In reply to your last question, which I missed initially because I'm lazy and don't read everything: I also didn't bother with the second half after the boring and superfluous Governor rehash that was the first half of the season. However, the second half is much better. In particular the fantastic 'the Grove'.

I guess the other zombies see that her two slave zombies aren't attacking and just leave her to it? I'm not sure how removing their arms and jaws also removes their hunting instinct. By rights they should constantly be slobbering on her shoulders.

Also, props to Carol for being the first character since like episode 3 of the show to remember that zombie guts are a thing that hide you from zombies.

Right? Couldn't believe he didn't mention Lenny James in the review. Both times he's been in TWD they were the best episodes ever.

Can we all just talk about how unabashedly badass Carol was opening that door to let the zombies and just being all nonchalantly "'sup guys. Bitch you want is over there." Goddamn is she a stone-cold hardcore motherfucker compared to the Beaten Wife With No Lines she was in Season 1.

I don't know how shows getting picked up works — do people approach networks with a pitch or whatever? If so, why the hell would anyone ever voluntarily approach Fox, master of egregious premature cancellations?

Hated the ending with a fiery passion. Chief amongst this, this backwards, luddite, superstitious idea that humankind's issues are caused by our technology rather than something innate to us, and the only way to overcome that is to surrender to God and live a primitive but wholesome life. And then at the end we're…

*BIG SPOILERS BELOW FOR THE SERIES*

Yep, that would be me doing it wrong!

Origin story for a character everyone knows the origin story to. Yawn.

Ellen Tigh may be a misogynist's wet dream in many respects, but in fairness there really are people like that in the world, and she adds a wild-card aspect to proceedings. The episode itself is incredibly tonally dissonant with the series in general, however.

Just watched this and found it an absolute disjointed mess. Its treatment of women is, as has been said a million times over, fucking abysmal — Eva Green is the very epitome of everything misogynists fear in a woman (using her sexuality as a weapon, cries rape when convenient); the ostensibly independent Old Town…

The Tyrion-Shae scene was, in the context of the significant recharacterisation Shae received in the TV show, very unfulfilling. I always found it ropey that Tywin would have her in his bed in the first place in the book, but the fact that she went from allegedly being in love with Tyrion to first betraying him and…

Wow. "It's cool to hate rape". Just wow.

There are two good things about the EU books: the 'Tales of…' anthologies, because I just really enjoyed learning about how the random schmuks in Jabba's palace and the Mos Eisley Cantina got their days ruined, and AC Crispin's Han Solo trilogy, because more Han Solo is always a good thing. I am hoping that one of…

I know this is way late, but this episode is made completely worthwhile by the following Mal quote: 'It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of son of a bitch or another.'

I know this is way late, but this episode is made completely worthwhile by the following Mal quote: 'It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of son of a bitch or another.'

Goddamnit, Mr. Handlen. You'd think that, after two seasons, you'd have learnt to spell 'Hershel'.

Hey, Doctor S or whatever the hell your name is: COVER YOUR FUCKING MOUTH WHEN YOU COUGH. Don't they teach this shit in Doctor school?

I'm a big fan of Whedon-humour, but his whole thing (subverting audience expectations for laughs) has been so overdone that it's become what it was trying to avoid — predictable. Almost all of them in SHIELD were totally telegraphed and obvious (Skye's 'I would never' indignation, her getting caught while making a big…