The Walking Dead spoilers thread

[Josephus]

Morgan's episode was The Good, even if a bit slow, very well done.

Right. Forgot about this thread.

Yes, I was quite impressed. Brilliant acting by both. Well staged. Found it quite gripping. An Emmy winner for sure. (Or Grammy, whatever they give out TV awards for)

[KRonn]

Great episode. I wasn't expecting a full 90 mins on Morgan but found it an interesting change of pace and also a much needed backstory on Morgan.

[crazy canuck]

It was a very good episode.  But I think their timing of showing this standalone bit was poor.  We were all waiting to see what was going happened to Rick.  I really don't care much about Morgan's backstory now.  It would have been a lot better if we had seen that earlier in the season.

[Josephus]

Maybe CC. But it was probably a matter of pacing the story. It's only 4 episodes in? If they did it earlier, people would whine that there's not enough action. I guess they wanted to start off quickly. Where would you have thrown it in? It had to be after the wolf attack, IMO, because it adds mystery to Morgan's character. Why is he using a javelin pole and not a gun? It could have replaced episode 3, perhaps, but that would have been problematic because episodes 2 and 3 were happening at the same time.

[crazy canuck]

Maybe CC. But it was probably a matter of pacing the story. It's only 4 episodes in? If they did it earlier, people would whine that there's not enough action. I guess they wanted to start off quickly. Where would you have thrown it in? It had to be after the wolf attack, IMO, because it adds mystery to Morgan's character. Why is he using a javelin pole and not a gun? It could have replaced episode 3, perhaps, but that would have been problematic because episodes 2 and 3 were happening at the same time.

The question of using the pole rather than all of the guns he once had was introduced when Moran first encountered the Wolves - remember the scene where he fights them off in the forest, puts them in a car and leaves them without killing them.  The way they wrote the episodes doesn't allow it to be fit in anywhere particularly well.  That really goes to my point that as a stand alone episode it was great but in the flow of this series it was awkward since it just delayed the telling the of the story the audience was anxious to hear.

[lustindarkness]

TWD delaying the answer of a cliffhanger for another week? Nah, never would happen. 

[crazy canuck]

Well yeah.  That's the point.  They turned what was an excellent episode into mere filler to delay the story line we really wanted to see answered. 

[lustindarkness]

I was The Sad when Tabitha died.

[crazy canuck]

Brain, did you hack his account 

[lustindarkness]

Oh, BTW, I think the voice at the end asking for the gate to be opened is Rick, kinda hard to tell.

[lustindarkness]

Brain, did you hack his account 

No, I was sad, poor goat never did any harm to anyone.

[Queequeg]

BUT I still disagree with Psellus: people wouldn't throw up their hands and die by the masses during a zombie apocalypse just because they couldn't face the new reality. Some would. Decisive majority would struggle on to survive.

Within a key period, a large part of the population would not be able to deal with the fact that the dead are rising up and eating the living.  And then after that there'd be PTSD to deal with.  IDK what would happen.  Neither would you.

[Josephus]

I often think how I would survive in that world. Join a group and go on a long walk ,a la TWD, or would I hole up in an apartment with as much food as i can loot hope for the best. I think I'd hole myself up.

[Eddie Teach]

I often think how I would survive in that world. Join a group and go on a long walk ,a la TWD, or would I hole up in an apartment with as much food as i can loot hope for the best. I think I'd hole myself up.

You'll probably change your mind after a few months or years of isolation.

[Admiral Yi]

I think people would try to band with others who are a net asset to survival and try to ditch those who are a net liability.  So much like high school.