The "Walking Dead" Thread

[TJLamb0518]

Major loss of credibility if they somehow save him from that impossibly lethal scenario...no way

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Especially since he just survived a similar Kobayashi Maru situation in last season't finale where I was almost sure you'd find out he'd been bitten when he somehow survived that attack. Unless they're going to make him the "Kenny" of the Walking Dead....



It just stinks that he went out the way he did, with no one knowing that even his death proves Rick's point that these Alexandrians are so ill-prepared that they are getting more capable people killed with their actions. And how will (obviously) pregnant Maggie learn what happened to her husband? will she go off on a quest to find him like she did leading up to Terminus? Or will she treat Glenn like she did Beth and just forget him for months?

[ChristineBCW]

I can't believe I'm the only one that gets this!  Isn't it obvious what's going to happen next?

Rick wakes up, in his hospital bed, and says in his English accent, "Man!  I had the WEIRDEST dream!  I got my dream job, in a 007 film, but instead of being Bond, I was cast as the Southern Sheriff.  And instead of being in some exotic location, I'm stuck out in Atlanta, or somewhere.  Hills and forests somewhere.  Isn't that weird, Laurie?"

"Laurie?"

"Where'd everyone go?"

Then, a nurse with a pig-snout face walks in and tells him, "Don't worry, we've got someone ready to meet you and take you to our Woodbury facility, where you'll be with others that look like you.  We changed your name to Jethro, by the way, and you've now got a sister named Ellie May."

"Wh-what?  Who are you?  WHAT are you?!!"

"Now, now, stay calm.  That man's name is Frisby.  He'll meet you down in the basement, in Room 22.  It used to be our - well, never mind.  Mr. Frisby is very nice.  A bit talkative.  Just ask him to play the harmonica - that keeps him from talking at least." 

Just as she's leaving, she turns, "Oh - when you're down there, some of the doors have bars across their windows.  Don't listen to those people inside.  One fellow has a bad habit of trying to trick people into letting him out.  It's a devil of a time to get him back in there.  Just ignore him.  Stick with Mr. Willoughby."

"W-Willougby?  I thought you said his name was Frisby?"

"Oh did I?  Well... silly me, of course it is.  That's what I meant.  Now please, just stay calm.  You DO want a cookie, don't you?"

[Mord]

Ah, son of a . . . !!!  Why him??


!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!


I won't mention the name, just yet, but DAMN! And I don't care what they said on Talking Dead, the man is D E A D ! They may bring him back as a zombie, or in a flashback, but that's it.

Other than the sad ending, it was another outstanding episode!

I'm not sure about that. The leaving actors are always on Talking Dead for closure. The guts & inerds we saw may have been from "suicide boy". Though, I think his character died long ago in the graphic novel. Still, like you said, another great episode.

[Mike Scott]

The leaving actors are always on Talking Dead for closure.

I guess they have, if they're important characters. I still think people will see it as a cheat if he doesn't die (though most would be happy he lived) and wouldn't trust the writers/producers the next time it happens.

If he's dead, were down to 4 S1 characters and 1 (new) from S2.

[geezer butler]

Here is a quote from David Alpert (one of the exec producers): "I feel like, regardless of what happened to Glenn, he paid a tremendous price for having been human to Nicholas, and that, to me, from an emotional point-of-view — whether or not Glenn is alive or dead or something else — the Glenn that we knew, the one that believed in the better side of humanity, I think is dead."

I don't know, but that sounds pretty ambiguous to me. Is it possible that Nicholas' blood camouflaged Glenn? Maybe he returns as an angry, borderline psycho like Shane.

[Mord]

Major loss of credibility if they somehow save him from that impossibly lethal scenario...no way

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Everybody realizes this is not a documentary, right? I think we've accepted less logical scenarios in our entertainment before (like the entire concept of the dead walking the earth thing).

[jimm]

Yeah but c'mon, he doesn't get devoured, let alone bit in that scenario? It's a feeding frenzy...

[ChristineBCW]

Here is a quote from David Alpert (one of the exec producers): "I feel like...the Glenn that we knew, the one that believed in the better side of humanity, I think is dead."

I'm hoping that this is indeed the scenario.  The comics lost me because of the continual whittling-away of body parts because the artwork was understood to be so shabby ("it has to be quick to maintain deadlines!!") so lost hands, legs, half-heads, etc, were done for the audience's better identification of the drawn characters.

That sort of "zenith of creativity" made the comics an easy item to pass up on the library shelf.

[Mike Scott]

  Everybody realizes this is not a documentary, right? I think we've accepted less logical scenarios in our entertainment before (like the entire concept of the dead walking the earth thing).

Yeah, but zombies in a zombie show isn't a "cheat". A character being overwhelmed by a hoard of zombies and living through it, is.

Glenn is dead. Long live (in our memories only) the Glenn!

[bromstaker]

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the blood and entrails we saw weren't Glenn's, they were Nicholas', who landed on top of Glenn. I think Glenn, who is slight of build will make his way under the dumpster, squeeze behind it and the cyclone fence, then make his escape while the horde is preoccupied feasting on Nicholas. I hope this is what will happen as I'm not ready to say goodbye to Glenn - especially with his 'death' being so abrupt and senseless. The character deserves better. But it was on the whole a heck of an episode.

[Anton Phibes]

In it, he calls Rick a dumb(*at*)%$. He hasn't done this since episode 1. In epsidoe 1, Rick escapes by climbing under a tank while an entire town of zombies eats Rick's horse. The show is full of horror movie nods and easter eggs. This time they gave a nod to the first season. Glenn will escape in similar fashion. Replace the tank with a dumpster, and a Horse with Nicholas.

PS--I felt worse for the horse than Nicholas.

As for credibility and credence: We are still buying into the idea that zombies hear every noise they make on this show and can see them. After rotting for at least a year. Guess what--eyes and ears are some of the first organs to liquify after being dead a very short period of time. Also--immediately after death---bowels and bladders empty. All of these things would be covered in poop and pee. The stomach and internal organs no longer exist. So--why the voilent need to eat.

The whole premise is doo doo. But I like it all the same. So I could easily believe Glenn pulled a Batman and crawled down the sewer. 

[ChristineBCW]

Oh, Anton - stop making sense!! 

The more important question is, WHEN Glenn returns, and he has this kind of haircut...


...is he a Zombie or not?!!

And how can you tell?  How can you really know?

(Jeepers, they have the weirdest hats and the weirdest haircuts.  Was Dr. Seuss really their fashion guru?)

[Mord]

Oh, Anton - stop making sense!! 

The more important question is, WHEN Glenn returns, and he has this kind of haircut...

As long as he doesn't sissy goosestep like the N. Korean soldiers, I'm ok.

[Anton Phibes]

I watch Dark Shadows and Star Trek. There are so many "get out of jail free/make this crap up as we go along" goofy plot devices in those shows its laughable. But I like em. Because this stuff cant be squinted at too seriosuly. Its just a way to be entertained a bit. Because the real world is boring.

If I were writing this, I would just have Glenn pull a talisman out of his pocket that he was given years ago as a tip from a satisfied pizza customer, who happened to be a gypsy shaman. He would rub it a few times, turn into a ninja and disappear. Makes about as much sense as anything else I have watched up to this point,lol.

[Mord]

 Agreed. Look, this stuff comes from a comic book. If we can accept guys in tights flying, super power from a spider bite, Silver-surfin' thru the universe...Glenn escaping is straight out of Downton Abby.