AMC's The Walking Dead [Spoilers!]

i found that whole Beth/Dawn sequence clunky. my ideal result would have been Beth returning one of the slaps she received early in her stay and revealing the secrets Dawn/the doctor had confided in her. that would have almost surely caused an insurrection very soon, if not in the hallway. as noted by others, when she finally did stab Dawn, the resulting shot didn't seem very natural from an angle/draw perspective. it was nice Daryl got the revenge shot, though.

i liked Beth, even with her teenage faults, and i thought it was a pretty crappy way to end her story. i also think it was ridiculous that a hallway full of armed, nervous people wouldn't just start firing after the first stabbing/shooting combo.

If we assume that the priest is there for a reason, what is that reason? He has been pretty useless so far.

...I don't think it's ridiculous, though, that the hallway scene didn't turn into a firefight. Remember that the hospital folk were not backing Dawn whatsoever, merely acting in fear of her authority. Once she was gone, they had absolutely nothing left in terms of motive against Rick's crew, hence the one other officer saying that it's over. I also don't think any of them wanted Beth to die, either.

Initially, it started as a joke, but then it became more of a "Why not?" kind of situation. If we assume that the priest is there for a reason, what is that reason? He has been pretty useless so far. We have a character in Noah that has said he is looking for his family. The priest arguably could be that family based on what we know. The two haven't sen each other yet, that I know of. At least until they all meet up coming out of the hospital, and they don't show a reaction or them meeting before the episode ends. As soon as they see each other, we should know if they are related, no?
Just spit balling. My real hunch is that Morgan and Noah are related.

we are officially in "Rick is a bad guy" territory. that run-in with the "claimed" gang changed him, and Terminus just reinforced it. he's totally OK killing strangers at this point. look how he handled the hospital situation: it took both Daryl and Tyreese to convince him to even entertain a plan that didn't involve slitting the throats of guards. Dale would be aghast, and Tyreese seems to be the only one who retains anything close to a worldview that will keep the group from effectively becoming marauders.

i simply don't understand those who complain about the amount of dialogue or character development in this show. in the dish network show description, the primary genre is Drama, and shows/movies noted as such tend to be talkies. this also isn't something new: thinking back to season two at the farm, there were several episodes (especially those leading up to opening the barn) that primarily consisted of talking between characters. and you don't even know about slow unless you've watched the middle seasons of Boardwalk Empire.

that's pretty much what i would expect from a post-apocalyptic landscape. think about it: say there's a cataclysmic event and we start with "good" groups and "bad" groups in a small geographic area. all will likely find a spot to call home, and all will eventually run out of resources there and be forced to explore, leading to interaction between groups.

now when a good group meets a good group, everyone is understandably suspicious since, well, that's human nature, and it's probably made worse by the heightened survival stakes resulting from no overarching system of order. even within those good groups, it just takes one Shane to create a misunderstanding or rash action to turn the suspicious groups against each other, maybe even causing them to kill each other. this would make the winning group even less trusting of strangers and maybe more willing to abuse future ones, likely moving them over to the bad category by little bits.

when a good group meets a bad group, the bad group will simply pretend to be good until they can take advantage of the good group, either wiping them out or leaving them in the same distrusting downward spiral toward bad that the losing good group above is in. the most extreme example of this so far is Terminus, but Rick's group is heading down a similar path.

of course, Hershel and his group are the exception, but it's because Rick's group found them pretty soon after the event and the farm was spared interaction with the outside world due to its relative isolation; had a bad group come upon the farm before Rick's, the outcome could have been very different. it didn't hurt that Hershel himself was supremely averse to violence and had nearly complete control over his people.

eventually, nearly all groups end up nearing the bad spectrum because all the purely good, trusting groups are dead. Shane had some very valid points.

that's true. i guess i just question how clearly they'd be thinking in that half second after Daryl shoots Dawn while Tyreese and Sasha are raising their guns to their shoulders. i guess it's possible everyone takes a beat (partially because the officers have handguns in holsters), but with the situation, i find it hard to believe that with the shock of a shot, nobody on either side would panic and at least let off one round or go for their guns, causing someone in Rick's group to see a threat and shoot.

but you're right: everyone at the hospital got what they wanted, so they wouldn't have a reason to escalate things. i'd just think they would duck behind something or go to the ground if they weren't going to return fire.

I would like to run into a group of hot and horny chicks in their early 20's during the zombie apocalypse.

That's a great idea! But, only if they know how to handle a gun.

I'm watching the current rerun of where Lori gives birth. I noticed they messed up by having Maggie asking Carl if he wants to help her deliver his sister. Later Lori saying her goodbye before her c-section says to him to take care of his little brother or sister.

I'm not seeing anyone else noted the mistake-

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