AMC's The Walking Dead

I vote for mirror also.

 

IIRC, wasn't the outside gate left open or unlocked after Glenn left?

 

There are guard towers in the outer perimeter. Remember when they initally cleared the prison?

Also, the Walker Bomb dropper (van driver) looked like a woman. No way it was Milton.

Not sure if it had been mentioned but Lew Temple was on Talking Dead after this week's episode and he mentioned how he auditioned for a major plot point/character from the comics and it totally changed.

And that guy has taken some brutal deaths. First in The Devil's Rejects and now in The Walking Dead.

 

I noticed it too and am hoping he was looking in a mirror too.

 

Remember the first time little crazy eyed Carl shot his big gun? At dusk, past his dad's head, into Shane's head maybe 20 yards away, boom! Sunday he couldn't hit crap.

 

The Governor kept his distance and forced them to shoot through fences. The distances were key, and the Governor's people had much better positioning and the element of surprise.

 

Yeah, but they should make their first shots count and take out a leader, not some hapless, lovesick inmate.

That's why he's the Governor and not the President.

 

Still, they just kept on missing. Given how good they are at making head shot after head shot on the walkers, it does seem to be a bit inconsistent.

 

I didn't say it was true that nobody is safe, but that is the idea Kirkman always seems to want to promote in the series and the comics.

That said, there have been quite a few losses over the course of the series, going back to Jim and Andrea's sister (I forget her name) early on.

And that's as far as I can go on that conversation without making reference to the comics.

 

We didn't know Jim or Amy well at all. The only characters we've really known who have died are Lori, Dale and Shane.

 

Which goes back to the idea of giving some kind of arc even to characters who aren't around long.

Of course, sometimes you can tell a character is about to go because he or she gets a little more attention. That's how it was for T-Dog and Axel.

 

I think it would greatly enhance the show to strike another significant death. Deaths with consequence, real consequence, give a show like this much more life.

Battlestar Galactica spoilers ahead:

That was one issue I had with so much of Battlestar Galactica. They constantly showed huge casualties in battles, constantly had another man down, but it was never anyone we knew. They killed Starbuck in a wonderful way, only to make it so that she wasn't dead (or alive; nice job explaining that, huh?). They killed Billy, then Dualla, because neither death came with much consequence. They killed Gaita but only at the end after using him as a bit of a plot device in a coup in which his involvement never quite made sense.