It's so ridiculous that I'm actually past minding it and am starting to get into it.

He locked the door

No, they re-took Alexandria pretty well (half-season break, last year). The fact that the idiot kid shot Karl's eye out wasn't anyone's fault.

They sure weren't Red Apples.

Can we all just agree that Zack Handlen has totally jumped the shark as a The Walking Dead reviewer? I mean he always had a sneering attitude about it (coupled with a non-genre-savvy critic's bafflement at sci-fi/horror, expecting it to work super-didactically), but nowdays he's so at sea that his observations are…

If someone says they've never seen the original Star Wars trilogy, I damn well would make sure that neither I nor anybody else told them Vader was Luke's dad. (I mean, they might already know vaguely this, but I sure wouldn't blurt it out.)

The only time I've consciously done that was last week when Daryl asked Carol why she left the Kingdom and Carol twisted her facial muscles for thirty seconds before gasping out "I had to" (and I was sitting on my couch going "I had to…I had to…I had to….I had to" the whole time).

Now you've got me picturing Spanky and Buckwheat and Stymie and that dog with the black ring around its eye going up against Negan.

Of course!

The same length as your last two, put together.

Never mind my tone or me personally or any of your authority hangups about who gets to say what to whom. Come on — be reasonable. Somebody who saw last night's Walking Dead but hasn't read The Stand shouldn't have to avoid comment sections just to keep from getting the premise of some random other story given away.

Some people do consume media blindly. Why are you arguing with me, damn it? Just follow the simple rule of 1) not referring to the plot of something someone hasn't read/seen or 2) if you must do it, write "Spoiler Warning" or put spoiler tags (which takes two seconds).

Respectfully, the point isn't what you experienced or what you mind or don't mind. The point is that different people have difference tolerances and preferences about what they do or don't want to know, going into the movie or book. (I have friends who, when it's a big deal like a Star Wars movie or something, don't…

The idea is that people like you see the warnings, realize they made a mistake (to put it charitably) and then edit the comments to either remove the spoiler material or adequately hide it (with spoiler tags or hard returns).

What the fuck does that mean? It's the reason there are spoiler warnings to begin with.

Thanks. I'm a big fan of Atari 2600 — not that I'm much of a gamer, but I seriously admire how much ingenuity, narrative and gameplay fun they were able to wrangle out of such a totally primitive system. And there's something abstractly beautiful about the 8-bit images; the vivid colors, those twelve sounds (my…

Is that big vertical stripe of "noise" 1/3 of the way across the screen part of the game, or is it some kind of Atari interference or static?

The others aren't "imagined." What's your problem, anyway? Just don't post spoilers, and get the fuck out of my face.

No, be respectful of the politesse of discussion boards. (Especially on a nerdy website like this one that's smart enough to have "spoiler space" areas.)

Look, you're doing this all wrong. The person who sits down to read The Stand for the first time is in a totally enviable position of having no idea what to expect. Here you are mentioning "magic" and "the devil" and saying the magic is "never explained" — and a character who "pops up elsewhere" — don't you realize…