AMC's The Walking Dead

I'd been sticking with present tense to avoid spoiling, but I suppose anyone who hasn't watched the latest episode shouldn't read past the date of its first-run airing...

To me, Lizzie was a nice metaphor for the folks who try to fit everything into moral equivalencies, think all people and motives are the-same-just-different and refuse to see evil where it exists. An adolescent outlook that will get you and those you love killed.

 

Although I acknowledge that Lizzie, though she didn't expressly say this, might represent people who consider the walkers to be their version of the afterlife. You come back, live forever, have plenty of "friends," never have to work or do any chores (like laundry) and spend all your time thinking about nothing more than the next thing you get to eat. Heaven!

 

To me she was a nice metaphor for batshit fucking crazy.

 

I understand what you're saying. I didn't enjoy watching it either. Heck, I turn my head away at the gore. I'm drawn to the series by the post-apocalyptic survivor angle just like I was by The Stand and Jericho.

 

Might be the minority here but I'm glad the girls are dead. They would just slow the others down on the way to Terminus. I can't be the only one that thinks this way.

 

I liked it. The episode was still slow, but in this case it worked for me. There was a lot of emotional tension.

The other viewer in my house still thought it was boring.

 

I knew where they were going with the girls but I didn't know which one was going to kill the other. So, in that regard, it wasn't that surprising to me but, still, that was a dark episode.
And has anyone else noticed Rick's absence? Dude hasn't been around in three weeks and the show keeps going. This might be the first show I've ever seen that can let its main character stay away that long and still roll along.

 

And based on previews for next week, it looks like it may be four weeks in a row. Focus appears to be on Glenn's and Daryl's groups.

 

So, the baby? Couldn't tell if they were packing it along at the end of the episode. Were there three graves or only two?

 

I think it was on Tyresse's back. I think the other grave was was for the baby/kid that previously lived in the house. I had similar thoughts though whenever the four of them were walking around. They stuff the kid in a backpack.

 

Now, had Tyresse taken Carol up on her advice to "do what you have to do" in the worst way after her confession, that would have been a shocker. Never thought for a moment he would harm her, given her demonstration of reluctant pragmatism with Lizzie.

 

Agreed. I wasn't surprised at all.

When Lizzie told Carol that she knew what she had to do, I realized what she meant and what she was going to do. Given what Carol had done at the prison, her solution isn't a surprise, either, though often in movies or television you would see a character fail to go through with it or something else would intervene. Give the show credit for going through with it, but is still disturbing.