A nice note I missed —

I also took it as, "I got it, Dad." "Okay, son." It's the closest they'll get to the old bonding of teaching a son to hunt; an acknowledgment that the father sees the son as an adult who can be trusted to use good judgment.

Maybe the horses didn't drop dead four years ago. There did appear to be a caretaker (of sorts).

You don't have to have interest in watching men kiss. You just have to lose the need to criticize and condemn men who kiss.

To your first point, exactly. (Heck, I avoided posting photos of my kids on the Internet.) When the first questions strangers ask in the ZA are "How many people you got?" "Where?" "What weapons?" then why would you needlessly reveal anything? Aaron even pointed out that his answers would carry no weight, and that…

I think the core message was about making a human connection. It was what Aaron struggled to do, against high odds (reminded me a bit of ST-TNG's "Darmok," in that respect). Aaron reconnected with Eric. Michonne connected with Rick, as well as with her pre-apocalypse assertive persona. Rosita and Abraham reminded…

Judith and nutrition — she doesn't need teeth or a masticator. One simple manual device is a baby food grinder. It's like a small hand-cranked food mill and would fit into a large pocket. It would require moist food, true, but Judith is probably at the head of the line for water.

Beth had indeed been kidnapped and taken away by car and threatened with rape and beaten. Maggie doesn't know anything beyond that Beth had been kidnapped and taken away by car but her imagination would assume the worst. The parallel isn't a stretch.

Thank you for the lovely and timely Roseanne Roseannadanna tribute.

Tara has actually suggested bicycles before. The line was discussed here as possibly a meta reference to audience comments.

I didn't see that as Eugene being selfish or desperate. He was volunteering to be the tester, hence the "quality assurance" comment, but Abraham didn't understand that. It would make sense that one of the self-perceived less-useful members of the group go first.

To be fair, they weren't digging. That had already been done. They were moving the dirt back into place.

Good point, about the siblings. With Beth and Tyreese gone, that leaves only Carl and Judith as siblings amongst the regulars.

Maybe it's like "The Jerk" and "he hates the cans!" logic. The denizens of the gated compound hadn't figured out that you had to kill the brain, but they at least figured out that walkers who can't walk are less of a threat. Legs won't come after you. So they truncated the walkers and were trying to take the…

Tyreese might not have been given much to do, but I appreciated his character. He was someone with the skill and the strength but lacking the will. When he spoke of his father's insistence that they listen to news reports of atrocities rather than turn them off, I thought it was clear that, even then, he wanted to…

At first we were baffled as to how Abi and Bing couldn't have realized that Abi being recruited as a Wraith girl was a possibility. On rewatch I caught the lines in which the hosts explained that they had promised to "mix things up this year" and that was why Wraith had been added to the judges' panel. He hadn't…

Two days later, and I find myself thinking more kindly of this episode.

I didn't find it funny but I found it perfectly understandable. Rick had dealt in good faith with Bob2 only to have Bob2 attack one of his group. Bob2 had a talent for manipulating people through words (a rarer skill than just lying, as the other two cops did re Bob2, and I thought it interesting that they were…

Gabriel has now experienced literal salvation. I can understand the disdain for the character, but I think that Gabriel could change in interesting ways. As it is, he's the outsider looking in who has the answer to whether or not Rick's group are "good people." The group has been so inward-looking that I welcome an…

I think that she was wearing Bob's jacket, and the tear reminded her that nothing lasts.