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Is the guy really a doctor, or does he just have some medical training? I thought the wife said something about him being in pre-med but dropping out? Maggie may know as much as that guy about medicine from being around Hershel's vet practice. As much as I like this show I am starting to have an issue with everything revolving around where Rick's head is at. After losing his s#!+ at the prison he finally got his head on straight only to wander back down the street to unhinged town. While no one could fault a character on his journey for making some missteps, it is becoming too convenient for the writers to have him dancing around all points on his moral compass.
Mr. Green
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did Mr. Green missed a scene? the doc is an abuser? or is it u guys playin comic book jedi mind tricks?!
YankeesFanboy
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FWIW, Breckenridge said on Talking Dead that Jessie and her husband were college sweethearts, I believe at some art school. She got pregnant and they needed money, so he decided to pursue med school full-bore.
She also said their marriage has had its ups and downs and they were now in a down period. Maybe he treats her like crap, maybe he doesn't, but whatever the case may be, her eyes are definitely wandering.
Was Jessie's husband the guy Aaron was referring to, the guy who could pull off minor medical miracles? I don't think Rick's going to kill him, but it makes for some interesting, if unnecessary, tension.
She also said their marriage has had its ups and downs and they were now in a down period. Maybe he treats her like crap, maybe he doesn't, but whatever the case may be, her eyes are definitely wandering.
Was Jessie's husband the guy Aaron was referring to, the guy who could pull off minor medical miracles? I don't think Rick's going to kill him, but it makes for some interesting, if unnecessary, tension.
Mister Ski
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Jessie's husband's name is Pete. He is the guy that Aaron said could fix Noah's leg.
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greygoose
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I'm hoping the peace and calm is just a false dawn and we get to see crazy Rick go on a rampage around the town soon enough.
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That was hilarious! LOVED the Carol one (#7)!
Yeah I couldn't help but wonder why she didn't just make up some innocent story about why she was in the gun room. Remember in Kindergarten Cop when Dominique caught Arnold rummaging through his mom's things? And big, dopey ARNOLD was all "where the heck is the bathroom, it's a maze in this place!" And the kid was all "this way dude." Seriously. The kid would have never thought twice about it. But Carol has to go and make herself Satan incarnate to the kid so at the very least he'll be looking over his shoulder at her ALWAYS now.
Mr. Green
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he's a kid, they recover easily. give him a cookie and its all good
True, he may well have thought nothing of it. Now he knows she was up to something.
She really should have had a canned excuse ready to go that didn't involve the threat of torture and murder.
mikedanger
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But even if she makes up an excuse the kid still might tell someone.
Mister Ski
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So make up a GOOD excuse. "I lost my necklace and back tracked through all the buildings I visited earlier in the day; House 1, House 2, the gun shed, maintenance garage, etc." Don't call attention to the one place she actually was at. She should have been prepared to be caught by anyone. What if 10 adults passed the window and peaked in. What was she going to do, threaten to tie them all to trees?
To me it just once again has the feel of a veteran survivor being awesome and competent one minute and then a total dunce when the plot needs to go in a certain direction.
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She wasn't a dunce - assuming he wouldn't talk because you made up an excuse would be a dunce. Seriously, you think as soon as he went back to the party someone might not ask where he'd been and he'd merely tell them, mentioning that Carol was there, especially if Carol just said she was there to get whatever? The kid doesn't have to be quiet forever, since Carol knows this is going to go one way or the other sooner rather than later. Make up an excuse, and the kid might have merely mentioned he saw her there, completely innocent. An adult would see right through any excuse. Scare him, and at least he'll think about it awhile before he says anything, and it won't be by accident.
That's a false dilemma. There are worse things than him merely "talking." As I said, she could have played off where she was any number of ways, even to adults. Not the least of which was simply lying. "No actually he saw me in such and such building. Not the gun shed. How on earth would I have gotten in there?" But *guaranteeing* that he sees you as evil and a threat without any knowledge as to his fortitude or character? For all she knows there's a "stranger protocol" where if anyone suspects a newcomer of ill intent (which would be a very common occurrence) the person would go tell Deanna and she would organize an armed militia to drive the person out of town.
Her assumptions of how the kid would react to a threat of direct violence was a much bigger risk than just trying to play dumb or sweep the whole thing under the rug.
Anyway, it didn't ring true to me and obviously it did to you. I guess we don't need to belabor our different reactions. It felt to me like the show was trying to make me go "whoa, Carol is so hardcore!" instead of me just watching Carol make an organic and natural decision that felt more real.
"Look at the flowers" made sense to me, "Death or cookies" didn't.
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True but now he's going to be obviously scared around this seemingly harmless lady and people are gonna wonder wtf. The writers want this avenue of tension of course, just from Carol's POV it might not have been the best idea. But then, does everyone make the correct snap-decision every time? No. So it's maybe not a big deal as far as the writing goes.
True but now he's going to be obviously scared around this seemingly harmless lady and people are gonna wonder wtf. The writers want this avenue of tension of course, just from Carol's POV it might not have been the best idea. But then, does everyone make the correct snap-decision every time? No. So it's maybe not a big deal as far as the writing goes.
Any alibi Carol could create would be easily punctured by any inquiry.
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