What kind of person says “sorry” for what they did to Daryl in the Zombie Apocalypse?
And, what’s their expected lifespan, in terms of episodes?
I’m a bit confused about the couple who took Daryl’s bike and crossbow. After all the business of holding Daryl at gunpoint, risking the life of the blonde diabetic girl, and accepting Daryl’s help in hiding from the men who were hunting them, why on earth would they just decide to go back to the place they were fleeing? Or did they?
That was incomprehensible to me. I did however, love the acquisition of the rocket launcher and the cool fuel truck they are riding in at the end. Does anyone else think that fuel truck + rocket launcher = big boom before the last episode of 2015?
^^Maybe that’s a way to get rid of the horde in Alexandria.
Heh, heh, maybe.
You would think that if Eugene knew anything about thermobaric weapon (aka Fuel/Air Explosive - FAE) design and implementation, he would have said something when the walkers were concentrated back in the quarry.
With zombie hordes you need to go big or get out of the way - none of this wasting time with 5 gallon fuel jugs.
Glenn update:
Glenn!
The whole Glenn thing was such a cheap trick. Do better than that, show.
I agree, @MommaJ - a cheap trick, especially if you’re bringing him back just to kill him when Negan comes.
…although, I did love the part where Tara flipped off Rick. I am so over Rick.
Yeah, disappointing, but I will still watch. Hope the show won’t follow the comics…I like Glenn.
In defense of the cliffhanger, the show did promote improbable survivals in the first season. Remember the tank? Zombie guts? Glenn had more screen time and he was quite the survivor.
I may be the only one but I thought it was brilliant. Post-Apocalypse, when people are temporarily separated there is the tension of not knowing, hope against fear, time as your enemy. “You honor the dead by living.” The green balloons originally marking the safe zone, sent up as a proxy for modern communications. The fans had to live it the same way a character would have to.
Making it a dream sequence would have been a cheap trick. Making it a matter of your frame of reference, of limited information, is common through the story. So is the idea of reuniting only to lose the character later; we saw when Andrea was presumed dead at the farm, to be later saved by Michonne, then bitten by zombie Milton, or when Beth was saved from the hospital for about 5 minutes, or, last week, when Darryl came back for Sasha and Abraham.
Like any fiction with a limited budget, you will have to forgive some of the occasional clumsiness of the scenes, the story or the choreography. If I can sit through a one actor play with no background set and be involved in a story, I can let go of some of my issues (where are the bicycles?) and enjoy it for what it is.
Never thought of that - where ARE the bicycles in the Zombie Apocalypse? Maybe no good in the woods.
I don’t think the uncertainty on the part of Maggie et al. was the cheap trick aspect–after all, they had no idea what had happened and only knew that Glenn hadn’t returned. If the viewers’ suspense had been based on the same circumstances, that would have been fine. But the viewers were led to believe that Glenn was possibly/probably dead by the way the scene of his falling into the zombie horde was filmed, by inserting a flashback episode immediately after, and by leaving Steven Yeung’s name off the credits in the two subsequent episodes. I was pretty sure we were being toyed with, but I didn’t like it. The show is terribly uneven in its execution, and sometimes I think I watch just for the makeup and special effects, which are spectacular.
I wonder how many homes are in Alexandria. How don’t they know that Morgan has an ugly, crazy wolf in his house? It seems like there are only one or two streets and maybe 10 houses.
What’s up with the townhouses visible from Glenn and Enid’s position outside the walls? They handed Rick & Co. 2 single family homes so maybe the townhouses are for the singles.
I respect the writers for portraying so many of the teens as the annoying, self-centered little gits they can be, even during the zombie apocalypse. Ron however is very dangerous and I really wish Carol would tell him to “look at the flowers”. I hope the walkers get him before he gets Carl or Rick.
I'm speculating that the green balloon release served two purposes....a signal to those inside Alexandria that they are alive and also a distraction for walkers at another entry point to the community. One thing I would have preferred is rather than have Enid traipse off again after seeing the horde at the gate, have her buy in to getting Glenn back to see Maggie again....have her say: I know another way in, follow me. Glen gets inside just as the tower falls, and Enid takes off again. (She's a survivor by distraction and avoidance, not a fighter.)
I think we will see a cleaning of the slate in the next few episodes and the show will change drastically, with new characters. Who survives? My guess is Rick, Carl, Carol and maybe Daryl. For some reason, I don’t think Judith is going to make it into the next season.
Oh no, not Judith! Glenn and Maggie’s baby needs a playmate and future wife!
Carol left Judith in a house in which she just told an 8-year-old kid, killing and lots of it is the only thing that keeps us from becoming monsters. No qualification or explanation, just “kill!!” So yes I’m concerned for Judith as well.
No it’s way bigger than that. It’s a planned community similar to Kentlands.
So disappointed in this episode!! What a snoozer