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The Walking Dead Season 6 Discussion

Everyone was looking at Abraham and Sasha for sure - hell, I'd totally forgotten about Darryl until we saw him holding the RPG. I was wondering for a second if they were on a mine or something! But I have no doubts that everyone was so taken with the will he shoot / won't he shoot thing that they totally missed Darryl stealthily stabbing the guy, lowering him to the ground, grabbing the RPG and shooting it off

Nobody survives a zombie Apocalypse like those who are transfixed by the beauty of a henchmen's monologue. I suspect he gave poetry readings before the outbreak. Such wonderful diction and cadence. Most distracting.
 
Some of the flame may have been from the gas tanks in the motorcycles themselves.
Remember, this is a show where flames shoot out of the end of a gun every time anyone takes a shot. The flames made in that explosion are just another version of that.
 
Well he did fill the belly of that zombie making it not want to eat Glenn for a time.

Savior. :techman:
 
In other words, the point is that neither philosophy is the 'right one' - Morgan's is risky and Carol's is also risky, just in a different way. Although I do agree that in this particular instance you honestly can't fault her for shooting the guy - as far as she knew at that point he was a kidnapper plain and simple, and any hints to the contrary happened completely outside her knowledge anyway.

Like I said, I am #TeamMorgan, but I am not a Carol hater. Definitely her actions seemed logical at the time -- but even she saw that perhaps she wasn't completely right in this situation. I hope this continues the debate between Morgan & Carol in a way that empowers & enlightens both.

The scene WAS constructed to focus everyone's attention away from Darryl. Afterwards, aside form the notion that an RPG doesn't explode in flames like this (with weapons, *nothing* does - it was a kerosene mortar per Hollywood standard), the only thing that took me out of the scene was the notion that Darryl knew how to load, aim and fire an RPG without any real instruction. Unless it's as eas as flipping a safety off and pointing in the general direction you want to make go boom?

Yeah, I agree.... it's one thing for Abraham to know...but Darryl? I assume that Abraham gave Sahsa & Darryl a crash course as they loaded it up. (My Trek fan justification). As far as who could've gotten to it..Darryl is only one to be able to be a "ninja" and go unnoticed. Abraham was too big, and too loud to not be noticed. And Sasha... abeuatiful woman with a bunch of guys...no way they'd not notice her. But Darryl, looks like "just a hick", and nobody important....didn't seem to warrant attention.
 
And yet, the guy that went round the back with Darryl did in fact fight back and even injure him. Fool coulda shouted or something. Or maybe both of them were so entranced by the monologuing up front that they did the sensible thing and piped down while it was going on, and fought in silence.

Mark
 
I wish I was as excited by this one as everybody else, but... meh. Lots of exciting action, don't get me wrong, awesome Darrell moment with the RPG,

That's not exactly how RPG strikes look--but..okay Everyone should have been hit by shrapnel.
The US military never had anything like the Soviet looking RPG. Some repeaters on tripods, and these

http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/02/25/brunswick-riflemans-assault-weapon-raw/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM29_OICW

This is what the standard version will look like in 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_CDTE

Nice to see something that isn't yet another M-16/M-4/AR-15 attachment

But... I was just rolling my eyes throughout the "Sam freaks out and gets his family killed" scene....they threw in those flashbacks and made it super slo-mo and dramatic.

That made it look dreamlike to me. I was expecting someone to wake up and they all be safe in some building--but they had to be quiet.

The kid was not only loud, but sweating. No gus smeared on head and face--and that's what the walkers went after--scent
 
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I don't think it was a grenade launcher.

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And yet, the guy that went round the back with Darryl did in fact fight back and even injure him. Fool coulda shouted or something.

Being as arrogant/self-confident as the Negan stooges were, the one covering Daryl probably thought he could handle anyone. Daryl is an experienced fighter/survivalist, and although he's not invincible (captured three times in series history), he can handle many threats.
 
Have't we already agreed that it was the power of the monologue? Once someone starts talking about their evil plans, your eyes inevitably start swirling in a vortex of fascination. Secret agents are given a special serum to combat the effects (saw it in a documentary).
 
About friggin' time! When she brought in the baby monitor and they were sitting there talking about their day, opening up to one another, Rick shared the mints, and well you just felt their connection and knew it was going to happen.

I don't think it was a grenade launcher.

We see Abraham find this near the end of last season. The "grenade" is more like a missile on a long-ish tube that goes inside the cylinder of the launcher. The rocket is ejected, stabilization foils pop out and the rocket flies out, after a certain distance the grenade/explosive arms and detonates on impact.

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So, Deanna didn't get eaten because.... why?

...because Spencer needed a bookend to his family's story?

In-series, her clothes were sort of tattered, so maybe she was bitten in areas.

Sweet, well-timed moments between Michonne and her Grimes family.
 
I was wondering about Deanna myself. When we last see her she was in the upstairs bedroom in Jessie's house about to be rushed by a large group of walkers and they were intent on attacking her, so it's not like her being already bitten and suffering from illness was warding them off. So it'd make some sense that the walkers would have totally consumed her just given the numbers of them. And she didn't appear to have any major "wounds" on her so it's not as-if when she died while being eaten she instantly, or quickly, reanimated and the walkers left her alone. (Which it seems the show, largely, has ignored the reanimation times being wildly variable. the Wolf Walker reanimated quickly, for example.)

But then there's the problem on how Walker Deanna didn't get taken out by the fire/Alexandrians. Walker Deanna would have had to go downstairs from that upstairs bedroom and then go against the herd and walk outside Alexandria's walls into the woods, as opposed to do what all of the other walkers were doing and mill around Alexandria and eventually either get killed by an Alexandrian or be lulled into the lake of fire.

It was a nice moment, but when thought about a little bit it makes little sense.
 
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