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Just finished watching the Talking Dead tonight. Did anyone else notice how pissed off Christian Serratos looked? And her body language with Josh McDermitt.... brrr. Maybe she just wanted the whole thing to be over with too.

I don't understand the explosives plan. How did they know that blowing up the buildings would destroy Manx? Kind of a risky assumption. Weren't they concerned about Wayne and the other kids being in the buildings when they blew them up? Wonder why they haven't mentioned Haley and the other boy's name I can't remember from season 1. I know it's been 8 years, but it's odd they wouldn't want to look for them or at least mention their names. Guess we will just assume Wayne's and Millie's conditions can be reversed. I don't know how Vic can be so certain of that, but OK. Otherwise, she and Lou will have one helluva problem child on their hands. And why does Vic no longer get the bloody eye and headaches when she uses her knife?

The pace of this show is frustrating. Ten whole minutes spent on the eulogy of a character never discussed before, including a rather graphic story of hamster abuse (WTF?). I get that it was meant to set up the whole "forgive your parents" theme," but 10 minutes, really? That's nearly a quarter of the show after commercials. Then it was just a string of botched attempts throughout. There was no sense of urgency in trying to save Wayne. Vic acted almost nonchalant about it. Now that the kid has turned, I'm guessing Millie will be the key to getting it reversed. Hopefully she'll be more effective than the others have been so far.

Well, that was boring. Other than learning a bit more about Manx's backstory, it ended the same way it started with the kid back in the car. So memories of mom are the prophylaxis for keeping them from turning? If so, Craig needs to do a better job next week LOL.

What was with Millie leaving the reindeer head at mystery woman's door? To scare her? Food? It looked light as a feather.

I liked the Manx backstory and didn't miss Vic and her angst at all. Never heard of Nosferatu before. The license plate all makes sense now LOL. So the kids haven't had one meal in the 8 years Manx has been away?

Wow, I had a hard time finding this show on here. Bookmarked now. I mostly liked it. The only part I hated was when she put the phones in the oven, scared the crap out of her kid, and then took off and left him there... ALONE. Bad mother is right. Wonder if her parents will be on this season. She didn't even mention them.

Okay, I'm convinced that I could write a better episode than these writers. That was rough to watch. Aside from my general grumbling, I did wonder aloud at a few things: What exactly happened to Ezekiel's horse? Another dark scene - I couldn't see what was happening. I hate it when horses get killed. Isn't anyone going to go looking for Connie, or at the very least, mention her name? Magna showed up. It never occurred to anyone that maybe Connie's still out there too? Way to look out for your people, people. Magna was almost unrecognizable to me. I was trying to figure out if it was her lips or something else. For crying out loud, not another herd! Lose the herds! I don't care about them.

I was pretty underwhelmed with all, but I've been rooting for Geoffrey all along, so I'm happy for him. Did his mother have to make that negative remark after his intro? Geez, no wonder the guy is an emotional wreck. When Victoria kept trying to grab the phone out of Nancy's hands, I so wanted Nancy to punch her in the neck. It also grated on me the way Geoffrey was trying to hug her after her showing and she said "what, what?" as if she wanted him to go away.

This was exactly my thought as I was watching Talking Dead. They just go on the show to talk about how brilliant they are or what new thing they want to try. The actors seem to have a lot of input on storylines now. Hey Norman, what weapon do you want to use? Let's talk about it for 20 minutes on TD. Let's promote the cameraman to director and go on TD and talk about it. It's all a big self-indulgent ego fest now. No one seems to care what the viewers want to see. We're irrelevant.

Kelly: Slaughters rotting zombies daily, but rats running across the field are gross.

I just want to know what mode of transportation Eugene will use for his date. It's about a 6-hour drive from Alexandria VA to Charleston WV by car. I hope he's not planning to use the horse-mobile.

I couldn't follow the freakin' dark cave scenes, so maybe I'm missing something. But what did Carol think she would accomplish by throwing dynamite into the pit anyway? That one stick would have to blow up the brains of every walker in order to wipe them out. Otherwise, they're still mobile with just some missing arms and stuff. And even if that happened, the Whisperers would still be alive. They'd just go out and get more walkers... since there seems to be an endless supply of herds 10 years after the apocalypse. The whole plot was just stupid.

That was a long hour. I couldn't see anything going on in the cave at all. The only daylight scene was of Negan and Alpha bumping uglies. Whatever. TWD is off to a riveting mid-season start.

I loved Geoffrey's dress and so happy he won. It would've been nice to watch it come down the runway without the obnoxious heckling on his model.