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Yes please! That is a priceless image.

Gotta love the consistency of CDB's general ineptitude. Also have to admit I enjoy the comments here more so than the show. There's a helluvalot I didn't catch last night. This is a combination of actors mumbling and my not giving as much of a shit nowadays. I used to go over each episode with a fine-toothed comb, swear to God. Watched each one multiple times. Now it's all, "huh, two more to go until msf and another 3 month wait..." I think I'm watching out of sheer habit now. Damn. Well, TPTB don't care, either way.

Eyes High, on 16 Nov 2015 - 12:28 PM, said: I'm not surprised about Abe/Sasha. At least this will go some ways to counter the perception that the writers have some sort of mental opposition to white male characters forming romantic or at least sexual attachments to black female characters on the show. ******** With regards to old posts above mine in this thread: Richonne is not only a fan creation. Andrew Lincoln's Mum ships them for cripes sake. It's been fluffed up by TPTB (see Gimple and Richonne) and by the lead actors (see Lincoln at the latest Walker Stalker con in Atlanta) and their extended family. Ok -- this is suited to the relationships thread but it's mostly comics related so I put it here. Not sure if I need spoiler tags. Hmmm. Ok, I'll do it just to be safe. This is a theory I read somewhere and sounds plausible but I haven't read the comics. For any comic readers out there, would like your opinion. If you think Richonne is ridiculous and Michonne is "too good" for love, please ignore.

To paraphrase Abraham, "Who's Tina?" We have a new TV, a Sony something, it's big and flat and is hooked up to a separate Sony speaker (I'm not a tech person at all). Yet I CANNOT hear what these actors are saying, It's Marlon Brando-level mumbling going on there. I crank up the volume to hear this terrible enunciation and then the music swells up and God forbid it cuts to commercial which blasts us off the couch. Hate that fuckery. So, to sum up, I have no idea what anyone was saying. I did understand that Abraham hit on Sasha, in a nudge-nudge-wink-wink-know-what-I-mean kind of way, which I found hilarious and somewhat nauseating, simultaneously. Sasha for her part looked a bit green around the gills. Daryl riding off into the burnt-out landscape was creepy and reminiscent of a far more eviscerating take on the end of the world, the movie version of McCarthy's The Road. When Daryl looked over at the shriveled up body with the helmet though, I thought, "Aliens..." Do not give two shits about the double-crossing trio. Just more dirty sniveling unwashed fuckers who've done nothing but hide and lie and be cowards the past two years. Same old same old. As for the big D himself, I haven't liked his character since snarky Daryl took a powder at the end of season 2, but I've tolerated him alright. Now I can't stand to watch him because of his hair. That is sad. It's not even the disgusting greasiness of it, but the bangs in the eyes. NO. I just keep wanting to brush them away off MY face. It's distracting as hell. Please stop this torture, Show. Preach Ghoulina. You and I share a brain when it comes to the overall vision for this show. In comics land it's OK, I guess (I don't know, I don't read graphic novels) but in TV land it doesn't translate well. Show needs a beginning, middle and end, like a play. This won't change until the ratings drop, at least. TPTB think Gimple's "nonlinear" storytelling is epic, simply genius! (so if one doesn't like it, one is too stupid to appreciate it) and with the ratings high and budget in check, there's no need to change it.

Yep I guess episode 7 is the Glenn reveal.

Ah crapola I forgot the most intriguing part. At the very end there's a voice on the radio (? -- they weren't too clear on that point) which whispers the word "Help..." so lots of speculation that it's Glenn.

rab01 are you Gimple?! I shan't care about the ASZhats any time soon. Let's just say if they're gonna kill off CDB --which has FAR too many people nowadays-- they can start with FPP. Time to trim the fat! Sorry about the crap day. I'm likely to dive into the wine without all that aggravation, to be honest. If I can stay awake long enough after the little darlings go to bed.

Welp, looks like Daryl fans are gonna get their freak on this Sunday. Abe & Sasha too. I like the three of them so it should be good. I read the synopsis and there's a fair bit of action in it, and the inclusion of presumably comic character We're supposed to spoiler comic stuff right? If not I can amend this post. Anyway they abduct Daryl and end up double crossing him. So it's supposed to be an early introduction to

Personally I want to see another Bad Lip Reading or Honest Trailer. Busted a gut watching those.

Blasphemy! Gimple is never wrong [/sarcasm] On topic: I think the goo seeping through the walls at the end is walker goo but I wish it was Spencer goo.

Hello Zombie Talk Thread. I just saw something on reddit whilst looking for the hilarious TWD photo recaps (couldnae find, dammit). The idea is, a giant hamster wheel turbine for zombies = infinite electricity. Skippy the Hamster does his thing and powers a night light: Possible? Someone else wrote that zombies are an infinite power source and break physics since they can walk without any input of energy. So would the giant hamster wheel turbine work? Just think what could've been with the quarry walkers instead of Rick's brilliant plan to move them 20 miles somewhere else. Yes I'm at work.

Yup. It's from a The Hollywood Reporter interview. SNIP>>> Gimple: At the end of last season, we didn't really get to see Abraham and Rosita as a couple as much. There was not room in the things that were happening to them to see them as a couple. But, there is a scene this season where we define them as a couple very quickly. As far as Rick and Michonne, their relationship will grow even more intimate and even more tight, but I don't know if there's really going to be room for romance with the things that are happening. They're very close. I was talking to Danai about it, and she referred to Michonne as being Rick's "work wife." So maybe they'll wind up like Pam and Jim [on The Office], but that took a long time.

Haha yes. It was underwhelming, wasn't it? I think the idea was to make him less cartoonish, give him more nuance etc. Plus they couldn't show certain graphic scenes involving Michonne and they scrapped the Rick hand thing. So he was defanged somewhat. No fault of DM who is a fab actor. My concern with this particular big bad is the swearsies. This is the show who had Rick say "They're screwing with the wrong people." Ugh. Also I saw recent pics of JDM and he's practically emaciated due to dropping 40lbs for his role in Texas Rising. He had better beef back up again. Dude is 6'2" and needs to be more physically imposing, not a scarecrow.

There's been a lot of action in the episode thread but not gonna reply there because it's too OT. People compare Carol to Michonne as the loveless wonders but it's not the same. See essay above. Also Carol is middle aged, not in her prime like Michonne, which is another shitty trope better suited to Carol's thread. But Carol/Michonne is a false equivalency. Something I read awhile ago asked its reader to do a thought experiment: go back to the chainlink fence of the prison in season three. Rick is outside. He sees zombies clamouring against the fence. One of them is different. Although covered in gore, she isn't moving like they are, and wait --she's holding a basket of baby formula? And there's a light in her green eyes ---she's not one of them, she's alive! Her pale skin covered in blood, her light brown hair tangled up in guts.... Well you get the idea. How long would it take for people to ship the hell out of them, especially after an episode like Clear, where Carl proclaims she's one of us? They would be shipped, it would be expected. No questions asked. I think the outcome would be different than we've seen with the lady at the fence being black rather than white. Why pretend otherwise. Will the show address this? It's more than a zombie show populated by hackneyed tropes, right Gimple?

Whoa that sounds kinda familiar.... kidding, I think Gimple's been good, aside from his weird ideas about show momentum, pacing and what-have-you. And I want him to stop trying to make me give a damn about the ASZhats.

Under the Dumb was terrible, as was The Following. I couldn't even hate watch them; they simply dropped off my radar. Why did you stop watching Falling Skies? That bad? I always meant to check it out. Has anyone mentioned Humans yet? I enjoyed it, for whatever that's worth.

Yeah it has been a tad excessive lately. But I'm an old school TWoP snarker anyway, and I don't blame them entirely. We need to vent. I'm still watching the show, not hate-watching; I'm just gruntled right now like nachomama. Maybe I expect too much from a zombie show but it's hit some high peaks in the past and I'm always looking for a return to those times.

This has to be the grossest title of any survivor thread. It squicks me the eff out. Rosita is still a cypher to me. She had better not get too close to Spencer though. He will definitely walk over her dead body for a sleeve of crackers.

Jessie often wears an oversized plaid shirt --in fact, she has several plaid shirts, going by the stills I just viewed when I found the Lori DIY kit-- and I couldn't help but think this was a deliberate and fairly obvious reference to the Mrs. Grimes of seasons 1- 3. Her plaid shirt usage is iconic. Draw whichever conclusions you want to, but I believe this is a clear and deliberate signal that the Ricktator has unfinished business to attend to. I believe Jessie is his Lori “do over” or whatever you want to call it. Another anvil dropped during season 5b when Rick mentioned that Lori had always wanted a house like ASZ houses. And the first time we ever see Jessie she’s cutting hair. The first time we ever see Lori she’s cutting hair. That’s just off the top my head. You know these writers are anything but subtle. Jessie's role is to make Rick remember his old life, the way the world was before, the normality that he used to have with Lori. This whole thing is about his past and his traumas. It’s not about her. Which makes her character even more tragic for me. People talk about Michonne being too good for Rick. What about this lady? She has suffered years of abuse, her children are permanently scarred physically and mentally, her husband executed in front of her (yes he was her abuser but also the father of her children), his body dumped off-site like a bag of trash so even his sons can’t mourn him (and all of this done by her soon-to-be-boyfriend), the children are more traumatized than ever before – and somehow Rick, who is still as crazy as a shithouse rat with his own issues -- is the guy for her? Sad. And even sadder because I think she’s a stand-in for Lori. It’s really messed up.

Spencer can die now. I'd rather FPP survive over him and that's saying something, in my books.

Q: for the Richonne shippers -- does she ever smile at Rick or laugh at something he says? A: I could seriously spam the crap out of Michonne and/or Rick's threads with countless pics of them making googly-eyes at each other. But I will restrain myself. And I really do think there's something up with the Widow Anderson's plaid shirts (of which she has more than one). OR it could simply be, again, the writers trolling the crap out of us, which apparently they enjoy doing (Gimple said Richonne were the Pam & Jim of the show, etc.). I only concede the last point because I have no idea what they're thinking and find it hard to even speculate about it.

Lol! It's been noted many times before that Michonne could have chemistry with a tree stump. Re. this episode I was disappointed that we weren't fully privy to her conversation upon her arrival back in ASZhatland. Rather we were given that scene from Deanna's perspective, which IMO sucked.

I'm hoping Timetoread shows up here at some point :)

Yeah. I just watched the pilot again for the umpteenth time (it's like a self-contained little movie, love it) and he was under the tank, understandably freaking out, and put his gun to his head and said "I'm sorry Lori... Carl." He stopped short when he saw the hatch and scooted on up into the tank. I can't believe these dicks are bailing on this after AL's awesomeness in this scene but that's par for the course these days.

HA! Sorry. I mentioned that in my original post, then some peeps said they didn't mind the time jump, and I just had to get back in here to take one more whack at it. Glad you see it my way (the right way *WINK*) Also agree that the ASZhats coulda been doing something useful during the speechifying, other than the trademarked ASZhat "standing around, arms crossed, with a confused and/or scared look" stance. Maybe the real writers went out for deep-dish Chicago style pizza with Daryl's season 1 & 2 writer*? And if so, could they please send that person back because season 3-now Daryl is simply NOT FUNNY AT ALL. *credit to Nashville