The Walking Dead - Season 6 Discussion

Maybe Rick doesn't know how he wounded his hand? Everything happened too quick, but I think if he knew for sure he was bitten, he would have cut his hand off immediately.. If he waited until he got back home, it would be too late.
 
allosaur176 said:
Maybe Rick doesn't know how he wounded his hand? Everything happened too quick, but I think if he knew for sure he was bitten, he would have cut his hand off immediately.. If he waited until he got back home, it would be too late.
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He didn't get bitten. When he's attacking that group of walkers, his blade breaks off in the first walkers skull. The next one he encounters has a huge knife sunk into it's shoulder; blade end facing Rick. I think he cuts his hand pulling it free to use on the other walkers.

Kerr Avon said:
I kind of wonder if the hand thing is leading into him getting it amputated like the comics...
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I was thinking the same thing. He certainly seems worried by it.

blakeh1 said:
I thought the hesitation on the walkie talkie was him gathering his composure while thinking of Judith since he found that jar of baby food one of the wolves had. He was torn between the urge to head back to Alexandria to help or continue with his current plan
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Agreed. He just gave his speech as to why they couldn't go back, and here is contemplating going back to Alexandria.

Where did the wolf get the gun to shoot at him while he was sitting there???

DoubleD said:
No way Glenn survived, and while it sucks to lose him, I'll be disappointed if he miraculously survives. As mentioned, even with a body on top of him the zombies would still get to him at some point. They were on all sides and he was exposed. No way out without getting torn apart.
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I think he will survive, but I don't like it. At some point, they'd eat through Nicholas and eat right into Glenn. Also, he be crushed by the sheer number of walkers on top of them.

Soulinertia said:
Something in zombie saliva perhaps?
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I think this is the key. I think the saliva gives you a super infection that kills you quickly, and as we all know, anyone that dies turns.

Loving this season so far!
 
Glenn is totally alive. I dont mind being duped like this. I wouldnt even object to boba fett surviving the sarlaac.

But here's what TWD did wrong.

They played death music. They didnt trick us into thinking he died. They told us he died with the music.

And they followed it up with rick trying to get a hold of him on the radio. If they hadn't played that music we would feel tricked, not deceived.
 
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astroboy said:
And that's true....if it's actually a death scene. But I'm positive it isn't
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I am as well, and that's why I quoted it. I'm saying I really enjoy the way they played out the fake death scene. I think they did an awesome job, and the fact that they got as many people into the drama of it is a testament to that.
 
Got in my second watching and, WOW, another great episode. A few thoughts from the last watching ...

- Rick's new plan as laid out in the woods: He heads back to the RV, drives it around the woods on Redding road, intercepts the herd, and leads them back to the pack that are following Daryl, Abe & Sasha. The rest of the group in the woods are to stay ahead of the herd and get back to Alexandria, because they may be needed there. Glen and Michonne are told not to stop along the way, and to kill anything in front of them.

- Cut on Rick's hand: Other than probably being deep, and bleeding a lot, I didn't get the impression that he was too worried about it. Rick waited till he got the RV into position in front of the herd before he pulled out the drive thru napkins.

- I am getting tired of the "female twists her ankle" trope, used to build tension / slow the group down / show we don't leave people behind. Come on enough already. Beth when she was with Daryl. Tara on the way to Terminus. Now Annie on the way back home.

- Glens "death": My first thought was there's no way he survived and I was bummed he was gone. I was both looking forward to and dreading Glens comic arc, and was somewhat disappointed thinking it wasn't going to happen on screen. Plus I really liked Steve Yeun's portrayal of Glen and would miss him on the show. After watching Talking Dead, then watching the scene several times, and now all the social media buzz, I'm pretty sure he survived. That being said, I'm with Bigdaddy .. "HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCK-A-DOODIE CAR!"

- Glad Daryl circled back around to stick with the plan. The way things are going, that POS car Abe and Sasha are driving is going to stall and they will get over run.

- Ricks final scene in the RV: He just gives his stick to the plan speech, because sticking to the plan is for everyone back home, and heading back to Alexandria would be for them. He is now faced with knowing that the dudes that just tried to kill him, have come from his home and have possibly killed his family. However, it is somewhat convenient that the RV won't start. If it was running, then it would be a true test for Rick to stick to the plan and lead the herd away with the RV, or to gun it back home and go to his kids. Since it's stalled, he really doesn't have a choice but to run back to Alexandria, or button it up and sit tight while the herd passes by.
 
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Soulinertia said:
Some of the best reactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nidkcY5zk8
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Watching those reactions instantly reminded me of this:

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Stunned disbelief. LOL!
 
Just watched the episode. Loving the fact that the past 3 episodes pretty much depict simultaneous events (the first one not quite)
 
Gator Fett said:
- I am getting tired of the "female twists her ankle" trope, used to build tension / slow the group down / show we don't leave people behind. Come on enough already. Beth when she was with Daryl. Tara on the way to Terminus. Now Annie on the way back home.
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Has "Annie" been featured before? I was thinking, who's the new hot chick. Apparently I missed her in past episodes.

Gator Fett said:
"HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCK-A-DOODIE CAR!"
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Ok, what's this from, and what is it in reference to?
 
Just watched the episode last night, and I have to say....wow....what a crappy bit of storytelling.

Alan Sepinwall made a comment about this previously, and I have to agree with it. For TWD to kill (or "kill") Glenn like this is just...bad storytelling.


If he's genuinely dead, then TWD basically just resigns itself to total bleakness and despair. Not because a main character that we like is dead, but because his death seems so...pointless. It's more like he just screwed up and -- oops -- got dead. There's no greater context to his death other than Nicholas being given a chance at redemption...and promptly blowing it. It makes TWD into "misery porn," a term I heard leveled (fairly) at Sons of Anarchy in its latter seasons. It's where the purpose of watching the show is to see how the characters get constantly put through the wringer. Particularly with the Alexandria storyline, we have what might be the first genuine possibility for something approaching an enclave of civilization. Not necessarily a return to what was before the zombie apocalypse, but rather a chance at a new civilization. But, you know, if you kill off everyone in stupid ways, that kinda loses its meaning.


If he isn't dead, then the show did a really, really stupid fake-out. The way that scene was shot...I mean, yeah, it's pretty clear that they WANT you to think both (A) OMG!! GLENN IS DEAD!!!, but then (B) to wrack your brain for all the possible loopholes (e.g., we didn't see the zombies pulling his guts out of HIM, exactly, given how the pull was coming from off camera).



Honestly, it seems more like the show is just jerking the audience around in a stupid way, and the death was so almost-completely-convincing that any unringing of that bell will basically require a cheat. Oh, someone opened the side door that Glenn tried to get into, and will distract the walkers. Oh, the walkers will all crush themselves when Glenn hides under the dumpster, or finds a manhole into the sewers or whatever. Oh, whoever's on the roof will lead the horde away because it was clear that someone blocked the roof off at some point and that's why they couldn't go up there. Oh, this was all just Nicholas' paranoid hallucination and it literally never happened. Oh, Glenn typed "IDDQD" and activated godmode.

I expect Glenn isn't dead, but however they explain that away, I think the scene that raised the question was done too well as a true death for it to be believable when they un-kill him.
 
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