• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

The Walking Dead Season 6 Discussion

I'm not going to have nightmares of zombies biting into my flesh. No, I'm going to wake up with Deanna's tight blank face glaring at me.
 
Oh yeah:

"we need to keep quiet. keep the lights off. Not attract the zombies"

an hour later:

"come up on the top of the wall in plain view and let's shoot some zombies"

:brickwall:
 
I still think Aaron is being a little hard on himself on the wolves finding Alexandria, they were bound to find them sooner or later if they were an active enough threat to the area.

But it was the contents of his pack that led them to Alexandria, so he knows his habit of carrying around photos, etc., for his "auditions" brought mass murder to ASZ. We will see if his guilt is actually explored, as it was with Nicholas' own past.

On Talking Dead, it was mentioned that blood was running from the walls (going back, it was at the end of the episode). With so many episodes all taking place roughly around the same time, I wonder if the blood belongs to someone who tried to make it back, but....

Maggie's pregnant?! What an utterly shocking and unexpected surprise! (sarcasm off)

Hopefully, that will not turn into Lori 2.0 (TV or comic version), or more baby-in-jeopardy as seen with Judith.

So.... I'm guessing Deanna never learned to give the walkers a head-shot in order to put them down?

I guess so. She attacked it like someone in the early outbreak days, which reveal just how sheltered the community was.

The walker that attacked Deanna, as that Morgan's Wolf prisoner? Mention is made of Carol having "got one of them" without ever recovering the body.

It was a mortally wounded Wolf who hid under the house.

I dunno, I think the other angsty teenager kid has turned his leaf to Rick's side. I think the confrontation between him and Carl was a bit out of nowhere but I guess expected for teenagers.

His father's death--in series time--was recent. He's argued with Jessie about how dangerous Rick is, and thinks Carl moved in on "his girlfriend." I cannot imagine Ron is just turned into helpful, innocent kid. It would be in line with the tone of the series for Rick teaching him how to use a gun, only to turn it on any of the Grimes family.


Did him and Enid really solidify their relationship enough for him to consider her his "girlfriend?"

Teenagers can believe they are in a serious relationship for reasons adults know are thin at best--like Enid simply being the object of his crush.

Seemed to me like she was playing the field with both him and Carl.

I see her as being bait on the behalf of whoever her real allies are.

Nice kiss between Rick and what's her name. (I'm terrible with names, okay?!)

Jessie...but you know this is gasoline for the lit match that is Ron.

Good episode and, yep, I'm going to say we're not finding out about Glenn until the back-8 starts.

Probably, unless the mid season finale is announced as another 90 minute special.
 
Oh yeah:

"we need to keep quiet. keep the lights off. Not attract the zombies"

an hour later:

"come up on the top of the wall in plain view and let's shoot some zombies"

:brickwall:

Rick took the bullets out of the gun, he was just teaching the kid how to aim without using live ammunition.
 
Rewatching the pilot now, since it had the only restaurant scene. I wanna take a look.

ETA: Just watched the scene. There was an "A" on a printed sign hanging by the door of the diner. I seriously doubt it had anything to do with the current plot. Not even subliminally.

Yeah, those are just the letter grade inspection signs that the LA County Department of Public Health requires all restaurants and places that sell food to prominently display to the public. All the "A" meant in this case is that the diner did well on its last inspection. It's probably been downgraded a bit by now, what with all the dead people. ;)

 
So, can we put the baby-monitor thing from two weeks ago to rest and accept that Judith wasn't taken by a Wolf/Enid and is perfectly okay we just didn't happen to get to see the baby monitor because of a production/continuity error?

While we're nitpicking others' observations: no continuity error. The baby monitor was on the counter at the end of the episode, we just never saw the screen. And Carl didn't seem to look at it. Monitor was there, though.

Definitely seems like it would have come up by now, she'd have had to be missing for an entire day at this point. Tough to forget about a baby for a day, trust me. They need something every couple hours at best, they'd be very used to going up to feed/change/stop the screaming :)
 
I approve of this episode. We finally got to see a lot (and it was mostly good stuff) from the other Alexandrians.

Jessie was great, Aaron was great, new doctor was finally getting in the groove, Spencer was great (until he wasnt), Deanna was making great plans....

And then there's Ron. I don't think anybody trusts that kid.


One of the best lines in the history of TWD happened tonight, and it was from two characters you'd least expect.
Doctor: "It's the end of the world."
Tara: "No, it's not."
Such a simple line, but so very powerful.
 
Tara still exists for no reason beyond being part of Governor 2.0 plot, and that usually means--on this show--someone might take a permanent vacation to the same resort as Tyreese, Beth, Hershel, Lori, Andrea.......
 
Did I imagine it or was Morgan scrawling an A on a rock or a tree this week in the flashback?

We also saw that in a restaurant in Fear The Walking Dead.

For some reason--maybe the wild hair--I can see the addict becoming a Wolf


The A has nothing to do with Wlves...it has to do with another group... the Aardvarks. They were the first in the old book (the dictionary), and they want to be first in this new world...
 
I'm kinda bummed that Jessie allowed Rick's advances. I mean, surely she was attracted to him before her husband went whack and Rick had to kill him, but that really didn't take very long. What's it been, like a couple days since her husband died? I mean, you knew it was going to happen eventually the way they constantly foreshadowed it, but this just seemed too sudden for a character to do.
 
Yeah, those are just the letter grade inspection signs that the LA County Department of Public Health requires all restaurants and places that sell food to prominently display to the public. All the "A" meant in this case is that the diner did well on its last inspection. It's probably been downgraded a bit by now, what with all the dead people. ;)

I imagine the walkers rate it quite highly.
 
I'm kinda bummed that Jessie allowed Rick's advances. I mean, surely she was attracted to him before her husband went whack and Rick had to kill him, but that really didn't take very long. What's it been, like a couple days since her husband died? I mean, you knew it was going to happen eventually the way they constantly foreshadowed it, but this just seemed too sudden for a character to do.

Maybe, but even right away she accepted Pete had to be killed and accepted Rick as a friend. After the Wolf attack and putting down the turned Alexandrian she realizes how precious life is now and to seize her chances like the infirmary chick did with Tara. Tomorrow you might be dead, live for now.
 
I'm kinda bummed that Jessie allowed Rick's advances. I mean, surely she was attracted to him before her husband went whack and Rick had to kill him, but that really didn't take very long. What's it been, like a couple days since her husband died? I mean, you knew it was going to happen eventually the way they constantly foreshadowed it, but this just seemed too sudden for a character to do.

Sexual relationships in the Walking Dead universe apparently occur very quickly. Don't forget Rick's former and dead wife Lori shacked up with Shane on what must have been a few days after Rick supposedly died in the hospital.
 
I'm kinda bummed that Jessie allowed Rick's advances. I mean, surely she was attracted to him before her husband went whack and Rick had to kill him, but that really didn't take very long. What's it been, like a couple days since her husband died? I mean, you knew it was going to happen eventually the way they constantly foreshadowed it, but this just seemed too sudden for a character to do.

Maybe, but even right away she accepted Pete had to be killed and accepted Rick as a friend. After the Wolf attack and putting down the turned Alexandrian she realizes how precious life is now and to seize her chances like the infirmary chick did with Tara. Tomorrow you might be dead, live for now.

...made easy by upsetting the already angry / untrustworthy son of the man Rick killed. You would think that after all of the jealousy and drama surrounding the Shane/Lori affair, and even 4B Carl holding somewhat of a grudge against Rick for killing Shane, that Rick would not lust after a married woman.

After Pete's murder, he now has Ron to deal with, yet all he thinks about is his own interests, which almost promises to place his family in danger. That's why he was so clueless about eagerly showing Ron how to aim a gun.

Did he think Ron forgave Rick when just recently, he was at fiery odds against him?
 
Maybe, but even right away she accepted Pete had to be killed and accepted Rick as a friend. After the Wolf attack and putting down the turned Alexandrian she realizes how precious life is now and to seize her chances like the infirmary chick did with Tara. Tomorrow you might be dead, live for now.

It's true, this universe is different than ours, and like they said on Talking Dead, you'd think everyone would be shacking up. But I think these are still people, and that kind of death would still impact most people for more than two days. It makes both characters seem weak.

And speaking of people acting like people, Jessie comes from this really sheltered community but doesn't seem all that horrified by what she has to do. What she did to the invading wolf girl was amazing. You could see all the tension there, and the emotion was outpouring. In this latest episode, she has to kill someone she's been living with for a while, and everything seems so nonchalant. She just slides the knife in her eye and then proceeds to talk like nothing happened. This just seems like such an odd reaction.

Sexual relationships in the Walking Dead universe apparently occur very quickly. Don't forget Rick's former and dead wife Lori shacked up with Shane on what must have been a few days after Rick supposedly died in the hospital.

It's a TV show / movie thing in general. Relationships don't usually progress in a way that you'd be likely to see.

That said, the timeline about Lori and Shane is pretty iffy. It had to be more than a couple days, and at least Shane didn't actually kill Rick. I think there was enough wiggle room in there with the time that it could've even been a month.

And still, how did people feel about Lori and her actions? How did people feel about Shane and his actions?

The situation with Rick and Jessie just seems kinda creepy for some reason.
 
And speaking of people acting like people, Jessie comes from this really sheltered community but doesn't seem all that horrified by what she has to do. What she did to the invading wolf girl was amazing. You could see all the tension there, and the emotion was outpouring. In this latest episode, she has to kill someone she's been living with for a while, and everything seems so nonchalant. She just slides the knife in her eye and then proceeds to talk like nothing happened. This just seems like such an odd reaction.

Remember she's the survivor of abuse. She's probably developed a "hard core" that she retreated into during the abuse and now it serves her just as it does Carol, to be able to do what's necessary.
 
What's it been, like a couple days since her husband died?
Remember back to the black and white flashback scenes in the season premiere. They seemed to indicate that there was a decent gap between seasons. At least a few weeks. Still would be considered a short timeframe to deal with a death like that (or for Deanna and her son to deal with Reg's death), but in the TWD world, at least they had some time.

And of course, this week's episode was all about the Alexandrians dealing with what and where they are right now. When you just survived an attack by other human beings, and are now surrounded by zombies 20-deep on all sides, there's no time for any long, drawn-out grief processes or romantic courting or whatever. They all had to have a huge shift in thinking. Jump in. Wake up. Be a survivor.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top