The Walking Dead - Season 5 Thread

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Nov 24, 2014 12:09pm
ernest_t_bass;1677697 wrote:Disagree. What a waste of an hour of my life... get on with it already.
The cops they caught and that whole story is a really interesting direction....but agree the other 90% of the show was garbage filler. I mean, they spent 5 fucking minutes on fishing.
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Nov 24, 2014 12:32pm
I just hope that they get Carol and Beth out of there next episode and be done with it.
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Nov 24, 2014 12:46pm
ernest_t_bass;1677849 wrote:I just hope that they get Carol and Beth out of there next episode and be done with it.
Mid-season finale...I wouldn't count on them escaping. That will be the cliff hanger for months I bet.
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Nov 24, 2014 1:53pm
I actually thought that was the best episode out of the last 4...by far.
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Nov 24, 2014 1:56pm
SnotBubbles;1677901 wrote:I actually thought that was the best episode out of the last 4...by far.
Mute point

(before someone jumps me, I know the term is "moot" point. Snotbubbles said "mute" point on the radio, for millions to hear. OK, maybe hundreds. OK, maybe tens.)
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Sonofanump
Nov 24, 2014 2:00pm
Decent episode, below average. But I'd bet it was the best fiction on TV this week.
I enjoyed the skull used by Daryl as a bowling ball.
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Nov 24, 2014 2:04pm
ernest_t_bass;1677904 wrote:Mute point

(before someone jumps me, I know the term is "moot" point. Snotbubbles said "mute" point on the radio, for millions to here. OK, maybe hundreds. OK, maybe tens.)
Did the millions hear it here or there?
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Nov 24, 2014 2:14pm
TedSheckler;1677909 wrote:Did the millions hear it here or there?
DERP. FML
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Nov 24, 2014 8:49pm
Watching talking dead on dvr, Christian Serratos has some amazing cleavage.
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Nov 25, 2014 12:44am
Second best episode of the season. I get the contrast they tried to show between the DC group and the church group, but it really killed the mood in the episode watching them fish etc.
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Nov 25, 2014 12:45am
I concur with Snot. I thought it was the best of the last 4.
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Nov 30, 2014 10:46pm
Episode went pretty fast to me. I figured someone was going to die but I thought it was going to be Carol. Good episode overall and can't wait until the 2nd half of the season. Looks like maybe they are trying to find a new place to call home.
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gut
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Dec 1, 2014 1:02am
lol....Morgan with the longest character tease in television history.

Beth dying was pretty good. First time in the entire show where a main character dying was actually well-done, dramatically - maybe not coincidentally they focused on Darryl's reaction. Although that was one hell of a quick draw, between the eyes from the hip.

Can't believe Rick just ran that guy down. He's turning into the governor.
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Dec 1, 2014 12:06pm
Didnt care for Beth, so it wasn't a big deal to lose her for me.
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Dec 1, 2014 12:22pm
gut;1680509 wrote:Can't believe Rick just ran that guy down. He's turning into the governor.
I shouldn't have read the thread b/c I'm only about half way through the episode. But yeah, him running the guy over was sweet. I don't think Rick is turning into the governor, though. I don't think it's power, that Rick wants. I think he realizes it's a whole lot different than it was, and what he intended, back at the prison. I think he realizes that he needs to take care of his own, first, and eliminate any threat. He told the guy... all you had to do was stop. He gave him an out. They attempted to let them save their own lives. It was the idiot who decided to run. He did it to himself. The governor would have just eliminated him without the option, IMO.
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Dec 1, 2014 12:37pm
ernest_t_bass;1680632 wrote:I shouldn't have read the thread b/c I'm only about half way through the episode. But yeah, him running the guy over was sweet. I don't think Rick is turning into the governor, though. I don't think it's power, that Rick wants. I think he realizes it's a whole lot different than it was, and what he intended, back at the prison. I think he realizes that he needs to take care of his own, first, and eliminate any threat. He told the guy... all you had to do was stop. He gave him an out. They attempted to let them save their own lives. It was the idiot who decided to run. He did it to himself. The governor would have just eliminated him without the option, IMO.
That's a pretty good take. I agree. Though we could debate about once you blur/cross those lines. I think a lot of what you described applies to the governor, or at least how he probably was earlier on.
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Dec 1, 2014 1:47pm
Good episode. They know what they're doing. A good premier, a good mid-season finale, then it will be a good re-premier and a great finale. Just enough good episodes in the beginning and end of each season to keep me watching all of the "blah" episodes that fill the middle.

Fuckers.
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Dec 1, 2014 5:20pm
Just finished the episode. Beth deserved what she got. Dumb bitch. The deal was done
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Dec 1, 2014 7:10pm
ernest_t_bass;1680766 wrote:Just finished the episode. Beth deserved what she got. Dumb bitch. The deal was done
Maybe this was just me but it was almost like that female cop liked her liked her. To me there was a weird tension there.
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Dec 1, 2014 8:15pm
Ytowngirlinfla;1680805 wrote:Maybe this was just me but it was almost like that female cop liked her liked her. To me there was a weird tension there.
Maybe it's your lesbian sense.
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gut
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Dec 1, 2014 8:24pm
Ytowngirlinfla;1680805 wrote:Maybe this was just me but it was almost like that female cop liked her liked her. To me there was a weird tension there.
I kind of thought that, too. Just chalk it up to more sub-standard writing and acting that defines the show.

Beth said she "gets it"....I still don't. I can't figure out that whole guard/ward dynamic. I can only guess that the guards run things, and basically divide up tasks. So if you don't have a ward, then you're on your own to get your work done. Some sort of a two-class system, I guess (which is probably why the uniforms - basically running a prison).

The one guard said "when are you going to tell her who she really works for?". I thought that was left too vague, or it was smack-you-in-the-face obvious and I'm giving them too much credit reading into it.

I thought the hospital would be more interesting. Ended-up being pretty lame. At least they've moved on already.
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Dec 1, 2014 8:58pm
Surprised only the black kid decided to go with Rick when he offered
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Dec 1, 2014 9:52pm
gut;1680843 wrote:I kind of thought that, too. Just chalk it up to more sub-standard writing and acting that defines the show.

Beth said she "gets it"....I still don't. I can't figure out that whole guard/ward dynamic. I can only guess that the guards run things, and basically divide up tasks. So if you don't have a ward, then you're on your own to get your work done. Some sort of a two-class system, I guess (which is probably why the uniforms - basically running a prison).

The one guard said "when are you going to tell her who she really works for?". I thought that was left too vague, or it was smack-you-in-the-face obvious and I'm giving them too much credit reading into it.

I thought the hospital would be more interesting. Ended-up being pretty lame. At least they've moved on already.
At least I wasn't the only one. Then the cop teared up when talking to Beth. Just a weird dynamic there.
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Dec 1, 2014 9:52pm
ernest_t_bass;1680839 wrote:Maybe it's your lesbian sense.
I have no gaydar.
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Dec 1, 2014 10:04pm
ernest_t_bass;1680856 wrote:Surprised only the black kid decided to go with Rick when he offered
I was too at first, then I think they thought that without Dawn they were thinking that the security of the hospital they would be safe and BS would be over with. I was unsure what Doc was going to do.