S03.E15: Things Bad Begun/S03.E16 Sleigh Ride Speculation and Live Chat

[Gobi]

Of course. Ask someone with no medical training to perform delicate spinal surgery, with the promise of death if they fail.

[MrsRafaelBarba]

Oh Daniel, you had one job to do.

[raven]

2 minutes ago, mightysparrow said:

And so many people have decided that now would be the perfect time to create an evil empire.

And not one of them is half as threatening as Daniel, who just wanted to look out for Ofelia and not build a stupid empire.

[william0102]

Why does it look like the proctors and Alicia are at a house, when they said she was taking her "lady friend" to the trading post?

[candall]

1 minute ago, nodorothyparker said:

Good gods, it's only been 38 minutes.  Still another hour and a half of this.

I'm okay.  They've packed in pretty much.  It only took Daniel about 4 seconds to buzz through the whole episode before last.

[nodorothyparker]

Now see, I would have thought trucker hat would have left his trucker hat on to perform spinal surgery.

[raven]

Shouldn't he be screaming in pain?  or do they have some drugs and he's just supposed to distract himself with Alicia?

Just cut the tumor out, Eddie, it will be fine.

[SoSueMe]

Oh gosh this is making me think of the commercial with the guy taking out his own appendix.

[JackONeill]

Is there really any suspense with this surgery, because aren’t the Proctors supposed to attack the dam and if the head Proctor dies what of the attack?

[chick binewski]

Why yes Alicia, hold the psycho's hand and look deeply into his eyes. 

[calliope1975]

This is super dumb.

Yay, back to Daniel. 

[blaksheba]

I don't like anything about Daniel; even with his torturing of  Nick (whom I'm now meh about). I started to dislike him on Victor's boat (in season 1 or 2), and was joyful when he "died" in season 2. I was so disappointed he came back because I find all his scenes annoying... esp this one. I hope he doesn't make it out of this episode.

[candall]

This guy is pretty chatty during spinal surgery.  Was the only anesthetic a swig of whiskey and a rope to bite on?

[chick binewski]

That escalated quickly.

[JackONeill]

 Bye, Troy.

[raven]

Sure, kill Troy who was kind of interesting and played by a decent actor.

Madison sucks.

[calliope1975]

FINALLY, Madison makes herself useful. 

[MrsRafaelBarba]

Stop retconning, Travis wasn't your husband.

 

Troy better be dead.

[william0102]

Troy should have stuck with Nick.

[Gobi]

The fall of Troy, in an episode that name-checked Odysseus. Classy.

[laschifosavita]

I wanted this to happen, but I'm so annoyed with Madison that she couldn't figure out the obvious until Troy put every single piece together for her.  Was she always this stupid?  This season has me wondering if she was always like this and I just didn't notice.

[chick binewski]

Yay the real show is coming back and maybe as a very special gift to all of us for putting up with th edreck that is FTWD they'll kill Negan off during the season premiere!

Let me have my dreams.

[nodorothyparker]

What does it say about their leading lady that I would have chosen Troy to survive that encounter over her?  He was a big basket of crazy but at least he could emote and occasionally made Nick tolerable.

[JackONeill]

Troy didn’t get nooky from either Clark.

[raven]

Just now, Gobi said:

The fall of Troy, in an episode that name-checked Odysseus. Classy.

Someone is paying attention :)

I would rather have kept Troy than Madison, though I should know that would never have happened.

[raven]

1 minute ago, laschifosavita said:

I wanted this to happen, but I'm so annoyed with Madison that she couldn't figure out the obvious until Troy put every single piece together for her.  Was she always this stupid?  This season has me wondering if she was always like this and I just didn't notice.

Plus if she had killed Troy rather than banish him in the first place, he wouldn't have been around to attract the horde's attention.

She is the worst.

[candall]

During the commercial, here's something funny:  I have my DVR set for "new episodes" of TWD.  Tonight I noticed they have six hours scheduled this week of cast and crew yakking about the new season, for buildup & promotion.

CAN HE WALK NOW?!?

 

 

stop merging my posts, dammit

Edited October 16, 2017 by candall

[raven]

Oh Strand, you bad boy.

The water is flowing upstream!

Oh so this was the point of the Strand/Madision convo about killing people.

[nodorothyparker]

Apparently trucker hat is such a great amateur surgeon that his patient is fully mobile and can sit up five minutes after surgery.  Sure, why not?

[Gobi]

Proctor John looks like Frank Zappa.

Edited October 16, 2017 by Gobi

[JackONeill]

This is not going to end well.

[calliope1975]

I feel one of the two best actors on this show is gonna die tonight. 

[MrsRafaelBarba]

Damn, in the face!!

[candall]

1 minute ago, Gobi said:

Proctor John looks like Frank Zappa.

YES.

[SoSueMe]

just a flesh wound :)

[nodorothyparker]

Goddamnit, Strand.  What did you do?

[raven]

Of course, Daniel can take down anyone except Strand.

The show has given me no reason to be scared of the Proctologists so I have no idea why Strand is doing this.

[raven]

Just now, calliope1975 said:

I feel one of the two best actors on this show is gonna die tonight. 

I will not be happy to lose either one.

Oh are these the bad guys?

[JackONeill]

Back surgeries, gun shots to the head...and here I am complaining about a hang nail!

[MrsRafaelBarba]

 No Efrain!!! 

[raven]

oh sure but Strand saves FRICKING MADISON.

[Gobi]

"Berate me later!" Best line of the night.

[nodorothyparker]

Why does Strand care so much about protecting either of these idiots, again?

[candall]

"Berate me later."  Hee  Traitor Strand maintains his éclat.

[chick binewski]

1 minute ago, MrsRafaelBarba said:

 No Efrain!!! 

I know!

It's tough to get into it when anything happens on this show because the moments happen so quickly, without buildup, involving characters whose relationships we're not invested in. I almost don't want guest stars from the mothership to appear next season because they'll be tainted with Fear stank.

Although, I AM secretly kinda hoping

Spoiler

Eugene gives Abraham the wrong directions to DC and wacky Baja hijinx ensue. 

[laschifosavita]

7 minutes ago, raven said:

Plus if she had killed Troy rather than banish him in the first place, he wouldn't have been around to attract the horde's attention.

She is the worst.

It was literally the same thing that he got banished for, too.  He didn't care that he might accidentally shoot some white people when he was going to kill everyone the last time.  Why would she think that he had changed at all?  I was starting to think that Troy was going to have to get a swastika tattoo or something before she figured it out.

[mightysparrow]

Strand is my favourite character but I'm sick and tired of his loyalty to the Clark family who have done nothing but wreck his life since he met them.  Strand started out with a gorgeous yacht.  Now he's trying to take over a goddamn dam in a story line that doesn't make any fucking sense at all.  Which is saying a lot for FTWD.

[JackONeill]

Okay — what the hell?

[MrsRafaelBarba]

WTF?

[raven]

It's a Christmas miracle!!