The Walking Dead (no comics spoilers)

I thought you all might get a kick out of this too.

We all love the show, but we are nowhere near the fans that a friend of my wife's is.

I don't know her much at all. I've only met her a time or 3. But she was my wife's best friend growing up. My wife was a bridesmaid at her wedding many <mumble> some odd years ago. I still remember that as being the wedding I had the most fun at ever despite not knowing a single soul other than my wife. But that's another story...

I told you that to tell you this:

Her husband bears a striking resemblance to Rick. Oh, he's not a complete look-alike. But he has a similar height and build. His hair and even his beard are VERY similar. And his facial features are "close enough" that when he wears sunglasses especially, you do a double take.

I wish I could show you pics, but I don't want to harm their privacy.

Their whole family are huge fans of the show. They even took a trip to Atlanta to tour the filming sites. And that's when it happened. He started getting fan girled by burly grown men and teenagers alike. He'd walk into stores and the clerks would start stuttering thinking Andrew Lincoln just walked in. He got mobbed. To the point they realized being a celebrity may not be so much fun after all.

They were there for the filming of the Terminus battle. They couldn't get very close as security was very tight. But they watched from a distance on a hill and reported months ago about a HUGE explosion and so much gun fire going off it sounded like WWIII. I guess we all know what that was about now. (And no. they are not my "source." )

But here's how big of a fan they are: Her husband just got a job offer to work in Atlanta. So they moved... to Senoia. Senoia is the real town the show used as "Woodbury." It's also where the show is currently filming. (About a mile from their house)

I think her husband might want to shave.

 

Eugene does sound like a blowhard. But what else do they have to do?

The markings are coming from Gareth's group. I speculated as much last week with Morgan finding some. I'm not quite sure what their significance is yet, unless they're just trail / territory markers.

 

No. They were different. But I just figured it's some kind of coded message.

 

A couple of minor nitpicks. Not just tonight's episode, but in general:

Drinking water straight from a river? Or any "natural" source and not boiling it or purifying it first? How have they lived this long? Going to be real hard fighting the walkers while feverishly soiling yourself to dehydration, exhaustion and death. And this is not even factoring in that you are in an UNDEAD APOCALYPSE! That water is dodgy enough as is, let alone the untold numbers of dead or zombies polluting it.

I don't care how hungry I am. There is no way in seven hells I'm eating ANYTHING that spent time in that flooded basement. The Talking Dead beat me to the punch, but they made my point there too. Why would anyone in their right mind willingly go into that water in the first place? Might as well go swimming in a septic tank! What? We don't get infections anymore???

I've always wondered... does the "virus" or whatever it is that causes the dead to reanimate also cause their skulls to become the consistency of paper mache?

Minor spoiler. Very minor

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Are we ever going to find out Tyrese was a LB for the Falcons???

This episode related spoiler:

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Why do Gareth and company NEED to be cannibals? It's their only option to survive? Huh? Everyone else seems to scavenge food just fine. They're hunters but they can't, you know, HUNT? Cripes! Daryl bags 5-6 squirrels on a leisurely morning stroll! There's PLENTY of food sources out there! The RAREST food source, it seems to me, is other friggin people!

 

If you ever read the Zombie Survival Guide or World War Z (the amazing book. Not the crap movie that basically stole the title and then did nothing from the book), it had similar ideas for how zombies work. When they're fresh, they're stronger, faster, and relatively coordinated. But as they become damaged, and rot, they weaken. Flesh falls off, etc. BUT, they decay at a much, much slower rate. And as long as there's any connective tissue and muscle at all, they can and will move/attack. (The whole outbreak started when a Chinese diver was bitten or scratched by a submerged zombie that had been there for a long, long time and only surfaced due to work being done to build a dam).

But bone doesn't decay like that. And skulls are highly resistant to crushing.

 

That ending was so effed up

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Feel so bad for Bob! I thought that maybe he was bitten when that zombie pulled him under the water, he seemed to be acting strange, and then crying outside. Would be great if that were true and Gareths gang turn from eating him. Rays right, these guys are a special breed of scum, Ricks group is still finding food without resorting to filleting people. Hate Gareth more then the Governor.

 

I was thinking he was bitten, too. Am I the only one who was impressed with their medical field trauma skills?

 

Even without knowing that particular comic spoiler, I agree that

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Bob was bitten. His whole demeanor changed rather instantly. "One more" sounded like "one last time." Everyone is safe and happy for the first time in a long time, and Mr. Positive is suddenly sad? Yeah. He knew he was dying.

 

Daryl and Carol chasing after that car? Going to have to see that play out. No idea in what direction that part of the story is heading. Although my source told me one rather confusing tidbit. I'm not sharing it as it doesn't make much sense yet. It sheds no light on who those people are or what they want.

The scratches in Gabriel's church?

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Well, he seems AWFUL guilty about something. As in, can't forgive himself type of guilty. My best guess is he locked people out of his church or turned them away when the whole zombie outbreak happened. Either through fear of the plague, or greed to keep resources to himself. Not sure which. Either way, he betrayed his mandate as a man of the cloth. But that's just my working theory. I have not read the comics, although I know some of the stories. Gabriel isn't one I know. Whoever/whatever is going on with Beth? I don't think that's even from the comics.

 

Yes, I was quite impressed myself

As for the other discussion going on about Gabriel

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My guess, is he is tied to the group that stole Beth. Has the cross symbols on the car and it just happened to be in the vicinity of the church

 

So I guess next episode will switch gears and focus on whats been going on with Beth. I just hope its not as boring as the last time the story focused on her!

As for Gareth and his group

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man I enjoyed that! Hated that little weasel, saw the red hatchet in Ricks pocket and said oh yeah, here comes some pain . The only thing I don't get though is, wouldn't they have turned from eating Bobs leg? That would have been poetic justice I think if they went that route.

 

I don't think if was Carol. She'd have no reason to stay back. So who is it and where is Carol?