I've tried to justify this all elsewhere. In short: I believe you all are expecting way too much. You're expecting, what, a version of Michonne? That's not what Madison is. She is still a pre-apocalyptic human being, a guidance counselor, for crying out loud. She's been trained, no doubt, in psycho-babbly things…

There's nothing wrong with her frickin' face. It doesn't look botoxed or stretched to me. Admittedly, I'm not a plastic surgeon. But neither are you. So you really should stop saying stuff like that and spreading unfounded rumors. You're just speculating. And you're wrong.

And your source for this is whom? That's an awful thing to accuse someone of without any evidence.

Wow. I don't want to start a big thing here, but I just have to say, I disagree with, like, 100% of what you say here. One of the things I've always loved about Kim Dickens' acting (in this and other projects) is that she has an extremely expressive face; I find her one of those actors who is somehow able to let you…

Well, to be fair, maybe he did and they didn't show us. Maybe he stuffed some of the canned stuff in something he was carrying before they left. It is possible that stuff happened off camera that we didn't see, right?

True. Well, maybe not yet. I think of this show as playing a bit of a long game, though… I think I'm willing to give them 4 or 5 episodes to get their feet under them. I see good signs, and for the moment, I'm willing to overlook the not-so-good stuff, as long as it keeps moving in the right direction. Pretty small…

Really? I like her character. She may be one of the best things in the show. Or at least the most fully formed, at this early date.

Those are reasonable points. As to Matt, I think my take is that she perceived him as a threat to Alicia, which is quite a different thing from being a threat to herself. Ask any parent.

It's all in the timing, I guess. I mean, it's not like she was there for fifteen minutes, watching him reach for her while snarling viciously. She stayed maybe a couple of seconds longer than I would, but I still think it's in her nature to do that sort of thing, to think "all people like this need is a little love…

Hey, man, did you see the lines at the ATM?

You are gathering supplies for some sort of disaster bunker you think might be a good idea when suddenly you are attacked by a thing that looks a lot like your high school principal. You narrowly escape death when his skull is bashed in with a fire extinguisher. By your guidance counselor. Do you:

I think that (not telling Alicia) is part parental instinct to protect one's children from bad things, and (larger) part still not having processed it all herself. I'm sure she'll get there. In fact, in her final scene, it looked like she was about to tell Alicia what she knew.

Nope. Sorry, I still disagree. First of all, you say he "looked dead." I say, if I'm Maddie, the dude is standing, and he's walking. Dead people don't do that, ergo, he doesn't look dead.

Just because he didn't stop walking toward her does not mean he was dangerous. You all keep forgetting, in this world, nobody has seen an episode of The Walking Dead, and presumably there is no rash of Zombie stories in pop culture. Maddie sees her friend stumbling toward her and her first inclination is to try to…