No, the sixth leading cause of death is "pregnancy complications," which are not at all the same thing as childbirth.

The writers simply cannot multitask in this way, having charcters enrich their relationships with small bits. It's like recording studios in the 1930s when each player would step to and back from the mike for his solo.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

The presumption of innocence.

Thanks for clarifying. I'll go with "both," and take your advice on skipping the thread.

I don't get that at all. The bumbling idiocy from seasons three and four are still there. (Say what you like about seasons one and two, they were at least competently scripted.) There has never been a long scene more ludicrously contrived than the ambush in the church.

Batteries can be recharged for years through solar panels, stationery bikes, various fuels… if you can get something turning, you can charge a battery with the right set up. I wrote upthread, though, that you'd have to be incredibly miserly with juice. You'd probably have situations where, to listen to records, you'd…

He's just being a wanker about it.

"Bad writing" is usually the correct answer to any TWD mystery. I remember rolling my eyes at that scene, the same way I did when instead of following Morgan from the back and doing a more natural reveal, we had him walking in a ridiculous mask that he "dramatically" took off. Sigh. Is there no scene too simple for…

"stereotypes" ?

How are two country kids not "logical" ?

"I think Edwards is a genuinely nice person"

" but why everyone in that camp went along with cannibalism, I'll never know."

"…but for now I don't believe it."

Remember that some of the hospital equipment was run off batteries, which can be charged up in various ways, including stationery bikes and solar panels. In real life, of course, all the doors to exterior rooms would be left open to let light in to the hallways, corridors would be lit w 4w bulbs at most, the hospital…

Great description, and with a better script and director this kind of thing can be singular enough to be from Beth's point of view, as in we only get the information she gets. This episode failed almost completely to put us in her head, though.

Did he actually say that? Joe's wrong, but I hate these types of phony implications, to the point where it's easy to call the "lying by paraphrase." There's no need hurt the argument by implying he said things he didn't. What he said was as bad and dense enough to make the point. This only undermines things.

" This was a terribly written, terribly directed, and mostly poorly
acted episode, which is why you didn't pick up on any of it,"

"…and it was never clear just how many people Dawn had under her control,…"

I tend to agree, but I lay the fault at the feet of the writers.
I don't doubt the ambiguity had everything to do with their inability to be clear where it's warranted.
On a better written show we could even think that the ambiguity is an attempt to show the uncertainty from Beth's point of view, but TWD isn't capable…