AMC's The Walking Dead

Speaking of the scene in the yard, I've been wondering about something.
All these zombies they're killing in close quarters, we see plenty of blood splatter. And they're using knives a lot. Surely, they've cut or scratched themselves at some point in these battles, no matter how careful they are. And some of that splatter has got to land in either the cuts or, gross as it sounds, their mouths. So how come none of them are infected that way?
Or is that a question that we should just ignore, like the always-cut grass and the fact no one is emaciated despite living off survival-level rations and burning thousands of calories a day for the better part of a year?

 

At the time, though, it was the right decision. If he had followed the guy into that yard, alone, with a couple dozen walkers right there, it's likely he wouldn't have been able to kill the guy AND make it back alive. Plus it would've left that door open and endangered the others.
If he was planning to kill him anyway, it was better to leave him to the walkers, unarmed and in what I'm sure Rick thought was an enclosed space.

 

I've wondered the same about the blood and cuts.

I looked at the grass this week after that funny Picard meme. It's not cut. Grass will only grow about a foot or so before it tops out.

 

Dead: Lori (cut open with buck knife w/o anesthesia to deliver baby ... shot in head by Carl), T-Dog (bit in the prison yard, sacrificed himself to save Carol), Rogue Prisoner (who lured the zombies back into the yard. Killed by another prisoner.)
Possibly dead (probably not, but what do I know?): Carol.

 

I'm sorry. I'm calling bullshit on this episode.
Talk about telegraphing your punches. T-Dog had more lines in this episode than he did the entire first two seasons. So of course they had to kill him.
And what's even lazier about the episode is just replacing T-Dog with ANOTHER black guy.
When they kill Glen, I wonder who will replace him.
lazy.

 

Some of the T-Dog-related Twitter traffic is pretty fucking funny.

"R.I.P T- Dog!!!! Another Black Man Lost To The Prison System!!"

"I think the best way to honor T-Dog is with three full seasons of silence."

 

I guess, though putting a bullet in his head to be safe certainly looks better now, but that's with the benefit of hindsight.

 

I watched the after show (Talking Dead), and the guy who played T-Dog (IronE Singleton) was a bit emotional. And I think they gave him a few more lines late last season and he definitely had more this season (not just this episode). Either way, didn't see it coming ... but I guess that's the point.

And the actress who played Lori I guess felt that Lori thought that being pregnant was a death sentence.

Fantastic episode, IMO, and there's a lot more to go in the season.

 

I've never been more discomfited in my life, not even when my mother and I sat on the couch and watched that movie neither of us knew had boobs in it when I was 12. When Maggie knifed Lori, I stood in amazement. I didn't sit again for the rest of the episode. I paced, eyes transfixed, in sort of semicircles in front of my couch.

The episode was tremendous. The back and forth between the prison and Woodbury made for excellent dramatic pacing. The Woodbury scenes were weaker, sure, but they helped strengthen the prison scenes. The death was graphic, more than ever before. The acting in the final 15 minutes was the finest the show ever has featured. T-Dog giving his life was not a cop out, though I understand the objection to, in a sense, replacing him with Oscar.

I don't think this episode tops "Judge, Jury, Executioner" from last season. That episode built to its dramatic moment better. But this was more affecting. We complained a lot last season about the lack of stakes on the farm. Then the final four episodes of last season happened. Now, this. The stakes are real. The stakes are enormous. We've seen death, life and that fuzzy area in between in which the walkers or biters or zombies exist.

The title of the show is a metaphor. The living are nothing more than walking dead, hopelessly serving a sentence of forced survival instincts. For what? The Governor asks Andrea what she's running to. She skirts the question. There's no answer. Merle has his brother, but most of these people have nothing. They have the relationships they've built as they fight for their lives, but what do those amount to? At any moment, a friend can die. A sister can die. A mother can die.

 

Oh, and fuck the fucking Talking Dead promotions. And fuck that guy. And fuck that show. The hashtag bit was particularly obnoxious tonight.

 

Just finished watching tonight's episode.

To quote Debra Morgan from Dexter. "Holy fuckballs."

I don't think I've ever had a show leave me with my mouth literally open (jaw dropping) in the final 10 minutes or so. But there I sat on the couch, mouth open and just completely stunned.

What a fucking episode that was.

And I'm going to admit it, I teared up at the end. When Rick realized who did the final blow to Lori, that just was devastating. Andrew Lincoln is one hell of an actor.

If ever there was a time to say this it's now.

Wow. Just ... wow.

 

I really didn't think they'd let a baby come onto the show. Thought Lori would miscarry. Glad she didn't. Glad she's gone. Win-win.