It wasn't nearly as awful as Song of Susannah. And that took days and days to get through; this was over in an hour.

Killing Glenn and having Maggie stick around is too close to, um, another item that is discussed frequently in connection with this show. I think they're going to reverse it.

She's subconsciously spelling "GREAT MAGGIE" because she has a big old crush on Maggie.

I had shoes like that once. They turned out to be more trouble than they were worth and I had to get rid of them and replace them with something a little bit sturdier.

I hate that guy. Come on; think it through, dude. It's the zombie apocalypse. Maybe adjust your worldview a little bit?

I didn't, because I remembered that basement scene from the first season of Breaking Bad, and because the actor was telegraphing the character's intentions whenever Sasha wasn't looking.

"Hey, guys…you know what? I think we're all talking about the same thing."

The Zombie Apocalypse always takes place in a fictional world devoid of zombie fiction/mythology.

You're not supposed to take her seriously; it's supposed to be a tenuous, fragile Lord of the Flies "little Hitler" situation poised to fall apart.

Oh, it was that guy? Son of a bitch. I didn't notice.

I've decided that Maggie is the doomed major character (by process of elimination and because they've done so little with her this season, and because she actually told Glenn he'd "never need a photo of her again"), so all of her sequences alone with Eugene and Abraham were making me very, very nervous.

Well obviously I meant did she get implants before this year.

I was just trying to watch it again the other night. It's so tragically frustrating, because so much of what I thought would be absolutely impossible to get right, it gets right…and then the simplest things are screwed up.

I'm saying that the sign of realism is not avoiding that characterization.

I'm glad you mentioned that, because after writing the above I remembered that the movie switches the ages, and that the book's Tim is older than the book's Lexie. In the book, Tim is into dinosaurs and computers and Lexie is just a mindless brat — and it's realistic as hell.

Oh, there's nothing remotely wrong with the sequence. It's sheer genius from start to finish. I was just pointing out the interesting contrast.

It's a "gender bias" insofar as it accepts an outmoded and negative stereotype of girls being less into technology than boys, statistically. But the problem is that (for reasons that have to do with socialization, sexism etc.) this turns out to have been true most of the time, particularly 20 years ago.

Tell him I'm eating

It's not a movie and it's ten years too early, but I always thought Dan Dreiberg's ability to get past the security on Adrian Veidt's desktop computer was really implausible.

It's fantastic in the book, though. Crichton is masterful at setting up technological scenarios that you don't realize are going to be the setting for suspenseful scenes later.