Think about the things you might have done in a car when you were a teen and get back to me.

I love your comment and felt the same. It seems "romance in the air" was easier for everyone on the show 2, 3 years ago. How does one "meet cute" in the ZA world? Seems that "starcrossed" is the new watchword for anyone interested in coupling beyond raw, physical need, and the hope of anything beyond satisfying…

Really well said. Spot on.

Like it or not, Rick is STILL the moral center of WD. He has kept most of his marbles, and has kept most of his charges alive. He's made crazy sacrifices, and tipped into the "inhuman" behavior that one never really thinks of (like when he bit that guy's throat out to survive). I get it. He has no patience with…

I like the big cast. The more people there are, the more believable that the smarter ones won't die. Also, more likely to develop some fondness for ancillary characters, so when they die, you'll still care.

Why, when I think of Rick's tirade at the end of this episode, do I think of Jimmy Carter in '78, committing political suicide when he told us that, as a nation, we needed to learn to lower our reliance on fossil fuels, conserve, and seek alternative forms of energy? Because, like it or not, when people tell us…

Rick is sane, for his world. No one wants to entertain his cold, hard truths.

Agree. What he doesn't need is to play house with a milf. He's deluding himself, which makes him go crazy because he is pissed at the Alexandrians for deluding themselves.

I feel like the entire point of the "Alexandria" excursion is going to be the futility of even putting on a brave face and attempting "normal." It's a new world, and you just can't effin' go back home. Rick knows this. Just how much can you play house with a pretty young mom who makes metal owls when you know that,…

I also wonder if the entirety of Alexandria watches "The Matrix" every night and cheers for the bad guys. Self-delusion institutionalized, if not Rick & Co, then eventually they will implode from this anyway.

Write what you want. Ignore the "Walkers" who mindlessly troll

same here.

Denial. Alexandria is dead, though they don't know it, because they are all in well-meaning, optimistic, unguarded denial. Rick is right to criticize, unfortunately, from their point of view, he's a nut.

The people in Alexandria are weak because they tend to leave their own behind out in the field, and come home and
lie about it and pretend they are civilized. This may work for nations
of a few hundred million, where attrition isn't an issue and there are "safety nets" for the disenfranchised, but it doesn't bode…

Hey AV Club. Think you can work out this issue where we illogically have to re-log in, and then can't, for no seeming reason? There has to be a solve.

That's one of my favorite things about the Alexandrians' insistence of a "sustainable" lifestyle. Rick and Co. have no pretense beyond that they are living day to day, and that the world in 5, 10, 20 years may be even WORSE. In Alexandria, there's food and electricity to delude themselves to this for years. Oh, no…

Except they're not as good at is as they advertise when the recruiters come. It seems, we learned last episode, that they've been leaving their own behind to die when things get too heavy with the walkers on the outside. One thing I think WD has done really well with Alexandria is to show just how deeply they have…

and Gabriel

It occurred to me that it would have been pretty amazing if we had had one episode that was completely from the Alexandrians' POV. It would be one or two episodes after they've taken in Rick and Co., and we would not be privy to thoughts/dialogue other than those of the Alexandrians. The thing missing, for me, in…

NOTES:
- Kooarrlllll! Nice to see him relaxed enough to think about girls - his own age. And even though we KNOW it, hearing the girl say, "It's their world…we just live in it" was not only dead-on (pardon the pun) — but, well, from the mouths of babes. We rarely get to see the point of view solely via those who…