receeded almost out of sight. The struggle between encroaching civililation and the frontier was a intriguing story line this season, and it is still there, but is being buried under the blood. Vlearly this is about Cullen, but Cullen becoming what? A beaten man whose only reason to exists is to nail in the final railroad spike?

This show chooses to focus on the oddest things at the oddest times. After weeks and weeks of little humanity, we get clubbed on the head for most of this episode about how these guys are all humans who just want love. In a vacuum that was well done. Unfortunately, it comes within a context that makes it at best awkward,a nd at worst WTF? A few eps back, did Abel overhear Gemma say she used a fork to kill Tera, or that she just killed Tera? That would make his choice of a fork interesting. Were we supposed to believe that the ambush on Marks' guys was set in motion in advance, and that the pinching of TO and Rat was anticipated and planned? That ... defies belief.

The issue with not seeing what was ahead puzzles me. Iwas watching on a 40" TV and I could tell there were a bunch of slow-moving walkers up ahead. Maybe my brain was filling in details, but what else could it be in a ZA? Only so many in the road, but they were spread out, and would all start heading to the road as soon as they heard a noise. In a balky fire truck, not sure they could have made it through the mass of zombies. After a great beginning to this season, this show has become Lostified. Characters are important, but we don't need everyone's back story.

Except ... do FBI agents always call out the names of terrorists as they approach them in public, as Lizzie did with Vokof? And then name top secret nuclear scientists undercover on an unknown phone when they call into their boss? Just stupid, Lizzie. But you do have a nice butt. Yeah, I am a week late. Took me that long to watch.

I agree that last week was better than this week. My main issue is that neither seemed very relevant. I guess since Carol showed up at the hospital, it makes that location more relevant. Otherwise it was a peek at how other survivors are handling the ZA and little else. I don't think whether a female character is at the center of it or not matters in my enjoyment. This week's episode was very slow and boring. And, clearly, confusing, as few seem to know what Abraham's flashback was about and why his wife left. The rape theory would seem to explain it, but then you would also have to fanwank that 1) the wife was raped, and maybe a kid or two was abused or saw it, 2) that Abraham wasn't able to stop it from happening but them somehow was able to overpower multiple men with a food can, 3) that when he did that, his rage so upset his wife and kids - the wife having been raped and then rescued by her husband - that they were more afraid of him than the outside world and left, and 4) that the outside world was so bad they barely made it a few hundred yards before becoming zombie chow (so his wife was more afraid of Abraham than an external threat that great?). That is a lot is wanking. To me, it makes more sense to assume Abraham and his family ran out of food during a ZA, they all went out to get more (a wank right there ... why all of them? But I digress), while out they had to fight with other survivors for food and in doing so Abraham brutally killed other survivorsin front of his family. I could see how that might be shocking. Still, given they would have been in a ZA for a while, I don't see it being so shocking that his family would flee him. So no theory so far seems to make sense. My initial reaction was that he had killed zombies in the grovery store to protect his family, and there weren't other survivors with them so people didn't just turn/get attacked, so again I don't know why his wife fled with the kids. This is becoming a dead horse, but what happened there matters to the rest of the episode. Either Abraham murdered surviors in cold blood and maybe has a temper that was apparent before the ZA so this was the culmination of a series of episodes that then set off his wife, or Abraham was a decent husband/father who was protecting his family and his wife was ... an idiot? I don't know. But for some reason, yeah, he needs a reason to live.

i'm not sure Eugene is smart. He spouts off things that any devoted forum watcher of sci-fi shows could spout off. I thought we were going to hear that his hair was that way because he was an Elvis impersonator before the ZA.

Agreed, I FF'd through it. OK, so Mickey brings in his own gang to push back against Campbell. But Campbell, as heinous as he may be at times, is a legal governor with the power to call on the military and other resources. What does Mickey hope to gain by bringing in the Dead Rabbits? It won't end well for Mickey. I was confused at the beginning of Little Ruth's flashback. I thought she was the sister to some of the boys who were killed (with their dad) and was hiding, and that the preacher found her and was going to adopt her. So she was actually his daughter? And he carried her around everywhere with his gang, and she just happened to see something this time that she had missed every other time? Seems ... unlikely. I liked vegeful Ruth, happy to hear Snow is dead. Durant was so cruel, telling Cullen he will be forgotten by history. Loved the "where do men like us end up" theme. Loved it. Because you could already see that happening as the shanty town became a real town, and the devices of government began to move in.

Wait - why was Abraham's family afraid of him? He killed some walkers in a grocery store, and his family hid and then later ran off? I don't get it. If those weren't walkers, then where was everyone else in the store? If they were walkers, why did his wife feel the need to run away? That threw me the whole episode. It was very boring.

Maybe I missed something, but how was the hosiptal any worse than most every place else we have seen in the ZA? They had a semblance of a society. The leader, a woman, seemed more or less normal with her own post-ZA perspective. Did I miss an anvil? Was it that they recued young women and made them into sex slaves for the uniformed cops, who in turn kept everyone safe? I thought it was going that way, and I kept waiting for the big reveal of why the hospital was bad, but either I missed it or it never came. The fact the existing doc killed a potential rival to protect himself in a ZA ... that was "bad" but not very unique for the circumstance, I would wager.

I didn't care for this episode, but I have liked this season better than the last few. Everyone is growing up/moving forward in their lives, sometimes against their will. I like the dynamics this creates. The one part that made no sense to me was that Luke would know who Temple Grandin was or about the hug box. Seems out of character for him. That would have been awesome.

What has happened to Prince? He has lost the funk. I miss it. It was. Some of it was that the punchlines weren't funny. They were too long developing, and when they got there, they were too sophisticated. The audience wanted broad humor, something almost absurdest. Shark Tank had a chance, but it never got there. The new logo was weak. At elast come up with something new, don't steal another company's logo.

If "Captain Cold" is going to be the honcho behind gathering a team of villains, he needs a different name. Captain Cold as a name is silly.And he is only that because he happens to own a weapon that freezes people. If a teenager gets it, is the teenager now Captain Cold? The leader needs to be someone who is intrinsically evil in a particular way, not someone who stole a weapon.

Government zombies are less efficient. :-) My impression, and it could just be me maiing it up in my head, is that over the time of this series, the number of mobile zombies has been decreasing. As time goes on and they fall apart, or get stuck, or get killed (again) by survivors, their numbers go down. The pool of humans who could turn into zombies isn't gowing, it is decreasing as well (as they ether do die and turn, survive as humans, or are killed after/before turnng by other survivors). Whether this is happening, and happening in enough numbers to make a large city safer, is unknown. But that's how I have been viewing it. At this point I sort of picture large herds of zombines wandering around the country, with lots of relatively clear space in between them.

Exactly. When Bobby said that, I just shook my head. Idiots, all.

I think they are, each for their own ends. My only issue with Grant Ward being evil is he looks and sounds like Wesley Crusher in close ups. I instinctively don't like him, for an entirely Hydra-unrelated reason.

That's the point, I don't think she did. They were in front of her food truck. He was a customer who seemed friendly one day, who then came back. All she has to do is walk out and say hey and sit down for a minute. There is no agreement there, she is just talking with a repeat customer. Some business owners don't mind that, and it was a safe environment (as far as she knows). I couldn't figure out what the actress was going for in that scene with Ressler in the back of the ambulance. I expected either deep sympathy and a desire to help or mommyish "you need to get help." It was somewhere in between. She gives him his pills, and then looks on with an expression of ... scorn? It was like she was saying, "Really?" And then as the camera draws back, she awkwardly has her arm draped across his shoulder. I at least expected either a close hug or just sitting next to him, companion-like. The scene felt like the two actors don't like each other in real life. Meanwhile, I got all those same emotions from Diego as you did, just from his limited actions. So it seems clear this is a Megan Boone problem. Yep, it was torn from the infamous Peacock Family episode, right down to the old-timey music while the unspeakable is happening.

It felt like either that, or we learn that Gemma caused (actively, vs. OKing) John's accident, and Gemma will do it again to Jax to get what she wants (hence the entire series was about Gemma winning). I couldn't tell if Jury was hinting at an alternate explanation aside from the known story and aside from suicide. And if it was suicide, then that has to appeal to Jax if the purpose was to save the club. I don't get all the angst over Jax killing Jury. Jury picked up his gun and started to aim it at Jax. At that point, it was self-defense. I get that one chapter guy can't just kill another chapter guy, but when someone is mad at you, on the ground and aiming a gun at you, standing on principle seems like a bad play. Is the issue over the fact that Jax first knocked down Jury? Because these guys seem to get into fights all the time. Not sure why that mattered. And I know it is Charming and a fictional TV show, but any parent who talked to a school princpal like Gemma did would have the cops at her door.

Wow. Not Dune, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Showgirls .... I think HIMYM is one of the few roles I've never seen KM in! I will say that it is tough to see people age. He looks good still, he just doesn't look like he did in the roles I remember. I agree that the spinny move after the hallway fight was silly. I actually laughed.

I think he did that, but the show took a slightly different path. Instead of Rick parroting Gareth's words back to Gareth, Rick parroted what Bob told him that Gareth had said to Bob when Bon awoke with no lower leg. "If not us, it will be someone else. It could be anyone." If I am Gareth, those words are more horrifying because they are not parody but simply Rick accurately stating the facts. Rick has come a long way since the Shane days.

I don't understand why Gareth returned Bob to the church. It allowed Bob to explain to Rick & company what had happened, who they were up against and what might happen next to them. It would have made more sense for Gareth to keep Bob and go after the rest while they were unsure what was happening. I suppose Gareth could have thought he was being clever, i.e., Rick seeing Bob would outrage Rick and they would go on the attack, but that is a huge gamble given that if Rick doesn't react that way, you just gave him invaluable intel.Also, it assumes that Gareth knows how many guns the group has to begin with (and that they haven't found more), can see which guns Rick and company took with them on their feint attack to the school and that those left behind haven't found new guns or are not decently armed. Because Gareth only had what, 5 people? It wouldn't take many guns to even those odds. That bugged. Also, I couldn't buy the actor playing the priest. His "emotional" confession felt like someone acting out an emotional confession, not reliving events. I don't know if that is because of the actor's lack of skill, or because the character was lying. But that went on and on, and I saw the actor (not the character) every second.

Wow, I've enjoyed this season a lot. Have viewed it as one of the better seasons. Almost all of the characters have grown and changed in their relationships with each other (Jay and Manny, Luke and everyone, Alex and Haley, etc.). And some of the lines have been great. I like Lilly. The only two I struggle with, and have for a couple of seasons, are Mitch and Cam. Mostly because Cam is so over the top. Mitch may be a tool occasionally, but most of the time on this show he is a tool only in relation to whatever odd behavior Cam is displaying. If Cam were calmer, Mitch would be nicer, I think. And all of this is a shame, because we have kids who watch with us and we liked having a gay couple to introduce them to the fact that's just another kind of relationship. At this point I am afraid they think all gay people are like Cam. Loved Gloria's hand motions at Jay over Manny taking a drink.

This show is getting farther and farther from its premise. Hunting in the woods? The new team name thing was interesting but not quite clever enough to say anything.

I read this as Wendy being smart. Gemma wanted Wendy to run, so that Gemma could then blame Wendy for hiding Juice (and get Gemma out of the equation entirely). Gemma knows Jax would kill Wendy before listening to anything Wendy said. And Wendy realized this, and said nope, I'm not running. Because if I do, you'll pin all this on me (Wendy realized). I kind of liked that development. I thought Gemma was going to accidently kill the druggie mom after stumbling on them in the cabin, to make the Marks move worse. But then it became worse, anyway. So how did Marks know enough about Jax's plan to grab Bobby? Did I miss a clue? Having Katy S sing a song completely takes me out of the show. Her singing voice sounds just like Gemma. Good or bad, it is very distracting. That should stop, IMO. I wonder if Jax will pick up little clues ... like the issue over Gemma being freaked out about going to the cabin ... and never put it together until Abel happens to say, "Grandma killed mommy, she said so." Then it hits Jax with the force of a thousand bricks and he staggers with the realization.

It already feels like a VHS vs. betamax brand battle, but with more fighting. When the bad guys have researchers and offices and probably pension plans, I'm not sure what makes one so evil and the other so good. I actually like the thought of Hydra not being bad exactly, just taking a different approach. Kind of like the Babylon 5 philosophical difference between the shadows and the good guys. Wars/crises forces humanity to develop faster (if you manage to avoid ending the species) vs. goodness equals complacency.