The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Comic and Un-aired Spoilers unwelcome!)

[Buttmunch]

Shane was the same way. He had a lot of the right ideas, but went about them in the wrong ways. Rick has really turned into Shane these last few episodes. He's even gesturing the same way. I got to imagine its on purpose and perhaps with Morgan eventually meeting back up with them, he might be the reset button Rick needs. I think Rick is defiantly going through some PTSD or some kind of a mental breakdown. He's had to be on edge so much the last few seasons and its taken its toll on him mentally. He's not as put together was he once was. His first break was when Lori died. He eventually got over that with some farming therapy from Herschel. Once they left the prison, I think all of that work was undone and he's back where he started, if not even worse.

There is certainly some things coming full circle this season. Rick and his differences with Shane's ideas and way of doing things and Carol and her domestic abuse past. Rick and Carol have grown and changed so much since those early seasons. I have to admit I've loved what they've done with Carol. I just pray she makes it out alive next week. Glenn seems like the obvious goner with Nicolas having a grudge and blender gun, but perhaps someone else might end up as collateral damage instead? But that would seem the most obvious death based on the current set up.

 

[Cixx]

 

[crows]

 

[cilantropants]

At the moment ... Rick may be a wolf. But, he's trying, Ringo. He's trying real ... hard ... to be the shepherd.

SnakeDoc

Olive juice.

 

[Scareb]

I think the body parts looking similar to Morgan's stuff is just a red herring for the more eagle eyed viewers who then post online and the internet rolls with it and becomes this big thing. Then Morgan can show up and the showrunner can go "hahaha suckers"

Theres no way they would simply kill him off screen. The only way that would happen is if they dedicated more than a couple of 10 second glimpses at the end of an episode.He'd need at least half an episode to himself to even warrant being allowed an off screen death.

 

[The Ween]

How would he come back and cause trouble if he's dead? I said Rick could let him be exiled and then just have Daryl track him down and kill him far from any Alexandrian witnesses. Or have Sasha do it as part of her "therapy."

He could've, but that wasn't part of the story at hand, just your thinking. So, if he was exiled like Deanna wanted, he wouldn't be dead.

 

[The Ween]

Ween to the rescue.

Someone has to do it.

Rick isn't Shane. I just don't see it.

 

[Mister Ski]

He didn't want him exiled because he figured he'd just come back and cause trouble. And he would.

As for Rick getting his ass kicked, the Doc was running on pure adrenalin. He pushed Rick right through a big window. The guy went crazy. It's hard to fight crazy.

In the long run, Rick will be right. That town has just been lucky so far, plus, no one knows what all happened before Rick and Crew got there. I have a feeling that it wasn't good.

Ween kicking @ss and taking names.

I don't think Rick got his @ss kicked either. He gave as good as he got and he "won" the fight with Pete in a choke hold but the Alexandrians made him stop. Rick isn't Shane, but he has become alot more like him. He had to in order to survive and protect his family (which includes his whole group). Rick is becoming unhinged, but I think that is how the PTSD is manifesting itself in him. They are all suffering from it; Sasha going on the offensive against Walkers, Michonne questioning if she fits in this "safe" setting, Carol trying not to become too attached to the kid; Rick trying to "save" Jessie from Pete, etc.

It's going to be an interesting season finale. On TD, Gale Anne Hurd said there will be blood and it won't all be Walker blood, so we will be losing at least one person. Finale is also supposed to make us sad (Glenn dying?) and angry (Nicholas killing Glenn?). As soon as I saw Nicolas go for Rick's hidden gun, I thought he is going to go after Glenn. Hope I am wrong. The other thing that would make me angry is if the traitor and Nicolas both survive the finale.

 

[Platty]

Side note, I hope Sasha is the one to go on the season finale. She is unbearable at this point.

Agreed. She's getting on my nerves.

I think ricks new mrs will bite it. As will The guy who ran off and let Noah die.

 

[fosing]

Rick was only using his OTHER head...lil' ricky made the call.
that's why he was in poor form...blood flow got redirected down there.
cant blame him....its been a while since he got some.

 

[a-dev]

Alright, I will watch this tonight, was gonna leave it till closer to the next one but the discussion has me too curious.

 

[pixletwin]

I wanted Nicholas to die at first but now I want him to have an awakening and come to Rick's (and the group's) defense. Then he can die.

 

[nexus]

It had better be a bloodbath. I think the show needs to lose at least one season one member, and trim away some of the dead weight. However I think the threat is going to come from the outside not from Deanna and the town, their rules are too civilized to have some hidden trap. I think the Ws out there on the fringes (which Glenn will come across) are probably gathering a decoy zombie horde while setting up a main attack force to take the town, which likely won't survive--paradise full of sheep doesn't survive in the new world. The naked woman tied to the tree was clearly bait, as were the body parts which are being used to herd. Lots and Lots of folks will die, men, women, children. Rick will probably be vindicated for trying to give them a crash course in getting hard, although his approach was wrong. That's my guess at least. I just hope it doesn't end with the group captured by the new "rulers" because it would essentially be a replay of terminus. And once again our heroes will have yet another cliffhanger to figure a way out of. Kind of like a weekly '66 Batman 2-parter. Anyway we will have to tune in this Sunday.

 

[cilantropants]

I've felt that the representation of Alexandria has been pretty weak. It's supposed to be a fairly sizable community that's collected people over the course of nearly 2 years. They even have a crew that continues to expand its walls. They require at least 2 more people to act as constables, because you assume they already had some people doing that before. Yet we've seen maybe 20 people who live there, and that's including Rick's group. They haven't done a good job of establishing their presence as a thriving group that found a way to survive cleanly. Feels like a ghost town already. When the eventual attack happens that we all know is coming, are we going to suddenly see 100 people scattering in a panic?

I agree with those who felt let down by this last episode. The previews for the season finale showed what looked essentially like a town council meeting discussing Rick's poor behavior. That extra half hour is also going to work out to maybe 10 minutes of actual show, with longer commercial breaks than show segments.

I hope it goes out on a bloody high note, and we aren't waiting for months to find out the vote count on banishment. It's not like that'd be a shocking death sentence for Rick and Co. Most of them don't want to be in Alexandria anyway.

 

[Mr. Green]

I've felt that the representation of Alexandria has been pretty weak. It's supposed to be a fairly sizable community that's collected people over the course of nearly 2 years. They even have a crew that continues to expand its walls. They require at least 2 more people to act as constables, because you assume they already had some people doing that before. Yet we've seen maybe 20 people who live there, and that's including Rick's group. They haven't done a good job of establishing their presence as a thriving group that found a way to survive cleanly. Feels like a ghost town already. When the eventual attack happens that we all know is coming, are we going to suddenly see 100 people scattering in a panic?

I agree with those who felt let down by this last episode. The previews for the season finale showed what looked essentially like a town council meeting discussing Rick's poor behavior. That extra half hour is also going to work out to maybe 10 minutes of actual show, with longer commercial breaks than show segments.

I hope it goes out on a bloody high note, and we aren't waiting for months to find out the vote count on banishment. It's not like that'd be a shocking death sentence for Rick and Co. Most of them don't want to be in Alexandria anyway.

oh they were weaken before so they would want to be in Alexandria. just like Rick said, if it doesn't work out, they'll take it over

 

[greygoose]

Rick must become the leader again. If he doesn't then he will just be a weak character going forward into season 6. Carol, Glenn and co. need to back him up.

 

[Mister Ski]

I've felt that the representation of Alexandria has been pretty weak. It's supposed to be a fairly sizable community that's collected people over the course of nearly 2 years. They even have a crew that continues to expand its walls. They require at least 2 more people to act as constables, because you assume they already had some people doing that before. Yet we've seen maybe 20 people who live there, and that's including Rick's group. They haven't done a good job of establishing their presence as a thriving group that found a way to survive cleanly. Feels like a ghost town already. When the eventual attack happens that we all know is coming, are we going to suddenly see 100 people scattering in a panic?

I agree with those who felt let down by this last episode. The previews for the season finale showed what looked essentially like a town council meeting discussing Rick's poor behavior. That extra half hour is also going to work out to maybe 10 minutes of actual show, with longer commercial breaks than show segments.

I hope it goes out on a bloody high note, and we aren't waiting for months to find out the vote count on banishment. It's not like that'd be a shocking death sentence for Rick and Co. Most of them don't want to be in Alexandria anyway.

I agree that Alexandria hasn't been fully fleshed out yet (it's only been 3 episodes), but I did get the sense that there are approximately 50 people living within those walls before Rick's group showed up. When they had the welcoming party for Rick's group, you saw at least that many people there. Abraham's work crew had about a dozen people. I also thought Deanna said something along the lines of the people there have been there pretty much from the beginning of the outbreak (they were waiting to be evac-ed which never happened) so I don't think they have been taking in too many new people over the years. Enid, Aaron and Eric (maybe some others/) and Rick's group. They did exile 4 individuals too. I got the impression that they only recently started sending Aaron and Eric out to recruit people to join them and Rick's group is one of, if not the first group recruited.

I've been saying for awhile now that something isn't right with Alexandria from the standpoint that these people are incapable of taking care of themselves, but have somehow survived and arguably thrived for the last couple years. I suspect Alexandria is part of a larger group/community (maybe the Wolves?) who actually control Alexandria and have been protecting them. I hope we learn something along those lines in the finale. Otherwise, I agree with you in that the Alexandrias have not been fleshed out too well so far.

 

[The Ween]

I've felt that the representation of Alexandria has been pretty weak. It's supposed to be a fairly sizable community that's collected people over the course of nearly 2 years. They even have a crew that continues to expand its walls. They require at least 2 more people to act as constables, because you assume they already had some people doing that before. Yet we've seen maybe 20 people who live there, and that's including Rick's group. They haven't done a good job of establishing their presence as a thriving group that found a way to survive cleanly. Feels like a ghost town already. When the eventual attack happens that we all know is coming, are we going to suddenly see 100 people scattering in a panic?

I agree with those who felt let down by this last episode. The previews for the season finale showed what looked essentially like a town council meeting discussing Rick's poor behavior. That extra half hour is also going to work out to maybe 10 minutes of actual show, with longer commercial breaks than show segments.

I hope it goes out on a bloody high note, and we aren't waiting for months to find out the vote count on banishment. It's not like that'd be a shocking death sentence for Rick and Co. Most of them don't want to be in Alexandria anyway.

There were quite a few people on the construction crew when they showed it. Actually, there may have been a lot of people there at one time, but as naïve as they are, they're slowly being whittled away. They wouldn't even help their fellow townspeople when they were attacked by walkers at the wall.

I know it's going to be a cliffhanger, I hate those and love them at the same time. It's when they have one and it's not worth the wait is what I can't stand.

 

[devilof76]

Someone has to do it.

Rick isn't Shane. I just don't see it.

The parallel makes for good storytelling, but only if it's never more than implied. If it became reality, his whole arc since the day he chose to find Sophia would mean nothing.

 

[EXOTICLEX]

I saw a theory where Rick and company planned this confrontation with Pete. Rick knows that all Deanna would do would be to exile him and I think they want to show her just how vulnerable their walls are. It's funny how Deanna keeps saying that "this is civilization" but they have absolutely ZERO structure. No governing body. No military. They just gave two strangers jobs as law enforcement. Alexandria seems like it is about to crumble by the way things are being run. Now these Wolves are about to RUN things for real since Deanna's group couldn't protect a fly. My guess is they are going to need Rick's help in a MAJOR way.