Bryce Lynch

I can't stand Travis, but the jogging along with all the home improvements and other routine things people are doing are understandable to me. They are secure (for now) and have what they need to survive so at this point boredom is one of their biggest enemies. They have no work, no school, no TV, internet, etc., so they need to find ways to keep busy. We only see them for about 45 minutes a week, but in their fictional world those characters would have to figure out how to fill up 168 hours (maybe 100 to 125 after sleep). Also, doing routine activities would help distract them from all their fears about what is going on outside the gates.

As a lifelong Jets fan, I will be rooting for Tiffany and Krista...knowing they have no chance of winning. They will probably lose to a cheating team from Boston.

Sounds like you and your husband are ready for the ZA. :) Does 22LR penetrate walker skulls in the TWD world? If so, it would seem like a great choice. Light and compact to carry and relatively quiet. With subsonic rounds and a suppressor it wouldn't make much more noise than Daryl's crossbow. I suspect Travis will learn to love guns very soon. The old saying is a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged. That would be even more true of a Liberal thrust into a ZA. :)

And Tobias would finally have a friend.

I assume you are shooting handguns. A headshot with a rifle at 20 yards is rather easy. It is easy with a shotgun with buckshot or birdshot as well, though the birdshot might not have much stopping power at that range, unless the zombie is a bird. Most indoor shots will be from under 10 yards. But, you are correct that due to his unfamiliarity with, and irrational fear of guns, Travis would probably be useless at best and dangerous at worst with a gun, until he gets at least some basic instruction.

Not sure how he knew about the headshots. Could be he saw the police or military kill them only with headshots or maybe he heard people talk about it. Could also be that he just went for the surest way to kill a person. Burning bodies of those who died from highly contagious diseases is common sense and some that has been done for centuries. Daniel wouldn't need any sort of special insight from Latin American culture or religion to figure that out. I think Daniel has probably lived a far less sheltered life than Travis and his families which makes him a more self sufficient and have keener survival instincts.

In the TWD universe Zombies don't exist in fiction or legend like vampires and Zombies do in our world. The concept of the dead rising as monsters is completely foreign to TWD characters. It is like the difference between not believing in Santa Claus and never having heard of him.

That is one of the great things about the TWD franchise. If characters, even leading ones, aren't working you can have them devoured by walkers.

Maybe the neighbors installed the bars to keep their junkie neighbor out.

Look at the bright side, at least they didn't eat him.

I liked how Daniel racked the non existent slide on the break action, over under shotgun twice, (miraculously causing it to make a pump action sound effect) once before each of the 2 shots at the walker. Then the next morning he (along with the writers) seems to understand that it is a break action, not a pump action as he correctly teaches Chris how to use it.

I think Travis just has an irrational fear and dislike for guns, like many people who have no experience with them do. As for not wanting to put The Walker Formerly Known as Susan out of her misery, I can understand that much more. They really don't know exactly what is going on, so holding on to the vain hope that she could be cured wasn't totally crazy. Herschel did the same thing for a much longer period.

Dreadfully boring. Not a single likeable or interesting character and not a single interesting or entertaining scene. I am not wasting any more of my time on this dreck.

I took Niska's comment about never being little to be a reference to her sexual abuse by Elster. It made the scene even more poignant.

I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps some high ranking individual inside or above the police department arranged to have her planted there and had her medical exam and documentation faked. That is the only explanation I can think of.

Mia was joking about taking over the planet, but I am not sure Fred and Niska think the idea is only a joke. Mia seems to be by far the most well balanced, insightful and kindest of the synths. She seems to understand humans better than they understand themselves. If all the synths were like Mia and Max they would not be a threat. It is interesting to see Niska grow through her interactions with George and the Hawkins family. They have changed her view of people considerably.

I am hoping the AI synths will somehow escape and turn Odi into one of them. I wonder if Hobb implanted something in Fred to track him. That might explain him zoning out.

In an early episode Leo asked Niska if she had turned off her pain while in the brothel. She said she had not because she was meant to feel. So the AI synths apparently have the ability to turn pain on and off. While Mia was Anita her pain would be off as the program controlling her was that of a standard synth.

Whatever you think about Joe, he did the right thing, perhaps for the wrong reason, by calling the police. Hobb was an absolute fool for not destroying Fred and Mattie and Laura, while well meaning, have no clue how dangerous what they are doing is. The sentient synths are a grave, existential threat to mankind. Fred and Niska both seem to have a desire to dominate or destroy mankind, though George seems to be mellowing out Niska a bit.

Maybe I am the only one who doesn't hate Pete. Yes, he is rough around the edges and can be a hot head, but his wife was pretty much having an affair with a synth right in front of him. Just like Laura when Joe had sex with Anita, he had good reason to be angry. As for him being a "bad cop" for leaking information, I would consider him a whistle-blower, exposing a massive, government/corporate cover up. If synths are killing people, doesn't the public have the right to know? The We Are People movement seems to misdirect its anger towards the synths rather than the people producing and buying them, but they do have a point. If the sentient synths begin to multiply, the WAP "crazies" might not seem so crazy.

I was joking about that...thus the "That's what she said." Not a fan of "The Office" I take it? :)

It was actually 17,000 pages of code which I am guessing would be close to a million lines.

I am not sure it is right to call Hobb the "evil doctor". He believes (correctly IMO) that he is working to save humanity from enslavement or total annihilation at the hands of sentient synths. They are the singularity. Hobbs greatly admires the AI synths but realizes how dangerous they are. He put it perfectly when he called Fred, "The Mona Lisa, penicillin, the atom bomb."

I agree that it is a form a cheating,though I was also say that masturbation is a light form of cheating as well. I don't think what he did with Anita was as bad as doing it with a real woman, but given how real she lookd and that he knows how threatened Laura feels by Anita, it was definitely a form of betrayal. I still think Laura is probably cheating on Joe as well, though.

Honora should be confined in a mental institution for the rest of her life for the protection of herself and society. She is a sociopath. I cannot believe they gave her the machete back.