Kirkman certainly seemed to suggest big changes were coming for the TV show and alluded to the comic. I interpreted that to mean they would be leaving Georgia.

I guess I missed that. But if that were the case, why would Beth just let Noah go back? Why wouldn't she pull him back and say "hey asshole, stay with us"? Are we to assume she intended death by cop? It just doesn't add up for me. She was free of the hospital that was so terrible and died for no reason other than…

I had three major questions:

You say that because you know Jax was acting on bad information. If Lin's crew had in fact killed Tara, killing a member or two from Lin's crew would have been the end of it. It escalated because Lin's crew didn't kill Tara, thus the Diosa slaughter as revenge, which Jax thought had to be avenged because Lin should…

Or if it's like The Shawshank Redemption and John Teller has left clues for Jax that allow him to meet him in Mexico after he's been kicked out of SAMCRO. They reunite on the beach in the last scene just like Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

What would be the point of a burner smart phone? You're not going to want to use text messages to communicate because those are logged. There's a reason everything incriminating is done by phone - no record of the actual conversation. They're not going to be surfing the web. All you need is something that makes…

I could see her sacrificing herself to save Jax. Suppose Indian Hills/the rest of SOA demands someone pay for Jury's death with their life? If Gemma knows it's Jax or her, she's going to give herself up to save him.

Luanne.

I think you're completely wrong. The entire reason for Jax going crazy was his bloodlust for revenging Tara's death. Now that the rug's been pulled out from under him and he knows it was all a pack of lies, he's going to accept responsibility. He respects the rules of the club and of "the life" in general. …

How is it not the truth? Jax was trying to move the club away from guns and toward Diosa. He was steering the club in a more respectable, less evil, less chaotic direction to fulfill his father's vision of what the club should be. His family (Gemma) blew that up by killing Tara, lying about it, and sending Jax off…

I can't believe there was no mention of the scene where Nero gets the call from Jax where Gemma is standing right in front of him and he finds out the truth. Extremely strong acting from Jimmy Smits. I loved how after the call ended you could see him start to say something - what were you… why did you… - actually…

Pretty sure they're going to Atlanta to rescue Beth and Carol. No idea where from there. I hope north, because the show could use a change of scenery.

Agreed, although I think we have to applaud a bit for them deciding to show rather than tell. Too often in the past TWD has beaten the viewer over the head with excessive explaining rather than just showing something and let it imply what happened.

Agreed. Pretty sure the road they were walking down in this episode was used for several other episodes.

Aren't your expectations a bit unrealistic? I just don't know how you get from point A (Beth waking up) to point B (Noah escaping, Beth re-captured, Gorman getting his just desserts) without amping up the characters into near-caricatures. If you really develop the bit players as characters, there's no way you're…

TV Carol is actually very much like Comic Andrea.

This is a complete tangent, and I hardly ever watched ER, but one episode is burned into my memory, and it was an episode where Anthony Edwards and George Clooney went on a road trip for some reason - I think a death in the family or something. I always appreciated that for taking a risk. It's easy to have a…

To some extent I agree - I actually refused to believe the sneak previews showing the perfectly starched uniforms could possibly be post-apocalypse - but I don't think it's completely implausible. This is a society where people are effectively forced to work in indentured servitude. It's going to be much neater than…

I actually thought the hospital itself was the main character. My guess is that the back end of this half-season will focus on getting Beth and Carol out of there. In that sense, what the episode was really doing was making the viewer buy into the hospital as a place that you want our heroes to smash.

That's a great way to put it. I enjoyed the change of pace. It's not easy to create a whole episode that has (for most of its running time) just one established character, and whether or not it succeeds, I'm glad to see the writers taking a chance at something that isn't sourced from the comics. I agree some of the…