Walking Dead on AMC (Part 4)

We still don't know what happened to Beth!

 

The preacher didn't have a car like that, though. He had a short bus and that was it. I wonder what Daryl will find when he and Carol catch up with that car! The previews of this season showed Beth was somewhere, and it wasn't a religious place from what I could make out.

 

Rick was suspicious, so I'm sure Daryl is too. How could he not be?

 

I predict that that Sgt. Carver (AKA Father Gabriel) admits to a big sin of ommision.

D'angelo Barksdale (AKA Bob)was already on his way to Zombie Land when Gareth's partook of his flesh. Rick doesn't have to use the machette with the red handle. The cannibals get a fate worse than death.

Tyrese opens up a boxing gym, with the goal of taking the zombies off the street and rehabilitating them...one punch at a time.

Eugene is exposed as a fraud (or a frog - whichever comes first). Or maybe he just gets exposed and everybody laughed.

 

So by cutting off his leg they may have saved his life ?

 

I guess I was wrong about them not tackling the Hunters storyline. Terminus was just the prequel to it.

 

Or dulled a knife.

 

The only thing I don't get is how would it not be easier to simply kill him and butcher him. Now they have to deal with him hopping around.

 

Yes, but now he'll be fresh when they want another dinner. Humans meat that's been out a few days tastes pretty gamey.

 

Good to know.

 

Keep the meat fresh. No refrigeration.

 

yea, nice and slow...he needs to be Zombie Lunch if not his own.

 

Well an excellent and nice/creepy episode that tied together a number of loose ends in terms of the story all in under an hour. Impressive.

Spoiler for those who have not read the comics:

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I must have missed a scene though--did Bob get bit on that leg that they ate (it would echo a scene from the graphic novel)

I haven't had a chance to watch the DVR'd version (usually I watch it but we have plenty of distractions in the house with a new puppy) to catch what I missed.

 

Right. My thought too. Why take off a leg in a world where you have to be mobile? Why not arms and let the meat walk itself tomorrow. Now they have to carry him or kill him.

 

After week 1 this was an average episode.

So was Carol sneaking off on her own??

 

It wasn't for their benefit. It was just to gross us out. Although your idea of hacking off his arms sounds both gross and more beneficial to them.

I can't believe I just wrote that. What the hell kind of show have I gotten myself hooked on???

 

Right. Don't sweat it. Remember last season where they had the episode that was about 18 minutes of Bob walking through the forests, on roads, watching his beard grow, set to the sounds of some slow, sad, country tune?

Well, that won't happen again.

 

Bob may have finally lost the "good out of the bad" game:

"If it makes you feel any better, you taste better than we thought you would."

... unless Bob was bitten.

 

Although all of the characters have the virus in them already, so eating 'tainted' human meat might not affect them. It's only when someone dies that they turn.

 

Right. This morning I was trying to remember if being bitten by a walker, but not killed, turns you into one of them.

 

The show is not clear what the deal is with getting bitten by a walker. Getting bit by a walker, even if the bite itself is not life threatening, seems to cause live humans to become feverish, then sick, then eventually die.

People online post theories about whether this is because walkers are full of germs that infect bites or scratches they make on live humans, or if live humans carry a dormant virus (which becomes active upon death) while walkers spread active viruses.

In the TV show, we don't know what the story is on live humans eating infected flesh, or eating flesh of, say, a deer that a walker had been eating moments before. However, I suspect that the Terminus people have done experiments on eating infected flesh.