I had one problem with this episode. Remember when Rufus spotted the black guys and seemed to wonder if they were slaves? And he is told that slavery is prohibited in Mexico? One of the main reasons for the Mexican/American war was not only to preserve Texas independence, but also to eventually give it statehood as a…

I agree on the frenetic, but I'm still a bit intrigued.

I was all ready to discover that they were a bunch of folks from the SCA, who had been having a weekend Faire, with jousting, when the apocalypse hit.

Has anybody here read the books the show is based on? I haven't. Just curious.

I like her. I like her voice. She's a grungy Jennifer Goines.

Just so.

At least we've settled the first question about the Man in Black: is he a rogue host? Or a rogue guest?

Anybody who finished TWoT, does Naneave ever stop twisting her braid?

Interesting. Thanks. Good to know.

You're right. Those are instances where people who were close to others did it from compassion and were clear about that. It just seemed that so many times, when masses of walkers are put down - or individual ones that they don't know - they seem to regard them as mere monsters. A knife in the eye is always an act of…

Not for the east coast guys it hasn't. And I haven't heard anyone voice this sentiment there, either. Just curious about something that seems obvious to me.

There's one important (to me) aspect to putting down the walking dead that has never been mentioned on either show, at least not to the extent that I should think it would be under the circumstances. And that's compassion. Maybe you need to have some hatred, revenge, anger, fear, whatever, in the mix in order to stab…

OberHüskerDübenfurher Smith, that's my name too. Whenever I go out, the people always shout, OberHüskerDübenfurher Smith, tralalalalalala.

The Heisenburg device is the bomb - atomic or hydrogen. Genre trappings? Pulpy big canvas developments? Not every show can be the one you're looking for. There are plenty of us out here who love it as it is - dreadful. In the sense that it is full of dread. The slow pacing plays with that. I'm glad it doesn't go for…

"You don't get to decide not to be a Jew." As verbatim as I can remember it.

Loved the cat. Generally happy with the whole thing - except Chandra. I don't know if the Brit version was as hammer-handed as this one was, but whatever. Only badly done scenario in my opinion. Weiss - I think she had some doubts from the beginning, but in for a penny in for a pound. She had her case, and her…

I watched it online a couple of years ago - was hoping they were doing more of them, but oh, no. Sadness. I liked it well enough - my cup of tea, so to speak. And then - Bronn!

I know. Wilkins said so. Which is why I feel validated. :)

I feel so validated. In describing the show to my son, I called it the "anti-Law-and-Order." :)

And thus was elfkind born.