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  1. I also don't think there are enough walkers being shown on this show - if Laurent's calculations of 60 million people before the fall down to ~200,000 living people, then there should be 58.8 million walkers (and that isn't considering the additional walkers of tourists, NATO and EU people, business people etc. that would have been in France as well). Now if Genet (I think that was what the group that Le Grande Face Tattoo Le Baddie joined in the episode is called - I have been calling him Soccer Hooligan, because he reminds me of a French Vinnie Jones) is really that efficient at clearing the walkers out, then I guess sign me up for some proto-fascism during the Apocalypse.
  2. Poor Isabelle, she gets to Paris only to find plot anvils in the form of the undead neighbor girl and her very much living ex. And of course the ex cheated with her sister and is the "most special" boy's father. I am surprised that they didn't throw in a little more drama with her stash of drugs - a little "will she or won't she" return to her addict behavior. I really enjoy her character though - she has been a welcome addition to the ever-expanding character list for this franchise. I kept expecting the other nun to be red-shirted at some point - surprised that she has made it this far (and even had a nice dance with a handsome guy!). The craziness of an undead orchestra - that guy has come up with a very strange way to cope with the apocalypse. The Paris Commune and the Catacomb night club were two very cool and different settings to explore. Though I found the book World War Z's view that the catacombs would have quickly become infested with the dead more likely - it was one of the more harrowing stories in the book reading about the French trying to clear them out. Daryl returns to form by causing chaos to peaceful settlements. So how long has this trek from Marseilles actually taken the group? Even with a horse and cart, it probably would have taken months to get there - the Massif Central and the Loire River are between Marseilles and Paris. That isn't considering the side tour to the west to get to Angers first. I really think that any writer for show like Walking Dead should really have to walk from a major city a couple hundred miles to another city while camping every night in order to get a feel for what traveling by foot is actually like. At least Daryl decided that the horse was worth keeping for this leg of the journey. The French experiments with walkers were pretty interesting - must be looking for a way to get rid of the dead without having to shoot/spike the heads.
  3. The amount of resources that would have been needed to keep horses alive as domesticated animals in the zombie apocalypse makes Daryl's actions so wasteful (as opposed to wild horses - which at least would be freer to run away). The nuns would have needed to keep the horse (and probably horses - as it would be more cost effective to have more than one) safe in as zombie-proof as possible enclosure and fed and watered when it was all many of the communities we have seen were barely capable of keeping their people fed. Isabelle and Sylvie should never have let Daryl drive the cart into a village street too tight to turn around in nor should they have let him just let the horse loose (especially with an animal smart enough to know not to go further due to the danger!)
  4. That was actually a really good start. I didn't think they had it in them after so many years. Scenery was beautiful - I liked the nice touch of walkers wandering the lower levels of the aqueduct, but it seemed like not enough walkers were around southern France as Daryl should have been seeing a lot more. I guess they won't be hiding themselves in zombie guts during this show. Wonder whether they will actually give us some reason as to why the walkers are so weird in France.
  5. I liked it to. With Dr. Everett's research - I enjoyed watching him making observations and gathering data, but after the episode realized - Who is he actually gathering this information for??? I really felt that they needed to loop in the Civic Republic or some other community. It seemed like he was a lone wolf - so what is the point of actually gathering this data if he isn't sharing it with someone or know that there is someone he can hand off what has become his life's work. I was also kind of intrigued that someone went to all the trouble of cutting a trench to separate the Dead Area from some portion of Georgia near the Chattahoochee River. I would have to rewatch the episode to remember just how long - but it seemed like they cut a pretty long trench and it was wide and deep. I guess if this happened early on then the Army Corp of Engineers could have done it - but who would have the resources to do that kind of excavation later on in the apocalypse - CRM probably could have done something like this, but why would they want to do it in Georgia and not somewhere much closer to their home base? I would like to have a population ecologist explain to me how a species like the Giraffe would have a large enough breeding population survive the early days of the apocalypse, escape the zoos, etc. to survive long enough to flourish. Though if was a herd animal living in the middle of the Zombie apocaplypse, I would probably hang out with the giraffes - have them be the early warning system to let other herd animals know a herd of walkers is heading their way. I looked up the population of Giraffe's in zoos today - and it was around 2000 worldwide with a large fraction of that in North American zoos - so it would be a difficult population to expand from the small clusters of individuals at specific zoos. The Crocodile looked really fake that went after Specimen 21. That 7 year old zombie was looking pretty dreadful - if I remember correctly it was the one laying on the ground. I do wonder if the zombies get some nutrients from the humans and animals that they prey upon - that might help them stay on their feet longer.
  6. I liked it - but have to say that while the thought of the zombie apocalypse is depressing, ground hog day zombie apocaplypse is even worse. I think I would have liked it better if they had actually resolved whether the pair had actually died or not (and if not - what was the mechanism for the time loop???).
  7. After thinking about it some more, I have some serious questions about how they actually made it to Mt. Pleasant. Joe and Evie had to travel through a pretty populous portion of Ohio. I know they went through Lima - and I think they would have had to go past Toledo to head north to Ann Arbor and Flint. So they would have had to cross the I-94 and I-96 corridors in southern Michigan in order to head north to Mt. Pleasant. Roughly a 1/4 of Michigan's population lives within 20 miles of I-94 - which connects Detroit to Chicago (and of course continues on north of Chicago). I-94 is incredibly busy at the best of times - and I suspect in an apocalypse would have been a parking lot of wrecked cars and semi-trucks stretching from Kalamazoo to Detroit including bigger pile-ups around Battle Creek, Jackson, and Ann Arbor. With the berms and fencing along long stretches of I-94 - it would have bottled up large hordes of the dead to walking along it. I think the route they mentioned took them through Ann Arbor to Flint and then on to Mt. Pleasant - so M-23 would have likely been the straightest route - which then would have them cross over the I-96 corridor (which connects Grand Rapids-Lansing-Detroit) - probably the second most populous corridor in Michigan. I-96 would likely be just as much a nightmare of wrecks and zombies during the apocalypse as the I-94 corridor. I don't remember them giving any indicators for the route from Flint to Mt Pleasant - but I guess, they could have gone up I-75 to the Saginaw-Bay City area then take M-20 through Midland to get to Mt. Pleasant. This area is still fairly populous, but with more farmland. I really feel like the show made their road trip too easy.
  8. I actually wouldn't have minded a longer visit with Evie and Joe - a decent episode. They really missed out - they should have had some zombies in football gear of the local team instead of using the postcards to show where they had wandered to next. I did get a little peeved that the tires on his bike were slashed by the trap - and yet somehow magically Evie had replacement tires and was able to fix it while Joe was tied up. Minor setting error though - there are very few rivers in the Lower Peninsula that flow over bedrock and none are that close to Mt. Pleasant. They would have been better off setting the prepper woman's bunker somewhere in the Upper Peninsula - perhaps the Escanaba area if they wanted a location that would look more like where they actually filmed.
  9. I expect Padre's economic plan is "no child labor laws" - get them trained young to fill oxygen tanks. I suspect O2 tanks are pretty durable - as long as the valve stem doesn't corrode or get broken. Madison would likely just need to know the location of every dive/scuba shop and assisted living facility around the Gulf of Mexico to keep her supply going for a long time (and boy we might have some fun - Madison having to fend off zombie grandmas to get her O2 fix). But yes, I agree the timing of her need will likely be very plot dependent (Chekhov's air tank!).
  10. Fair point 🤣 I forgot about Walkerian Economics - there will be plenty of fuel, canned goods (including baby formula!) will still be good 6-7 years later, and items like gas masks are laying around everywhere.
  11. I don't know how it could be - Morgan appears to be somewhere off the coast of Louisiana now (at least there was a helpful sign that suggested it near the Pediatrician's office that Morgan and Madison both visited), while the boat Rick and Michonne visited was off the coast of Virginia. At this point in the apocalypse, the Padre people would have to have some serious resources to make enough fuel for the boat to get it all the way around Florida and into the Gulf.
  12. Thank you! you are right it was Cornell which makes a heck of a lot more sense than Columbia.
  13. Iris and Hope talked about the relocation - I thought that they mentioned Columbia's lab facilities as a place to set up the new research lab (but I am not sure that makes much sense geographically - not that it is any clearer to me where in New York they are supposed to be at).
  14. I agree - horribly stupid to just announce that (though I suspect we will have some silent walkers stumble in to disrupt things in order to let Alicia and Morgan get away - these shows too often seem to rely on Chekov's zombies). Alicia better have cut her hand off in time - I am pretty sure that I am done with the show if she goes. Her sickness has to be something else - since I swear several months have passed since the bombs. It would be the slowest-slow burn of zombie infection otherwise. It feels kind of like the fake out when Grace thought that she had radiation sickness from the powerplant and instead was pregnant. Who uses the old bones from their arm and hand as their fake arm???? I am amazed her arm bones looked as whole as they did considering the blunt instrument she used to amputate them with.
  15. I was wondering if this mystical settlement was located on Padre Island off the coast of southern Texas. I will admit it is not clear to me at all where exactly in Texas they are supposed to be at (and this show has always had a loose grasp of western US and northern Mexico's geography).
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