WALKING DEAD! WALKING DEAD! WALKING DEAD!

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Can you tell I am excited?

I have five words.

DO. NOT. KILL. THE. BABY.

Or Glenn.
However please feel free to kill off annoying soppy Beth. Quickly.

I think Bob was bitten, purely because these episodes are following the comics quite closely, although it wasn't Bob who got his leg eaten in the comics.

I think this episode was bound to feel a bit 'slow' after the season premier, but I suspect the next episode will be quite shocking with a lot going on.

I'm almost wishing the time away until the next episode.

I think the focus on the tins of food in the church is to show how much he had. Clearly enough to share with whoever was trying to get in, judging from the scratches on the outside.

Noshowofmojo I'm hoping this means Daryl and Carol will get together soon. I saw an interview with Norman Reedus a while ago where he was saying how he wanted any relationship he had to start very awkwardly and not be at all smooth - I wondered if the bottle dropping scene was part of that. Hope so!

I agree Midori - Gareth's words were almost line for line.

I agree Mirror he should be far more bruised but I'm sure it's him. When I first saw him with Tyrese and Carol he really reminded me of Alan Cummings for some reason and I thought exactly the same thing when I saw him in the background of the closing scene. Also Sasha has found her first bit of happiness with Bob, Tyrese didn't kill the man now eating Bob (and he's wearing a hoodie like the man who knocked Bob out) = poetic justice in the Walking Dead universe.

Though it does make me nervous for Carol and Judith.

If Carol dies for Beth I will honestly stop watching.

I too am hoping that they inadvertently saved Bob and killed themselves by cutting off his bitten leg.

Disclaimer, I haven't actually watched the episodes yet as I am irritated with TWD. But I read all the spoilers!

Why are you irritated with it Yank? How!?!

It would be too brilliant if they had chopped off and eaten the leg and it had been bitten. Though wouldn't the infection have spread already?

Poor old Bob and Sasha.

I'm sure the infection would have spread through the blood much quicker. Didn't they have to cut whatdoyoucallhim's leg off with the axe minutes after the bite to stop the infection spreading to his brain?

If he was only scratched it might take longer or he has immunity...

Because I'm pissed off about them amping up this "ship war" bullshit every chance they get, Adora.

Everyone who knows me at all winces when the subject comes up because they know I have quite a lot to say on the subject. :o

Too many "the subjects"

Ship war? What's that?

:o

The ship war is large groups of women/girls taking to the internet to say terrible things about the characters of Carol and Beth (and the actresses who play them) based on who they think Daryl should be with.

I was just thinking with Seth Gilliam turning up as Father Gabriel can we expect Idris Elba to turn up next? It's like a mini The Wire reunion.

Herschel's leg had to be cut off within minutes to stop the spread of infection so if Bob was bitten he is well and truly infected. And therefore hopefully is everyone who ate his leg.

But everyone is already infected?

If the termites do get turned via Bobs leg that will raise interesting questions about the nature of the zombie virus (is it a virus) at the moment it seems to lie dormant until the host a) dies or b) receives a large dose of virus directly into the bloodstream via a bite.

So if the termites turn from the Bob-B-Q then how does that fit. They have neither died or been bitten...

I genuinely lolled at Bob-B-Q!

Interesting point Tall

FFS this show should not be demeaned by ship wars. Half these characters are too fucked up for any type of relationship. Beth is a teenager who's just lost her father horribly and Darryl needs to grow as a person without his brother.
Carol and DARRYL would be better suited from their past history but even then there is a maternal side to their relationship which would make the whole thing odd.
Why not focus on the human drama instead of Dawson Creeking the whole thing?

Rick and Michonne, on the other hand, are perfect for each other. She is everything Lori wasn't and a better mother too.

Completely agree! I don't really want to see romance in this show and would rather it concentrated on the survival of the group. I think it would change the dynamic if they all started pairing off.

Anona I agree. I want Carol and Daryl to be together (understatement of the year :o) but after recent events they're in no way ready to tackle it anytime soon. And Beth, just...no. No. And yes to Rick/Michonne at some point.

I agree it's not about relationships and given how hard it would be to keep infants alive I think it'd be smart not to get down during the ZA, and yet...I feel like given human nature there'd be at least more furtive one off sex. Maybe there is and they just don't show it :o

The reason I bring it up at all is because I've seen horrible, demeaning things said about Melissa McBride and her age, looks, etc and I find it really upsetting (short gray hair never stopped George Clooney from hooking up with a younger looking partner, did it ), as well as some of the producers and actors (I'm looking at you, Reedus!) reactions to it. And it's made me frustrated with the show in general.

BUT! That is neither here nor there. And this season is off to an awesome start. So there's every chance I'll get over it and love it as much as I did.

What did Reedus say? Speaking of Reedus was shocked to find out his GF is 20. I guess that makes it Beth territory.

For the record I think Melissa McBride is really pretty. She has gorgeous eyes and skin and a beautiful smile.
The actress seems like a fun person too.

I guess she's not blonde and Botoxed though.

I think it'd be smart not to get down during the ZA, and yet...I feel like given human nature there'd be at least more furtive one off sex

I said that on previous thread but another poster said she'd think: 'Oh fuck it. Let's fuck.' .

I think both viewpoints are valid but the fear of getting pregnant and becoming vulnerable would be the most reliable form of contraception for me in a world where all the Pills were reaching their expiry dates.

The idea of Herschel inserting a coil would be a bit off-putting too. Speaking of which, I wonder what Maggie's doing for contraception?

There was a very annoying scene a few seasons back when Lori was still alive (annoying in itself) where Maggie and Glenn went into a chemist to get her a pregnancy test (Why? POAS is a normal desire in a normal world, but in a zombie-infested world I'd tell the woman who wanted me to go on that errand to wait and look for other signs). They got amorous. As you would.

Even in the remote possibility that I'd be turned on by searching through the aisles of a deserted Boots for a First Response for one of the most annoying women still left alive when other, much nicer ones, had succumbed, I'd be searching the pharmacy for Microgynon first.

The Beth and Daryl almost-romance annoyed me. I can see that she might see him as a protector. But we've all been her age and there's no way I'd have looked at a man nearly 30 years older than me as a boyfriend.

I went out with someone 15 years older than me but he turned out to be boring, even though he was only 35 and probably not boring to a 35-year-old boring woman, because we had nothing in common.

Obviously, the entire breakdown of society and the dead walking the earth and some of the living being even more scary, might change my mind.

I also wonder whether Daryl would see Beth in that way. He has been curiously sexless for someone with such a huge sex symbol status.

What happened to his jacket with the wings on the back btw? I miss that, but not as much as I miss Michonne's sword. I wouldn't miss Coral's sweaty hat though.