Cops are merely obstacles in her path to realization!

Seeing Lester being successful in the time jump was incredibly frustrating. It made him bleeding out even more satisfying.

I do however think if Malvo had ever met Peggy, she'd have become just a ruthless a psycho as Lester was.

Yeah, it's a little of column A, a little of column B. Clearly its the only gas station on that particular stretch of road - just about every character stops at it.

I think it's perfectly fine for Morgan to still value human life. I just don't think the show has made a great argument for him.

The zombie rules are whatever idea Greg Nicotero came up with in the shower the week before. Did he think a fat zombie stuck in something would be funny? Then it's gonna be in next week.

That's EXACTLY what I mean.

I loved how they died quickly. It taught us a thing about how far these characters have come, and gave us a nice contrast between them and Morgan (the Morgan plot would have fit in better at the tail end of last season).

I'd be fine with them killing Beth after all that if they had made the moment in ANY way believable.

Season 4 IS when the show turned itself around, and most resembled the best parts of Game of Thrones - i.e., the faith in their characters enough that you could stick any two together and something interesting will happen.

Even seasons 4 and 5, which I was fond of, could have benefitted from being cut down to about 12 or so episodes.

It left some mystery in there about their religious practices and such, and you know if the show had more time to dig into the nitty-gritty of it, they'd totally ruin it.

Which would be fine if there was some logic to it, like really old ones are stiff, and really new ones are limber. But it's inconsistent as shit.

Well, they were being pushed by the force of the crowd, which kills people in real life too.

They actually make chain mail that can stop a shark bite (though your arm might still be crushed, I believe) - sounds like a pretty solid tactic against the dead.

I didn't see Judith's living as a wimp-out, I just think they thought there was a different set of plot possibilities in having a baby around.

It's a basic concept of horror: making competent heroes fail after trying everything is WAY scarier than watching nincompoops get the axe after trying nothing. I wish the writers got that - putting people in a corner takes more effort, but yeah, you're the biggest show on cable. Put in the work.

Carol got cool around season 4 when she became a character that performed actions for the good of the group (or so she believed) and actually became a character, rather than just a 1-dimensional victim.

It's kind of a smart idea, in theory. In practice, I think it was just more "Eugene is autistic" information. I always come up with my best solutions once I turn my mind away from the problem.

This show is really tying our hands into hating children. Children are always the worst, and only get better when they become teenagers, and are still kind of the worst.