mandolin

Buttons comic info: http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Buttons_%28Comic_Series%29

Best part of that linked article and the best thing the spinoff has to offer me...

A random thought I haven't seen mentioned - I thought Maggie's choice of clothes was weird. We know what she dressed like on the farm, and Alexandria apparently has huge closets. I don't see that being "her" at all. I enjoyed the episode overall. The interactions between our people and the new people. I do wish the show would sometimes just tell us what's real and what isn't. It's almost like they are trying too hard to make us wonder if this place is on the up-and-up or not. I get they are making us suffer along with CDB, it just feels a bit tedious.

I just checked my handy-dandy compendium, and yes, Rick tells them to stay calm and they'll be fine. Michonne is there too (right after Morgan dies from walker related injuries/bites), and is taking Dr. Denise on ahead as she isn't covered in guts. Jessie's son Ron pees himself then starts talking about how scared he is. Jessie talks too, and Rick tries to shush them. Ron gets taken down, Jessie gets taken down, and Jessie won't let go of Carl's hand. Rick cuts her hand off, Carl gets his eye shot out, you know, the usual. The only thing I can say is Rick didn't have to work very hard to convince them. Jessie immediately says "I'd follow you anywhere." I think she is pretty unstable.

No Wolves (by that name) in the comics. Next big bad would be the Saviors. No horse in the comic that I can recall at this point. Maggie helps take care of them in Alexandria I believe, as part of her initial job. Yes, Pete was abusive to Jessie and Ron (had a black eye when Rick met him). Rick confronts him, fights him (Michonne thinks he's going crazy), and Pete ends up living in a different house alone. He decides he doesn't care for that (duh), he goes to confront Rick but is stopped by Douglas Monroe's wife (will it be Deanna's husband?) who he ends up slashing in the throat with a knife. Rick kills Pete (by gun) with Douglas's approval. Some other things in this ep - Sasha is definitely taking the sniper role it seems, and she took Michonne's role of being upset at the party and what people are worried about. Rick does kind of blame himself IIRC because they were killed. They were "normal" people. Ones that hadn't lived on the outside and were hardened and knew what you had to do/how to act to live. The first time he was slathered in guts, he was a bit awkward about it (ha). I don't think it was his fault per se, but I do think they'd have lived if they stayed in the house (CARL!). Maggie and Sophia did. I'm sure Jessie and Ron were afraid and that definitely contributed to their deaths. I think ComicJessie is a bit more meek than ShowJessie so far.

I think the other idiot was Nicholas

Glenn and Daryl too!

Jessie also has a son younger than Ron. We saw him walking in the street with them before Rick broke the owl. Sam, I think she said.

Makes you wonder. Can I vote for Tara?

Whoa. Thumbs up. This makes me giddy. For a show to have enough continuity to remember something like that is awesome. They have made mistakes, but stuff like that makes me hang in there when some episodes aren't that great. Maybe those words aren't such "paltry" things after all. (There I go quoting season one again.)

Please don't let Jessie be a Lori. That'd be awful. On rewatch, it's so interesting to me to see clean shaven Rick talking to unclean Daryl. Just by sight, Rick looks like his old, original self, but Daryl looks like "current" Daryl, having gone through all the things he has, with Rick. It's a juxtaposition kind of moment for me.

The time observing them annoys me, but the timeline has never been consistently established on the show. Even mentioning 17 days is a rarity, right? So, I figure it's just a screw up, either by writers, or the actors in their interviews. I can't remember - did Aaron say in the show it had been weeks? As far as other minor changes, I think they do a lot of it just because. All of the comic readers expect them to go in and meet Douglas Monroe. By having it be Deanna, it keeps readers on their toes a bit. We know that Kirkman likes to make what he considers better choices (not cutting off Rick's hand) on the show, so we know things may play out differently. Honestly, I have no interest in the Wolves. Let's keep our focus inside the walls for a while. I need to go find the deleted scenes (or just interviews?) about people's jobs, because Sasha in the med clinic? I guess Rick will have to come up with the sniper option on his own, like in the comic. ETA: couple more random thoughts. I hope Carol and Daryl aren't marginalized because they aren't in the books at this point (or in his case at all, of course). Will Enid be the new Sophia? Friend of Carl who also lived on the outside? Foster child of any of our group? At this point, I see them skipping the Maggie hanging deal, though I guess someone could take her place. Or maybe since Beth tried to commit suicide so long ago, they've checked that box.

Oh, Dale. They cared about your watch, but I sure didn't. Good catch. If the last eps are the other words, huge props to the writers.

Heh, I thought he said something about getting sacks wet. Either way...

What does Aiden say right before Tara says, "I don't actually..." right before they go on the run?

Guy had guts, I'll give him that.

Maybe forget the things they've been through to try to move on? (though I think most of the group doesn't want to do that and thus get soft)

Mr. mandolin says that would be a royal pain, but I'd be giddy if they walled off my neighborhood. :P

That is the picture that makes me never not see him as a catfish.

Link won't open. :(

But it makes it so easy to see all the filming sites in a short time...if one were so inclined. :) Oh, according to the Walking Dead Locations map I linked to, the bar and pharmacy were in Sharpsburg, GA, and Woodbury is in Senoia. I've been to "Woodbury" but I have never seen the pharmacy.

I don't know if it is, but the very back brick buildings here look like Woodbury to me. ETA: if locations are your thing, you can see where ASZ is in relation to Senoia here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?vpsrc=6&t=h&ll=33.298973,-84.555625&iwloc=0004b1424ec46951c6033&ie=UTF8&msa=0&spn=0.088245,0.079737&z=14&hl=en&mid=zD38FaCAJQek.k_FDpSYzC2wI Scroll to the bottom of the location list on the left, and you can click on ASZ.

Yes, if you looked down Woodbury's main street, it's almost straight ahead.

Chandler Riggs mentioned this on his instagram a couple days ago: chandlerriggs5: if any of you were wondering why carl is completely dominating noah in this game of poker: neither one of us knew how to play, so josh showed us how. after a few rounds of being really confused and terrible, i started getting lucky, and before we shot this scene they started rolling the cameras, so everyone bet all the chips they had. i ended up winning, thus making carl the poker god of the apocalypse.

Yes, she is a lawyer in the comics. I think Jacqui was in city planning or something.