The Walking Dead

[LuisDantas]

@Quagmire : Well, that is the thing. I think such is no longer the case. Season 6 really sold me on the need to stop Carol before it is too late... and it probably IS too late already.

I don't think I ever felt quite that despise for even the Governor.

 

[Quagmire]

I like Carol, but she has one flaw.
She doesn't kill enuf people.

She may be a little too ruthless at times, but if you look at the math, one way or another she's saved more people than she's killed.

 

[Revoltingest]

She may be a little too ruthless at times, but if you look at the math, one way or another she's saved more people than she's killed.

And more important, she's saved more worth saving.

 

[Quagmire]

@Quagmire : Well, that is the thing. I think such is no longer the case. Season 6 really sold me on the need to stop Carol before it is too late... and it probably IS too late already.

I don't think she needs to stop. I think it would do her and the group some good if she leveled out a bit, but the way it looks to me almost everything she's done along the way has had positive results for the people she's involved with. I know the repercussions that followed from her dinking with Sam's mind are a notable exception (won't go into detail for spoilers sake), but nobody bat's 1000, and I still think she's entitled to hero status at this point.

I don't think I ever felt quite that despise for even the Governor.

How come?

 

[BSM1]

I like Carol, but she has one flaw.
She doesn't kill enuf people.

But ya gotta admit she probably bakes the best banana bread in Alexandria.

 

[Revoltingest]

But ya gotta admit she probably bakes the best banana bread in Alexandria.

She's just like me granma!

 

[freethinker44]

In the comics,it has been at least four years since the first outbreak. In the series it has of course been at least five, although there are reasons to believe that from the characters' viewpoint it must have been closer to a couple of years, three at most.

I don't think that much time has passed. It has only been a couple years at most. You can judge passage of time by Judith's age. She was conceived in maybe the second or third episode, Lori was pregnant for three seasons, and now Judith is around 1 1/2, maybe less considering she isn't walking yet.
The Walking Dead wiki has a nice timeline for the series. They put the entire outbreak from first zombie to the last episode at 554 days with Rick waking up from his coma on day 59. So yeah, about a 1 1/2 years.

As for the comics, I stopped reading around issue 100 and if I remember correctly, they had only been through two winters, so that would be a little over a year from the beginning to Jesus' appearance.

 

[LuisDantas]

As for the comics, I stopped reading around issue 100 and if I remember correctly, they had only been through two winters, so that would be a little over a year from the beginning to Jesus' appearance.

That sounds just about right, but

(minor spoilers follow)

Spoiler

There was a time skip of about two years since.

 

[BSM1]

She's just like me granma!

Noo....that's not disturbing!

 

[Father Heathen]

I enjoyed the midseason premiere. However, two things kinda irked me. One; was dumping fuel into the pond to create a lure/trap. That pond could've potentially been converted into a fish hatchery as an additional food source, but now it's contaminated. Two; wasting a precious rocket to ignite the fuel when the same could've been achieved with a far more common road flare.

 

[Revoltingest]

I enjoyed the midseason premiere. However, two things kinda irked me. One; was dumping fuel into the pond to create a lure/trap. That pond could've potentially been converted into a fish hatchery as an additional food source, but now it's contaminated. Two; wasting a precious rocket to ignite the fuel when the same could've been achieved with a far more common road flare.

Let me get this straight....you're objecting to the firing of a rocket, & its subsequent explosion....just because it's wasteful?

 

[Quagmire]

I enjoyed the midseason premiere. However, two things kinda irked me. One; was dumping fuel into the pond to create a lure/trap. That pond could've potentially been converted into a fish hatchery as an additional food source, but now it's contaminated. Two; wasting a precious rocket to ignite the fuel when the same could've been achieved with a far more common road flare.

Spoiler

Same here about the rocket. For me, it wasn't just that the rocket got wasted, it was "OK, we all know Daryl's smarter than that, This is just the writers having him do something out of character for the sake of dramatic effect." which came across cheap. Felt the same way when the W who that took Denise hostage all of a sudden grew a conscience and sacrificed himself to go back for her.

 

[Father Heathen]

Same here about the rocket. For me, it wasn't just that the rocket got wasted, it was "OK, we all know Daryl's smarter than that, This is just the writers having him do something out of character for the sake of dramatic effect." which came across cheap. Felt the same way when the W who that took Denise hostage all of a sudden grew a conscience and sacrificed himself to go back for her.

On the subject of Daryl and rocket launchers, how could he have known that the blast was just enough to kill all the bikers yet leave Sasha and Abraham unscathed?

 

[BSM1]

On the subject of Daryl and rocket launchers, how could he have known that the blast was just enough to kill all the bikers yet leave Sasha and Abraham unscathed?

It was an RPG fired at bunched targets sitting on gas filled motorcycles. Although I was taken mildly aback I felt it did not stretch the imagination to the "Nu-Uh" limit.

 

[freethinker44]

On the subject of Daryl and rocket launchers, how could he have known that the blast was just enough to kill all the bikers yet leave Sasha and Abraham unscathed?

The biker was about to kill them so it was either do something and hope they survive or don't and know they die.

 

[Quagmire]

On the subject of Daryl and rocket launchers, how could he have known that the blast was just enough to kill all the bikers yet leave Sasha and Abraham unscathed?

It was an RPG fired at bunched targets sitting on gas filled motorcycles. Although I was taken mildly aback I felt it did not stretch the imagination to the "Nu-Uh" limit.

The biker was about to kill them so it was either do something and hope they survive or don't and know they die.

And also, "Either way this is going to be so cool!"

 

[Father Heathen]

It was an RPG fired at bunched targets sitting on gas filled motorcycles. Although I was taken mildly aback I felt it did not stretch the imagination to the "Nu-Uh" limit.

I didn't doubt that a rocket could've wiped out the whole group of bikers. I doubt Daryl intuitively knowing that Abraham and Sasha were safely outside of the blast radius, or even knowing how to use the device itself. But you know, T.V. and suspension of disbelief and all that.

 

[Revoltingest]

I didn't doubt that a rocket could've wiped out the whole group of bikers. I doubt Daryl intuitively knowing that Abraham and Sasha were safely outside of the blast radius, or even knowing how to use the device itself. But you know, T.V. and suspension of disbelief and all that.

While not the most believable scenario, I saw worse in Spectre.
It was a satisfying little comedic piece for me.
I was glad it didn't become another interminable dangerous conflict.
And it had a rocket & an an explosion!

 

[BSM1]

I didn't doubt that a rocket could've wiped out the whole group of bikers. I doubt Daryl intuitively knowing that Abraham and Sasha were safely outside of the blast radius, or even knowing how to use the device itself. But you know, T.V. and suspension of disbelief and all that.

My real concern is where did Daryl get the daggone thing in the first place? Why would you hide an RPG launcher in the back of a fuel truck?

 

[Revoltingest]

My real concern is where did Daryl get the daggone thing in the first place? Why would you hide an RPG launcher in the back of a fuel truck?

Because no one would think to look there for one of those.
This is why I keep my dingo collection in a closet in a maternity ward.