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We also don't know what else was discussed in the videos. Besides, IMO it's wasteful to spend spending valuable chunks of episode time in a short season on discussion of community "protocols." Let that stuff become part of the storytelling in episodes to come.

Speaking of the teasers for next episode:


Was it ever addressed what the young girl was climbing over the wall for?

I loved the composition of the final shots.

Carol in the light, Daryl in the dark, Rick in the middle of light and dark.

Also, whoever said they were grooming Sasha, I admit you're probably right.


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re: Young Girl: Not yet.

I like that Rick's just "no biggie, we'll just take over." With different music that would be the words of the Bad Guy.

I feel like they were trying to hard in the preview to make it look like Aaron was shooting at Daryl. Sadly we seem to have another death next week as there is another suprise guest on the Talking Dead. Fingers crossed we don't. We've had enough character deaths this season (Bob, Tyreese, and Beth). We're good for a bit.

@Pretre

Agreed, that was excellent. This was, overall, an excellent episode I felt.

Yeah, my wife and I are super excited about the Alexandria arc.

 Hulksmash wrote:
I feel like they were trying to hard in the preview to make it look like Aaron was shooting at Daryl. Sadly we seem to have another death next week as there is another suprise guest on the Talking Dead. Fingers crossed we don't. We've had enough character deaths this season (Bob, Tyreese, and Beth). We're good for a bit.

@Pretre

Agreed, that was excellent. This was, overall, and excellent episode I felt.

Kill that annoying "Noah the jinx" guy.

 pretre wrote:
I loved the composition of the final shots.

Carol in the light, Daryl in the dark, Rick in the middle of light and dark.

Also, whoever said they were grooming Sasha, I admit you're probably right.

Ha! Although I may yet be proved wrong.


Daryl is in an interesting place. Clearly he was someone who almost benefited from the zombie apocalypse, finding a purpose and better family than he had before. So what do you do with him now? He's obviously at his best operating outside the walls and would be highly effective on supply runs, although he's not a leader or someone you'd want in charge of such things. Especially since he isn't in the comics, it'll be interesting to see if he adapts or changes and ends up becoming more of a leader.

Jessie's arc will be interesting (and possibly highly predictable) given one comic character's absence. She even resembles you-know-who from the comics more than Jessie from the comics.

Carol's situation is also really interesting. She's playing it smart and careful, but in taking that stance, you almost wonder if she's as much a fish out of water in Alexandria as Daryl is. Like Daryl, she's someone who blossomed in some ways after the apocalypse. I guess more to the point -- will Carol *ever* let her guard down, adapt to this new setting, and trust anyone outside the group? I think it's a legit question. Remember that she was 100% ready to go off on her own after Terminus. She seems the most dangerous of all of them right now, and maybe not in a good way.

I was almost fooled by Carol for a second until she gushed about her husband. lol

yeah..episode made me relive this old NCO's dislike of ROTC pukes....lol
Loved how Daryl balled that dude up

It seems to me the ROTC kid is going to basically become the new Shane.

I got really fed up with the Shane plotline.

I feel like anytime they get in a car they are destined to crash in someway or another before running frantically into the woods.

I mean, if they just slowed down a little bit they would crash into herds of walkers a lot less. Whats the hurry anyways?

 Strombones wrote:
I feel like anytime they get in a car they are destined to crash in someway or another before running frantically into the woods.

I mean, if they just slowed down a little bit they would crash into herds of walkers a lot less. Whats the hurry anyways?

Also, their line of sight is like always only 10 feet ahead of them with like a 15 degree view arc.

 Strombones wrote:
I feel like anytime they get in a car they are destined to crash in someway or another before running frantically into the woods.

I mean, if they just slowed down a little bit they would crash into herds of walkers a lot less. Whats the hurry anyways?

Slowed down? How about look where they're going? It's the damned apocalypse! No one clears the roads anymore so you can't expect to have a clear road and yet the drivers in the group always turn around to talk to the passengers. That's when something appears on the road like a dead car, walking dead etc and suddenly it's holy f---! where'd that come from and then they crash. The exception being the night drive through that herd when they had Aaron in the car - how'd that car stay on the road so long?

I think she angling for Rick to take over for all of them to survive. Rick group has the experience to survive while they don't

Watched the episode last night and mostly enjoyed.

Some very good bits - Rick and co's reactions and the videos were very well done - carol was very clever

Although you do wonder how many people the Alexandrians heard screaming for help and let die outside their perfect little community and if anyone made a serious attempt on the place - thre is a great bit in WWZ novel about a similar place where the rich are ready to surivve the zombies in complete safety and luxury.

Their security seems to consist of two arrogant idiots with a few guns............

best bit was the end line by Ric.............

think she angling for Rick to take over for all of them to survive. Rick group has the experience to survive while they don't

MY only issue with that is which group have been safe for more than a year, with apparently all the home conforts and even a maid service looking at the houses. Ah well Rics cres has arrived so likey to get devestated - like everywhere else they have been

 Strombones wrote:
I feel like anytime they get in a car they are destined to crash in someway or another before running frantically into the woods.

I mean, if they just slowed down a little bit they would crash into herds of walkers a lot less. Whats the hurry anyways?

Well, I thought the dead battery incident in the RV was a wink to that recurring theme on the show -- and a sign that their ridiculously bad luck was changing -- as much as it was a shoutout to Dale.

Yea I thought they'd somehow found their old RV.

 Frazzled wrote:
Yea I thought they'd somehow found their old RV.

That would be a hell of a detour. Isn't Hershel's farm in a different state?

 Mr Morden wrote:
MY only issue with that is which group have been safe for more than a year, with apparently all the home conforts and even a maid service looking at the houses. Ah well Rics cres has arrived so likey to get devestated - like everywhere else they have been

There's a reason they've been so safe...

 pretre wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
MY only issue with that is which group have been safe for more than a year, with apparently all the home conforts and even a maid service looking at the houses. Ah well Rics cres has arrived so likey to get devestated - like everywhere else they have been

There's a reason they've been so safe...

Spoiler:

The Saviors have been keeping them safe. That's the deal. And, of course, Rick changes that significantly over the next series of arcs...

Honestly? I doubt it.

Obviously, my statement was based off facts from the comic. That's why things were the way they were there, so I was inferring from that.

 pretre wrote:
Obviously, my statement was based off facts from the comic. That's why things were the way they were there, so I was inferring from that.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Obviously, my statement was based off facts from the comic. That's why things were the way they were there, so I was inferring from that.

Spoiler:

Alexandria wasn't protected by the Saviors in the comics though- right? Jesus went looking for help to fight them. Or am I misremembering again?

SCE has it.

I had forgotten that. Another excuse to reread the story then.

Computron wrote:

Spoiler:

Rick doesn't hear about the Saviours until he meets the people at Hilltop. Then the Saviours find out about Alexandria and come knocking. Prior to that they had a run in with a gang who were not Saviours. If the Saviours were around that gang wouldn't be, it would've been dead or part of the Saviours.

Just came to post that-

Didn't the leader lady say something about northern Virginia being evacuated in the episode? Which is why the dead - and probably the living by the same measure - haven't been too much of an issue for them.