I think this is what King is upset about - in the movie Jack was ONLY a monster. In the book, he was a husband and father driven to monstrosity by internal and external factors.

"I can turn my brain off and watch people make stupid decisions. Most of the time they're the writers."

Really? He strikes me as the only person who makes sense. He realizes something that most other people pretend isn't true: that "right" and "wrong" are wholly conditional - not static and inflexible. Some people need to be killed, for the good of others. Rick gets this.

My point is this: if you're in a hurry running somewhere it doesn't work at all, fine. But what if you twist your ankle?? Michonne, Glen and the villagers were in situations where they were specifically NOT running. They were hiding, and they were limping. You really don't think it's stupid not to use every available…

I dunno about that. Leashed walkers seriously limit movement speed in a way that zombie guts don't. You think by now they'd have clothes especially dedicated to that purpose (like Carol in that poncho) and reflexively "suit up" whenever they head out.

I thought the townie was going to shoot Morgan (part of me wishes she had. Love Morgan, but this thing of not killing people who need to be killed for the good of humanity is ridiculous). Pretty sure the Alexandria attack is over so I doubt Carol will be killed next week. Hope not, anyway.

When did someone smear themselves with zombie guts, then "freak out"? The only times I've seen it done is when the person was being stealthy around zombies (which would be a good idea if your ankle was busted, or if you were hiding from zombies). I've never seen the episode where someone smears with guts, then freaks…

If there's a character named Jesus, I don't know which one that is. I suck with the names.

Michonne was walking around without even the zombie guts - just with zombies around her. Carol smeared zombie guts all over herself and walked past zombies when she saved the others from the prison. We saw Rick walking around dazed and confused surrounded by zombies - but covered in zombie guts. He was unmolested. As…

It's partly this expectation of the writers that bothers me: that the audience will be brain dead zombies watching the screen with no engagement in the logic of the story, so they can pretty much do anything. That's laziness, nothing more. Writing something that makes sense to people paying attention isn't impossible…

That depends on how plausible you think the escape is. Getting away from hundreds of zombies who are chomping on someone lying on top of you? Doesn't seem very plausible to me at all.

Are the "unkillables" only those who were there from the first season? Michonne's death would/will be terrible and shocking at this point.

If none of that happens in the comics, then yes - nothing was spoiled. Maybe that's the case - I dunno. If it is the case, then a lot of the posts on this thread make no sense.

It's actually not true that a non-reader would most likely take what you said as literal. I've never read the comic, but reading other posts from comic readers, I've pieced together something like this: in the comics Glenn gets killed by some guy named Negan with a baseball bat - which from you I now think is probably…

If they want to kill off characters, it would make sense if this happened in completely understandable ways - and by human error rather than by zombies. For Alexandrians to get killed by zombies makes sense since they've rarely dealt with zombies. For Rick and his crew, though, zombies shouldn't be that much of an…

That's ridiculous. If everything is 100% predictable, then only speed will be needed. If any of these people think that everything is predictable then they're incredibly stupid. Someone might twist an ankle, making speed impossible. They might get trapped, making movement impossible. In those cases, stealth and…

THIS!

No need to waste scenes showing people doing something that should be SOP by now. Creating drama within the confines of previously established internal logic is a challenge, yes. Meeting that challenge is one way to separate good writing from bad, though.

People we're supposed to think are intelligent and competent zombie experts learned a long time ago that covering themselves in zombie guts protects them from zombies.

I agree with many posters here that Glenn surviving the last episode would be absurd, and cheap. But we're already expected to believe something even more absurd: that people who learned a long time ago that zombie guts are an effective camouflage and protection from zombies actually go into zombie infested areas…