Yup. That reminds me of how quickly Season One moved, and took us to very different places.

I think it really fell apart after Shane and Lori died, with season four being the worst of the lot, by far. Still, even when it's bad it's somehow interesting, in the complicated car wreck sort of way. I watched the last half of four more from momentum than anything else. I know. I was irritated at how badly the show…

Gabriel seems like a blank. I don't know if it's the character or the actor, but I didn't feel much of anything about him and his situation, or felt spurred to think about him much. I bought his explanation more for lack of interest than that it was convincing. It reminded my of the holed up family the Guv stumbled on…

Interesting. I think that's a great theme, but it's the kind of link the writers have to actively cultivate in order get the most from it. Not sure they did that.

Good catch. Still, Maggie's got to be objecting to the idea of just heading on to DC. To not show that seems odd.

Interesting—I would have thought if someone could make it through the throat slitting ep they could get through the Bob-b-que? No offense. Maybe it was the show being off the air for months but I found the throat slitting much, much tougher to take, but some of that might have been that the cannibalism in 5.02 was…

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I think it can be anywhere from not long at all as with Shane, and overnight, as with Amy in the first season. Sort of… whatever the writers need for dramatic purposes.

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A truly awful, essentially false review.

What a strangely formulated claim. Thanks for proving that a lot of awards have foolish bases for winning.
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Stewart's really pretty awful. Whenever she was onscreen it was like watching the third hour of a 10th grade class performing Macbeth, uncut.

Tempted to log back in as a Guest and like this twice.

Yeah. I would have gone back. I'm pretty big on that kind of justice, filmicly speaking. I didn't realize Mary was Gareth's mother. Innnnteresting.

Well said. That sounds right.

Yup. Morgan (Lennie James), who actually looked to be in better shape than the last time we saw him. I think as an actor he's too much in demand to be a regular for long on TWD, but I'd love to see him featured for a few episodes.

So with Carol in the woods and with Rick in the slaughterhouse we had two more examples of people appearing out of nowhere to take a prisoner or kill. Then there's the scene where Carol walks into Magic Candleland—what was it, about four hundred candles lit for no conceivable reason? Then after she drops Mary with…

You may be correct, but that's still a generous reading. Until the book comes out I tend to just believe a page of Gimple's script blew out of his car on the way to the studio.
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There was also no discussion of exterminating the Terminites because it was the right thing to do, which lends credence to the 'oops, we…

As well you should, son.

Yep. They don't seem to be able to get the overall right, so they need to do set pieces and at least a few characters well to keep a lot of us coming back.

While he was hitting the guy I did not have the clear impression Tyrese was going to kill him. I was mildly surprised when we later saw him announce the guy was dead.
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I'm dreading this kind of dumb, where boneheaded failures to do a job right catch up with people. A too-easy go-to like "See?? Compassion kills!!" is…

Ugh. Cuoco's attractiveness is not helped by manning up at the gym and one of the world's least flattering haircuts. Just awful.