Al Gore deserves to be mocked. Even if you’re some super environmentalist, admit Gore has done more damage to the environment than any 200 people reading this. His Tennessee home uses more electricity in one year than the average home does in 21 years. What a great use for all that Al-Jazeera money, right?

What do you think he meant by “environmental desire”? Oh my God—was he...was he trying to type “disaster?”

“The word “objective” needs to be officially retired.”

To me, the strangest part is where he acts like cartoon creators reversing their own joke is somehow an acknowledgement of anthropogenic global warming that should be meaningful to the world, to the extent that it must be discussed that way instead of as a not-especially-funny episode of a comedy series.

I didn’t recognize it. If true, that helps, although it’s still jarring for more casual fans.

I only meant that Eugene seemed very surprised by the U-turn, indicating in the years they have been tracking herds, there was little indication that could happen on its own. This is explained when we learn Whisperers are among its members.

Perhaps Magna was heavy before the apocalypse and is now fit as a fiddle. She sure looks good now. Me, I wouldn’t wear long hair in a world of grabby zombies, but perhaps looking super sexy was her key to being let into all those communities where they had previously resided.

An apocalyptic show heavily cast with…

“Hello, Aunt Alicia.” What a moment that was.

Perhaps Cyndie was fed into a wood-chipper offscreen. (I hope not; she’s really pretty.)

Yeah, Judith won’t be in her teens for at least a year and a half of in-show time! ;)

He was strong. A good balance of sadness and awareness of the old social graces, but without pushing it too far into genial “I’m the nice member of the group” territory. There was something elegaic about his description of how the old world would have seen his group, even though it was ostensibly being presented as…

What you say is true in that Morgan literally became defined by this vacillation, to the point that he comments directly upon him doing this himself, and goes around repeating a motto that illustrates precisely how he will vacillate this way in response to circumstances. A bizarre writing decision on its own—and an…

It was somewhat arbitrary; that’s what the somewhat-interrupted story line about subsequently trying to develop a uniform code of justice among the communities was about. Apparently, whatever was decided, it eventually permitted granting of some limited freedoms to Negan (the window access is a bit of a change), but…

“Whimsy” Well, in reality, some horses could be trained such that they would literally ride into gunfire if directed to do so, and others could not. I’m sure the community uses different kinds of horses for different things. Not all of them (draft horses for pulling stuff, for example) would have encountered a walker…

Well, no. We learned the herd had made an unrealistic U-turn, and then the voices show us there are intelligences within that didn’t want to let Eugene and Rosita get away, explaining why the herd moved like this. If they had climbed up and waited, the herd would have surrounded the tower and they’d have died by…

The casting was on point. But it is hard to accept the kid being so naive about the post-apocalyptic world in some ways. They attempted to compensate for this by establishing how little his parents have let him out of the Kingdom. We’ll see if the show makes that convincing in the longer term.

Ezekiel being a stern…

It’s better than that, and not hilarious in the comics.

Jed’s Savior gang sleeping in the open air with no posted guards or even strings with tin cans on them was pushing it. But the more reasonable precautions it showed them taking, the more we would have had to accept supercommando Angel of Death Carol just effortlessly Batman-ing her way around them. So we were kind of…

Not a bad episode at all. Dan Fogler gave an excellent performance as Luke. I was going to say “guest performance,” but I’m figuring these characters will be hanging around to some extent (good news, because Magna is quite a looker).

If they really began to believe that, they’d stop making massive investments in such properties (and in many other things) and concentrating themselves in waterfront communities. Remember, Al Gore wrote in 2006: “We only have ten years left to save the planet.” They’re all pretty much still where they were, still…