The Walking Dead

I think they already covered that a while back. He had it bandaged for a while as a nod to the comics I think instead of actually losing it. Probably easier that way.

I secretly think Rick is going to lose his hand because Andrew Lincoln is sick of having to hoist a Colt Python for 12hrs in a day.
Seriously look at his posture next time he pulls the Colt, limper wrists than a Hollywood men's bathroom.
 
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.

This guy is pretty sharp right here...
I'd totally bang him. He's smart AND dreamy.
 
Yes you are honey.

As for who builds a barrier that way I assume someone who for whatever reason had no other choice. I'd have to look at the pics though.
 
What she means when she says dull is there is a lack of Daryl. I promise you if there was 90 minute episode called "Daryl takes a shower" and started with him walking into the bathroom and after 90 soap sudsy minutes ended with him looking into the camera and winking she'd have the episode on loop.

That said I still don't like the episode. Mostly cus I don't quite get how he came to the conclusion that 'clearing' was . . .anything. I get killing walkers all day. I get killing people who are following you. Lets face it the good to bad ratio of people in this world is pretty heavily skewed. Anybody following you but not shouting "I'm your friend I promise" is automatically evil. Anybody who is has 30% chance of being to stupid to not draw walkers (should be killed), 30% of trying to get your off your gaurd (should be killed) and a 60% chance of being a genuine good person. Also you should kill wolves. This is not a happy place. So even the other guy coming to that conclusion is at best nonsensical.

I also don't think Aikido or most martial arts would work particularly well on walkers. Sure some of it would but so much of martial arts works on reflexes that they don't have.

Oh well. I'll live.
 
What she means when she says dull is there is a lack of Daryl. I promise you if there was 90 minute episode called "Daryl takes a shower" and started with him walking into the bathroom and after 90 soap sudsy minutes ended with him looking into the camera and winking she'd have the episode on loop.

That said I still don't like the episode. Mostly cus I don't quite get how he came to the conclusion that 'clearing' was . . .anything. I get killing walkers all day. I get killing people who are following you. Lets face it the good to bad ratio of people in this world is pretty heavily skewed. Anybody following you but not shouting "I'm your friend I promise" is automatically evil. Anybody who is has 30% chance of being to stupid to not draw walkers (should be killed), 30% of trying to get your off your gaurd (should be killed) and a 60% chance of being a genuine good person. Also you should kill wolves. This is not a happy place. So even the other guy coming to that conclusion is at best nonsensical.

I also don't think Aikido or most martial arts would work particularly well on walkers. Sure some of it would but so much of martial arts works on reflexes that they don't have.

Oh well. I'll live.

Not actually true as my all time fave episode was Smell The Flowers which was all Carol.
 
Garnate looks like she's gonna stab you if you interupt her book on a tape. It wasn't me pretty lady. I'm good and totally not a walker.
 
I also don't think Aikido or most martial arts would work particularly well on walkers. Sure some of it would but so much of martial arts works on reflexes that they don't have.
Akido is about redirecting the attacker's efforts, hopefully without hurting them, until they are too exhausted to harm you further. So redirecting a zombies "lunge" so they pass you so you can then smash their brains would be pretty effective. The smashing brains wouldn't be Akido.

But it also includes being really aware of your surroundings, which Eastman really failed at by turning his back on the walker so he got a nasty bite.

I thought the last bit with Morgan and the couple being attacked by a zombie was pretty dumb. There's no way that couple could have survived this long. Unless there are people from other places like Alexandria there shouldn't be any wimps still alive.
 
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Akido is about redirecting the attacker's efforts, hopefully without hurting them, until they are too exhausted to harm you further. So redirecting a zombies "lunge" so they pass you so you can then smash their brains would be pretty effective. The smashing brains wouldn't be Akido.

But it also includes being really aware of your surroundings, which Eastman really failed at by turning his back on the walker so he got a nasty bite.

I thought the last bit with Morgan and the couple being attacked by a zombie was pretty dumb. There's no way that couple could have survived this long. Unless there are people from other places like Alexandria there shouldn't be any wimps still alive.

I don't know Akido at all, my martial arts background is primarily Kung Fu with some military MMA in there and some wrestling. What that's shown me is that a lot of martial arts is based on how the body moves because of various reflexes that zombies lack. Some holds and redirects would work just fine, some would probably fail horribly. I can't imagine any attack meant to incapicate by winding or pain would do a damn thing.

Eastman basically failed because the story demanded he die. He didn't even seem to be unaware of the zombie so much as by the time he realized Morgan didn't have this one under control (note he'd seen Morgan in action to some degree already and this should have been a routine kill) and then he just acted. It's actually one of the deaths I'm MORE able to forgive than others.

The wimp survival ratio is clearly really high. Eastman doesn't give us ANY reason to doubt that he only found out about the end of the world by going back. He clearly hasn't been bothered by any groups of people because that shit he pulled on Morgan wouldn't have worked on even a two man team. He and his family could have cruised. Who knows how long Herschel and the gang would have made it if some combination of Carl, Rick and the plot hadn't seen fit to screw him over. Most of the people in Woodbury were worthless (And that was WITH the governor killing off people he deemed unfit. Though unfit seemed to focus more on might over throw him than weak.)

Basically Eastman being as capable as he was is sheer plot convienence not anything that REALLY had much to do with his survival. Couple that with other shit we know now, like this area probably has an abnormally low zed count (though it' shard to tell precisely where that cabin was.) Zombies in other places must congregate the same way, yadda ydda.
 
For the location of the cabin, it would have been in GA, not near Alexandria, since he saw signs for Terminus after he left.
 
I disliked last Sundays episode. I was bored by it and hated that "Morgan-vision" or whatever the fuck that was.
Whole thing just seemed dumb to me. There was no reason to see Morgan like that or to explain the short period of time we weren't aware of. Personally I think it really weakened the character who wasn't that strong of a character to begin with.
Plus, let's face it the whole episode was meant to hold off finding out what happened to Glenn.
 
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