since when are zombies in stealth mode? when they do close ups, all you hear is the weird zombie noises. then when one rips apart a cow (and walks away? was he taking a dump or something?) he comes back and sneaks up on Dale. i just find it very hard to believe an emaciated zombie would be so quiet upon approach.
3/5/2012 9:58:25 AM
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3/5/2012 10:07:40 AM
I haven't watched this weeks episode yet but my fucking cousin posted a god damned spoiler on facebook.
3/5/2012 10:14:15 AM
^^I'm not evaluating Carl, dude. I didn't say anything about Carl being unrealistic. He behaves as a young boy would behave. I'm saying he's a poor plot device. You would expect Rick, Lori, and Shane to give enough of a shit about him to keep an eye on him or have any number of the offscreen characters keep tabs on him (since, you know, there are zombies and stuff). But instead he disappears and wanders around and shows up in random places and gets into trouble time and time again. It's a joke that he is able to sneak into the barn, disappear into the woods, and show up at Dale's death scene all in the same episode. Well, it would be a joke for a well-written show.
3/5/2012 10:20:01 AM
Ah yeah, the stealth zombie made me laugh. Based on the zombie behavior shown throughout the show, I would have expected the zombie to just keep eating the cow until it's stomach literally burst, then still keep eating until nothing was left. There is no way a zombie should be able to "sneak" up on someone unless it's lungs have been ripped out and it is thus unable to make zombie sounds.
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3/5/2012 2:19:24 PM
That's fine. It's important to remind viewers of how dangerous even a single walker can be. It was just done very lazily.
3/5/2012 2:47:58 PM
Dale's eyes have never been wider. oh wait, yes they have. they were always overly wide open. his character annoyed me, always. mostly it was his bushy eyebrows. they moved a lot with the eye-widening.
3/5/2012 3:26:32 PM
3/5/2012 7:03:27 PM
^ good post
3/5/2012 7:09:42 PM
Dale (the old guy...is that his name?) is such a fucking pussy.LOL at Carl telling that woman that heaven doesn't exist and then she fucking loses it, classic.
3/5/2012 7:32:15 PM
Once it went to torture it's over. you have to take him out. Once you torture him your options are eliminated.
3/5/2012 7:33:40 PM
^ Exactly, he's going to hold a grudge.
3/5/2012 7:36:21 PM
I'm watching the show on DVR, man I hope Carol dies soon. She's awful.I realized the only reason I'm watching this show now is so I can see theses characters that I hate get killed off.[Edited on March 5, 2012 at 7:50 PM. Reason : ...]
3/5/2012 7:50:18 PM
Is socks using this thread as some sort of psych experiment? Dude's posts read like he's some sort of therapist trying to evoke deep inner emotions out of everyone
3/5/2012 8:41:58 PM
Yeah the socks and se7entythree dialogue made me want to sacrifice myself to the zombies.
3/5/2012 8:43:19 PM
3/5/2012 9:46:48 PM
duro,that quote sounds does sound silly if you rip it out of the context of the conversation. We were not talking about soldiers on the field of battle (where the danger is obvious and immediate), we were talking about a gang people holding a kid prisoner and deciding whether to murder him or not. So I'm not sure how you could possibly think that analogy is apt. The rest of your post just seems to be stressing that Randal could possibly be a danger to the group. That's fine, but I never said other wise. The question is whether he represents enough of a threat to warrant being murdered and that isn't obvious to me. It also seems like you could apply the exact same arguments being used against Randal to say that Rick's groups are a danger to Hershel's group and that he should have denied care to Carl and kicked them all off his farm (Shane shot Otis and has more than once hinted that they should take the farm from Hershel--Randal is a potential threat, members of Rick's groups are a very real threat to Hershel). Yet no one was making that argument 6 or 7 episodes ago (at least not in this thread). I think that is kinda funny.Anyways, all of this is a little beside the point of that sentence you quoted. The point I was making in that sentence (and the surrounding conversation) was specific to seventythree's claim that the rules of morality had changed. She apparently had strong feelings about what the new rules were, but it wasn't clear where she drew her moral boarders or why. But she has dropped out of the conversation so I see no reason continuing to talk about what she thinking with a totally different person.[Edited on March 5, 2012 at 11:34 PM. Reason : ``]
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3/5/2012 11:20:58 PM
The way i read the comment, in the context of the discussion between you and seventythree was, that them (Rick + Hershel's groups) deciding between life and death for Randal was a step away from rape. I went back and read what you had posted, and I'm having trouble seeing it as much else. Sorry, if I'm reading that wrong. The concept of how i read it is really what i wanted to talk about.Maybe the analogy wasn't perfect, but the analogy really wasn't that their world is a battlefield. The point of the analogy was that discrimination is used when killing in both situations. There's no reason to think or suggest that someone making the decision to kill because they think it's necessary for their best chances at survival wouldn't think rape is wrong.I agree that their life isn't a "battlefield"... exactly, but it's far from the life we experience. They're going to have to consider and make decisions about things that they wouldn't in a normal life. That being said, culture in their situation would change. There could be people who are completely brutal, selfish and without sympathy, people who would live life as if they're in our current civilization and culture, and those who would cross certain lines in situations that they wouldn't have before the zombie-apocalypse. Considering how thought out it was, what they considered, etc., I believe it solidly puts them in the last category.
3/6/2012 1:25:38 AM
3/6/2012 2:15:01 AM
yea you are right, rick has done a great job keeping shane in check. After all, the murder and attempted rape happened before rick arrived on the scene.
3/6/2012 7:30:16 AM
Maybe I missed something, but who was tortured...and when did that happen?I'm also a bit foggy on someone being raped. I don't recall this.Can someone enlighten me please?
3/6/2012 9:27:54 AM
Randall was tortured by the hillbilly
3/6/2012 9:28:20 AM
^^randall told a story about some of his group raping 2 girls while they made their dad watch, but he allegedly didn't participate
3/6/2012 9:29:12 AM
didn't shane attempt to rape lori in the CDC?i remember something happening
3/6/2012 9:35:49 AM
yeah, that too. i thought he was asking about the most recent mention of rape (i didn't read above his post, whoops).
3/6/2012 9:38:44 AM
Yes, he did. Which is partially why she's so wary around him.
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3/6/2012 11:10:44 AM
^^Evidence of that is his comments to Glen during the most recent episode.^XD
3/6/2012 11:23:12 AM
DoubleDown,I agree that NOW Hershel certainly trusts Glenn and Rick more than he did before (who knows how he feels about Shane and the rest). But that hasn't always been the case. The point I was making in that sentence is elaborated a little later in the post.
3/6/2012 11:37:52 AM
seems stupid to have saved the dude in the first place if they were just planning on kicking him out.
3/6/2012 11:47:34 AM
^^I don't understand how you can possibly think that the circumstances in which both groups were introduced to Hershel are even remotely alike. A guy dressed in a sheriff uniform running to the house with his son that was shot by one of Hersel's group members vs. a kid that is part of a group whose 2 members just attempted to kill Rick, Hershel, and Glenn, and then was immediately involved in a shootout attempting to do the same thing again. You consider both Randall and Rick et al to be equal threats under those circumstances?Every post you've made in this topic has been a giant face palm.
3/6/2012 1:43:04 PM
^ did you seriously just suggest that being dressed like a Sheriff makes you more trustworthy in the zombie apocalypse?!!?!?! You do know Shane wore the same uniform as Rick, right? Lets ask Otis or Lori or Dale how trustworthy *he* is. Or maybe you brought it up for no reason.Anyways, yah, Rick did come to Hershel with a kid that Otis accidently shot. But that makes him less dangerous how? Deceitful people can't have kids? Mean people can't ask for help? I'm not seeing the clear dividing line you want to draw. Rick had a wounded kid, Randal had a wounded leg. Please explain to me why having a wounded kid makes you less dangerous or more trust worthy than having a wounded leg. The one legit point you make is that members of Randal's group do seem like dangerous dudes. But I have conceded that from the start. And it changes things very little. Like I said before, members of Rick's group are dangerous too. And they have only proven themselves to be more dangerous the longer they stay on the farm. More dangerous than Randal has proven himself to be thus far and I don't think any less dangerous than Randal's "friends" were at the bar. Which takes us right back to the question I've asked before. Why does no one seem to think it was stupid move for Hershel to take Rick's group in? Now, I am not saying Hershel and Rick's decisions are identical (how could they be). But they are very similar. Similar enough that the arguments being made against Randal could have easily been made against Rick's group with very little modification. It is a difference of degrees, not kind. If you really think the situations are not "remotely alike", then you're watching a different show.[Edited on March 6, 2012 at 2:32 PM. Reason : ``]
3/6/2012 2:10:56 PM
Just when we think this show can't get any worse, they give us an episode like this.Things were looking so promising after last weeks awesome episode. I seriously have no clue what some of these writers are thinking.It's like they just think of something and write it into the show without thinking about how it fits or if it even worksWriter 1: "I know, we can have a scene where Dale gets drawn out into an open field by the sounds of an attacked cow. Then, we can have a zombie sneak up on him out of nowhere and attack him! That will be so awesome. Yeah we need to write that in, it will be sooooo cool and unexpected. "Writer 2: "Yeah but that doesn't really make much sense"Writer 1: "Sure it does, its a zombie show and we have one killing one of the main characters, OMG it's going to be awesome and add so much dynamic to the show"Writer 3: "Hey guys, I know that kick ass killing scene you two are working on is taking up your time, but we really need to get back into focusing on the main part of the episode and how deep and intriguing its going to be to spend the entire episode on whether or not the group should kill a guy that they had originally planned on killing in the first place. This just adds so much depth to the show, the viewers are gonna LOVE it!"
3/6/2012 2:11:12 PM
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3/6/2012 2:51:29 PM
The issue isn't that they chose to kill Dale. That's perfectly ok.It's the lazy writing that they used to do it with that is the problem.
3/6/2012 2:56:57 PM
you guys do remember that the cow was making crazy gurgling noises too? It's not completely unfeasible that the loud gurgling noises from the cow may have covered up the gurgling noises from the zombie.
3/6/2012 3:11:41 PM
i thought the cow was a zombie and/or had a zombie inside of it initially
3/6/2012 3:16:38 PM
^^Don't give the writers that much credit.Also, Dale's character was pretty aware of his surroundings and the situations. He would more than likely have his guard up once realizing that the cow had been recently attacked.But instead, the writers just had him standing there staring at it while some zombie sneaks up on him out of nowhere.Then, as others have mentioned, they have it rip open his chest then give the reason that he had boney fingers and thats how he was able to do it.The same zombie who was stuck in mud and barely had the strength/energy to free himself.[Edited on March 6, 2012 at 3:26 PM. Reason : ..]
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