T-dog serving only one purpose at this point.

Since I believe that the spoilers that were posted here a few days ago are correct:

Pretty hilarious when Dale's stomach is ripped off and Rick is like "We gotta prep him for surgery. Prepare a room".

T-dog has lines in the next episode.

Carl's acting was brutal this episode as was Carol's. The lines they have to read probably shoulder a lot of the blame tbh. This ep was so weirdly contrasting the last episode, where the last episode we saw only specific stories this episode every character seemed to need to be treated. Like the Glenn Hershel thing, totally irrelevant to the episode. Pretty much every line of Carol's, totally irrelevant. And yet, T-dog was left out. Even Otis' wife talked (I think).

lol@Dale's arguments. I think suicidal blond just agreed with him to make him feel better infront of the group so he wouldn't lose his **** moving forward. And why doesn't someone say "yeah no **** Dale, there is no rule of law! Civilization has been lost and it isn't coming back this week."

how do u know that?

That's a good point. Like the "week" that went by... what happened during it? The kid knowing Maggie never came up, they apparently never thought to ask the kid about how big his group is or how often they gangraped random people? But once they think they might let him stay, they sic Hillbilly Jack Bauer on him with a ****ing knife?

"Well, it seems like he was just a scared kid who fell in with the wrong crowd and wouldn't have been a threat. But now that I've broken his jaw and stabbed him a little, though, oh man he's definitely going to go back to his friends the second we cut him free."

Yeah, it's just the most basic stuff. They are like compelled to make every character as stupid and incompetent and unlikable as possible. Having a child struggle with the concept of killing in a ruined post-apocalyptic world is an interesting idea. Having that child try to kill a zombie by throwing rocks like a spaz and then trying to poke the zombie with his gun? And then he wins a wrestling match with that zombie, even though the zombie apparently has the ability to tear open a man's stomach with his bare hands?

Where are they going with that?

And that leads me to another point: Besides Rick and Shane(cop, other cop), Hershel(farmer/vet), Lori(Lady Macbeth), and Carl(KARL)... what did any of these people do in the beforetime? Again, we've seen like what, 17 episodes now?

Instead of characterizing any of the minor characters the writers allocate every available minute of screentime to have Rick/Shane/Lori argue about the same **** they've been arguing about for the whole show.

LOL, yeah, in some of Dale's dialogue this show it seemed like he was reading the parts that were in parenthesis. When he goes to Hershel and says "I know you're a man of principle!!!" that was amazing.

P.S. BONUS COMPLAINT

Did anyone else LOL about the weird hamhanded way they tried to bring political issues into the show? Like Rick randomly mentions the death penalty to Lori for some reason, or Hershel's inexplicable 5 minute long monologue about immigration?

Last man standing to break the stigma?

Early on Glenn says he was a pizza delivery guy I think.

The Dale scene, I like how they stayed true to form with the silent zombie sneak attack. This one even set a trap with a rotting cow, clever. And the stomach tearing is a staple of zombie movies, so you can't be too upset with this show doing it. The problem is that most zombie movies have a sense of humor about the whole situation and don't take themselves too seriously, but this show tries much harder to be dark and serious, so it's tougher to accept these goofy scenes.

I enjoyed Dale getting ripped open by a zombie much less than I expected. These people can **** ANYTHING up.

With Dale gone we SHOULD get less "If we let the zombie apocalypse rob us of our humanity the zombies win, don't you see?!??" but somebody else will pick up that thread, I am sure.

Now that we've all been beaten over the head with Carl's lesson about what happens when you hesitate to kill a zombie, it is absolutely guaranteed that Carl kills zombie Shane.

These developments should make the show better, but they won't.

The prisoner in the barn reminds me of the basement prisoner in the first season of Breaking Bad. Except that it was done 1,000x better in BB.

Hope they kill off some more of the main characters and get some new ones. They're all pretty unlikeable.

Yeah to all of the comments, but still, it was a cool zombie.

Ugh, thinking about this episode makes my head hurt with the god awful lazy ass writing. Letting Carl wander off aimlessly without any adult supervision was just pathetic.

(1) Spidermans into the barn where the prisoner is being held.
(2) Rick and Lori aren't just going to let him leave their sight without adult supervision when he encounters the stuck zombie.
(3) When their about to execute the prisoner, no one is keeping an eye on Carl so he's able to sneak in while it's about to happen.

Come on! Pure incompetence by the writing staff.

T-Dog had one line during the meeting. He said something like, 'And what do we do with the body'

/nit

The fact that the kid was shooting at them isn't a reason to kill him in and of itself. From the kid's perspective, some crazy sheriff just popped two of his friends in a bar what is he supposed to do?

The whole storyline with the kid is just beyond ******ed.

you right bro

I for one was cheering when Dale got killed.

Also to the above people that said how can 1 zombie sneak attack Dale. It was dark so shouldn't have been too difficult as Dale was the one missing a group of 100 zombies walking on the highway till they were like 5 feet away in daylight.

+1000000

When he got tackled the first time I thought he was already bit. When they go back to him and dale is holding zombie away from him I was sure he was going to get saved but I was still yelling out "kill him, bite that f*er, bite the sh* out of him!" Then when his stomach gets ripped open it was a giant "f* yeah!"

I wonder if the writers know this is the reaction they get

not sure if it has been posted before (my bad then!), but this should have been the intro to the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8z_dJoWjP4

One down, once the rest of the humans die, the show will be great.

A+

****ing great that Dale got killed. I hope Lori is next.

To everyone who's complaining about a lone zombie tearing open a man's stomach: what about tearing open a cow?

The show is at least consistent with the black guy, he wasn't consulted by Dale. Can't have a black man give his opinion imo.

How many times have they tried to kill/dump that dude only to change their mind at the last moment? 3 or 4 times? Make up your mind already. They're probably going to milk this the rest of the season.

In Memoriam:

we don't know the zombie killed the cow. Just looked like a dead cow that turned into a zombie cow to me. Hell, that makes just as much sense as the rest of this stupid show.

RIP Daleface

ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha this show is way more self aware than I thought. The writers knew how horrible daleface was and decided to give us one more horrible horrible talking daleface dead episode before this amazing amazing daleface elimination.