Interesting point - in fact, I've never read it but I've heard that the very first appearance of the Joker in the comics way back in the 40s ended with the Joker getting the electric chair, which was originally supposed to be the last anyone ever saw of him. But the writers liked the character so much that they…

Yup. Our "heroes" set out to rescue three people, only succeeded in rescuing one of them plus one other guy, and in the process got dozens if not hundreds of people killed, including one of the people they were there to rescue, who was about to airlifted to safety when the rescue attempt scared off the evacuation…

Excellent answer! I especially appreciate the point about the double meaning of "the Walking Dead." I never thought about that.

Yeah, but the zombies are supposed to be less decayed this early in the Walking Dead timeline.

It'll never work out. She's way too good for Seasons 1-3 and the first half of Season 4 Carl and not good enough for the second half of Season 4 and Season 5 Carl.

Andy didn't say Cobalt was about killing the people in the neighborhood. (I just rewatched the scene to reply to someone else about the same thing so it's fresh in my mind.) He actually just said it was about killing… and then trailed off. But it was in response to Madison asking what would happen "our people" and…

Sir, I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to laugh when it's very funny.

I never thought that was what Daniel was doing but it did occur to me that it would be a wonderfully perverse thing for him to do instead of outright torturing the guy. Now I really want a scene where someone convinces a solder - or some other member of a group that's pushing other people around - to cooperate buy…

Sorry, somehow I thought you were saying it was a door that could only be unlocked from one side like the walk-in freezers people get locked in on sitcoms. I didn't catch that you meant it should only NEED to be unlocked from one side. I must have read your comment too quickly.

I've seen "The Spiderwick Chronicles" and I don't remember "The Spiderwick Chronicles."

Yeah, if memory serves at first the other characters think it's just a coincidence that the two Murphy characters look alike, but then at some point the nonfamous one makes an offhand comment about the famous one being his brother and everyone's surprised he never mentioned it before.

A pair of brothers in my high school were named Tom and Jerry. They claimed they were named after their parents' beloved uncles but seriously, when you name your first kid "Tom" after your beloved Uncle Tom (and I just noticed that for the first time) and then you have another kid and your spouse* says "you know, I…

I see this complaint a lot and I don't get it. Is there something specific about it you don't like? I'm not trying to make you the spokesman for everyone who doesn't like the name and I get that it's not always possible to articulate exactly why you don't like something so no pressure, but I'm curious if there's…

His philosophy wasn't "don't help people" it was "don't help people who can't help you in return." Hence saving Nick (I don't think it's ever made clear exactly what he thought Nick brought to the table, but he did say he needed someone like Nick for his plan). Travis, Daniel and the others saved Strand's life and…

The only explanation I can think of for the gate other than "our main characters are oblivious assholes" would be if we're supposed to think that the procedure for opening the gate is some secret code that Daniel knew from spying on the soldiers, and that closing the gate might have meant the people in the…

And how much did our leads do to prevent anyone else's loved ones from being dragged off?

Strand wasn't against helping people, he was against helping people who couldn't help him in return. He presumably saw the people who rescued him from the compound then gave him a lift home as falling into the category of "people who can help me."

They didn't threaten to rape her. One of them said "what about you girl?" when Chris turned down their offer to take them with if they turned over the car keys, then after she handed over the keys, the same one groped her hair and said "you sure you don't want to come with?" (Technically Chris interrupts him so he…

Yeah, I was expecting to get an ominous shot of zombies stumbling upon the open gate to the neighborhood at some point to show how badly the main group had screwed up.

Hey, I thought that was one of the most realistic things the show has done: a junkie having a self-serving world view that positions himself as the only one who knows what the "real world" is like.