Mmmm, yes, good points about the zombie thing Twll and SPB. I can kind of understand why now. That thing of zombies being the stuff of make believe therefore even if thats what they look like, they couldn't possible be that so they give them a different name. I can't help thinking though if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck.....
Re the guv'nor I definitely think he was sending a message, and also a warning. I don't think he would have thought they all would be killed as they are obviously a bunch of tough cookies to have lasted that long.
I'm pretty sure the zombies were in the yard bit between Rick, Daryl and Merle and the rest of them inside the gates. There were definintely some still alive so they are going to have to fight there way back through them.
I'm worrying now about the effect Merle will have on Darly. I can see him ripping the piss out of him everytime he does or says something that Merle considers to be weak (i.e. for anyone elses benefit or the good of the group) Not sure how Darly is going to react to him. On the one hand he is his big brother and he seems to have looked up to him a lot, but on the other hand he may be starting to see him for what he is. I thought it was really telling the way he left him in the woods to go back to the prison and it was Merle that followed him. I just hope he doesn't start changing in order to impress Merle.
And what will Michonne do to him. Last time she saw him he was chasing her through the woods trying to kill her!
And finally (I'll shut up soon, promise) these are the first scenes we have seen Daryl and Merle together aren't they? Even though we have always known they are brothers, Merle was left behind in Atlanta before we met Daryl. Just thought it was really interesting because we know so much about their "dynamic" through what little Daryl has spoken about them but never actually seen them together before. realises I am now massively overthinking this and goes off to get a hobby