I think it was kind of brilliant to have such an important moment at the end of this pretty innocuous episode. Seeing the sword broken really blindsided me, and now we're set up for an episode that pits Finn against a truly formidable foe without Jake's help.

Yeah I was so confident with my head-cannon that I didn't feel the need to check.

ah ok, its been a while. I liked the idea of Rick talking him down and killing him anyway though.

I may be remembering wrong, but I think Rick did manage to talk Shane down, got him to hand over his gun, and stabbed him as he was taking the gun from him. Shane was clearly bananas though and his actions justified what Rick did, but it wasn't just a black and white case of self defense.

Exactly.
I will say that the 28 Days Later version of the virus feels legitimately threatening, if only in the short term.

maybeeee to fool bad guys looking in with binoculars or something, or maybe so that if the bad guys were to ask any of the other yoga patrons if the blonde woman with the green top or whatever it was was there the whole time, they'd say yes. I might be grasping at straws.

Hardwick's responses to Manson's ramblings were pretty funny I thought.

Would have been nice to hear Carl mention that NOT killing a zombie in the woods is what got Dale killed though. I think that would be enough justification for him to kill both of those walkers.

That issue is even more apparent in the comic version (he's locked in a gymnasium with like 50 walkers, and so must kill ALL of them with his hammer, as escape isn't an option). It was cool and badass sure, but then you start thinking on the backstory, and the idea that the world's military forces were apparently…

Wan did fall into that pigsty with those weird hybrid pigs

Snyder's Dawn of the Dead?

Void of context, I thought Let Me In (strangely also featuring CGM), was legitimately better than Let the Right One In, with the exception of a slight overuse of CGI in certain scenes. The HUGE distinction, of course, being that the original didn't have an existing film to study and improve upon and a vastly smaller…

Taking a leisurely stroll around the interior perimeter of the fence would have lured enough of the zombies from the stress point, and continuing to walk would keep them spread out as you gradually kill them off. I don't buy that a herd mentality would prevent them from going after live meat (and in fact it doesn't,…

I don't know man. Felt like a contrived way to make some thematic point at the expense of a character's intelligence.

Sorry, I meant to say, why did Rick have to kill the pigs period. He could have honked the damn horn.

The word for a woman who lost a child is MICHONNE

Why did Rick need to kill the pigs the way he did? Couldn't they have just, i don't know, honked the damn horn to lure the zombies from the fence?? And before driving out there, why didn't they all just walk away from the damaged part of the fence? That's literally all they had to do to lure the zombies and spread…

The Talking Dead promo towards the end of the episode looked so much like the actual start of the Talking Dead that I assumed the episode was over and started watching tonight's homeland. Missed the last several minutes and was really confused when Zack mentioned Karen's immolation and Carl telling Rick about Carol's…

Not trying to be argumentative just pointing out how I came to that conclusion:

Yeah that's true. Who knows what the story would have looked like if they knew they'd be getting four seasons right off the bat.