The Walking Dead

[Oh_That_Guy]

I got no reason to think he's still alive other than it's not typical of them to kill a main character in that way...alone, not definitive, possible future zombie. Just isn't their style most of the time. Still possible. I could see zombie Glenn showing up and trying to take a bit out of Maggie but that's also sorta cheesy.
In the comic he is killed by Negan but it's also right around this time that it happens sooooo...

Anyway, whole thing has a Jon Snow feel to it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Inverse anybody can die at any time. That's just reality. Narratively as is pointed out that's such an odd way to die. He doesn't need to die with Maggie watching but he needs to die with SOMEONE watching so he's officially dead for the group as a whole. Not someone they are hoping shows up next week with a wacky tale.

Hollywood dumpsters might be higher off the ground than normal ones and a sufficiently loud noise could draw them off. Though if he survives I'm betting on him gutting a walker and just kinda not dying.

Michone gave a clue too (or am I really just a hopeful fool) when she said "Have you ever been covered in so much blood that you didn't know if it was yours, or walkers', or your friends'? Huh?"

It's an outside possibility that it was a double clue. But Michone gives that speech to brother with the dredlocks. Then when they are crossing the river they take a long moment out of him staring at his bloody reflection with the clear implication that he now grasps what Rick and Michone were talkinga bout.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Inverse anybody can die at any time. That's just reality. Narratively as is pointed out that's such an odd way to die. He doesn't need to die with Maggie watching but he needs to die with SOMEONE watching so he's officially dead for the group as a whole. Not someone they are hoping shows up next week with a wacky tale.

Hollywood dumpsters might be higher off the ground than normal ones and a sufficiently loud noise could draw them off. Though if he survives I'm betting on him gutting a walker and just kinda not dying.



It's an outside possibility that it was a double clue. But Michone gives that speech to brother with the dredlocks. Then when they are crossing the river they take a long moment out of him staring at his bloody reflection with the clear implication that he now grasps what Rick and Michone were talkinga bout.

It's just not like the show to leave any doubt at all when it comes to main characters. They did with Merle but that was kinda different and you knew he was gonna show up again some day. Glenn is just too big a character to let it go like that. When he dies, everyone will know he's dead.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Michone gave a clue too (or am I really just a hopeful fool) when she said "Have you ever been covered in so much blood that you didn't know if it was yours, or walkers', or your friends'? Huh?"

Never thought of that!

Everyone at work thinks he's still alive. Hmmm.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It's just not like the show to leave any doubt at all when it comes to main characters. They did with Merle but that was kinda different and you knew he was gonna show up again some day. Glenn is just too big a character to let it go like that. When he dies, everyone will know he's dead.

Again, narratively you NEVER leave any doubt when you kill someone on tv. Room for doubt almost always means they survive somehow. It happens so often that when it's a villain we all groan. I think it was best lampooned Dragonball Z Abridged: Cooler's Revenge.

::Our hero falls off a waterfall that nobody could have survived.::

Da Boss: Show of hands, who thinks he's dead?
::All three goons raise their hands.::
Da Boss: Well that's too bad seeing how I'm the one who signs your paychecks. Go bring me his body.

 

[Porkwarrior]

Glenn is dead.

Get over it.

 

[snugglestruggle]

They've used the Walker blood & body parts trick a few times to escape, so you just never know. Plus SKB is right, a mid season kill off of a main character makes no sense IMO.

 

[spacekowboy]

Glenn is dead.

Get over it.

In that situation, I agree he should be. They left it intentionally ambiguous for a reason. He is either alive, or they are using to bolster rating and viewership numbers.
I don't think he is simply for the fact that it is not the mid season finale. That is when they kill of members of the core group. Unless they are changing how they do things mid stream.
Anyway, it doesn't look like next week's episode is going to deal with Rick or Glenn. Looks like it's all back story with Morgan and the Wolves. Closure isn't coming any time soon on this one.

 

[Sean Renaud]

They've used the Walker blood & body parts trick a few times to escape, so you just never know. Plus SKB is right, a mid season kill off of a main character makes no sense IMO.

I honestly can only think of one time they used it back in S1 but it's already established as a legit move.

i don't think Dale died at mid or end finale. I think he just died but it's been a while. Still it's a bold move.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

I honestly can only think of one time they used it back in S1 but it's already established as a legit move.

i don't think Dale died at mid or end finale. I think he just died but it's been a while. Still it's a bold move.

Carol used the trick last season to rescue them from Terminus.
Don't remember when Dale died for sure. Never liked him much really.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Oh, you are right. I forgot about Carol. I'm that one guy who doesn't think she's awesome and will throw a party with black jack and hookers when she finally bites it at the end of this season.

Either way we know that is something that works. And I find it curious that the last thing Glenn does before falling is pull out a knife. In that situatioin he would have been no less fucked with the AK just hosing them down. Actually probably slightly more as the dead bodies piled up and the walkers could climb the ramp of carnage.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Oh, you are right. I forgot about Carol. I'm that one guy who doesn't think she's awesome and will throw a party with black jack and hookers when she finally bites it at the end of this season.

Either way we know that is something that works. And I find it curious that the last thing Glenn does before falling is pull out a knife. In that situatioin he would have been no less fucked with the AK just hosing them down. Actually probably slightly more as the dead bodies piled up and the walkers could climb the ramp of carnage.

I like Carol. I like her contrasting personalities, her merciless attitude toward survival and the evolution of the character.
Dale coulda been killed in the pilot and I would have been happy. Same with the old man from the farm. I get he was needed to help things along but he really got on my nerves after a while.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Dale wasn't even in the pilot. He doesn't show until the end of Ep2.

But I get it and I see why people like Carol, she's easily the most developed character depending on how you view Rick.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

If Glen is dead then I think Daryl is gonna be killed by Neagan. It would be the biggest hit to the group and hit the viewers right in the feels.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Oh, you are right. I forgot about Carol. I'm that one guy who doesn't think she's awesome and will throw a party with black jack and hookers when she finally bites it at the end of this season.

Either way we know that is something that works. And I find it curious that the last thing Glenn does before falling is pull out a knife. In that situatioin he would have been no less fucked with the AK just hosing them down. Actually probably slightly more as the dead bodies piled up and the walkers could climb the ramp of carnage.

Why don't you like her? What's not to like!

 

[snugglestruggle]

I honestly can only think of one time they used it back in S1 but it's already established as a legit move.

i don't think Dale died at mid or end finale. I think he just died but it's been a while. Still it's a bold move.

I remember in S1 when Rick went into Atlanta (met Glenn and the others from the group who were trapped in the department store) they chopped up a dead walker,smeared it on raincoats so he and Glenn could get thru a crowd of zombies to retrieve a van.

The other time I remember Michonne being covered in walker guts so she could get to the prison with the baby formula.

I stopped watching it after they discovered all the walkers penned up in Hershel's barn.

 

[Sean Renaud]

She has shown repeatedly over the last few seasons to be fairly dangerous to the group primarily because in a scenario like TWD Poor Communication Kills. It's not that she shouldn't have killed the people who were sick in the Prison. It's that they had a council for a goddamn reason and that reason wasn't so people could run off and do their own thing. I agree everybody needs weapon training but you don't get to go behind the backs of the parents and or other authority figures. She tends to make the right calls but really get lucky with the group either not finding out or at least not being ina good place to argue when they do.

I think S6E1 made a DAMN good case for if you're a doctor and you're beating your wife it sucks to be your wife but you get to live. Why? Because you have a unique skill set. There are of course alternatives to execution and outright ignore anyway. I doubt he would have refused to help the injured even if they'd locked him up and said "look, we don't banish you, you get to live comfy you help us." But negotiations can and must be made with high value individuals and he is one.

Also Carol fans are bloody obnoxious.

 

[Fata Morgana]

She has shown repeatedly over the last few seasons to be fairly dangerous to the group primarily because in a scenario like TWD Poor Communication Kills. It's not that she shouldn't have killed the people who were sick in the Prison. It's that they had a council for a goddamn reason and that reason wasn't so people could run off and do their own thing. I agree everybody needs weapon training but you don't get to go behind the backs of the parents and or other authority figures. She tends to make the right calls but really get lucky with the group either not finding out or at least not being ina good place to argue when they do.

I think S6E1 made a DAMN good case for if you're a doctor and you're beating your wife it sucks to be your wife but you get to live. Why? Because you have a unique skill set. There are of course alternatives to execution and outright ignore anyway. I doubt he would have refused to help the injured even if they'd locked him up and said "look, we don't banish you, you get to live comfy you help us." But negotiations can and must be made with high value individuals and he is one.

Also Carol fans are bloody obnoxious.

I think a lot of TWD fans seem pretty mental from what I've seen. They forget it is fiction and that's a bit scary.

 

[spacekowboy]

I think a lot of TWD fans seem pretty mental from what I've seen. They forget it is fiction and that's a bit scary.

Some of us just wish it were true so we could practice our sniper skills with impunity.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Some of us just wish it were true so we could practice our sniper skills with impunity.

Yeah, that I can agree with. And I've said it before, I'm sure there are walkers posting on Lit.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I think a lot of TWD fans seem pretty mental from what I've seen. They forget it is fiction and that's a bit scary.

All fandoms are like that to one degree or another. Buffy fans, Whovians, Bronies, Trekkies. Tis the same all times every places.

 

[ryan8558]

Fanatic. Just sayin'.

 

[MNGuy]

If Glenn survives, by crawling under the dumpster, it may be the moment The Walking Dead jumps the shark.

 

[Sean Renaud]

That's not what jumping the shark means and frankly it's less stupid than Daryl not dying last season.

 

[Beco]

Will Rick lose his hand??