I really enjoyed this episode, too. For one thing, it's a ray of light after such unrelenting darkness and nastiness. For another thing, Ezekiel totally rocks as a character. I even buy that he has a pet tiger named Shiva. As a comic reader, I was always skeptical that the show runners would be able to pull Shiva off…

Oh, they'll be back, and they will have read the review, and many of them will have watched the show, after which they will proclaim again how much the show sucks and how superior they are to all its fans for having realized that long ago and given up on it.

Yep. I call bullshit on a lot of these people saying they gave up the show. They keep coming back, and they keep showing up to the AV Club to say how horrible they think it is. Bizarre.

In the original TWD comics, there was a storyline about how the zombies slowed down or even became inactive when the weather gets too cold, as even a mild Georgia winter made them much easier to deal with or just to avoid. In Alaska or Canada during winter they should be walkersicles.

Yeah, I know everyone's infected. The whole thing about the bite never made any sense in that sense. Basically, it's just magic. You have to suspend disbelief and accept that everyone is infected with a virus that somehow reanimates you after you die but also that a bite from an already reanimated walker will somehow…

Nothing like writing tips from the peanut gallery in the comments.

It's transmitted when the writers think it should be transmitted, not a moment before or a moment after.

Funny, I was wondering the same thing. If it's transmitted by bodily fluids, Nick should be a real walker now.

Yes. Probably.

Hey, he got bit in the leg by a dog, too.

The producers just hate animals, especially dogs and horses

Now there's a show I would watch.

Come on. To Hardwick, EVERY episode is ALWAYS amazing. In fact, "amazing" is the worst he can say about any episode. It's in his contract.

Inexplicably stupid. :-)

Well, there was walking, and there was fear in the characters, but none of that fear was felt by me, just a sense of ennui.

Gotta agree here: This episode felt like pure filler. It also bored me to tears for the most part.

Actually, Pearl Jam reminded me more of 1970s arena rock, just with a bit less polish, a singer who sang in a lower register, and more angst. :-)

Personally, I always thought "alternative" died years before 1996 and that grunge was not alternative's last gasp, but rather a metal phenomenon, a reaction to the hair bands of the late 1980s.

Personally, I liked how she channeled the audience in not caring about the names of the individual Sand Snakes, much as I never could force myself to care about them either.

Well, Jon was declared King of the North; so not entirely…