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I call BS on Tyreese's survival. Were the zombies trying to give him a back rub or bite him? Because they were TOUCHING him.


Long Hair and I Kinda Fail, why would the little girl have done it? She has zero motivation. She is still a kid, and the only odd thing about her is she has some strange emotional attachment to the Walkers. Also, why would have Carol freaked out after talking to Tyreese?


R U Orc, its called doing the necessary. In killing the pigs, not only did Rick give the group time to reinforce the fence (had the fence fallen, all of them could have died), but it also eliminated what could have caused the disease in the first place. Carol killing the two sick people does make sense in a way, even if I don't agree it was the right choice. Feeding rats to zombies though, that is insanity.

Humans > Pigs

Oh, and by your logic, if you want to snipe thirty people (Yes, there are thirty) because of the actions of a few (two being justified), aren't you the psycho? Also, good luck with that, you don't think they or the dozens of fence clinging zombies would be able to pinpoint where you are sniping from? Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

31-Oct-2013 02:39:21 - Last edited on 31-Oct-2013 02:41:05 by NotFishing

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i would only snipe rick and carol not the rest , they r dangerous ppl to outsiders, rick left behind the backpack guy and only stoped to grab his backpack after he was dead , he also wanted to give michonne to the governor to save himself , and now hes probably gonna kill tyreese once he finds out about carol , plus hes crazy and he knows it cause he keeps telling ppl that hes not fit to lead but no1 listens.

about the baby pigs he did what shane did to otis , theres lots of ways to lure zombies and he could have left the pigs a chance to survive by not cuting their legs but now theres no pigs left , so who hes he gonna use as bait next time he needs?

daryl ,michonne , glenn ,hershel and maggie and maybe beth r still sane , they all have killed zombies without doing anything crazy like rick or carol.

rick and carol soon will become just like the governor or worst , killing anyone on sight or welcoming them just to kill them later , they want to survive at any cost , its just a matter of time until someone of the group kills them , maybe its gonna b tyreese or hershel cause hes a doctor and hes gonna go mad if he finds out about carol.

31-Oct-2013 05:32:58

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1. Rick is different this season. A writer even said that Rick will no longer be the kind of guy to leave people on the side of the road.
2. He was going to give up Michonne, but changed his mind at the last second (but he couldn't get to Merle in time to tell him).
3. Why would he kill Tyrese? There's no real reason for it, and Rick would be an idiot to even think of telling him.
4. He's not crazy anymore, he's managed to deal with his insanity.
5. It wasn't just to lure the zombies out - the pigs (which weren't even babies) could have been the source of the disease. Remember the Swine Flu? It got its name because farm workers caught it off the pigs. And finally, can you name any better way to lure the zombies out? Because not only did they need to bring the walkers out, they also needed a way to keep them there.

As for Carol, she's no more insane than Beth or Michonne. Teaching the kids how to use knives doesn't make her crazy - she's just being practical. Burning Karen and David I didn't agree with, but there was a pretty good reason (way better than sniping two people over past actions) behind it even though it didn't work.

And the whole point of Season 3 was that Rick was trying NOT to become the Governor. Remember that crazy woman in the woods? She was clearly walking Rick into a trap but he followed her anyway and even gave her food. And what about all the Woodbury people he brought in last season? They were their enemies, and some of them were way too old to be of any help but they were still welcome. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

01-Nov-2013 02:33:20

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The little girl seemed like a possibility because I got the impression that she was unstable, and that stood out to me. As for her motivation, killing two fatally sick almost-zombies could have been her way of making up for being unable to stab her dead father (especially because Carol told her she's weak just after her father died). But I still had a feeling it wasn't her, except during the scene where she unconvincingly coughed and said she was sick before being led into the place where everyone was being quarantined - but it might just not have been very good acting in that scene.

As for Carol's freak-out, the first time I watched that scene I thought it was because she cared so much. She had to watch all the sick people and a sick child go into quarantine, and then Tyreese asked her to check in on Sasha because he knew she cared. It looked like having to watch the the sickness and death spreading throughout the prison was getting to her. The second time I watched the scene though, after I knew she had killed the sick people, I could see that it was actually guilt.

01-Nov-2013 05:41:58 - Last edited on 01-Nov-2013 07:18:57 by Evalie

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I like Carol and although I don't agree with what she did by killing the two sick people, I can see why she felt she had to do it. She was being pragmatic. Maybe not the nicest way to look at things, but practical. The same way with her teaching the children how to use weapons. That is smart, and something the adults should be doing anyway. As much as they would like to go back to before the outbreak, they can't. Children just can't have a normal childhood in this world.

And just one thing I really wish the writers would stop doing. Please STOP using new characters as cannon fodder to keep the body count up. It's like they introduce a new character in one scene, then, bye bye to them the next. It's becoming predictable. My friends are running a death pool with the characters on this show. :/
The Catcher in the Rye caught a Catch-22.

01-Nov-2013 23:21:09

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I recently bought the third season on dvd having got hooked on the show via Lovefilm. Unfortunately I don't have access to Sky myself so I can't watch the new season until I travel home for Christmas (which means I have not read any of the posts on this thread!).

I was quite surprised I liked it to be honest, I was expecting something quite poorly execute.

01-Nov-2013 23:24:44

Evalie
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One frustration I've been having with the storyline is how the characters had this spectacular opportunity to watch what happens in the brain when it's taken over by the virus... yet they don't use that information.

Some examples (I'll try to correctly remember what happened, but no promises):

-When the group met Hershel, he believed walkers were just sick people. Shouldn't they have told him that they saw what happens to the brain when people become walkers, and then explain to him that the brain dies completely, the brainstem being the only part that reactivates?

-Milton wanted to test someone to see if the guy would retain a certain memory after becoming a walker. Andrea just sat there watching the dangerous procedure without telling Milton a crucial piece of information: when someone becomes a walker, the parts of the brain involved in memory are dead . It drove me insane watching Andrea silently watch Milton's hopeless experiment.

-Doesn't the little girl in this new season believe that walkers are people too? (I'm having trouble remembering.) Shouldn't Carl have explained to her that they're just animated corpses?

I mean obviously these alternate choices would have killed the storyline so the producers weren't going to do it. It's just frustrating because in an apocalypse, specific scientific observations like that would be practically sacred. Even if that whole brain scan scene was purely for the audience's benefit, I can't ignore how the characters haven't used that information at all. :@

02-Nov-2013 02:41:06

Evalie
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So at the beginning, I thought The Walking Dead was going to redeem itself, like it was responding to my post about the whole brain scan thing.

Lizzie talks about how walkers are still people, just different people. Similar to how she'll be different when she's older. I felt so sure Carol was going to say something along the lines of, "The difference is that getting older makes your brain more developed. The walkers lose all brain functions except their ability to move, and even that's only initiated by the virus. The virus is just using a dead body to feed."

Carol's actual response? "It's more complicated." ._.

I was able to accept that the science behind the brain scan scene is inaccurate (you pretty much have to expect a lack of scientific accuracy with zombie and/or apocalypse shows and movies, and not worry about it). I guess in the same way, I'm just going to have to accept that the brain scan scene was just for the audience and that I need to pretend the characters never actually saw it.

04-Nov-2013 05:36:28

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