Spoilers and Speculation

[Mr. Sparkle]

From your description, I'm thankful youtube is blocked at work. 

[Nashville]

On 2/23/2020 at 11:01 AM, Superclam said:

I personally encourage consenting adults to have as much socks as they want to. 

[OoohMaggie]

S10 Ep10,  ‘Stalker’

“Our group must defend Alexandria from a threatening, outside force.”

S10 Ep11, ’Morning Star’

“The Whispers arrive from the Hilltop; the communities debate whether they should fight or fly after Lydia and Daryl encounter Alpha; Eugene has some complications as he struggles to communicate with Stephanie.”
 

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

See, you don't know me, but that looks a lot like me. 

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, OoohMaggie said:

the communities debate whether they should fight or fly after Lydia and Daryl encounter Alpha;

Oh, no. Not more debates. Maybe Magma can bring up her relationship problems. She tried to in the cave but conditions weren't optimal for a heart-to-heart Dr. Phil moment.

 

1 hour ago, OoohMaggie said:

Eugene has some complications as he struggles to communicate with Stephanie.”

I'd already forgotten all that, particularly that her name is Stephanie. On pins and needles here for what is sure to be a riveting scene.

[OoohMaggie]

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

See, you don't know me, but that looks a lot like me. 

So is this you? C’mon stop hiding! 😆

[OoohMaggie]

Screen too dark? Look here,

https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2020/02/26/the-walking-dead-dark-scenes-fix-complain-explained/

Edited February 26, 2020 by OoohMaggie

[nodorothyparker]

From TSDF Army, Q& A for S10.E10 "Stalker"

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1. Gamma offers the Alexandrians "a trade" what is it?

In order to believe she's telling them the whole truth and act on the information she has given, Gabriel plays the "servant of God who has taken so many confessions that he knows when someone's holding something back" card and asks Gamma to tell him the thing that she's holding back. She admits to killing her sister for Alpha, without Alpha even asking her to do it.

2. Does anyone at Alexandria trust Gamma? Who is the most vocal about not trusting her? Who insists she is placed in Negan's cell?

Gabriel does, especially after hearing about her sister. Rosita disagrees. It's Rosita who gives the actual order to have her placed in the cell, but I got the impression that this was the common decision anyway.

3. We know Beta is on a mission to retrieve Gamma - does he succeed? Does he get her back to Alpha?

Almost. Gamma volunteers to go with him to keep him from killing Rosita. As they are walking in the woods, the group led by Gabriel and Scott ambush them, Beta takes off running, Gabriel fires a shot at him but he misses, so Beta gets away. They bring Gamma back to Alexandria and then put her on a carriage to Hilltop.

4. Does Beta bring anyone with him to Alexandria?

I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I think the idea was for him to go alone, kill a bunch of people, wait for them to turn and have them act as a distraction while he goes to retrieve Gamma.

5. Who does Beta kill in Alexandria? Do we see Laura die by Beta's hand?

I can specifically mention Alfred's death, the guy that was with Margo and Gage when they had ambushed Lydia before. There are also a few people Beta killed who turn, and some are shown pretty clearly, but I'm not sure exactly who they are. We do see him killing Laura, he slams her against the bars inside the cell after she comes to Gamma's rescue. Gamma manages to get away because of her.

6. Where do Judith and RJ run to for safety? Where's Barbara?

We don't see where they go, we just see them getting out of the room they were in with Gamma. I didn't see Barbara.

7. Where do Rosita and Beta fight? Is Coco ever in danger?

In the house above the cell, I think it's Michonne's. After Judith and RJ get away, Beta grabs Gamma by the ankle. Rosita distracts him, they fight, but she's overpowered. Right when he's about to deliver the fatal blow, Gamma stops him and lures him away, saying that it's her that Alpha wants. Coco is okay throughout.

8. Where did Negan get his Whisperer mask from?

Negan's not in this episode.

9. Can you tell us about the fight between Alpha and Daryl?

I think the most prominent detail here is that Alpha slashes Daryl in the face, near the eye, which causes a huge disadvantage for him because he has blood in his eyes -we see his blurred, bloody point of view more than once- and he has a hard time locating and fighting off the walkers around him.

It starts with him pinning her down, asking "where are they", and then come the cutting and the stabbing in the leg. But they are both badly wounded. She then follows him to what looks like a gas station, bangs her shotgun against a pipe to attract walkers, and at some point, Daryl has no choice but to pull the knife out of his leg which causes a huge spraying of blood. Since they are both weak and can barely walk, they can't get out, and Daryl tells Alpha that she lost Lydia because she didn't love her. Alpha is clearly offended by this remark, she tries to get up and walk towards him, but she falls, and that's when Lydia arrives. It's also worth noting that their encounter starts near a different exit where Alpha is busy luring the horde out of the cave. So there really is at least one other exit.

10. Does Lydia talk to Daryl when he regains consciousness? What does she say?

Daryl asks her if she killed Alpha, she asks whether he could have if it were his father instead.

11. What else happens with Lydia?

Alpha asks Lydia to kill her. She says that she's ready and that "they" are waiting for Lydia to lead them. Lydia refuses, she says that she's not here for them and she's not here for her. She tells her that "they are human, not perfect, just human", that that's all she ever wanted to be and that's what Alpha never gave her.

12. Does Daryl make it home by the end of the episode?

We don't see it.

13. How’s Doggo?

Once again, he's not in this episode.

14. Is there anything else interesting that happens?

My favorite scene in the whole episode was Judith shooting Beta in the chest through the closed door of her and RJ's bedroom. But it turns out the SOB had a breast plate on all along.

There are a bunch of things that come to mind, but I've had a hard time fitting most of it into the questions, so I'll try to make a quick list in no particular order:

- The scene with a Whisperer attacking Coco was actually Rosita having a nightmare.
- She and Gabriel talk about her possibly freezing in combat again and she tells him about having dreams where the Whisperers kill her.
- Gabriel goes on a rant about how the Whisperers are cowards, and that they should keep them alive, start pulling out teeth and taking fingers to scare them and get them to drop the act, which is what it's all about.
- They get a call from an Echo Post about an incoming herd. This is why Scott and Gabriel and a group of people go outside, but it turns out it was a trap to have less people back in Alexandria for Beta's infiltration. The call was forced, and the people at Echo Post were unfortunately killed.
- Aaron returns to Alexandria and tells Gabriel and Scott that "not everyone got out".
- Beta enters Alexandria through Cheryl's grave. This leads Gabe and Aaron to conclude that Dante made this happen since he was the one who buried her.
- Judith talks to Gamma the same way she used to talk to Negan, from the stairs over the barred window. She asks her her name, and Gamma talks a bit about her and her sister making wrong decisions, needing someone to make them for them, and meeting Alpha. Judith tells her that if they had met her mom or dad first, she wouldn't be in there, and that she doesn't seem like a monster to her. Judith also has Gamma come and hide inside the house after Laura helps her get out of the cell.
- When Lydia calls Alpha "mama", even in her wounded state, she doesn't neglect to tell Lydia not to call her that and that she knows better.
- After everything is over, Rosita also heads for Hilltop to see the doctor there, leaving Coco behind with Gabriel because it's safer. Once in the carriage, she introduces herself to Gamma and they shake hands.
- When Alpha wakes up, the knife she had stabbed Daryl with is pinned on a table near a carved message that says "your way is not the only way".

15. How does the episode end?

Alpha wakes up -the next morning I guess- after her encounter with Lydia, with Whisperers by her side. She goes on a rant about how she's not weak anymore, how she's stronger than ever, how the horde "will butcher them and screams will be songs to her", and she recites the "we are free" thing.

I have no idea who half the people mentioned in this are and don't care enough to go to the wiki to look them up.

[AngelaHunter]

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6. Where do Judith and RJ run to for safety? Where's Barbara?

With one of their parents faux-dying and the other abandoning them it's amazing they're still alive. I have no clue who Barbara is. The babysitter?

[OoohMaggie]

13 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

I can specifically mention Alfred's death

Alfred, does the show get these names from the 1800’s? Was a former Highwayman, and won’t be missed.

Laura ‘AKA’  Barcode Girl, will be missed by a certain element of viewers ❤️

[OoohMaggie]

12 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

I have no clue who Barbara is. The babysitter?

Nah, I’m still none the wiser 🙄

Edited February 27, 2020 by OoohMaggie

[OoohMaggie]

Slightly Spoilery synopses for S10

Spoiler

 

S10-11.         ‘Morning Star’                                                                                                           With the Whisperers coming for Hilltop, the communitiesmust decide whether to run or fight.

S10-11.         ‘Walk With Us’
With Negan's help, Alpha and the Whisperers attack Hilltop

S10-13          ‘What We Become’                                                                                                                  Michonne takes Virgil back to his island to find his family; in exchange, Virgil offers weapons.

S10-14           ‘Look At The Flowers’                                                                                                                        Everyone reckons with the aftermath of the Hilltop fire; Eugene leads a trip to meet Stephanie.

S10-15             ‘The Tower’                                                                                                TBA          

S10-16            ‘A Certain Doom’                                                                                       TBA

 

 

 

[OoohMaggie]

Opening scene, a few clips are out there,

It’s had some good reviews already and  as I liked the last one, that long unfelt feeling of hope is stirring 😱

Edited February 29, 2020 by OoohMaggie

[OoohMaggie]

🤥
Speaking of relationships, Reedus has a major gripe with that freaky-deaky Negan and Alpha naked pre-sex scene, and the gripe has to do with co-star and BFF Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Allow him to explain as he good-naturedly ribs his buddy: “I do remember when that was written and I was like, ‘Jeff!’ And he’s like, ‘What? What? Samantha doesn’t want to get naked so I don’t really have to get naked.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s not what I heard. I heard Samantha wants to but you don’t want to.’ And he’s like, ‘Well no, you know, I’d….’ He was just stumbling on his words and I was like, ‘You know what? I’ve been butt naked on this show several times in front of everybody! And he ends up wearing this like flesh colored ballerina bottoms and these ballet bottoms! And not only that, then he’s got like a beige colored diaper on top of that. You can’t see anything! And I was like, this is so unfair! I was like, ‘You chicken, get in there, rip those pants off!’ But he wouldn’t do it. I think me and Cudlitz are the only one that have been naked so far on this show.”

https://ew.com/tv/2020/02/23/walking-dead-norman-reedus-squeeze-daryl-carol-1009/

[tv echo]

Ask Ausiello: Scoop on This Is Us, Lucifer, TWD, Zoey's, Schitt's Creek, Chicago PD, Million Little and More
By Michael Ausiello / February 27 2020
https://tvline.com/2020/02/27/this-is-us-season-4-episode-18-strangers-part-2-finale/ 

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Question: When is The Walking Dead going to kill Alpha? Tired of Whisperers! —Gordo
Ausiello: Chill, Gordo. Handling a Big Bad is like making a walker-skin mask — it takes a while. In the meantime, you can look forward to the villainess getting into one hell of a knock-down drag-out fight in Sunday’s “Stalker (AMC, 9/8c), Daryl proving just how far he’ll go to try to save Connie (OK, and Magna), and a surprise ending for a character who’s been around since Season 7.

Edited February 29, 2020 by tv echo

[AngelaHunter]

8 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

🤥
Speaking of relationships, Reedus has a major gripe with that freaky-deaky Negan and Alpha naked pre-sex scene, and the gripe has to do with co-star and BFF Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Allow him to explain as he good-naturedly ribs his buddy: “I do remember when that was written and I was like, ‘Jeff!’ And he’s like, ‘What? What? Samantha doesn’t want to get naked so I don’t really have to get naked.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s not what I heard. I heard Samantha wants to but you don’t want to.’ And he’s like, ‘Well no, you know, I’d….’ He was just stumbling on his words and I was like, ‘You know what? I’ve been butt naked on this show several times in front of everybody! And he ends up wearing this like flesh colored ballerina bottoms and these ballet bottoms! And not only that, then he’s got like a beige colored diaper on top of that. You can’t see anything! And I was like, this is so unfair! I was like, ‘You chicken, get in there, rip those pants off!’ But he wouldn’t do it. I think me and Cudlitz are the only one that have been naked so far on this show.”

https://ew.com/tv/2020/02/23/walking-dead-norman-reedus-squeeze-daryl-carol-1009/

JFC, Norman! You're a 50 year old man, not some 15-year-old high school kid. Try getting a sentence out without using "LIKE"! Has the word "said" become obsolete?

Trying to read that made me dizzy. 😡

[nodorothyparker]

I mercifully don't remember the Heat Miser being naked on this show.  Was it the library "Eugene likes to watch" thing?

But yeah, that interview, like his hair, does nothing to lessen my impression that Norman Reedus thinks he's Peter Pan.

[OoohMaggie]

Why The Walking Dead Trapped Lauren Ridloff's Connie in a Cave-In

The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang confirms the cave-in that left Connie (Lauren Ridloff) and Magna (Nadia Hilker) trapped in the midseason premiere was used to temporarily write out Ridloff, who next stars as speedster superhero Makkari in Marvel Studios' The Eternals. Season 10 episode 9, "Squeeze," ended with Carol (Melissa McBride) attempting to take out half of Alpha's (Samantha Morton) walker horde gathered in the cave where the Whisperer leader trapped Daryl (Norman Reedus) and other heroes in a cliffhanger ending the midseason finale. The cave was rocked by an explosion set off by a fumbled stick of dynamite, leaving Connie and Magna's exit buried beneath tons of rubble.

https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2020/02/29/why-the-walking-dead-trapped-connie-cave-lauren-ridloff-marvel-the-eternals/

 

 

 

8 hours ago, tv echo said:

and a surprise ending for a character who’s been around since Season 7.

Ahhhhh Laura, so very brave, yet so very dumb 😭

[AngelaHunter]

7 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

I mercifully don't remember the Heat Miser being naked on this show.  Was it the library "Eugene likes to watch" thing?

Yeah, but if you weren't wearing night vision goggles or if you blinked you missed it. It's for the best if you did, though.

[OoohMaggie]

Very ‘Michael Myers’ but another decent episode 🤗

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 hour ago, OoohMaggie said:

Very ‘Michael Myers’ but another decent episode 🤗

I agree, better than last week. I think this season's been much better than the last 2-3. Skipping last week's "porno" scene, of course. 

[OoohMaggie]

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

I agree, better than last week. I think this season's been much better than the last 2-3. Skipping last week's "porno" scene, of course. 

Apart from a couple of movie / Walking Dead cliches in the episode, things definitely seem to be heading in the right direction, if it continues to improve, I may even have to revert to the good old days and avoid reading or watching spoilers, what a dream come true that would be 😱

Edited March 1, 2020 by OoohMaggie

[OoohMaggie]

 

 

 

 

[OoohMaggie]

The electrified wire was pretty cool, maybe ‘Aaron’s  Legion’ could borrow a trick from Kirk,

 

Edited March 2, 2020 by OoohMaggie

[OoohMaggie]

Doesn’t Smiley Boy look cute in his new outfit,

[nodorothyparker]

Oh, Negan and Alpha whipping each other.  Negan, perhaps unsurprisingly, looks noticeably worse after having gotten laid with Alpha.

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, nodorothyparker said:

Oh, Negan and Alpha whipping each other.  Negan, perhaps unsurprisingly, looks noticeably worse after having gotten laid with Alpha.

I think that's some sort of bonding/mating ritual? And TPTB are still trying to redeem Negan by making him reluctant and sympathetic by telling Awful that she's been cut enough. Awww. This from someone who rammed a red-hot iron on some boy's face for no reason. Negan better hope Beta doesn't find out that someone else is whipping his girl.

 

11 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

The electrified wire was pretty cool, maybe ‘Aaron’s  Legion’ could borrow a trick from Kirk,

That's quite a good idea.

[nodorothyparker]

I am mildly interested that Negan is counseling forcing Alexandria/Hilltop to surrender and "bend the knee" to join them rather than just kill 'em all.  Now that may just be him being a dick and wanting to wave his dick around like he did when he was effectively a warlord with a Savior army, but it also would seem to support the popular theory that Negan is aiming to take the Whisperers down from the inside in favor of the communities.  You know he'd be insufferable and giddy as fuck at having the same people who defeated him and let him sit in a cell for years in his debt if he did.

[OoohMaggie]

“It's yet another testament to the quality writing and detail-oriented style Kang relentlessly displays as showrunner.” 🤢

https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2020/03/02/the-walking-dead-beta-whisperers-tunnel-explained/

An explanation of sorts,

https://ew.com/tv/2020/03/01/walking-dead-stalker-angela-kang-showrunner-beta-dante/

[AngelaHunter]

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As it turns out, the grave which Beta emerged from was Cheryl's. Casual viewers might not have noticed the detail or connected the dots but Cheryl was the older woman who Dante poisoned and ultimately dug the grave for. He insisted on digging that grave. While doing so, he helped connect the tunnel for the Whisperers.

So we must search every online site to find out WTF happened? But sure - I knew  that. Cheryl's grave. Right. 😏 The rest of you obviously aren't paying attention, or might be asking "Who the fuck is Cheryl?" Get with the program!

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Kang explained to EW. "I was like, 'I love this idea, but how does he get in?' So we threw out a lot of ideas. I actually think it might have been that I was like, 'You know what would be so great is I love the idea of him coming through a grave,' but Jim and the writers solved it and was like, 'Yeah, if Dante created this back door because he was screwing things up for them.'

And I'm like, STFU STFU STFU! I'd hate to listen to her and Norman Reedus having a conversation.

[nodorothyparker]

No, just no.  I don't mind them occasionally clarifying something on TTD, even though ideally we really shouldn't need that either.  But if you can't convey an idea on screen without expecting viewers to read or watch multiple outside sources, that's on you.  If basic how and why questions keep coming up week after week, that's on you.  That's a sign you need to go back to the writers room and try again to construct scenes that make sense and answer those basic questions.

[AngelaHunter]

2 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

But if you can't convey an idea on screen without expecting viewers to read or watch multiple outside sources, that's on you.

I may not be particularly quick, but never have I ever had to search to find out what happened on something I just watched. So, either they have to brainstorm after the ep for an explanation only after viewers ask "Wtf?" and they are like, "Oh, shit. That made no sense. Someone think of something PDQ!" or they are so greedy for more sponsor dollars they want people to watch their TTD (more commercials!) after the show, which is something I would never do. Like, FU.

Edited March 3, 2020 by AngelaHunter

[nodorothyparker]

From TSDF Army: S10.E11: "Morning Star" Q & A

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1. Has Negan completely converted to the Whisperers? What do we see that shows what side he is really on?

Yes. He and Alpha do the whipping of the arms, and he gets a mask. The only thing that could maybe allude to his allegiance is that he tells Alpha that instead of destroying Alexandria and Hilltop, "we can get them to join us".

2. How does everyone react to the cave-in situation?

There's not much of a reaction really. There's no scene of a specific announcement, just Kelly and Aaron talking to Yumiko and Luke about getting ready to go back out to look for them, but this is interrupted by Daryl and Lydia's arrival with Lydia telling them that they can't go out because "my mother is coming". Opening credits roll right after this line.

3. Does the Eugene & Rosita "kiss" happen in this episode?

-> Yes and no. This is a "dare" given to Eugene by Rosita to prove that he's actually that much into Stephanie. He ends up not kissing her after all and tells her that it's a special kind of peculiar to want to kiss someone he's never even met instead. She gives him a pep talk about the upcoming fight with the horde, tells him to get off his ass and get her, and he kisses her on the cheek afterwards.

4. What’s going on with Eugene’s latest conversation with Stephanie?

They talk about counting the shooting stars they have seen, and the falling satellite comes up. They realize that they must be close since they've both seen it at the same time. He tells her that he's in Virginia and offers to meet. She's reluctant because "her people is super cautious". They agree that she'll talk to her people about it first, and he won't say anything to anyone until then.

Later on, when Eugene seems to be away, Rosita comes in the radio room, hears Stephanie talking on the radio and answers, asking her who she is. Eugene comes back, he's furious at Rosita, tells her that he made him broke his promises on keeping the conversations a secret and asks her to leave before he says something he'll regret. They patch things up later on during the "non-kiss" scene.

5. Does Judith repair Daryl's vest by replacing the missing wing? Do they talk about it?

Yes, but we don't see her actually doing it, we only see her giving it to Daryl "for luck". He's really happy about it. We even get a little laugh out of him. Well, maybe more of a chuckle.

6. Where's Dog?

We don't see him unfortunately.

7. What's the Ezekiel and Daryl scene about?

Ezekiel apparently decides it's no longer worth it to wear the scarf over his tumor. Daryl comes downstairs, asks him if he's okay, he says "no, I got cancer, but it's okay, you know what I mean?" Daryl tells him that he's sorry, and that even though the two of them never really had much to say to one another, he knows what he's been through, that he's stronger than most, and that there are many people who appreciate that, himself included. Then they make a deal: if one of them falls, the other will get the children out. They shake hands on it.

8. Does anyone continue the search for Magna and Connie?

No. Because Alpha and the horde are coming, they decide to take out the children first, but once they go outside, they find out that all roads have been blocked. Daryl says that Negan did this and that "he's with her now".

9. We see the battle begin at the front lines of Hilltop, does anyone die?

We see someone burned alive, but we don't see who.

10. Does Negan help in the attack? Does he see Judith is there?

Yes to the first part. The group of Whisperers are far behind the horde, and they launch some tree saps that Beta was seen harvesting in the opening scene of the episode, which is apparently flammable. When Alpha sets an arrow on fire for Negan to shoot, he tells her that he thought they were going to join them. Alpha responds "they will, as a part of my horde". Since they are located away from Hilltop's entrance, Negan has no actual way of knowing who's there and who's not.

11. What types of attacks do the Whisperers use?

The horde comes first, then they shoot the flammable tree sap, then the fire arrows to ignite them.

12. What kind of defenses do our people have?

First, there's an electrocuted metal wire that Eugene set up which unfortunately doesn't do much. Then, there's a thick line of barbed wire that stops the horde for a bit while they pick them off one by one, one group in the front using melee weapons, another in the back using arrows.

13. Do we see RJ?

Yes, when they are putting the kids in a carriage to try and get them out. We see Judith, RJ, Gracie and others.

14. What do Carol and Ezekiel talk about?

Carol sees his tumor, and they have sex. Afterwards, Ezekiel asks if it would have happened on any other night, if they didn't know that they were going to die that night. Carol says "wait, we're gonna die tonight?" They share a laugh.

15. Is there any news about Michonne?

No, just a short shot of Judith trying to reach her over the radio. She calls out for "Daito", and although I don't actually remember this being pointed out as Michonne's call sign, the sword reference made me think it is.

16. Do Daryl and Carol talk? Does he forgive her for what happened at the cave?

Briefly.

Carol: Please don't hate me.

Daryl: I'm never going to hate you.

That's it.

17. How does the episode end?

During the fight, the Whisperers shoot the flammable tree saps. The horde starts to breach the fence with the barbed wire, and Daryl and Aaron order everyone to retreat. When they all turn around to go back inside, the Whisperers shoot a bunch of flame arrows that sets the way back ablaze. This means everyone is stuck between the horde behind and the fire in front. The final shot is from behind Daryl, we see the back of his vest, one old wing and one new, with the roaring flames in front of him, on both sides of the wings.

18. Anything else interesting?

- While talking to Stephanie, Eugene is seen looking for an LP because apparently there's a song he wants to play for her. When he can't find it, she tells him to sing it, he says he can't, not without string accompaniment. After the faux-pas with Rosita, Stephanie stops responding to his calls. Later on, as they are about to go out to fight, Eugene ends up singing the said song to her over the radio, it's When The Wild Wind Blows by Iron Maiden. He sings some of it, and Stephanie comes on, singing the rest. Then, she asks him to meet her at a rail yard in a week.

- Earl and Alden find out about Mary being Adam's aunt. Aaron asks them to allow her to see him, there are a couple of scenes where they argue over this.

- Yumiko makes a comment on how they don't know if Connie and Magna are still alive. They have a bit of an argument with Kelly where Kelly asks Yumiko why she's going with them if she thinks they are dead. Yumiko later apologizes to her for being an asshole.

- Rosita tells Eugene that she's spoken to Gabriel but hasn't told him about the horde.

- Lydia and Carol have a heart-to-heart on how Carol hates the world because she lost her kid and how Lydia's mother is a monster.

- Judith tells Daryl that she wants to fight. Daryl tells her that at some point during the fight, if Ezekiel comes looking for them, she should go with him even if she doesn't know where Daryl is. He makes her promise, and they hug.

 

 

[OoohMaggie]

11 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

Carol sees his tumor, and they have sex

One strange lady

[Mr. Sparkle]

35 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

One strange lady

Hey, everyone's got their kink. 

[nodorothyparker]

Sex, like everything else, is getting weirder the further they get post ZA.  One man's filthy homicidal maniac in a cadaver mask is another woman's neck tumor.

[AngelaHunter]

14 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

He and Alpha do the whipping of the arms, and he gets a mask.

Is that like a "Be Mine" valentine, or like pledging a troth? Will they just pair like animals, or have a weddin', maybe like the one in "Beetlejuice"? I just hope there's no more of that smoochin'. 🤢 Think of the germs, Negan.

 

14 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

- Earl and Alden find out about Mary being Adam's aunt. Aaron asks them to allow her to see him, there are a couple of scenes where they argue over this.

 

14 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

- Lydia and Carol have a heart-to-heart on how Carol hates the world because she lost her kid and how Lydia's mother is a monster.

They just keep ramping up the excitement.

1 hour ago, nodorothyparker said:

Sex, like everything else, is getting weirder the further they get post ZA.

I've never seen a show that can make sex as unappealing and unerotic as this one.

[Nashville]

4 hours ago, Superclam said:

Hey, everyone's got their kink. 

Hell, that’s not even the strangest one I’ve heard this week.  Don’t believe me?  Turn off SafeSearch and google “Russian amputee brides” sometime - at your own risk, of course.

[Mr. Sparkle]

2 minutes ago, Nashville said:

Hell, that’s not even the strangest one I’ve heard this week.  Don’t believe me?  Turn off SafeSearch and google “Russian amputee brides” sometime - at your own risk, of course.

Yeah, I'm gonna skip that. 

[Nashville]

7 hours ago, Superclam said:

Yeah, I'm gonna skip that. 

Wise choice.  Some of the imagery is... disturbing.

[Mr. Sparkle]

Honestly, just the thought is a little disturbing. 

 

[raven]

On 3/4/2020 at 6:24 PM, nodorothyparker said:

Earl and Alden find out about Mary being Adam's aunt.

[nodorothyparker]

That I actually do know, unlike half the people these spoilers usually mention.  Earl is the old guy at Hilltop who was married to Brett Butler's character.  He mostly failed to teach Headless Henry any blacksmithing.  Apparently in the absence of any other recognizable characters, he's becoming a quasi series regular as is Alden, the former Savior guy living there.  Adam is the baby the Whisperers abandoned in the cornfield last season, and Mary is well, Mary who looks like a beagle in a Whisperer mask when she's calling herself Gamma.

[raven]

3 minutes ago, nodorothyparker said:

Headless Henry

🤣

[AngelaHunter]

3 hours ago, nodorothyparker said:

Mary is well, Mary who looks like a beagle in a Whisperer mask when she's calling herself Gamma.

When she was giving her brief biography to the nosy little Prison Pal, I was really hoping she would say her parents' names were John and Mary, instead of Alice, so she could be Mary Jr. Aaron really thinks someone who admitted she murdered her own sister, just because, should be given access to a baby? They better get someone to stand guard during visitation.

[OoohMaggie]

Norman Reedus Explains How The Walking Dead Has Survived for a Decade

After a decade of The Walking Dead, star Norman Reedus credits the series' lifespan to a constant state of adaptation and change. Reedus, who in Season 9 bypassed former series lead Andrew Lincoln for most episode appearances, is the longest tenured cast member still with the show, a position he shares with Carol actress Melissa McBride. Reedus' Daryl has seen mainstays exit — Lincoln's Rick Grimes among them, with Danai Gurira's Michonne soon to follow — and has seen the show usher in a fresh era under showrunner Angela Kang with an aged up Judith Grimes (Cailey Fleming) and an influx of new characters, including Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and such fan-favorite additions as Jerry (Cooper Andrews) and Connie (Lauren Ridloff).

"The writers are really good at introducing new characters, new storylines, and keep moving," Reedus said on Sway in the Morning. "People have watched this grey on my chin come out of my face. They've watched that character go from somebody who would side eye you and try to rip you off, and you couldn't trust him, to slowly squaring up to you. And when he says something, he means it. He doesn't lie."

Daryl, under the bad influence of older brother Merle (Michael Rooker), went from hothead hillbilly to someone who is now looked to as a leader as the survivors find themselves in conflict with Alpha (Samantha Morton) and an army of skin-wearing savages called the Whisperers.

"He's found this sense of family with these people that he never would have hung out with if it wasn't for this apocalypse," Reedus said. "So you grow with the characters, I think."

The secret ingredient: change.

"Like a virus, I think we have to continually adapt to our surroundings," he said of The Walking Dead's ten-year run. "I think that show, what's great about it is it never sits still. It's constantly moving and changing."

I started the show and I'd like to bookend the show. I'd like to be there when it ends. I just don't know when the endgame is," Reedus said in a 2019 interview. "I just don't want the brand to get watered down too much. You got this goose that lays the golden egg, sooner or later you got to let the goose fly free. You don't want to kill it. I don't know if that’ll happen, we've got a lot of good, creative people on the show, but if this show went on for 20 years, it would get watered down, there's no way around it."

Mmmmmmmmmm 🤔

 

https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2020/03/06/the-walking-dead-norman-reedus-show-longevity-survives-keep-moving/

Edited March 6, 2020 by OoohMaggie

[nodorothyparker]

7 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

Aaron really thinks someone who admitted she murdered her own sister, just because, should be given access to a baby? They better get someone to stand guard during visitation.

Well, to be fair, if they started excluding everyone who had killed one or more people for nebulous or fairly negligible reasons, there would hardly be anybody left to do anything at all.  Do we really want to watch an hour of maybe Eugene, Rick and Michonne's forgotten kid, and some random townspeople we don't know the names of?

[nodorothyparker]

Two clips showing up in various media:

 

Sigh.  Even if I'm really not loving the writing for Carol this season, I still like these two together so much.  The actors convey so much history and feeling with so little.  They always make me feel at least for a bit like I'm watching a better show.

[AngelaHunter]

On 3/6/2020 at 7:27 AM, nodorothyparker said:

Well, to be fair, if they started excluding everyone who had killed one or more people for nebulous or fairly negligible reasons, there would hardly be anybody left to do anything at all. 

Yes, but it was her own sister, not just some random person or anonymous baddie and she killed her just because she thought it might please Awful. To me that would make a difference when allowing someone so unhinged access to a helpless baby. Maybe she feels that snuffing out the kid might get her back some bonus points.

[OoohMaggie]

That’s three decent episodes in a row, the build up to the battle was well done with a few nice moments thrown in. The battle was pretty good yet they just can’t eliminate that aura of silliness that plagues the show 🤬