Walking Dead thread 4.2 (part 2)

[HighlanderMam]

Everyone is saying that tonights episode is the best yet, baby needs to sleep so I can watch it!

Ohhhh I forgot about Survivor Type!

"Ladyfingers they taste just like ladyfingers..."

Yes, ladyfingers. I never worked out what that meant.

Fingers, I suppose. But there's not a lot of meat on them.

In Italy they call grilled lamb rib scottaditto - scorched fingers.

I thought lady fingers were a sponge thing - you know like the trifle sponges but shaped like fingers?

Savoairdi or something like that? or boudior fingers. or, 'trifle stick things' as I have been known to call them.

Okra [the vegetable] is also known as ladies fingers.

The walking dead ladies fingers reference has gone totally over my head.

Yes, spongey biscuits that you soak in coffee for tiramisu but I thought okra in the story. They're supposed to thicken stews but are horribly gloopy. Maybe I'm cooking them wrongly.

I didn't get it at all but I did find it very creepy.

Yeah okra can be slimy. Only time I enjoyed it, it was part of a stir fry.

I fancy Tiramisu now...

I think it's ladyfingers like the cookie. Just b/c he's crazy at that point and gnawing on his own hand.

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Kevin Spacey not Sean Penn in House of cards

Monday is just boring old Monday again

It's really boring isn't it.

I am watching True Detective on catch up but there is a dearth of zombies.

Game of Thrones is keeping my Mondays exciting for the time being. It wasn't so edge on seat last night but I think that was because it was the first in the new series, so more re-introducing the characters and setting the scene. (Will try to stick more on TWD topic and not derail with talk of GOT!)

Well I made it through last night without TWD but it was a long night

Is true detective any good? I've heard mixed reviews.

My lively neighbour has loaned me the first series of GOT so I will be starting watching tonight. Yay!

Lovely neighbour, not lively

I was watching True Detective and really enjoying it BUT then I realised I had FOUR episodes of TWD on Sky Go that I had unaccountably not noticed, so I am afraid TD has now lost most of its lustre.

I think its similar to how Buffy spoiled a lot of other similar teen angst shows for me - it was just so much more interesting when they were battling the undead.

I LOVE True Detective.

If you're missing zombies, you might try Helix (but you would have to DL it ) - not zombies exactly but people infected with a virus that makes them rush around all homicidal and drooling black gunk

It's set in an Arctic research station, bit like The Thing, so has quite a nice claustrophobic atmosphere going on.

I watched the first Helix but DH said he wouldn't watch any more and I thought I hadn't enjoyed it enough to make it a thing I watch by myself. That space in my life is full with medical shows!

Saw the first True Detective yesterday. It was Ok. It hasn't blown me away yet.

My DP was the same, he watched the first ep with me and was uninterested in the rest. I pushed on and it does get better. It's no Game of Thrones or TWD but it's entertaining enough

True Detectiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive. Ugh. I love it. Keep with it. (Although is spot-on )

Totally bereft at the end of this season. TWD lost me mid season two but I am back into it with a vengeance. This last season has been so bleak, so much more so than the other seasons. I have actually cried ACTUAL tears thinking about how I'd keep my toddler alive in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

I don't even know what to say about it all...it's so brutal and they're losing their humanity...but then find it again in the face of even LESS humanity. So much good discussion here.

Television Without Pity do some great recaps - they're mostly critical of Rick, but I think he's awesome and totally flawed and believable because of those flaws. I came to love Merl in the season last, which I thought would never happen! Darryl has my love because I love a good anti-hero, and I've even started to like Carl - HA at you guys calling him Coral

I don't have much to add just...it's stayed with me which is always the sign of a good show. It's frustrating and heart-in-mouth and left me feeling desolate. It's improved massively upon season 2, which seems everyone across the whole internet seems to agree on. There were times I physically couldn't bear Judith being on screen because the thought of trying to keep a baby alive was too much! Very interesting ideas about terminus - I too thought canabilism but I'm starting to come round to the idea of a breeding camp.

Also, how did Egg even get the role? I don't mean that in a bad way - just how earth did that come about??

They wanted someone who wasn't a known 'face' in America but he had a reasonably high profile because of his Love Actually appearance...

Or at least that is what it said on some website I was trawling, to get my fix in the sad absence of any new episodes.

Hahaha yes that's exactly what I was doing yesterday. Trawling sites for precious information to feed the fix. Wet Paint is a good site!

I also found a wiki of the graphic novels with a synopsis of each one to read without having to buy the graphic novels. I would like to but just don't have the time or money!

walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Issue_1

zebra I totally get that feeling of helplessness when you try and imagine how you would protect your children in those kind of situations. I have kept myself awake at night wondering about what I would do.

Did you watch the link someone put on earlier in the thread (I think it was Kentish) It was a short film called Cargo about a man and how he protects his baby. It's very good.

I've been thinking a bit more about terminus. I can totally see how they could be cannibals but I can't help thinking there is more to it. They looked like they were working in some sort of command or communication centre with maps and stuff on the walls. Seemed a bit elaborate just to try and lure in dinner