Sorry is discussing family abuse too PC for you? What an eyeroll amirite? (The hell is art supposed to do if it doesn't make you think about the world?)

Yeah, as someone who had an abusive step-father in the home for a while, they're not exactly interesting or nuanced types. They tend to be pretty textbook just ticking different checkmarks. Or what are we supposed to also get the flashback to Fisk's dad's dad instilling the attitudes in him? Abuse is cyclical and…

I disagree. I feel like in our modern rhetoric, hero is a stand in for protagonist and villain for antagonist. Soprano and Richard are the protagonists of their stories, therefore they are anti-heroes.

"They could have easily cut him off"

I never sat on this scene but now that you mention it it's actually a good circle for Maggie. She started this series a pretty devout Christian, and we saw her lose that as time went on, especially after Beth's death. Seeing Sasha and Gabriel so fucked up put her in a position to use what she knows about faith to…

That whole sequence actually made the CGI gore really obviously fake too. I see blood heading for Gabriel but there is no affect on him. It was pretty bad.

McBride deserves an Emmy nomination. She really deserved one for Season 4 but she should still get a nod for this season.

Hahaha yes I forgot, the camera cutting to Eugene looking square on at Abraham was truly funny.

I think the midseason finale structure hurt them there, then. They had to make the hospital confrontation the exact middle o fthe season, I think they could have trimmed some fat in the first half of the season but they had to fill it out to make Beth die halfway through. If it happened earlier we could have had more…

Yeah I agree with your editing comment and nits and picks here. When the scene was suddenly shrouded in night I was like, uh what? How long has Rick just been walking around looking for a walker?

The fact that there was no blowout, like there ALWAYS is, is actually highly refreshing to a lot of us. We're ready to see our characters earn some kind of stability.

She, unlike Rick/Carol, is playing a quiet game. She's in a good position of influence with Deanna and is using it well. Knowing what Gabriel said gives her an advantage in knowing how to talk to Deanna.

My couch group actually thought that the next time we saw Glenn he's be a walker and would take down Nicholas in the woods as some karmic act. But we were relieved when he wasn't.

I think he knows more, that's just all he was able to confirm. They are obviously VERY locked-down on his story arc which I appreciate.

Yeah I initially thought it was Rick's machete (they showed him unsheathing it in his holding-room, I thought maybe he went to find Rick and grabbed the machete). But I liked the symbolism for Michonne. She reached a point where she COULD leave the sword behind, but she knows that it is her responsibility now.

I actually didn't agree with James on this front. We don't see him waiting around to make sure, and like you said it would've been safer to NOT honk the horn and just close the doors — walkers wouldn't have noticed them there. The way the scene ends it implied to me maliciousness. I'd be more interested seeing what…

That trait is hardly a prominent element of the narrative, though. It's the premise and part of Draper's fears but it hardly comes into play in the story.

In that sense, yeah, Draper fits the bill. I think we should take the "anti-" suffix as a bit more meaningful than just "not a perfect person" in the classical sense of hero. Anti- means "opposed" or "against" which are very active intentions, and therefore I like the idea that it is a protagonist whose goals are…

The point is that an anti-hero is someone who you root for even though what they're striving for isn't a good thing. Draper is striving for something most people think is ultimately good, he's just fucking up a lot along the way. Walter White on the other hand never wants to NOT be a meth manufacturer, especially in…

I really doubt that after 7 seasons, the end of Draper's arc is going to be as simple as going to church more.