pays off this week.

I'll still enjoy it either way.

though, the show has been frustrating at times, too.

This season looks better, lots of action.

last season started off great, but I thought the second half dragged at times (though, it did have good moments, like the death of Merle...)

last weeks episode was actually a pretty solid, well rounded episode and yet I still felt a bit underwhelmed. I think its because of the long wait, and also because last years opening episode was off the scale great.

Maybe swine flu?

with the pig dying being the hint

Where's the walker.

Here he comes, there he goes.

Now it starts.

Not even a chance to scream.

thought Phineas was going to jump out at her...

That was fast.

Two walkers now.

There goes number two.

I have been watching this show to long, the guts falling out didn't bother me.

The love nest.

about the guts. I wouldn't say it's "ho hum" but last week, they gave us a walker hanging by his guts...

I would be packing mine.

With that many walkers at the fence, it just makes common sense.

If anybody dies, for any reason, they come back as a zombie.

When survival was day-to-day and the situation very fluid, worrying about such things such as heart attacks and strokes was a very distant threat.

But now... there are no more immunizations, and limited antibiotics.


Now, at this time in the zombie apocalypse there has been a lot of Darwinism going on. Lots of the elderly and chronically sick died in the first few days or weeks of the apocalypse. Need oxygen to live? Too bad. Failed kidneys, on dialysis? You didn't make it. Diabetic? Yeah, you became zombie lunch while in a coma. Wheelchair-bound? You were a zombie's "meals-on-wheels".

So the ones left are those that are healthy enough to fight and run, to live largely without medicine or other medical technology.

But... seasonal flu? Yeah, its all over the place. Now, of course, there's a lot less travel than before, so that will help some. But it's not perfect.

And there's the usual run of causes of deaths... food poisoning, cholera, dysentery, salmonella, etc. Plus all the non-infections ones, like cancer, heart attacks, strokes, etc.


Once you're secure against the external threat, this other stuff puts you at risk from within.


Honestly, I think what they're going to have to do in the prison is have each person lock themselves in their cell every night. If somebody turns, they can't escape to attack anybody else!

I think the only people with a gun was Glen and Maggie in the love nest.

I know they needed to relax for awhile, but damn.

How do you relax with people coming back and trying to eat you.

How'd you like to go like that?

I would like a fighting chance.

It is good he is a tough kid.

That is no world for the sissy kids.

*clings to her kittehs*

Now back to the real world.

my daughter is around the age of those two girls.

I guess they won't be naming walkers anymore.

I will be truthful, the kids should really be tougher.

If they don't they will become walker dinner, unless the sickness gets them.

They need some kind of a normal life but normal in a walker world.

That meeting of the Jedi Council was perhaps the most realistic discussion yet on this show. They've come a LONG LONG LONG way from the stupidity of Camp Dinner Bell.

putting everybody on death row now...

since anyone who has that flu is a dead man/woman walking.

though, without antibiotics and/or at least something to reduce the fever, it might be tough.

It is a old herbal cure for stuff like the flu.

Really.

I use it, it works.

He was mentioning something about how the virus can move quickly. He could be a great resource for the group - if he survives.

Another suspect for who is feeding the walkers.

The best brand is Sambucus.

It comes in a small bottle 4 oz, more then enough.

Black Elder Berry extract really works.

Flu, colds.

Take it has soon as you start to feel sick.

The flu or cold will be shorten by days.

at your local health food store. Season 4 is starting 6-7 months after season 3 and season 3 started 6-7 months after season 2...

I would be looking for stuff in health food stores.

Maybe a few boxes hidden in the back of the store.

looks like the fence is going to give. And, the walker's face slicing into the fence was a new one...

They are not so tough now.

Taking the razor wire from the top.

Doing something like the crazy guy did in his town, I can't remember his name.

Bracing the fence, anything like that.

Wonder who it is.

interesting, though

I think we will be surprised when we find out.

Something tells me this transformation back to regular teenager Carl is just temporary and psycho Carl is just itching to come out again.

that would be crazy

I get the impression that he's pretty cocksure about interacting with walkers. Wasn't he taunting one stuck in the creek, in season 2?

he learned his lesson later on when that same walker killed Dale.

That might be a mistake.

Don't know how many they had total.

Need to rewatch the show.

Couldn't eat them anyway.

like how Merle had the walkers following him in the car last year in his final showdown?

Whether it has anything to do with the zombie apocalypse, I don't know.

I wonder if someone else had a baby at one time.

Just the way she was holding her.

Poor little pig.

Couldn't eat them anyway.

I spent time on a farm, pigs were not pets.

Calfs were not pets.

Rick did the right thing.

Wish he would killed them first.

is she going already? That will kill Rick

She was coughing.

on Beth? That's why she left, to get something to wipe it off?

Garden variety baby vom. Trust me, I'm an expert.

I thought there was a stream of red blood in there, too. However, on second look, it was Beth's red beaded necklace that I saw.

All the newcomers should have had walker bootcamp.

They did need a break but they live in a tough world.

There was that wrist band.

Carol now had two daughters.

Is The Governor hiding out in another cell block? Or, some crazy person?

We will be left hanging.

Took Patrick long enough to go on the attack.

Wonder why people aren't on watch at night? Last season when all those older folks came from Woodbury I wondered if the crew wouldn't set up watches in case someone died in the night. Someone dies in the night and comes back, starts attacking others. Need people on night watch.

Now we know what Hershel means by 12 dead plus 2 in cold blood. Wonder who the murderer is?

More hints on Michonne's back story. (Judith scene w/ her)

Still...what idiot is feeding the walkers?

She was hugging the baby, didn't want to at first.

She was really nice to the governor's zombie daughter until she found out she was a walker.

I haven't read all the comic books.

well, couples sleep together, but people close their cell doors at night so no roaming walker can get in, or if somebody gets sick & dies at night, they can't get out. (not just the flu - what if somebody has a heart attack?)

I'd lock mine with a chain and master lock from the inside. lol

Because people can die in their sleep from all kinds of things.

might have spotted the flashlight wielding person feeding the walkers also.

Fox News viewers en masse.

Mika seems to be the stronger emotionally. Even though she didn't want to watch father die (again), she was strong for her sister when she broke down. Also, she knows a lot about Lizzie's thinking. Recall how she told Carol that Lizzie wasn't crazy just messed up in her thinking about Walkers. Carol should have asked more about that.

Could be wrong.

I don't know if a little girl would touch a mouse or rat.

Also someone has to catch or trap them.

and maybe that person is feeding the walkers.

the drinking guy from last week maybe? Carl? Carol? or,maybe the Governor (or an ally of his) slipped over the fence one night and is hiding out in the prison somewhere?

I wondered if the Guv was about last week and still think it possible. Or maybe he has someone on the inside.

I think it's an adult. Just don't know who.

Back up real fast.

See, they leave us with this scene for next week.

put the petal to the metal, as they'd say.

Not that many from behind.

Get out of the car and you are dead.

7,500 walkers, according to Greg Nicotero. And, it looks like there were more than that. Wow!

I guess they got a pretty good budget increase after last season! (after season 1, they cut the budget for season 2...)

That was a lot of walkers, a far as the eye could see.

Wow! How will they get out of that?

Like it does any good.

Wouldn't take that many walkers to turn over the car.

You're right. Wouldn't take many at all.

Wonder where they're going? Wonder who survives?

So many questions and we have to wait a week.

Just type in Walking Dead forums have fun.

I visit two forums.

same screen name as here. Though, I have not been that active lately.

I can't think of the other one's name.

There is a facebook group, and I think something on AMC website.

beyond the thousands of walkers - university dormitory? corporate office building? (maybe trying to get medical supplies?) Seemed kind of in the back, like it was not downtown Atlanta or anything.

Some kind of population center, or just a big bunch of walkers.

A whole week to wait.

that could be why they're headed there.

so probably isolated with her as well.

TV Chat would be a better place for this....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1037

Thanks

But it would be helpful to get more people into the TV chat. It's kind of a walking dead place of it's own.

I didn't even know there was a TV chat forum and I've been on DU for 10 years, and this is the third year we've been posting TWD discussion threads in The Lounge, and the only complaint was about posting spoilers in here, even though the OP is always labeled as containing spoilers.

Usually there are updates about when the new season of shows begin. Little Star posts quite a bit of information in there. I believe there are some TWD threads as well.

thanks

I don't sense outrage at the pig killing - just people upset.

http://www.today.com/entertainment/pigging-out-walking-dead-draws-fire-killing-fake-oinkers-8C11432386

I spent time on my grandparents farm.

Pigs were not pets, you didn't name them.

You eat them.

This is a tv show, people are funny.

I am more upset about the food stamps being cut then pigs.

I remember my aunt & uncle raised a few pigs, but their daughters named the pigs and got upset when the pigs had to killed. (One was even named Wilbur) The pig raising didn't last much longer.

They get uncute will fast.

To me they were just future bacon.

It was the only way to view them, you just didn't want to get to close.

The same with the baby cows.

The pigs did meet a bad end, eaten alive.

The pigs couldn't have been eaten anyway, just put down.

The guy that was killed in the beginning was picked because he was snoring.

I didn't notice that last time.

Karen was almost picked but our newest walker heard the snoring and went for the throat.

Just remember not to snore around a walker.