She didn't disable or steal the truck? And he bodily dragged her all the way back to it while keeping her quiet? Come on.

You used the phrase "especially on a show like this which is not about race-relations" to pooh-pooh my premise, then called me racist. I hooked one to the other. How do I reach a conclusion that Tyreese replaced Oscar? Other characters come and go in various patterns. Every time a black man dies, a different black man…

You used the phrase "especially on a show like this which is not about race-relations" to pooh-pooh my premise, then called me racist. I hooked one to the other. How do I reach a conclusion that Tyreese replaced Oscar? Other characters come and go in various patterns. Every time a black man dies, a different black man…

@avclub-17a9e577ab7b749bfb086d5ce17c87d9:disqus  All right, maybe "reasonable explanation" isn't a literally applicable phrase. Maybe "commonly invoked and somewhat understandable". I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that it's not actually motivated by something else.

@avclub-17a9e577ab7b749bfb086d5ce17c87d9:disqus  All right, maybe "reasonable explanation" isn't a literally applicable phrase. Maybe "commonly invoked and somewhat understandable". I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that it's not actually motivated by something else.

Unless a show is about race relations, anybody who mentions race in it is racist? I most of cases when a show has characters that are almost exclusively one race or gender for no apparent reason, it's because the writers write for the group they're most comfortable with, then throw in a couple token characters to…

Unless a show is about race relations, anybody who mentions race in it is racist? I most of cases when a show has characters that are almost exclusively one race or gender for no apparent reason, it's because the writers write for the group they're most comfortable with, then throw in a couple token characters to…

Oscar replacing T-Dog is coincidence. Tyreese replacing Oscar is a pattern. You really think there's no middle ground between "total coincidence" and "grand racist conspiracy?" Maybe a bunch of white guys aren't comfortable writing for black characters. That's a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Oscar replacing T-Dog is coincidence. Tyreese replacing Oscar is a pattern. You really think there's no middle ground between "total coincidence" and "grand racist conspiracy?" Maybe a bunch of white guys aren't comfortable writing for black characters. That's a perfectly reasonable explanation.

I've read several reviews tonight that mention the same thing, so it's not just AVC commenters. To be fair, though, Fandango got it slightly wrong - there's a quota of black men, not black people in general.

I've read several reviews tonight that mention the same thing, so it's not just AVC commenters. To be fair, though, Fandango got it slightly wrong - there's a quota of black men, not black people in general.

Wait wait, back up here. You're telling me that there are a lot of black people in Georgia? I never would have guessed.

Wait wait, back up here. You're telling me that there are a lot of black people in Georgia? I never would have guessed.

I like how there's a notable pause in "It's really……frozen." It's like she knows we're just waiting to take something out of context.

I like how there's a notable pause in "It's really……frozen." It's like she knows we're just waiting to take something out of context.

Go ahead. Say "OF COCK" one more time.

Go ahead. Say "OF COCK" one more time.

I want to watch a show that, as Big_Knife mentioned, doesn't depend on its characters doing unreasonably stupid things to create drama.

I want to watch a show that, as Big_Knife mentioned, doesn't depend on its characters doing unreasonably stupid things to create drama.

Obviously the entire process wouldn't need to be televised. Show a couple minutes so that we get the sense of it, then have the yelling eventually attract the surviving prisoners as well. The gate needs to be opened quickly to let those guys through and Hershel gets bitten then. Same result, more sense.