The Walking Dead 17/2/12

[susiedaisy]

Have started new thread, will be watching last night episode today and will report back.

But there are too many men to fight over the women and not enough women to share round equally - I'm leaving out the question of whether they'd want to be assigned and whether the men would feel like being equal and wouldn't squabble over the woman they were assigned.

You would probably have a fight for leadership and I can see Rick and Shane contending. But both of them are rubbish leaders. Shane doesn't have much of a plan besides what he wants and Rick would end up getting himself and everyone else killed by being noble.

Daryl would be your best bet but he'd have to kill Shane. He'd have to kill Rick too because though he, Lori and Carl could be persuaded to go away there's a risk that others might go with them - Glenn and Hershel. Maggie would insist on going with them. The group needs Hershel and Maggie for midwifery and Glenn would be a useful fighter if he pulled himself together and stopped wibbling. Hershel is more effective fighter than Glenn.

If Daryl killed Shane and Rick the rest of them would probably be cowed for a while and too scared to sneak off on their own. But I don't think Daryl would want to do lead. He seems happy in his own unit.

Beth's idea is looking increasingly attractive. There must be veterinary drugs left.

Why on earth did the last episode start by showing the end? We thought we'd missed an episode. And why are they so obsessed with killing this guy? Having yanked him off an iron bar, fixed him and saved him from zombies, do they not think he'd be grateful enough? Or if not, why didn't they just shoot him when he was skewered?

Finally caught up with it last night, and agree with Blondes that the shambling rate seems to have speeded up. Was wondering if it is anything like some zombie film I saw recently (Dawn of the Dead 2 or some such delight) where the zombies 'evolve' and start thinking rather than just being mindless shufflers.

I didn't realise it showed the end and then rewound.

It made perfect sense to me for Rick and Shane to stop the car and stand around talking some way away from it broadcasting: 'Walkers! Fresh brains, come and get them!"

It's what they do all the time.

I can't understand why they went to all that trouble rescuing the boy only to condemn him to certain death anyway. Rick isn't humane, he's just weak. Surely Herschel at least would insist on putting him out of his misery?

Yes!
Plus when Rick had all the walkers on him, one of them was clawing at his arm, do you have to be bitten? They all seem quite calm about zombie bodily fluids

God that is a depressing thought melty but I am 41 now and prob too old to push out more than maybe one child, wonder what my age groups roll would be seeing we wouldn't have the precious vessel status that went with breeding!

Yes they do seem to have got perilously close to zombie fluids and scratches this week!

"I can't understand why they went to all that trouble rescuing the boy only to condemn him to certain death anyway"

I meant to say either stealth

Susie - I think the older (post-baby) women would be the most valuable in a way. They would be useful in midwife situations (assuming they've had some children), useful in childcare situations, have (hopefully) some maturity to make sensible decisions for the group as well as being freed up from having babies to work on defence/arms/crop growing/gathering/whatever really.

Top of the heap I'd say. In fact I think a matriarchal society would work best anyway [grin[

i didnt understand why they saved the man with the leg then changed their mind

and yes i also wondered about the food situation

also need timescale again - how many weeks has it been since series one first episode when rick wakes from a coma

It must be only a few months because Lori's not visibly pregnant. That's another thing. Lori shows no signs of pregnancy whatsoever - sickness, tiredness.

I really want to like this show but they're not making it easy

I suppose the argument is that human decency took over and they didn't want to leave him to be munched alive while already in pain, fair enough. But they didn't want to make the decision then and there to kill him. I would have done!!

But as it is they've saved his life, saved his leg (and wow didn't that heal quick, Herschel must work miracles with that needle and thread of his...and how come this guy didn't need any blood?) had an aborted attempt to abandon him to the zombies, when the zombies actually arrived allowed him to live, let him drive the getaway car and now they're abandoning him / killing him again.
And how come NONE of them, not ONE has said hmm I wonder what caused all this zombification? (well I suppose Herschel has touched on it, wanting to find a cure).

amazing healing skills

I think Lori did show signs of morning sickness, isn't that how Dale approached the subject with her a couple of episodes ago?

I wouldn't kill the poor young man, he seems decent enough really, maybe he'll become a rival with Glenn for Maggie?

jks 'top of the heap' I like your thinking!

Well Susie I originally wrote top of the food chain but felt it inappropriate in te circumstances

It can't be that long in time that everything has happened. I think someone mentioned they'd be looking for Sophia for a week.

Rick waking up & getting to the stuck in the tank bit.
Some time on top of the mountain.
Driving to (where was it?) the place the guy blew up.
Driving towards Fort Benning and losing Sophia.
Looking for Sophia.
Faffing about that they're doing now.

Oh my God, I just watched the next ep.
Carl is an idiot.
And oh crap.
It's put me off my tea.

and to make it worse, I can't even watch the most recent episode as my sky box died. Have new box now so have booked it record from Friday.
Anyone know if it's repeated during the week? or online like iplayer?

Apparently repeated on Sundays at 9 and Mondays at 10?? I had a look at the FXUK schedule and it looks like its on at 10.30 tonight but I can't really read that schedule too well.

Ah thanks, have found it for tonight :)

only a week since looking for sophia????

really??

im also going by the amount of stubble/beards the blokes have tho saying that the beard my bloke can grow after a week of not shaving is very different from my friends hubby

Yanbu you cannot wrap him in cotton wool forever. 8 is old enough to deal with his own zombies and besides you and dh need time to yoyrslves.

The thread would quickly descend into a stealth boasting thread about how each parent's eight year can handle themselves in a zombie invasion