Oh god no. I'm always and forever on the platonic partners train. Fuck "One". (Perfect finale though. Except for that stupidass zen tape.) If the show had gone on, I might have been on board with a slow burn thing between them. As it was at that point in the story, NOPE.

I have no idea.

He is ginger though.

I like to imagine that Reese got fed up with Charlie's insanity, decided to join the NSA (because fuck the FBI), and is now saving the world with Ben Linus, Jesus, and Illyria.

Yeah, exactly. The combinations of characters are endless. There's a lot to be mined from that. I sincerely hope the writers do it.

I don't know… Hmm. As it stands, the group we have now is entirely composed of badasses (plus Eugene). I think it would be nice to have one coward in the mix. Until he gets tiring, of course. Heh.

Great word: "Organic". That's definitely something that people keep missing when talking about the plotting in serial form television shows. A mini-series/anthology/one-shot show is something writers can plan for down to the detail. TV series with multiple seasons are subject to real-life events, not just with…

True. We haven't had a character like that since… Hmmm… I think since T-Dog in his "Day in the Limelight" death episode when he was the only one advocating for bringing Oscar and Axel into the fold. Hershel could be like that, sometimes, but he was always more flexible than Dale, morality-wise. But I've always taken…

"The wooden dialogue machine" - ha! That's exactly it. I don't think other episodes had it this bad at dialogue but there really was something mechanical about the "important" resolutions that happened between characters here (namely, Tyreese/Carol, Rick/Carol, Tara/Rick, and Maggie/Tara).

In this case, it was probably a simple matter of not having the actor in the show anymore. If you recall, Dale's actor Jeffrey DeMunn demanded to be let off the show when Frank Darabont was fired. DeMunn is a friend and frequent collaborator of Darabont. So they agreed to kill him. DeMunn did change his mind later and…

Is he twitchy in it or non-twitchy? I keep meaning to watch Justified.

For me this episode was a B minus. It was serviceable as a table setter but definitely a disappointing followup to the fantastic premiere. I had a problem with the clunky dialogue (I don't remember Kirkman's other episodes having it this bad) and the (for me) too quick resolution of Rick/Tara, Maggie/Tara, and…

Lol. I'll definitely watch the eyes next time.

Nah, he'll be saving Rick. As always. That's basically one of his favorite hobbies after chalk art, hoarding, and pretending to be Kevin McAllister.

I didn't find Gilliam to be twitchy at all. But that may be because I was rewatching Lost the other day and Jeremy Davies kept looking like he was about to stroke right out of the screen.

Except that, for some reason, they actually kept losing their knives throughout that whole scene. By the end of it, Rick had to smash Glasses into a wall with his bare hands and Sasha and Michonne delayed helping Bob trying to find a weapon to kill the walker with.

As good as he was in Southland and as much as I loved him in Band of Brothers, he doesn't exactly have the luxury to leave a show this popular just because he's bored. He's not British, after all.

Not that tremendously. But he's definitely a much better villain than Hipster-Douche. At the very least, he's better at monologuing.

Canned goods basically last forever unless the integrity of the can has been compromised. The "best by" and "use by" dates are more about their taste than anything else. Scientists have found cans of food from ships sunken about a century ago which are still edible.

Shouldn't it be "stuff and thangs"? Or is that just for Rick?