AMC's The Walking Dead

Really disliked the episode. So sssllllooooooowwwww. Of course, I think any focus on Carl is a waste of time. And how is it that he's escaped the clutches of a walker at least 2 or 3 times when they just seem to be able to walk up and bite everyone else pretty much immediately. And lose the stupid hat!

The sooner he's bitten, the better.

 

Much like all of Lori's encounters with Walkers, I'm rooting for the zombies when Carl gets cornered.

 

I knew it was coming, but I still jumped like a bitch when Carl found the walker in the house.

 

I liked the walker who Rick thought was "weak" but headed up having one helluva hard skull, so hard he didn't go down from the little hatchet.

Still not sure why Michonne's pets don't keep trying to bite her even if they can't and maintain a distance when they're simply on ropes. If they were lashed to sticks to maintain the distance ... you know. And then none of the gathering herd heads for her either until she blows her cover. Even the ones that come up from behind? Who the hell would take that chance?

 

I know Michonne's "pets" are to mask her scent from walkers, and I get how it would work from a distance. But how can she just stroll along with a pack of walkers like that?
Her pets still know she's human, they just can't do anything to harm her, right? So why wouldn't one of the walkers she was a few feet away from not be able to detect her and attack? They seemed ready to swarm her as soon as she broke out the sword and started lopping off heads, so they obviously knew she was there then.

 

I like the idea of watching Carl grow up in this world. I've always had the theory that, whenever this whole thing wraps up, we'll realize it was his story of survival and his journey into manhood. Sunday's episode was a good step along that journey that we've all taken. We yell at the old man, say we hate him, then realize we'll never truly let him go, will always need him, and maybe he's actually right about a lot of things.
It was a nice dose of false teenage bravado that I thought was well done.

 

The same rule applied when Rick and Glenn walked through downtown Atlanta covered in walker muck. That covered up their smell, only to get washed away when it started raining.

 

That, I can get. They were masking their scent with walker scent. They essentially became walkers.
With Michonne, though, she wasn't masking anything. She was just in a horde of zombies, two of which happened to be 5 feet behind her. There were a dozen others just as close at various points of their rambling.
Like I said, I get how she'd be masked from a distance, but as soon as the walkers got close to her why wouldn't they sense she was alive?

 

That's a good question and, I think, a major plot hole. I feel like it's one of those things they wrote in the comic where the writer said, "Man, this looks badass!" and didn't worry much about the specifics of it.
But, yeah, I can't come up with a explanation about why it would mask her scent. I get why the zombies aren't attacking her as she walks among them. She looks like shit and she's moving pretty much the way they are, letting her pets lead her. But I have no idea why they wouldn't attack her. Just doesn't make sense.
As for Carl, he's quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. I love watching the transition he's made season-to-season. It'd be interesting to see where this character is (assuming he makes it that far) in 10 or 15 years after the current point in time.

 

What Michone does with her mules shouldn't work. It's not the same as Rick and Glen covering themselves with walker blood and gore. She's still giving off her own scent.

And your right, her mules don't know they don't have arms and jaws. They would still be shambling towards her constantly.


Also, in the walker pile up on Carl, one walker had maggots in its head, which made me wonder:
If maggots or any other creature infests a walker's skull and consumes its brain, doesn't it cease to be?

 

My guess would be if they ate away the part of the brain that triggers the disease (that we saw diagrammed in the CDC episode), then yes.
Maybe that's the end game here? Eventually there won't be many humans left to feed on and the ones that are around are going to be too careful to get caught so, at some point, most of the walkers are going to slowly rot/get killed until there's the numbers are back in favor of the humans?
Just a thought.

 

One thought I had: They show Hershel's severed head alive at the beginning of the show, and they've now shown the Governor with aquariums full of live heads. Does that mean Michonne has left a wake of still living zombie heads behind her after she severed them from their bodies?