Yeah bud. Clutch is my favorite band. Perfect song for the atmosphere.

I loved the ending. Rick standing his ground. Glenn and Hershel open mouthed and stunned, knowing exactly what is about to transpire. Quick Rick drops both of them in the saloon like he's billy the ****in' kid. Plugs the fat guy once extra for good measure. Cue Regulator.

It was awesome.

hey! I meant to rewind and look and answer this question for myself...but I got sidetracked. when Rick plugged the fat guy in the head I was wondering if he shot the other dude in the head? did the first shot take him in the head or chest? if he didn't shoot him in the head....

He BOOM! HEADSHOT'd the first guy, then turned around and plugged fatty.

darn it! had some distractions going on when that happened. I figured it was a head shot. coulda made it a little more interesting if it wasn't though...

About time. The furniture and china and things are just so neat and orderly, I want to see shambling hordes of walkers absolutely befouling that whole house. It would also be a quick, easy, and efficient way to write some barely-noticeable ballast characters right on out of the show.

Also on the topic of Lori,I'm assuming the walker she hit will make his way to the car,see that's she's trapped and proceed to try and get at her while we see the gun she left with just out of her reach and....stay tuned for next week :D

At first... the walker Lori hit looked a lot like Glen.

My room mate who doesn't even watch the show (except last night's episodes) thought the same thing.

I know it wasn't, but still.

Lori needs to die. That is all.

I still want to know why the hell she left in the first place. Was the urge to nag at Rick so strong that she had to hop in a car and go find him?

Yes, just like every other woman on the show. Nag, run from zombies, nag, run from zombies...lather, rinse, repeat.

Hopefully the sh*t really hits the fan in the next episode.

Kinda felt like the smoke from the fire o bodies would draw in walkers or other survivors in the area.

If it's still burning at night....

I never even heard of the band Clutch, gonna check them out. That song is kick ass

Anyone else notice when they were showing shots of stuff in the season they had a quick view of Daryl standing over someone with a gun and he is saying something like "You gots to go bro"?

Here's another kick ass tune by them



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That song was on the left 4 dead commercial, which sorta makes clutch the official band of zombies. :D

Now I have to take this moment for my shameless and sometimes annoying Clutch pimping:

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Their list of kick-ass songs is near endless.

What did the doctor at the CDC say to Rick at the end of Season 1??

record breaking ratings for this show lastnight

Don't think anybody knows yet.

Read conjecture today that it might have been "we're all infected" which is why he was so careful to put headshots into the two he killed in the bar.

Also read conjecture that the girl who is obviously turning (that was the other wtf of the episode: they have to know what's happening to her) was never bitten so maybe the virus or whatever it is has gone airborne and she got it just from being in such close proximity to the corpse.

Which raises something else I've wondered all along. They don't take any special precaution handling the bodies. Not even gloves. I'd sure as hell want to cover as much of myself as I could, and find at least a paper mask.

Yeah, when the blond hopped off the pickup and grabbed the arm I thought, "I'd want a glove or something." And when Shane was, "washing" the arm of Sophia's mother it seemed like he was looking for bites because she was out in the woods. But he was just using bare hands to do it.

Remember she ran to her dead mother's zombie corpse after they shot her up, and her mom attacked her b/c her brain hadn't been destroyed. Probably a scratch, or fluid in her eye or mouth.

That is exactly what I thought when she collapsed.

That's who I was referring to as "the corpse". I thought they made it pretty clear the girl wasn't bitten, which means she'd have to catch it another way. Even a scratch or fluid would be a change (going by events in season 1). Which all plays into my earlier comment about how careless they are around walkers they've dispatched.

Yeah. I also got the creeps watching her ride in the back of the truck in such close proximity to all the downed walkers. I realize they're "down" because they've all taken head shots... but you never know and can never be totally sure until they're burned up.

The virus being airborne might be a pretty good guess based on what we saw in the latest episode.

When they were in Atlanta, they were careful not to get any walker blood or gore on them. They painted it on overcoats so that they could walk through the horde and escape. I don't recall when the decided they could be more less careful about getting fluids on them. Obviously, the close quarter bludgeoning is going to produce spray, though they don't always show it on our protagonist's clothing.

Perhaps this is one of those things better not scrutinized in order to allow the story line to continue. Lots of zombie physiology doesn't make logical sense.

I didn't think the daughter was turning into a walker. I thought that was just their ploy to have to get Rick to search for Herschel (to have her go into shock). But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she is turning.

Did these people never watch Zombie Land? Double tap bitches!

I just rewatched the last scene in the bar, and I'm convinced the only person in there who wasn't a wild idiot was Dave. His social game was doing really well until his fat stupid friend Tony took a piss in the corner, and then threatened to outright kill everyone, giving away their whole devious plan. Rick let himself get positioned between the two guys, and he let slip that there was a farm at all. Glenn just sat there, even though he was armed, and Herschel led them all in to this mess in the first place by running off into the zombie- and psycho-infested wasteland because he wanted some alone time.

It was only Rick's reflexes that let them get out alive at all, much less without anyone getting shot.

yeah that thought never crossed my mind either....but it's a very interesting premise. be interesting to watch that play out..... I'm skeptical it's gonna go that way, even though it's a cool ideal.

as someone already mentioned.....I too thought it was really kinda silly and unrealistic (I know I know...how realistic can a zombie show be right?) when that girl sat on the tailgate next to the dead zombies (dead zombies...what would that be? the opposite of an oxymoron) with an empty passenger seat in the truck....nobody would sit there.

as for cleanliness....there have been several times I thought that was going to be an issue.....like when that black guy cut the shit out of his arm on the highway, I was thinking he'd get infected throught that giant cut.

There was a mirror behind the bar where Rick could watch fat Tony behind him.

Dave was too good of a character to kill off so quickly.

Um, a zombie is a walking corpse. You don't handle decaying flesh with bare ****ing hands.


It's a show, I get it, but come on.

Seemed like a waste of a really good actor.

Maybe they can pull a deadwood and bring him back as someone else with a beard.

Whenever anyone else was alive and got bitten, they were still coherent for awhile. They didn't just go into shock like that broad did.

I'm really sick of Hershel. That old man needs to adapt or he'll be soon be walker sushi.

Rick seems to be adapting in an anarchist society well, especially taking on the two drifters in the bar.

Yeah, the virus straight killed them.

She fainted, she's clearly alive.

I really doubt she's infected. I think the writers are just ****ing with us.

Disagree. First of all, she is nobody. As nobody as it gets, she will die, it's only a matter of time.

Second, the first guy Rick met after waking(black guy with the boy), he said his wife got bit or something, but mainly, she got the fever, felt like she was on fire, died, and came back.

Third, on Talking Dead at the beginning of the season, they talked about how they would shed light on what happens when you come into contact with the virus by means other than a bite...

Did they say that the girl at the farm had a fever? I thought they just said that she was in shock.

And "really, really warm" or something like that. Implied a fever.

I wonder if she might have come down with the ZB (zombie bug) after being so face to face with her dead mom. Nasty walker hissing and biting so close to her face while she's screaming her head off...

Maybe we'll see some kind of varying grades of zombification. Get bit, and a large dose of the ZB turns you into a full-blown zombie. Get hissed at (or pick up a severed zombie arm) and you still turn into a zombie, but since you were exposed to a smaller dose of ZB, you are able to retain some higher brain functions making you an 'intelligent' zombie.

There was a scene form the first season that's been stuck in the back of my mind ever since it aired. When Rick (and Glen, I think) are in the lobby of the building in downtown Atlanta, the zombies were outside banging against the metal gate. At one point, one of the zombies picked up a cinder block and threw it at the gate. Kind of implies that some zombies are capable of thought at some level.

That would be a terrible, terrible idea.

The first drifter that Rick shot ain't dead. They made way too much of a deal regarding Rick making sure the big guy was dead. The other guys is gonna "survive" and come back after them in some capacity...

The bullet went right through his forehead. I think he's done.

Did it? damnit I didn't catch that part of it.

Yeah. Well, I have to admit I didn't see it at regular speed. I went back and did a frame-by-frame thing.

LOL.

Time to get an HDTV dude. Get out of the 90s.

funny I missed it too. when I watched it again...you've got maybe one second to see that it hit his forehead. as has already been mentioned...waste of a good actor. he still shows up in True Blood and he was killed a few seasons ago.

Rick's bonus shot in the fat guy was in the head, I'm guessing to make sure that there was no chance of him coming back as a walker. So he was thinking ahead - no pun intended.

Great scene at the end in the bar. Seeing the brilliance that is Michael Raymond James made me miss the criminally underseen Terriers. Someday that guy is gonna be a star. maybe Donal Logue will show up later in the season.

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The coolest thing about AMC HD is that we get the East Coast broadcast times, so I get the show at 6 pm. I'm recording it, but I'll probably watch it at 7:30 or 8:00 instead of having to wait til 9 and it also frees up my DVR to record other Sunday shows.

I was a little disappointed in that episode being another gripe fest drama, but then I saw the bar scene. Yeah... wow! That was cool. A bit of a surprise, but cool... BTW -> The comic and the show are officially different worlds in terms of the story and who these characters are. Which is actually kind of cool in that everyone will be surprised regardless of reading the comic, but I'll certainly miss them doing a few key things that it seems like they're not going to do.

Awesome so far. The kid on the fence... Isn't he the one from rescue me?
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Another Great one tonight.

Glad to see Herschel stepping up his game. He shot the black guy, didn't seem too bothered when the zombies ripped him apart, referred to the zombies as 'walkers', tried to get Rick to leave the kid that was stuck on the fence, then stood up to Shane at the farm.

Meanwhile Rick reverted back to his pussy ways. "Yeah, you're buddies in here are dead. Sorry, we had no choice. Could you just kindly leave us alone?". Horse shit. Then he tried to save the douchebag kid that was just shooting at them. I'd have Shane's mindset if I were in that situation. The shit Rick does puts them too much at risk.

Latest episode was badass. Glenn heading out back scene really worried me. Rick/Shane controversy heating up. Unfortunately, the biznatch Laurie is getting all sketchy and fueling the feud.

Sitting through Comic Book Men, anxiously awaiting my sneak peek of next weeks episode.

p.s. Herschel is becoming a badass.

Okay, kind of a weak preview for next week. Compared to others where they've showed a lot of action. Shows Rick kind of "mentoring" Shane on a more suttle, but still badass approach to zombie killing than going at it guns blazing. Kind of like the Father and son cow. Son says, lets run down there and **** that cow. Father says, lets walk down, and **** 'em all.

Quiet, effective and still conserves ammo. Rick is becoming more badass daily.

I don't see the kid as a danger. His own compadres left him for dead. They showed what little loyalty they had and I'm sure his is gone as well. Meanwhile, Rick and crew saved him from a certain death, and while they nurse him back to health, he'll certainly take to their kind, selfless ways.

Sounds to me like you and Shane belong in the group that left the kid behind in the first place. :p

LOL! No, not that. Obviously Shane is psychotic. He went too far by killing Otis and threatening to take over the farm. At the same time, Rick is way too compassionate. Truthfully, they're both liabilities in leading the survivors in some way. Rick is likely to get people killed for being too kind while I wouldn't put it past Shane to sacrifice a few to save the entire group.

As for the kid, I agree. He has no idea where the farm is and I doubt he'll feel any need to maintain his loyalty to his old group. The issue was the time they spent trying to get him off the fence with walkers crawling all over the place. He put Glenn, Herschel and himself in danger for a boy that was just shooting at them. Based on the two that Rick killed in the bar did he think the kid deserved that type of compassion? He tried reasoning with the two, then he tried reasoning with the others that came looking for them and ended up getting shot at both times.

I'd have put a bullet in his brain then took off, and he'd be lucky to even get that.

you know...as way out there as Shane is...I have a hard time faulting him for killing Otis. I put myself in his shoes and pretend it's my son I'm trying to save and I think rather than die and fail...and know my son dies too...Otis has gotta go! he was moving too slow, he was wounded, only a matter of time before they caught him anyways...poor bastard. I'd sacrifice anything for my kids.

PS - Glen is a pussy. he is now on my nerves more than Lori. he stood there with a shotgun in the bar scene and did nothing. then acted in the same fashion tonight.

First of all, Carl is not Shane's child and no matter how "close" he believes he is to him, he'll never know what it's like when it is your very own child.

As for Glen, well, his old lady just told him he's a leader and they treat him like he's "Walker Bait" and this was just reaffirming that he has leadership qualities, but is not a natural leader. I don't fault him, it's easy to say you'd handle it a certain way. He froze, it'd happen to most of us. He's still a badass in my book.

This was the best episode in a long time. There was suspense and tension and real plot/character development. A+++++.

Also, the zombie coming through the windshield was just raw. What a great gruesome moment,. The only bad part was that Lori survived. I will say Lori manipulating Rick at the end was horrible and awesome at the same time.

Pretty much epic episode.

Looks like Rick & Shane are finally gonna tangle next week. I have a feeling one of them will end up killing off the other. I think we should start a pool, who dies first in next week's episode.

Now we get an episode where the captured kid hates everyone in the group for killing his friends, then he will have a warming up process until he reaches the point where he is a full member of the Rick and Shane Clan.

The guy Herschel shot death was horriffic. When the walkers were eating him his cries of agony were just chilling.

While not perfect, it was a strong episode.

Yeah, the ripping off of the nose and upper lip thing was pretty horrific.

This episode is shot really dark. Maybe it's just the rip I'm watching online in a fairly low res, but I'm having hard time seeing what's going on.

Most of the episode was shot during the night so it was dark.

Well, yeah. But I had a hard time seeing what was going on. But, like I said, I was watching in a small viewer, during the day, in a lit office. So it might have been better in hi def on a TV.

Great episode...probably the best so far this season. The car wreck scene was pretty sweet

This.


It was awesome to watch the zombie rip it's own face off to try and get to stupid nag bitch.


.....and am I the only person to think that stupid nag and Shane had something going well before the apocalypse?

Then why did she so strongly reject him at the CDC?

they should change the name of this show to "how to die in a zombie apocalypse." i watched the first season, and if this was a real zombie attack, none of them would have survived.

Why all the hate for Lori? Her idiocy in the car was annoying for sure. At the end of this episode, though, she started coming into her own, imo. She's convincing Rick that Shane has to go and manipulating him pretty handily at that. As a fellow English teacher friend of mine said, "Didn't Lori remind you of Lady Macbeth there at the end of that episode?"

Said the same thing to my son last night as we watched.

I really hope they have the guts to

Never read the comics but that would be awesome if they do.

That's what I keep saying as well. They've done a really good job of building such a conclusion up to be really meaningful if they do. They've teased out those relationships much longer than they did in the comics, so an end like that would be pretty impactful.