I'd like to think that I'd make my last stand with the guy I was with: Otis was certainly going to do that. Yes, shooting Otis preserved Shane's life, and yes that may have been the only way he could have survived (we don't know that, though). Still: I (again, would like to) think that I'd resist being so selfish. I…

Good point. Maybe Farmer Brown just doesn't LIKE the term because it's dehumanizing or whatever. Did we get any Dawn of the Dead-style news reports on the outbreak? I can't recall: if so, did they call them "walkers" or what?

Shane is a horrible, selfish character. If anyone thinks he shot Otis because he was interested in that boy - other than as a kind of abstract signifier of the chance he can get back with Lori - well, I humbly disagree with you. Besides, I think the main reason he shot Otis was - like the main reason he does just…

She's going to be Daryl's lover, I betcha. When he called her "stupid bitch" the deal was closed.

Well, they have, kinda. Old Farmer Brown bristles at the use of "walker."

A geek is "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts." It "comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German. The root geck still survives in Dutch and Afrikaans gek: crazy, as well as some German dialects, and in the Alsatian word…

Lao Tzu wrote the Tao te Ching. Sun Tzu wrote the Art of War. Which did in fact borrow heavily from The Muppet Principles, by Chuang Chou.

I got my PhD in English there. @avclub-6cca2d5b0212b24bce25505515fb80fb:disqus : I'm confident about the joke; it was self-deprecating in a kind of sweet way. Definitely it was "They said I'd never be close to normal: they were wrooooonnnng!" I'll never forget the way he trailed out the "wrong." Reminded me of his…

Maggie's been a problem, though. When Glenn first meets her, she comes riding in like "zoro" and kills a zombie with a head blow, if I recall. Now she's all weepy and filled with mixed feelings about zombified folks, a la her daddy. And she cries and screams like a … well, like a girl when attacked by a zombie in the…

You've got it, moeman921. That was the gig. I totally forgot that BSO opened. I think I'm wrong about the song Dylan launched into (and didn't think it mattered, but now that I've got another cat who was there on the line, I guess I should strive for the exacting rigor usually demanded by the AVClub comment stream)…

Or as a figure skater; he wears like a white outfit & he does interpretive ice dances of my life's journey.

(& be sure to punch Christ!)

Did you, @avclub-27ac0ca86e06d1822d546ed038ea33ae:disqus , happen to grow up in Blormal? I went to graduate school there at good ol' Illinois State University (which is in the Normal part of the Blormal twin cities). I've heard some call it "Normalton," but that's a cheesy affectation that never really caught on.

I think you mean "a lot." It's two words. An "a" and then a "lot." And that last sentence is a purposeful fragment.

And he was a government worker just about his entire adult life, and he retired with a state pension: a federally (or state) funded memorial sounds completely appropriate to me. Good on him!

LIKE!

The "because" was supposed to be edited out, but was left in, I'm guessing. But then, really, the "astutely" should be removed too, as, frankly, it's not a very astute observation. Unless he's being ironic or sarcastic or something. Anyway: the long parenthetical got in the way and muddled him. Happens to the best of…

The Castor Plant: beautiful yet deadly!

Here's the interview. It's not too spoilery. Not that I mind. I tend to enjoy the execution of a show, not the "surprises" in plot or whatever. Still SPOILER here's the crucial bit, followed by the link:

In an interview, John Noble (SPOILER I GUESS?) said definitively that Peter returns before the half-way mark of the season. I'll see if I can track it down. I read it shortly after the season premier.